{"id":54956,"date":"2018-10-19T09:15:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T09:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=54956"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:17:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:17:49","slug":"okyeame-kwame-thrills-at-south-africa-cultural-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/okyeame-kwame-thrills-at-south-africa-cultural-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Okyeame Kwame Thrills At South Africa Cultural Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian rapper, Okyeame Kwame staged a stellar performance at a Ghana-South African cultural exchange programme.<\/p>\n<p>The week-long programme dubbed \u2018Africa Cultural Seasons\u2019 opened at the Marriott Hotel in Accra on Monday, October 15, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper was in typical Ghanaian cloth, white trousers, with a pair of sneakers to match. Moreover, he dazzled the audience with rap music woven over indigenous Ghanaian highlife rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>He performed some of his classic compositions to palm wine highlife rhythm provided by the Kwan Pa band.<\/p>\n<p>He first did a rendition of the Ghana National Anthem, took them back to some of his old hits and finally got them into the yet to be released album \u2018Made In Ghana.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In the course of the performance, Okyeame also told the history of highlife music, Ghana\u2019s music heritage.<\/p>\n<p>He gave a chronological account of how highlife has evolved over time.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the event was when he performed his latest song \u2018Made in Ghana.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Okyeame Kwame ended his performance with the popular Marian Makeeba song \u2018Pata Pata.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian rapper, Okyeame Kwame staged a stellar performance at a Ghana-South African cultural exchange programme. The week-long programme dubbed \u2018Africa Cultural Seasons\u2019 opened at the Marriott Hotel in Accra on Monday, October 15, 2018. The rapper was in typical Ghanaian cloth, white trousers, with a pair of sneakers to match. Moreover, he dazzled the audience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6037,"featured_media":54957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54956","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=54956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54958,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54956\/revisions\/54958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}