Joseph Amino

A year before "God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops," Rapsody walked Ghana with the filmmaker Joseph Amino. The questions she carried home became the album. Rapsody. Photo courtesy of Joseph Amino Rapsody did not come to Ghana for a show. There was no tour routing to explain the visit, no announced album cycle. She came to walk the country, and she came with questions about where she was from.

An unusual sight of a long queue, comprising mainly women and children, forms underneath a pavilion in the middle of the Elmina community, a suburb of Ghana’s Central region. Typically, such winding queues are held either during national or communal activities. But today’s is different. Tightly gripped in the hands of these queuers are bags and bins containing various kinds of plastics they collected, the new currency aside from the cedi.

Not the first nor the second and definitely not the last but this is a beautiful bromance to admire, especially when you’re an African, a Ghanaian for that matter. Sure, the chemistry between Ghanaian music and football has long existed, but not to this personal and epic proportions. Well if such has ever happened, then I may be too young to have noticed or my internet search has failed me. This is one that many entertainment players in our industry should take note of.