SANATU ZAMBANG STUDIOS (Podcast)

Ever since Sheefa Pagbisalma shared her opinion on why she removed her ” Hajj Gold Tooth ” many have been wondering what exactly is the purpose of the ” gold teeth ” and its significance to Hajj. While others have now realized that one can go to Hajj without coming home with a ” gold teeth ” After reading Sheefa Pagbisalma story, Aj Oke said ” Honestly, I thought once you go to hajj and back , one has to wear a gold teeth. In fact people who didn’t wear them we had thought they were not credible Alhaji and Alhaja. We usually don’t reckon with them but reading this has put things into different perspectives for me Thank you for the education ” Muhammad Naafik also had this to share “First of all, Hajj comes with lots of benefits for Muslims, which include; spiritual, social, and worldly benefits. I will only touch on the worldly benefits in response to the expressed opinion of our sister. Owners of vehicles and the likes rent them out to help pilgrims during hajj activities, hence, so...

As part of the Global Shapers Tamale Hub plans this year to visit and engage communities and educate them on how to fight their own problems and not wait for Government or politicians.  Speaking to the community people in the Kumbugu District of the Northern Region, the young change makers also took the challenge to visit some of the farms, hence witness with their own eyes how the army worms have destroyed their food crops. Farmers in the north have been complaining about lack of assistance from the agric minister as they battle the fall armywrom invasion. The Global Shapers Tamale Hub, curiosity came following the Deputy Agric Minister comments on Accra based Radio station StarrFm ” “Anybody in the north who said his farm was destroyed by armyworm would have to prove it. “You see that is how our brothers, excuse my language, it is so difficult to deal with them. “I lived there for 27 years, I speak Dagbani like a Dagomba and all that. They are very ...

Somewhere in Kumasi I met this beautiful girl called Ayisha from Yendi working as a head porter. She could not tell me her age for she dropped out of school when she was in class two to go and live with her aunt. She looked like a 14 year old and below. Through our conversations she was in Kumasi for money to buy kitchen utensils for marriage. I was able to convince her to think about learning a vocational skill and to use the utensils money to buy a sewing machine to learn how to design and make clothes. I am sad I could not give her enough money to buy a sewing machine. But my question is what are we doing as a country to ensure Ayisha and her friends stay in school to enjoy the free education. So I think all stakeholders in education should think of how to ensure every child in Ghana irrespective of their location and background goes to school to at least High School level. Parents have to play a major role to ensure that every Ghanaian child goes to school. I still stand for gir...

When the machines arrived last winter, the villagers were mesmerized. In Zamashegu, a farming community of 1,000 people in northern Ghana, they may as well have come from outer space — four electric slot machines installed in two roadside shacks, chirping and clattering, bathing the packed-dirt walls in a pale, kaleidoscopic glow. Their lure was magnetic. Soon, villagers stopped farming, leaving their yam and cassava fields fallow. Children stayed home from school. Instead, they’d queue up at the slots and play all day, until their pockets were empty or the village ran out of change altogether. About twice a week, a Chinese man would arrive in a pickup truck. He would unlock the machines, hand some cash to the shacks’ owners and drive off — carrying about $100 in coins and, many villagers came to understand, their community’s hope for the future. Chinese slot machines began appearing throughout rural Ghana early last year. And though the scope of the phenomenon remains unclear, in...

One can’t best tell what destiny holds for each of us, but as the days goes by, we discover who we are and what are can do and flamez is no exception. 2016 has seen a power wave in the Northern Music Industry, from shows to concert, album launch to peace concerts and this tells how music producers in the regions are up to their game. Imoro Abdul Basit born in the Northern Regional capital on 9th June, began his early education at Kanvilli presby experimental school, his success in academic work landed him at the Ghana senior high school in Tamale, he then moved to the Nursing training college in 2011 Flamez is one of the youngest music producer in the region and he is clearly up to his game, one can determine success of a producer by spotting the musicians that have not only recorded in his studios but how far the music he has produced has crossed boundaries. The Spirit of a Child delves into the story of Mama Laadi and her closely knit family of orphans in the Upper East of Gh...