Award-winning rapper, Sarkodie has featured the voice of the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo, in his newly released single, Black Excellence.
The lyrics of the song portrays the extravagant lifestyle among African youth and financial mismanagement among politicians. Using his music as a platform to preach what is right, Sarkodie featured the speech delivered by the president addressing French president, Emmanuel Macron in a 2017 meeting at the Jubilee House.
Nana Addo said, in his speech now turned featured lyric in Black Excellence, “We can no longer continue to make policy for ourselves, in our country, in our region, in our continent on the basis of whatever support that the Western world or France or the European Union can give us. It will not work. It has not worked and it will not work.”
The President continues, “We have to get away from the mindset of dependency. This mindset about ‘What France do for us? France will do whatever it wants to do for its own sake, and when those coincide with ours ‘tant mieux’ [so much better] as the French people say. Our concern should be what do we need to do in this 21st century to move Africa away from being cap in hand and begging for aid, for charity, for handouts. The African continent when you look at its resources should be giving monies to other places. We need to have a mindset that says we can do it and once we have that mindset we’ll see there’s a liberating factor or ourselves.”
Sarkodie now joins the likes of artistes including, J. Cole, who featured the 2002 speech delivered by ex-president George W. Bush on the track, No Role Modelz, Lil Wayne, also featured the Jimmy Carter’s swearing-in-ceremony speech, 1977 on the track, President Carter.
