After months of waiting, the organizers of the prestigious Ghana Movie Awards have released a video footage of the Ghanaian stars who made it to this year’s Cannes Film Festival held in France.
The video features John Dumelo, Majid Michel, Nadia Buari, Juliet Ibrahim, Yvonne Okoro and others…In the video, the stars shared their experience, expectations and talked about the way forward for the Ghanaian Movie Industry.
The concept behind the video is great, the content is valuable but the delivery of the content has diminished the quality and destroyed the value of the whole recording…What the HECK is wrong with some of these stars? Their STUPID and UNINTELLIGENT display of FAKE untraceable accents is disgusting and it ruins anything good they are asked to deliver.
What was Yvonne Okoro and Nadia Buari doing in the video? Those accents are stupidly FAKE and have messed the whole video up… I can’t point out the origin of those accents. They don’t sound American, British, Australian or anything…
Can’t someone tell these chicks what they are doing is totally disgusting and shameful? They sound like a Chinese, married to British, born in Germany, living in Cuba and speaking French. That is how messed up these people sound…
Did I hear Nadia Buari say they need international recognition? SCREW that girl…You cannot even recognise your own self, you are lost in your own accent and you need someone to recognise you internationally? This display of fake accents make it difficult to understand anything these people say… Pronunciations are so so bad…All Yvonne Okoro was doing was rolling her damn tongue around saliva in her mouth…DISGUSTING!
I have lived in Britain for years and still find it difficult to understand these FAKE accents…Prior to posting this, I asked 3 friends born and breed in UK, USA and Canada to watch the video and tell me if they can figure out which country the accents belong…No one seems to even figure them out. Gosh!
What makes it more sad is how perfectly Emmanuel Adebayor, an international football star who has been in UK for years far more than any of those stars spoke with his true Togolese accent and delivered the message as perfect as required.
This is pure nonsense…Don’t these people feel shy when they do all this fake accent crap? These people have a very long way to go…Probably it is inferiority complex!
Watch The Video Below…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZmWGEkxGTM
Lol Chris, thanks for saying the obvious that many can’t tell these young girls. The fake accent thing is so annoying. When you go to Ghana, everyone is doing it.
On radio, tv and the streets. So how do Yvonne Okoro and Nadia Buafi feel watching the video again? They are just pathetic. Real americans or British can’t even understand them. They will be disgraced one day if they keep doing it. I can’t stop laughing
@Tracy, i think, its poverty that has made our celebrities imitate the american and the British accent. they don’t feel comfortable to speak their real accent when they are in the midst of the white people. they don’t want the Americans to hear that, they are speaking their poor African accent and which is wrong. Italians, Portuguese etc are proud to speak their English accent and they don’t feel embarrass about that. how come that, we force our selves?
Well it worth it. I mean them trying to do an accent. Cos the Ghanaian accent is so heavy to understand. Useless spoken slowly and clearly. Considering others other than Ghanaian will be listening , they to have an accent to their own terms.I understood every single word they said. Allow them GC.
@cece enima,true dat!honestly i dont think they spoke with any kinda made up accents but they were just trying to sound presentable n is not just ghanaians who r gonna watch it
@saa, I find your point and I quote:” they were just trying to sound presentable”, quite troubling in the sense that every accent of any society is heavy to a listener from a different society. Accent basically is the way one sounds when he/she speaks her/his language. It is ignorance not to understand that everyone has accent.
Furthermore, any sound (accent) that one is familar with shall always sound diffient to a listener from a different society. The idea of labelling other society’s accent as ‘thick or heavy” is plain nonsense!
Mr Kofi Annan spoke with a foreign accent in the UN but yet everyone understood him clearly. The same with Mr.Ban Ki-moon, I understand him clearly when he speaks although his accent is foreign to me because it’s a big world and the same english language is taught in school but with different sounds.
It’s plain dehuminazing to label other society accent “thick or heavy” just to make another society feel great of the themselves which is rather ignorant and silly.
Which accent is “thin or light”?
@val, very said ..well said … very sensible ..
@mother, Thank you mother
@cece enima,
Accent basically is the way one sounds when he/she speaks her/his language.
Any sound (accent) that one is familar with shall always sound diffient to a listener from a different society. The idea of labelling other society’s accent as ‘thick or heavy” is plain nonsense!
Which accent is “thin or light”?
LMAO chris you’r so funny, i get eixcited when i read your post you say has it is you don’t care, ok now lets get back to the accent younne okoro accent is a mixture of nigerian,
what fake accent?leave them alone ah aden.and oh juliet is too cute.my baby moms
Yvonne you are the best.
