The modifications that modernisation has come along with in the Ghanaian Entertainment Industry is very flamboyant such that one do not need to be in any proximity to feel these changes. It is worthy to mention that change is indispensable in life, but only when this is a positive change. It would be incongruous to articulate that the profound exodus that the Ghanaian Entertainment Industry has experienced does not have any positive elements at all.
Although the majority are enjoying the new look and dimension that our Entertainment industry has taken, we still miss the “Good Old Days”. Are we missing the good old days simply because we still believe those days were the perfect entertaining moments or have we just fallen a victim of the old adage that says “Human Beings miss things a lot when they lose them”? .
No matter why we are missing the past, we certainly had some good old days when one would turn on the television in search for comic programmes and would stumble upon “Key Soap Concert Party” featuring characters like Nkomode, Akokrobeto, Araba Stamp, Bob Okalla among others.Hmmm!!, how can I forget the all entertaining and educative “Akan Drama” which starred great personalities like Super O.D, Kwadjo Kwakye, S.K Oppong, Maame Dorkono, Basiwaa, Katawere, Ko Hwe, etc.
Undoubtedly, some of us who were children those days can freshly remember the originality and creativity that “By the Fire Side” came along with. All the various Kwaku Ananse tales were truly entertaining and deem it a privilege to have been a young person then.
Television and Radio advertisements were much colourful and meaningful during the good old days compared to what modernisation has brought us. Who could not sing, recite or easily find the meanings of the “Dadowa Papa” (Pioneer Nails) advertisement as well as the Maltina, Key Soap, Omo and Sunlight commercials.
Indeed, we had some good old days. When we were enjoying such days, our neighbouring countries like Nigeria, Togo, Ivory Coast, etc were undergoing rapid changes in their entertainment industry in the name of modernisation. Though the Ghanaian Entertainment Industry was at its peak and was doing what was right, we tagged along this move because the majority were doing it. We totally forgot what Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi said “Any man more right than his neighbours constitutes a majority of one”. We were right than most of them(majority) and should have continued to enjoy Our “Good Old Days”
By: Chris-Vincent Agyapong Febiri/GhanaCelebrities.Com/United Kingdom
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