Mark Okraku Mante reacts to Kwaisey Pee's comments that "there is no celebrity in Ghana"

Programs Director for Accra based radio station Hitz 103.9FM, Mark Okraku Mantey has rubbished highlife musician Kwaisey Pee’s claims that there is no celebrity in Ghana.  

Kwaisey Pee in an earlier interview on Hitz FM's 'Daybreak Hitz' with KMJ on Thursday said the people we see as celebrities in Ghana don't have what it takes to be what they claim they are.

According to him, comparing the social and financial status of celebrities living in the Western World to the ‘so-called’ Ghanaian celebrities, he is yet to see one in Ghana.

But reacting to this on the same Daybreak Hitz show, Mark Okraku Mantey who is also the President of the Creative Arts Council disagreed with him.

Mark, explaining what celebrity means said it doesn’t involve the financial status of a person.

“He said we don’t have celebrities. It is untrue we do have. Bob Marley and Joseph Hill [Culture] dressed anyhow and didn’t drive luxurious cars but can you say they weren’t celebrities?

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“Ethics is about how your society accepts something that is right or wrong. That’s why gay is normal in Western culture but not in Africa. Celebrity is the state of being known and talked about.

A person who is widely known per dictionary definition. So where from if you don’t have this or that, you’re not a celebrity?” Mark queried.

Mr. Okraku Mantey said “It’s not about richness. If Nana Addo goes anywhere the atmosphere changes because he is a celeb... We have lots of celebs in the country from music to film, politics, and religion.

“I forgive Kwaisey Pee because he lived in the Western Culture for so long,” he concluded. 

 

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