@Joh,lol..which one??
Hahahaha
from 1:13 to 1:16, what was Majid doing? That man is funny.
Well Chris as fir this one I agree with you on some parts I dint know if you have been watching yvone Okro movies but that’s the way she talks and there is nothing she cab do about it but as for Nadia that was pure fake especially when she uses her slogan “actually” but to my opinion I think miss Okro did well in the interview
But did I hear John say wine and dine hmmm but let them be if that’s how they want to be than who are we to judge them no one at the end of the day we can sit here laugh, tease than but as soon as a movie comes out we ate there to praise them or jump and go and watch it
@Miyagi, truly bro,If this is what is termed accent, then it did them all well! after all they were not targeting the Ghanaian audience alone but the world at large.
Another good thing is, there is a cooking season here on the U.S market called ACCENT! Bouy, it honestly wakes the natural faleour of any food you cook! when used reasonably, just like the maggi salt on the Ghanaian market. Health wise too much an’t good. And like our STARS, a little of an “ACCENT” is all they need!
When you hear Spanish natives having conversation, you may be tempeted to call the Cops, for you are likely to assume they are in a fight! Our various native launguages makes it hard for all to understand us. My boss would rather text me than speak with me over the phone, even though she claim ‘to love my pure BRITISH GA ACCENT” The world is now a Globle Village and we are all networked up!
@naadu,Well said bro nice feedback
stop faking you cannot change your accent when you live in ghana.
stop faking and be real.
BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU COMING FROM MOST MOVIES STARS ALWAYS FAKE IT AND IS VERY AWFUL AND DISGUSTING.
TAKE LESSONS FROM NIGERIANS AND THE CARRIBEANS THEY NEVER FAKE TO BE BRITISH OR AMERICAN
@fake, THAT IS A LIE, NIGERIANS DO THAT STUPID FAKE ACCENT AS WELL. I KNOW A NIGERIAN GUY THAT RANDOMLY STARTED SPEAKING AMERICAN FOR NO REASON. HE DIDN’T EVEN GO ON HOLIDAY. I KNOW ANOTHER NIGERIAN FRESHIE THAT CAME STRAIGHT FROM NIGERIA AND WITH AN AMERICAN ACCENT THEN ONE DAY SWITCHED BACK TO HIS NAIJA ACCENT. I GUESS IT WAS TOO MUCH WORK.
IN THE MOVIES, GHANA IS TAKING IT TOO FAR THOUGH.
THE WHOLE OF AFRICA NEEDS TO ALLOW THAT STUPID ACCENT. BE YOURSELVES.
yvonne nelson the word is SAW not SAWR/SOR
don’t worry people! its the new ghanaian accent. lol
@madam social,Hahahahah
imagine the “inconconbility ” n stupidity these girls are learning from no where.
aaaaahhhhh!!!!!
They beginning to flop.
if we taking about fake accents i dont think anyone does it better than reggie the rocktone
This is why I love Chris and GC, he says it as it is. I have stopped watching Ghanaian movie because of this stupid fake accent.
Look at Yvonne Okoro, a typical Nigerian girl who says DUCTOR faking her accent big time?
For Nadia Buari, she will never go anywhere . You think Hollywood will come for you for you to come and fake accents there while they have the real accents?
Has any of these people stayed more than 1 year in UK, USA or Canada? Nonsense
@TiffanyBabe, LOOOOOOOOLLLL Tiff… as for Nadia Buari NOBODY will mind her kraaaa. she shud jus dey der smh … vry soon no1 will buy her movies bcs we cnt evn hear wt shes sain….. n fr the rest of dem SMH !!! if u cnt b urslf…hw the bloody hell can u move frwrd!!!!
Juliet was the realist !!!
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL YEHOWA!!
@TiffanyBabe, I soo agree with you……..what the fuck is wrong with there people? she aint the only one when I went to Ghana last xmas the same ting was going on down there….they are loosing one thing what make them different ……..dumb fucks…
@ Adowa ..i agree with u ..juliet was the realist …@Tiffanny ..yvonne is not a typical nigerian girl…besides that her accent all the time …she has lived in the Uk before ..she is half ghanian as well ..
@mother, here we go with another crap. Who is a typically Nigerian girl and who is not? How long did Okoro live in UK to attain an accent and who said that is a UK accent?
You think you visit UK for 3 or 4 weeks holidays or live there for 6 months and you get an accent? I think you did not read what Chris wrote because he stated the accent is nothing from UK. I bet he lives there and can spot a UK accent when he does.
