I took my time to watch randomly ten Ghanaian movies and never felt so disappointed. It brought home to me one major deficiency in our development. The apparent lack of deliberate consciousness on the part of the creative industry in the development conversation. The presence of the creative industry appears at best peripheral in Ghana’s development narrative. Our movies, our songs, our arts, by and large, do not impactfully plug into a greater development agenda. Hollywood, for the best part of a century, has been deliberately used by America to push successfully American cultural “supremacy” agenda; it has been used as an effective instrument of military or economic indoctrination. But, what has been the underlying consciousness behind our creative industry, if any?
What role, for instance, can actors in the creative industry play to define and realize this whole important concept of moving Ghana Beyond Aid? We must elevate consciousness in Ghana if we are serious about winning. - Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko/facebook
Source: Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko/facebook
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I am not a big fan of this Gabby guy but I think he is right! Our creative industry has no focus. Look at our movies now and compare it even the old ones that Maame Dokono, Davido and Santo used to shoot in the villages? Look at our music industry now? our original Ghanaian highlife tunes are all being lost. We all criticize nigerians but one thing there were very successful at was the fusion between their culture and their creative arts. I hate Gabby but I am afraid he may be right here.
People should take their time to understand what Gabby is saying. There must be a deliberate plan by the state to make the creative industry reflect a certain Ghanaian mentality for our developmental focus.
When money gets to the head of some people that is how they talk. your uncle is misusing our money and selling us to CHINA so you are cool. 2020 will soon come.
gabby, produce a film and let us see how good you are. It is easy to sit down and criticise what others have managed to do with no help. Fooooooooooooolish fooooooooooolllllllll
Gabby, you have food on your table and you sat down to watch 10 Ghanaian movies and you are criticising? Tweaaaaaaa! People are thing of bread and butter issues as so many businesses are collapsing daily and you talk about watching movies, you are not serious. you don't put the cart before the horse but rather the horse before the cart. Tell your cousin we are suffering
Ghanaian films seem to have no genre. You do not know whether it's drama, action, comedy, horror or epic, especially when Kwadwo Nkansah is around. The scripts are not the best, the dialogues contain mostly of insults, the sets unimaginative, the story line is predictable and the music does not provide the mood of the story. I am bored with especially the so-called Kumawood productions. Compare with Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa language films from Nigeria and the difference is clear!
tell your cousin to invest and stop behaving like a child. tampeele
The Kumasi people will not be happy about this. By the way you and your Uncle have help them to Kill the Industry in Kumasi after campaigning with you to get power. Suddenly after the 2016 Elections the industry has collapsed.
Gabby...we promote witches and wizards all the time. That's what we are creative about!