'Ghana needs redemption': Ghana's number-one reggae star and radio DJ, Blakk Rasta (born Abubakar Ahmed), thinks his country has sold its soul to 'Westernism' and needs redemption. His famous song, Barack Obama, released last year to support Obama's presidential campaign, shot him to African and global stardom. Femi Akomolafe interviewed him in Accra.

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'Ghana needs redemption': Ghana's number-one reggae star and radio DJ, Blakk Rasta (born Abubakar Ahmed), thinks his country has sold its soul to 'Westernism' and needs redemption. His famous song, Barack Obama, released last year to support Obama's presidential campaign, shot him to African and global stardom. Femi Akomolafe interviewed him in Accra.

Whatever happens in 2009, two events have firmly inscribed themselves in the history books. First, defying all predictions and political calculations, Barack Obama has become the first black president of the USA! However we throw it around, it is a momentous feat for Obama to have swept away old prejudices in order to emerge triumphant.

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Second, though not on the same seismological scale as Obama's triumph but nevertheless earth-shattering, was the emergence of Ghana's leading reggae star, Blakk Rasta, as the ...

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