If you want to hear a Ghanaian actress speaking in UK accent, then listen to people like Ama K Abebrese. she lived in UK since she was 9 years or so and still she does not go about doing the silly things these wanna be are doing.
@akosuaghana,follow follow girl, Nantwiee
@Akosua ghana , are u alright ?? i certainly dont think so …u having personal problems thats why u talking crap like that to me ..did i even adress it to u ?? and stop being naive saying Chris said this and that ..dont u have a mind of ur own to figure things out urslef .. and is it only Chris who can spot a Uk accents just becos he lives there ..girl ,thats too naive of u … and what makes u think Yvonne Okoro came to to visit Uk for 3 to 6 months ?? get ur facts right before u starting attacking people uncessary … and who cares abt Ama here ,how long has she been in the movie industry to go around speaking ??…even her accent is not a true british one .. so no need to tell me cos i dont care to knw …
Nice video
Hahahhahahaahha!!! ‘they call it “home video”‘
Dumelo cracked me up there!
As for the accents, you hear it all day everyday in Ghana. It’s not American, British or Aussie, it’s simply borrowed from all 3.
As a very good friend of mine says when asked if she ever lived in the states, due to her perfectly accented pronunciation (which never changes even when she is around her family), “no, I never lived in america, I just watch a lotta movies!”
Lol
Yvonne I feel isn’t faking it, only tries to make some specific words sound different. Nadia, however, starts off american, , continues ghanaian and ends up British. She has the thickest “primary school days” accent when she’s being real, believe me, I’ve been around her enough times to hear it… All in all, love the video, although would have loved to see my cheeky monkey doing an interview!!
Also, how come there are absolutely no pictures of this “red carpet” walk they did with the infamous deep and others??? Hmmm susssssspecccttt!!!
Oh, btw, cheeky monkey is Majid
In Ghana here, Nadia and Helena Asante r the fakest!!!!!! Yvonne Okoro is weird….seriously, she seems to change her accent in every single movie….☺Ђ n she does mix d american accent wiτ̅h british accent….lmho…..Juliet was the realest…
OH, i just realised the updated “Fake accent” on the picture. Yvonne Okoro’s is not too bad though – compared to the rest.
hehehehehe, chris, say it like you mean it. but i heard Nadia use to reside in united states…so why the surprise? unless she lied then.
@kwabena edusei, reside in where USA?then you heard wrong,she resided in TAKORADI,not USA with her mother until Mr.Buari married her mother.some how she found herself in Holand,got pregnant for a man and had a child which she has done a very good work of hidding that child from the media.If she has lived in the USA before,then she should have started her acting career there and not come to Ghana.
@maame,AJEIIII !!!!!!! LOOOLL
I HONESTLY THINK IS A GOOD THING. TYPICAL GHANAIAN ACCENT IS TOO THICK. SO IS BETTER IF THEY TRY TO LIGHTEN IT UP. IM NOT TRYNA POP NIGERIAN STARS BUBBLES BUT COMPARE THEIR ACCENT TO THEIRS AND THESE GH STARS SOUND MUCH BETTER. AT LEAST IS BETTER THAN NOTHING LOL.
@maame, Go and tell a Germany to change his accent because you can’t hear him and he will slap your face. What is better about being fake?
I guess you are one of the fake accent girls around…
@maame, are the maame that is 17 years old?
@maame, are you the maame that is 17 years old?
It was only John who wasnt faking it and told it like it was about the movie industry..good job
haha ze zijn allemaal een stelletje wannabees. nadia needs to stop this obvious fake accent. it doesnt sound nice and i like the way juliet talks but wat she doin there she is one of the worst actresses in ghana or let me say lberia
i agree with you,honestly i will prefere to watch nigerian movies than to watch these girls.working with nigerians has still not made them any better.
@maame, i had respected you until TODAY!! Am so dissapointed in you. WHO are niagirans anyway? do they speak any better english than we do? we have the grammer construction than any African Country. There anyone to prove me wrong. You see, English being our Second language does not come easy, We all need to Pass English Exams b4 being promoted to our next grade in school.
A mother who never read or wrote is proud to have her child speak English. We were forbidden to speak broken or piggen english! In school in my days At Nisec, Seniors will have u picked up for even speaking your own native language let alone broken english in school! It made us all proud and highly confident when we meet other african natives who were not pressured to do so. You there not compare our English with a country like Nigeria AGAIN!1 Ha ha
@naadu, when a nigerian speaks here in europe or even in africa,immediately you will know this is a nigerian, but its difficult to notice a ghanaian here,unless maybe they are in a group and speaking in any of our local languages but with a niger person,just 1 or 2 sentences and you will know,besides i was not even talkind about the language aspect,i meant acting and being real in the act is what i was refering to,i can speak for an hour with a ghanaian and i will not know the person is from Ghana unless he or she tells me,but to speak with someone from niger,highest 10 minutes you will know unless that person was born and schooled outside niger. Let me also remind you that am not the only maame here so not all coments here are from me.
