A Jamaican's opinion on Afro-dancehall genre

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• abubuate 9 years ago

  Look, whoever you are, patios is an insult that the french use on blacks that cannot speak english. Why in the hell do you jamaican people call broken english patio? Second in your patio, there is a language known as twi, it ...
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  Look, whoever you are, patios is an insult that the french use on blacks that cannot speak english. Why in the hell do you jamaican people call broken english patio? Second in your patio, there is a language known as twi, it is embedded in patio with your jamaican english. This is what makes reggae so attractive to Ghanaians. Anyway, Jamacian reggae is dead, and the dancehall is not moving. So we africans have to decided to do our thing. Afro dancehall is not a bad term, africans are black and blacks africans. If you say you are black but not african then you are really not black.

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• Trini 9 years ago

  not sure if you read and uderstand what he was saying abubuate. The writer is saying why are we calling it Afo Dancehall? its dancehall period. he is also saying by doing that we are reinforcing our tendency to segregate an ...
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  not sure if you read and uderstand what he was saying abubuate. The writer is saying why are we calling it Afo Dancehall? its dancehall period. he is also saying by doing that we are reinforcing our tendency to segregate and divide ourselves. If you think Dancehall is dead, obviously, you don't listen to the radio. Reggage and Dancehall is seen as mainstream music. I'm from Trini and your more likely to hear a Dance Hall artist in any club before you here a soca artist from Trinidad or a Afo beat artist from Ghana or Nigeria, fact. please read before commenting, so you won't sound, uninformed and Tribal....

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• adumtumi nyansafuo 9 years ago

  Who gives a hoot about dancehall, we ghanaians had a good thing going on with the highlife. Ghanaians love reggae and so what. They can do anything with it, its a free world. I say keep the afro-dancehall term. We all know th ...
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  Who gives a hoot about dancehall, we ghanaians had a good thing going on with the highlife. Ghanaians love reggae and so what. They can do anything with it, its a free world. I say keep the afro-dancehall term. We all know that carribean people are not really black people.

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• Trini 9 years ago

  not, sure, but my brother, your comment shows your level of intelligence. one thing I can say, thank God for people like Nkrumah or a comment like yours would make people think Ghanaian's are all like you. go check your hist ...
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  not, sure, but my brother, your comment shows your level of intelligence. one thing I can say, thank God for people like Nkrumah or a comment like yours would make people think Ghanaian's are all like you. go check your history, the concept of Pan-Africanisim was first articulated among Africans from the Caribbean, ie George Padmore, who was Nkrumah. mentor.. so the true black man(that is conscious) has always been the brothers' outside of Africa. you guys back home in Africa will sellout Africa for nothing.. like you doing know with the Chinese...

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• Kofai 9 years ago

  Trini, thanks for your comments about Nkrumah. I must state that much of the divisiveness about who is African and who is black stems from lack of awareness, and a lack of exposure to cultures around the world. It's quite sad ...
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  Trini, thanks for your comments about Nkrumah. I must state that much of the divisiveness about who is African and who is black stems from lack of awareness, and a lack of exposure to cultures around the world. It's quite sad that in an era where there more opportunities for interaction among people from all places, the black man in Africa, the US, and the Caribbean has a limited sense of connectedness with his "brothers" on other continents. Perhaps we need to do more to spread the message of Pan-Africanism!!
  
  As for the main article, I think I agree with its main message: We don't need an Afro-Dancehall, just Dancehall. If it has to be Afro-Dancehall, we need not copy Jamaican Patois. And if we have to do it, then we should learn to do it right and use it positively!! All this makes sense to me, even if the writer sounds a bit nationalistic for a Pan-Africanist.

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• Trini 9 years ago

  Bro. Kofai,
  well said. I agree with you. all of the music coming out of the Black experience is African. there is no reggae, Hip hop, soca, merengue, bachata, etc without the African. your right our youth have to begin to ...
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  Bro. Kofai,
  well said. I agree with you. all of the music coming out of the Black experience is African. there is no reggae, Hip hop, soca, merengue, bachata, etc without the African. your right our youth have to begin to understand our African ourselves in a Global perspective and the many forms in which it manifest its self. My love for Ghana, stems from the influence the Akan has had in the Caribbean as it relates to its leadership which manifested in the many slave revolts across Latin America and the Caribbean, so it hurts my heart when I see we always use petty stuff to divide us...

