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President Obama landed back in the United States early Sunday morning, wrapping up a week-long trip abroad culminated by a history-making visit to Africa. The theme song of the last stop may have been provided by a Reggae singer named Blakk Rasta, whose song, “Barack Obama,” was played constantly during an arrival breakfast in Accra, Ghana, and had a way of staying in the head long after the travelers left.
'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.
United States Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama smiled on hundreds of music lovers last Saturday night at the Tema Sports Stadium during the launch of reggae artiste, Blakk Rasta’s new 16-track album, Naked Wire. Video: Barack Obama by Blakk Rasta feat Nii Lante Having released the very successful single, Barack Obama earlier in the year, it was clear Obama was the theme of the night as a large, smiling portrait of his face dominated the upper right corner of the event banner.
steel cargo ship containers that do double-duty as shops in the morning and sleeping quarters in the evening. This evening, I was dining alone at a busy open-air café. Next to me was a group of lovely, loquacious ladies whose audible volume increased as the liquid volume in their carafes decreased. It was obviously girls’ night out and these middle-aged, middle-class women were paying me no mind as I ate my grilled Tilapia and banku. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I heard a gunshot. |
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Blakk Rasta was among a cross-section of Ghanaians who had breakfast with Mr Obama at the Osu Castle Gardens on Saturday.
Certainly, the song that has given Blakk Rasta the thrust to that “moment of glory” – as he loves to describe it – is his popular Barack Obama track which topped the Reggae music charts across the continent in the lead up to the 2008 US presidential elections.
 There have been serious heated arguments around the globe as to whether the Barack song by Blakk Rasta recently endorsed by Barack Obama, when he visited Ghana, is pro-Obama or anti-Obama. This is why it has become necessary to explain exactly what the lyrics of the song mean.Barack Obama by Blakk Rasta is written is a Shakespearean literature style full of synedoches and satires. The song starts with an intro: |