@gaatjeniksaan, .i think you are right.she is one of the worst actresses in gh and arrogant too.and if i heard her right from the footage,did she say ”there is a lot of people around here” and ”there is a lot of things” ,madam juliet check your grammer.it’s a shame..wack!
@liz, Shout UP! LOTS OF PEOPLE AND LOTs OF THINGS are not the same! People or animals, living things can not be the same as non living things! The bebe may be refering to sight seeings and humans and activities whats your own?
@naadu, hey u cant tell me to shut up! my problem is with the ,”THERE IS” A LOT OF PEOPLE, AND THINGS GOING ON THERE, IT SHOULD BE THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE COS ITS CONT. NOUN. it’s so informal .you can however say for example, there is a lot sugar in the tea cos sugar is uncont. noun.HELLLOOOO……..
@liz, borofo! I will come for ENGLISH LESSONS from you. LOL
@B.B,HahahHa stop teasing hahahah
@liz,What do u know?people are uncountable and referring to a country festival that is plural.what do you knowmake a video of yourself make we all see!just don’t go through any surgeries to appear nice cus u sound like an ugly soul hating on the wrong people for selfish reasons.fakeaccent and fake life bitch!is English your language?are u an English?
but y would they pick on a “fake accent” just for a fun of it like whats the point? but i do think that nadia puts on a fake accent tho. it just sounds like she didnt live in ghana. nd yvonne okoro sounds weird sometimes. as for the others, i dont think they try to put on a accent, i think thats how they actually speak i dunno i could be wrong.
why are they saying cannessss…u dont mention the sssssss…please people!!!!! okoro why!!!!!
i dnt c anything fake abt this. Maybe they dnt want 2 sound like American, british or Canadian as u thought, chris. They´ve invented they own accent. Like Agya Koo said 2 Nana Ama in odo ntira movie. i have my own English dat even George Bush wnt understand. Who knows, maybe in da next 1000yrs Nadia & Yvonne Okoro´s generation wld be using their great grand mothers accent. lol
@Afia, good comment so far may dear! am soo pissed off
@ akua thank you. i’m glad i aint the only one who heard it
john Dumelo spoke the truth about “Home Video” Adebayor is funny.
@Naki, adebayor was the real thing,and can you believe he lives in ENGLAND all these years and still speak like that?imagine Nadia that grew up in Takoradi speaking like she was born in SCOTLAND.good beads does not make noise when you shake it.
MUMU ARTICLE WRITER,,,THERS NOTHING WRONG WITH THESE ACCENTS,,,,,,,JUST GO FLY A KITE,,,,WE DON’T NEED U HERE,,,ABROAD MY 2 FEET
@TRINAH,So what does thy make you a donky
John well said abt our movies…
@ miyagi, please watch the return of Beyonce and tell me if this was how Okoro spoke in that movie!! Fake people Smh!! Ghanaians copy wrongly it’s overly pathetic!!
@Tanya Lacquisha,Where are you based and how long have you been living there before I raise my question
Well I’ve only watched one movie of Yvonne Okoro and she sounded perfectly ghanaian so Idk what’s up with the fake accent now! Yall should go back and watch the return of Beyonce! Grow up Okoro and be real please!!
In my opinion what happened it’s a part of their life, I think every human being has something bad what someone else doesn’t like which we all need to change.For the most part on what we all said I want to give them a piece of advice, there is nothing to be ashamed of what you done but try to make your pronunciation better doing more research , you know what I’m not a Ghanian I came in Accra to learn English but not talk like them because their pronunciation is not good at all you see it’s not only you have
that problem please encouraged you be humble and learn that all
@Paule, Hope you learned and was thought well by our teachers. B’cus if you are not thought wel,l you can not chose ghana and then you can not speak any Good English as well as pronouce words!
Now that you are able to write good sentence like this, its a lot of progress on your part and prove that our teachers thought you well. If your country teaches and speack good English, you will never had been in Ghana in the First Place!!
Correction: PRONOUNCE
Nadia is the worse culprit…people shud know that being real takes u far..
my only problem with this whole thing was the manner in which they kept saying Cannes….with emphasis on the S its a silent S ….or was i the only one who heard that.( i believe Okoro was the main victim)..tell me if am going deaf…..as for the accents, as long as its clear and you sound eloquent, i think its always a plus….
