Over the last few weeks, several Ghanaian musicians have thrown punches at MUSIGA, a non-compulsory Union which boost of membership strength of over 4 thousand Ghanaian musicians.
When it comes to MUSIGA, it is either a Ghanaian musician is throwing insults at them for non-performance or another industry person is rendering the Union useless. The criticisms and jabs have increased astronomically over the last few years, probably, because of the 2M GHS which was handed over to them for the betterment of the whole creative art industry.
I am personally not a fan of MUSIGA or any of the numerous Ghanaian creative art associations and I don’t give a hoot about Obour and his executives—because the truth is, just like the Ghanaian government, most of these associations are a MESSS!
Without being contemptuous, let me add that, the musicians and the industry players themselves do not have any sense of career direction and yet they continue to unfairly punch MUSIGA—simply because they are not part of the gang of people sharing whatever is at stake.
Most Ghanaian musicians make so much noise and yet, they continue to produce garbage which they call songs and when frustration sets in, they go around blaming others like MUSIGA for failing to help them achieve their goals.
Let’s leave MUSIGA aside for just a minute…Can you tell me any of these Ghanaian musicians who is doing anything worth a real push or which of them is making a real effort for that international break through which will bring the needed success?
Ask any of them known for throwing insults at MUSIGA this simple question; what do you want MUSIGA to do and you will hear lots of gobbledygook, as if MUSIGA is their record label or an agency supposed to manage their careers for them.
In fact, most of these Ghanaian musicians have no careers. They need to find some job to do and do so real quick, because their approach to music will not make them anything, probably except being local champions—and MUSIGA cannot take them out of their compounding misery.
For Christ sake, MUSIGA is not a de-facto Union, you can decide to join or not and if anything at all, those throwing insults can come together and form a ‘perfect union’. The last time I checked, Ghanaians still have freedom of association as a constitutional right.
The cry has always been, there is no music industry in Ghana—- I cannot debate this since the needed structures are not in existence. Similarly, I can say, there is no proper musician in Ghana since the vital attributes of a real musician are missing in most of these so called Ghanaian musicians.