{"id":1031,"date":"2017-09-26T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2017-09-26T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T09:30:13","slug":"congratulations-musician-yaw-sarpong-receives-honorary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/congratulations-musician-yaw-sarpong-receives-honorary\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations! Musician Yaw Sarpong Receives Honorary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Gospel musician, Osomafo Yaw Sarpong received an honorary doctorate degree in Sacred Music from the Ecclesiastical Bishop Leaders Conference of Africa (EBLCA), an affiliate of the Kayiwa International University, Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, Mr Sarpong, who celebrated 40 years of a blissful music career, was decorated with the title for his invaluable contributions to the development of the country\u2019s gospel music industry. Also, his band, the Asomafo Band, was also presented with a plaque in recognition of its support to the gospel music icon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/yaw-sarpong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/yaw-sarpong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/yaw-sarpong.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/yaw-sarpong-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Sarpong is working on an initiative dubbed: \u201cThe Prison Project\u201d with the aim to touching and transforming lives in the country\u2019s prisons. His project has led him to sign a six-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ghana Prison Service Board to allow him to establish music centres to rehabilitate the prison inmates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He told the Daily Graphic, \u201cWe want to restore hope to prisoners through music. So in the next six years, the focus will be to build music centres across the prisons because there are talents among the inmates that need to be developed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Gospel musician, Osomafo Yaw Sarpong received an honorary doctorate degree in Sacred Music from the Ecclesiastical Bishop Leaders Conference of Africa (EBLCA), an affiliate of the Kayiwa International University, Uganda. Last Saturday, Mr Sarpong, who celebrated 40 years of a blissful music career, was decorated with the title for his invaluable contributions to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6037,"featured_media":1032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2200,2199],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-gospel-musician","tag-yaw-sarpong-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}