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• Hajia Fatty 9 years ago

  I have notin against the writer even if he sounds offensive.I dont support the idea in singing in patwa.patwa is jamaican broken English or whatever,we have our own broken english,so u can do dancehall in our way.Alpha and lu ...
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  I have notin against the writer even if he sounds offensive.I dont support the idea in singing in patwa.patwa is jamaican broken English or whatever,we have our own broken english,so u can do dancehall in our way.Alpha and lucky dube are very good in doing reggae in our way.why do u have to sing in patwa?Be urselves.Sarkodie is doing rap in the african way and sounds good.I was ashamed wen shatta wale was telling samini cant sing in patwa.That sounds so cheap to me.We have great talents in Africa but just try 2 be urselves.

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• Kenny 9 years ago

  Ghana musicians are more educated than the Jamaican musicians and they have to stop using gyal and other words. They don't speak English well that's why they speak patios (broken English)that's why Ghanians don't need to use ...
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  Ghana musicians are more educated than the Jamaican musicians and they have to stop using gyal and other words. They don't speak English well that's why they speak patios (broken English)that's why Ghanians don't need to use that in our music industry. Most of the time Jamaicans use bad words in their music. DON KNO - Kenny (Canada)

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• Kenny 9 years ago

  Our country (Ghana) is in hardship and you musicians have to stop playing patios music that has caused a lot of confusion in the system that we don't need in Ghana. DON KNOW we live in Canada we know better we live with them.

  Our country (Ghana) is in hardship and you musicians have to stop playing patios music that has caused a lot of confusion in the system that we don't need in Ghana. DON KNOW we live in Canada we know better we live with them.

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• metoo 9 years ago

  I agree with the OP 100%.
  
  It's okay to be influenced by a genre of music, such as dancehall, but when Africans use fake accents and patois language ( most times incorrectly ) I find it embarrassing.
  
  We have our own pid ...
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  I agree with the OP 100%.
  
  It's okay to be influenced by a genre of music, such as dancehall, but when Africans use fake accents and patois language ( most times incorrectly ) I find it embarrassing.
  
  We have our own pidgin, which is our own equivalent of patios......Being our own way of speaking English.
  
  Be authentically African in all you do....The world does not want wannabe Jamaicans, we already have real and authentic Jamaicans, thank you.

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• freedom fighter 9 years ago

  dancehall is bout the beat and the raiming, you are jamaican so imawa? Keep shart your advice

  dancehall is bout the beat and the raiming, you are jamaican so imawa? Keep shart your advice

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• Manwize 9 years ago

  Mi like both Jamaican Dancehall and Ghanaian dancehall too. I think dancehall is all about the attitude inna dance and all of we Akebulan massive. Akebulan the original name for Africa before Scipio Africanus invaded and mash ...
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  Mi like both Jamaican Dancehall and Ghanaian dancehall too. I think dancehall is all about the attitude inna dance and all of we Akebulan massive. Akebulan the original name for Africa before Scipio Africanus invaded and mash up di land. If you Black big up yourself no matter where you lay your head. Bablylon gentiles wan't to lick down all the God chosen people. Peace and love to all.

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• RATTY 7 years ago

  Yo ah chat a bagga nonsense, ghanaians do real dancehall, and if yo don kno den mi think yo nuh lisle we track dem. yo staki, pussyhole

  Yo ah chat a bagga nonsense, ghanaians do real dancehall, and if yo don kno den mi think yo nuh lisle we track dem. yo staki, pussyhole

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• yardie 7 years ago

  You sound like someone who is sorry colonialism is dead.
  
  One thing I love about most Jamaicans and Nigerians is that they are proud and unapologetically Jamaican/Nigerian.
  
  gone are the days when Jamaican's speak patwa ...
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  You sound like someone who is sorry colonialism is dead.
  
  One thing I love about most Jamaicans and Nigerians is that they are proud and unapologetically Jamaican/Nigerian.
  
  gone are the days when Jamaican's speak patwa because they don't know english (force upon them); Jamaican's speak patwa because of pride (this is a language of our invention. A little of everything).

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