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Culled from Museke.com's Father's Day Post #happyfathersday! We asked our Facebook fans and Twitter followers - "What are your favorite African songs about fathers?" Based on their responses and our own collection on Museke.com, here are some African Fathers' Day songs for you. We did the same for #happymothersday - Check out our Mother's Day post . Bread Winners is definitely our favorite. The song by ProVerb , featuring Hip Hop Pantsula which celebrates great fathers.Both are South African rappers. Some of the lyrics are "A lil something for the Fathers/ That know how to be a man and work harder/ To give something to the Fam/ And would rather make sure the kids are fed dinner/ I'm talking to the real bread winners/ yeah you.." The official song for today was Jayso 's single called My Daddy Is A Champ . This song was recorded, produced & written by Jayso and features his 6 year old daughter, Vanessa. This is a gift from Jay...

My father has been a farmer for many many years . More than 10 years, he moved the poultry farm which was in our backyard of our house on the KNUST Campus to Appeadu in Kumasi and then later on to a small village called Kwaso-Deduako . Over the years, the village has grown as his farm - Ulzenapp farms - has grown as well. He moved the family tradition of killing a goat to mark each New Year to the farm as well. My father is a people's person. It is in this light that he started giving out Christmas gifts to the children in Kwaso-Deduako . He'd normally pick a good day in the festive season to do so. He'd especially pick a day that I was present to join him do so. Yesterday on Boxing Day , I did. Here's an account. I knew he was going to give out the 'gifts' on Boxing Day but I also really wanted to watch the English premier league games. While watching Manchester United come back to win a game with vim, my father called asking if he should pick me up. ...

"Agriculture covers 60% of the workforce in Ghana". We heard this many times while growing up. Agriculture was and is extremely important in Ghana and we had and still have mostly an agrarian economy. As a country, we have set out a day to honour our farmers (and fishermen) and that day is typically the first Friday of each December - Farmer's Day. Think #Ghana, it's Friday! #TGIF! Happy Farmer's Day #Ghana ! Celebrate our farmers today. Let's eat what we grow & grow what we eat. #FarmersDay http://t.co/eh9xFsAljk — GhanaThink (@Ghanathink) December 6, 2013 Eat what we grow and growing what we eat will remind many Ghanaians of our former head of state Acheampong. He championed an " Operation Feed Yourself " campaign which encouraged sustainable agriculture. This is semi-communicated in this year's theme for Farmer's Day as well - " Reducing Post-Harvest losses for Sustainable Food Security and Nutrition ". We can't ...

One fine day in 2025, I was in a VIP bus traveling from Accra to Bolgatanga and I thought about music from the Northern sector/zone or Savannah Belt of Ghana. After Barcamp Bolga 2025, I asked some friends and then in #BolgaKonnect, #NavrongoKonnect, #NortheastKonnect, #TamaleKonnect, #SavannahKonnect and #WaKonnect about the top songs ever from these parts of Ghana. I was looking at artistes who were and are largely based in these areas, which means I did not consider the likes of Samini, Mugeez, Rocky Dawuni, and co. I Want To See You My Father - King Ayisoba (2006) The day this song was crowned the "Most Popular Song" in Ghana for 2006, that is when more ammunition was added to the #WeAreNotASeriousPeople hashtag. Someone should convince me this song's popularity was not tripled due to people making fun of it. Anyway, the song had to be doing something right. Apparently, King Ayisoba clarified that the correct lyric is "I want to sue you, my father". Did you ...

Ever since I went to Kenya for the first time, I have been imagining what my Kenyan alter-ego would be like. I have many Kenyan friends, most of which I met in the USA. I actually have more Kenyan friends who've returned to Kenya after sojourns abroad than for all other African countries. Like one friend said, "As for Kenyans, we move back". " I'm coming home, narudi nyumbani ". So a fter Ayooluwaato Eze from Nigeria and Richard Nshuti Mayanja from Uganda , I introduce to you all David Ochieng Mwangi. Yes, you heard it right. What a strange set of names? Kweli. Lakini kuona. My father is from the biggest tribe in Kenya, the Kikuyu. During my time abroad, most of the Kenyans I met were Kikuyu too. We're a proud people but you will always see us speak Sheng to feel as Kenyan as possible (instead of Kikuyu). Mwangi is a popular name you say. Yes, I am related to every popular Kenyan Mwangi you might know. We run deep mabibi na mabwana. My moth...

Did you know every guy in Ethiopia has my name? If you didn't know, then you don't know Ethiopia as well as you think you do. Yea, so by default, my Ethiopian alter ego is called Ato. More on this in about 3 minutes. We are talking about a country that was never colonized. The country of 13 months of sunshine. The country that uses its own calendar . Yeah, forever young, you can't beat that. The country of Haile Selassie. No, I am not a Rastafarian, amegsenalo very much. But I can tell what I am. So a fter Ayooluwaato Eze from Nigeria, Richard Nshuti Mayanja from Uganda , David Ochieng Mwangi from Kenya and Hamis Ambwene Massawe from Tanzania, I introduce to you all (Ato) Girma Goitom Gemechu, my Ethiopian alter-ego.  When I was born (in the US, more on this later), I didn't cry as much as most babies do and that took the observers by surprise. It's almost as if I was saying, "I am very happy to be here and men are not supposed to cry anyway". Tha...

We call +Barcamp Accra the Father Christmas of Barcamps. It normally happens on the Saturday before Christmas but the festive season is not the main driver behind this choice. It is to cater for allowing Ghanaians from all over the world to meet, those in Ghana and in the Diaspora. The Borgas have been arriving and we can see it in the Accra traffic. They'll quickly realise that the top issues in Ghana in 2015 are #Dumsor and #Corruption . The latter is still rife and is the main topic driving Barcamp Accra 2015. Corruption clearly for me are the symptoms of bigger systemic issues we have in Ghana. But why and how do we become corrupt? What can we do to fight this canker? It will be addressed via a panel discussion at +GhanaThink Foundation 's 55th Barcamp in Ghana. The team putting this together is led by +Duncan Elikplim Kwame Gablah alongside +Atitsogbui Patrick Keli +Watson Bedzrah +Bubune Sorkpor   +Dieu-Donne Gameli +Esperanza Yakubu +Nana Fynn Class-Peters...