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Ghanaian Dancehall sensation Shatta Wale has advocated for the involvement of “educated individuals” in leadership roles to spearhead the growth of the country’s entertainment industry.
He made this proposal during a Twitter Spaces discussion hosted by TV personality Serwaa Amihere on August 23, 2023.
Shatta Wale stressed the importance of placing well-qualified individuals in positions of authority to lead discussions related to Ghana’s music industry, rather than those who “speak from a place of pain.”
“Are we ready as an industry to find people to be on our spaces, radio stations, and TV stations properly with qualifications, people that we know that are not coming out of pain to come and talk pain? Are we ready to fish out those people?….. before we can change this thing, it has to come with the whole orientation of people that we know that, okay, cool.
“Now we are creating, like the way we change government. We have the power to change the people sitting there….because right now, if he said we should go and sit at a roundtable with people, who are we going to sit with? Because the people there, they are abusing the artists,” he said.
Furthermore, he recommended the establishment of government-backed institutions designed to provide comprehensive training for individuals well-versed in the intricacies of the music industry.
These individuals would then be better equipped to advocate for the advancement of Ghana’s music industry and its various stakeholders.
“We have to look for our young graduates from these schools and start teaching them industry courses… Those are the things that we need. You need to even tell government that we need a school, that we can train people to run our spaces for us,” he suggested.
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