{"id":60883,"date":"2019-02-26T08:55:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T08:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=60883"},"modified":"2019-02-25T21:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:33:19","slug":"aarica-must-change-perception-about-the-arts-cwesi-oteng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/aarica-must-change-perception-about-the-arts-cwesi-oteng\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Must Change Perception About The Arts \u2013 Cwesi Oteng"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghanaian Gospel musician Cwesi Oteng has asked Africans to reorient their perception about the arts.<\/p>\n

The \u2018I Win\u2019 singer spoke at the Inspire Conference organised by J-Force, an institution aimed at<\/p>\n

producing a global mass movement of young people who pursue building unique leadership capacity based on the values and principles of Christ.<\/p>\n

After speaking at the programme which was held at the Accra International Conference Centre on February 23, 2019, he shared his experience on Twitter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke at the @JFORCEOFFICIAL, on Africa\u2019s music, the global space and national development. Africa must begin to change our perception and appreciation of the arts,\u201d<\/em> he tweeted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also Read:https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/kojo-jones-to-speak-at-harvard-business-school\/<\/a><\/p>\n

He however added that is is high time musicians in Africa aimed for the world stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new African musician must see the globe as their environment or village, not <\/em>their home. Now is the only time,\u201d<\/em> he stated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, Cwesi Oteng recently presented his new album \u2018Anthems\u2019 to the President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House.<\/p>\n

He is however popular for songs like \u2018God Dey Bless Me\u2019, \u2018Kabiyesi\u2019, \u2018Next in Line\u2019, \u2018Yahweh\u2019, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghanaian Gospel musician Cwesi Oteng has asked Africans to reorient their perception about the arts. The \u2018I Win\u2019 singer spoke at the Inspire Conference organised by J-Force, an institution aimed at producing a global mass movement of young people who pursue building unique leadership capacity based on the values and principles of Christ. After speaking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6036,"featured_media":60884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[11594],"class_list":["post-60883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-cwesi-oteng-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60883","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\/6036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60885,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60883\/revisions\/60885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}