Well one thing is for sure, if these people want Ghana movies to be taken in the World, then these movies need to give an inside knowledge about Ghana and it’s culture! In Europe you see many African films shown on TV that gives the viewer a grate picture of the African culture. Mainly from the French Spoken countries.
Everything you see in those cheap produced Ghana movies are fake and wanting to be like Black Americans!!!
PEOPLE JUST BE YOURSELF!
And what is it that the films has to be in English?!? What’s so wrong about Twi?! I know they want to attract bigger audience but how about subtitles? If as a Ghanaian I can see anything real about Ghana movies, what do you think the World will see?
@Akosua, sweetie most of the english speaking ghanaian actors refuse to speak twi on cameras?
mad props chris….top top piece.
Someone please tell nadia you don’t ‘need’ international recognition, u create int’l recognition for yourself.
yvonne okoro’s excessive hand movements and gestures crack me up. looks like she has cerebral palsy
@val, Good points, Kofi Annane lived abroad for years and he still speaks with his local accent. This is a man of intellect.
Have you listen to people like Wole Sonyinka? A professor from Nigeria who won NOBEL PRIZE and has lived in America for years as well as other european countries, yet he speaks in his Nigeria accent even on CNN and other bigger platforms.
This chicken heads see some cam corder infront of them and that is, they want to put up some accent.
Listen from 3:45 onwards
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-DCj0Y1kvc
@akosuaghana, madam,who is kofi Annane and what is intellect?heiiiiii brofo,get your spellings right or you need help?
I think their accent are fine, I dont see anything wrong with it…people read into everything too much
@mother thank you so much I will send you some flowers for speaking your mind
@miyagi, stop replying my comments. You’ve been doing that and I have been ignoring you…Can’t you see you are not my type, kind and level? Your intelligent level is too low.
I only responded to let you that, I won’t bother with you because I am not your type. Learn how to systematically write constructively and you can come and play with big girls like me.
Chris wrote the article so any discussion should be based on what he said or something related. I think people like you cannot even understand that. Make your contributions and stop replying every single comment here.
@akosuaghana,Kinda type of level ignoring me and so what FOOL keep ignoring I will keep on replying lesbo junkie Come and stop me from commenting or ask your paddy Chris to block my comment ass kisser
@Miyagi, lool yes she such a ass kisser, i have been reading her comment she kisses chris ass, she fancies chris
@nanaya 2 sexy,Thank you for notifying it she thinks she can cone here comment and go Scott free without someone replying her with her pokemon eyes always Chris this Chris that leave that boy alone and drop your comment without even mentioning his name by the way nanaya why up with your name hahahaha are you too sexy for your screen 🙂
@akosuaghana, you are no better than this miyagi guy,infact you are worse because you have made it clear here on this site that you are a lesbian and you dont see anything wrong with being a lesbian or a gay for that matter,and for that you have lost your every respect as a woman,and what do you call yourself?akosuaghana?i beg remove that Ghana from there.
@maame,I love your feedback especially the ending hahahahah nice one
Hmm i 4got to say People in America here, say Nieomi We “British with Accents” say Naomi , Americans say Veeda and we Say Vida! All through out I heard Our stars say Naomi Tell me ppl, what is Slaging about this. Thats the way Nadia and Okoro Speaks any way. Am so Glad that YN has been spared so far
oh i think am missing wats going on here….had to take a little brk…are u guys talkn LAFA…Locally Acquired Foreign Accent…this is not new in gh n among our so called “celebrities”…well i dnt see dem as celebrities as long as the keep on fotocopying others…they shd be natural n be proud of their culture.. hmmm i guess it has has come to stay so…………
well all these ppl u mentioned, i can honestly say the reason being is because they r old…many ppl acquire foreign accent at a young age…say from 3-12 years, the least…and mostly female kids tend to catch an accent faster than male kids…so u saying ama k having a british accent make sense because she grew up there at a very young age…another example is jackie appiah…she left canada at the age of 9 to ghana…by now, i will honestly say she fakes her accent to make ppl think abt the fact that she lived abroad once…my parents, and other relatives who have been living abroad for so many years still hve their ghana accent because they r pretty much at the age where they cnt grasp or adaptt to a foreign accent….
which fake accent kraaa…they sound like how they sound everyday to me…u ppl, i dnt know what at all NADIA has done to some of you…pls stop spreading false rumors abt her…how do u know if she lived in US or Takoradi…seeing is believing…so pls STOP……..