The Vodafone Ghana Music Awards took place last night in Accra's International Conference Center. In prior years I've simply read social media updates on the event - many of which towed the lines of "a waste of money and time" - and never actually watched the event myself. You can imagine how excited I was to find out that the event was being live streamed via Vodafone's Facebook page by GTV and GhOne. The highlight for me was the fact that real talent and good conscientious (positive, inspirational) music was rewarded. For me, music is poetry in motion and so I really am a sucker for great lyrics that inspire. Here, I'm talking about Efya, Manifest, EL, Chase and R2Bees. Efya is simply phenomenal. Her voice is something else and her music pushes the edge (check out her cover of Duncan Mighty's "Obianuju"). That aside, she's really developing her brand as an afro/soul singer and I'm willing to place bets that she will do great on th...
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