SANATU ZAMBANG STUDIOS (Podcast)

Story by Rahama Zakaria Tweet @rahamatulahi Cultural diversity has become an important issue that we need to discuss as a nation to help in peace and nation building. Migration has made it possible to have a multicultural society. Living in a multicultural society means, we need to understand the different cultures and not try to dictate our beliefs on another person of different cultural background. No single culture has the monopoly on dictating the absolute standard for behavior. It is deadly dangerous not to understand the concept of cultural difference. Most wars are fought over the premise that, one culture is better than another. Understanding and respecting cultural difference disallows violence predicated on cultural differences. Genie Films brought together seven women to discuss cultural diversity and how we can achieve a society where people are not ashamed for belonging to one ethnic group or race. In this discussion, there was the understanding that we are ...

Alhassan Abdul Gafaru, professionally known as Ruff Guy, a Ghanaian afropop, reggae and dancehall artist has called on Northern music industry players to support budding musicians. Ruff Guy who is one of the major acts in dancehall music in the north is the CEO of SAK music group. Ruff Guy is known as one of the prominent and leading reggae and dancehall artists in Tamale. Ruff Guy was born in Tamale and began making music in his early school days. He studied at the Zogbeli Junior High School. The motivation and encouragement from his colleagues helped him build his musical talents. Ruff Guy is a music lover, who is passionate about reggae. According to him, listening to reggae music caused him to join the music industry. Ruff Guy has worked with many prominent artists including Wiz Child, Gaffachi, Ojah Drumz and many more. Artists like Ruff Guy with immeasurable talents, should be given the opportunity to prove their worth in the music industry. In the Northern music indus...

Story by Rahama Zakaria Tweet @rahamatulahi It is not every day you see a woman dedicate her life to taken care of children who are not hers. But there are exceptional ones and of such women is Mama Laadi. Mama Laadi is a community nurse in Bolga from the Upper East region of Ghana. The spirit child documentary by Genie Films tells a story of a selfless woman passion to give home to kids abandoned by their families through no fault of theirs. Mama Laadi a street child once before has made her mission in life to give shelter and hope to the abandoned children in her community. Most of the children who live at Mama Laadi’s Foster Home are either abuse victims, or “spirit children”— children born with some form of deformity and deemed to be possessed by evil spirits. The lucky ones are the kids left to rot on the streets are because because in most families’ spirit children are killed by local medicine men with poisonous concoctions with the notion of casting the evil s...

Story by Rahama Zakaria Tweet @ rahamatulahi There have been many movies on Kayayei in the country to depict the horrible treatment that girls go through in this form of business. Kwabena Gyansah and his Anansi Entertainment crew latest movie, Azali is also adding to the tall list of Kayayie movie but with a different twist to the narrative of the story. Azali tells the story of Amina born in poverty with a bleak future in a village in the north is sent to Accra to seek for greener pastures by her Mum. Amina is taken from her village by another woman who is said to be in that business of helping young girls in the village to travel out.  But unknown to her Mum, this said woman is engage in child trafficking.  Amina in her pursuit to return to her mother after been a victim for child trafficking is raped, goes into prostitution and also find love and her long-lost father in the end. The movie is directed by Kwabena Gyansah and produced by Anansi Entertainment Limited....

Across the globe, heroes are remembered for their tireless and selfless efforts because of their positive contributions towards the development of a country, be it in the field of economics, social or political. They are also remembered by future generations by having them named after an institution or a government project. The nation has witnessed the renaming of projects and institutions after selfless citizens from past and current governments. I believe this to be very commendable and should be a continuous process that shouldn’t come to a halt anytime soon until Tamale’s own Dr Abdulai Choggu gets named as well. I have had this in mind since the demise of our beloved Dr and philanthropist. Whose services to society can’t be measured in anyway both in kind and in cash. To many, there won’t be any need to spell out a long profile of Dr Abdulai choggu as an introduction or a way of awakening people’s mind of who he was. A medical doctor by profession he was but, whose env...

Story by Rahama Zakaria Edited by Zakaria Abdul Hakim Cisse The interim chairman of Alliance for Northern Entertainers (ANE) has debunked the notion held by many that the association is made up of only Fancy Gadam fans and it is there to fight for only the ‘Concrete’ hit maker. Speaking to Sanatu Zambang Magazine, the ICT entrepreneur lamented on the prejudice mind that people in our society have about entertainers and that is why the association was formed, to fight for the right of all art players in the town, be it a musician, actor, actress, producers, music engineers, media personnel or anybody whose work is related to the entertainment industry in the region. ‘’ People see everyone in the entertainment industry to be some bunch of useless people, school dropout simply because they see them to be working on their own and we don’t seem to have a united front, so alliance for northern entertainers, is providing that particular platform where it will address all that ...

Fancy Gadam and Patoranking had planned to stage one of the biggest show in Tamale on 30th June, 2018 but that did not come to life due to the unforeseen accident on the eve of show. On the eve of the show, an accident occurred between a Zylofone van and an articulator track resulting in the death of six and two of the deceased were found out to be Fancy Gadam fans because they were wearing shirts with Fancy image on it. Without verifying or waiting for the police report on the cause of the accident, the mayor of Tamale, Musah Superior, went on rampage on radio to accuse Fancy Gadam because he believe it  was a float that cause the accident when in actual fact it was not the case. It was unfortunate coming from someone in authority like his caliber asking a rhetorical question suggesting Fancy Gadam is using his fans blood to make it in music and down playing the hard work this young chap who is using his music to give people the chance to know that, there are talents in the...