Hailing from a small village just west of Accra, Ghana, Okaidja Afroso has dedicated his life to sharing and preserving the musical traditions of his home.
. The Ghanaian musician will showcase his new music at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts' Gates Concert Hall on Wednesday, September 27.
“I feel like that style of music is fading away because in Accra, the capital, there's a lot of changes happening," Afroso explains."… I wanted to write a project that brings me back to preserve our culture so that generations to come, hopefully, would see it and want to do the same."Jaku Mumor Afroso’s background is in dance, performing at age nineteen as a principal dancer with the Ghana Dance Ensemble at the University of Ghana; all of his original music stems from that foundation, he says: “I am a dancer first. When I play percussion, when I play the guitar, I am thinking of that as a dancer.”
“Those of us who perform like myself, we come to places like America and Europe promoting Ghanaian culture, sort of like ambassadors of the country,” Afroso says. “I've been to a lot of places where the audience of kids don't even know where Ghana is, or still refer to Africa as a country.”
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