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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by SmartPolician: 8:38am On Nov 10, 2025*

If not for bad leadership, Ghana is supposed to be Nigeria's 37th state. We would've re-colonized all the West African countries

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by Kobicove(m): 8:39am On Nov 10, 2025

Ghana is not on the same level as Nigeria, the earlier they accept this the better for them!

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by franugo(m): 8:39am On Nov 10, 2025

aribisala0:
The real problem is why Africans think they need Americans to determine awards for best African Music

It's the silliest thing brother

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by koladata(m): 8:40am On Nov 10, 2025

I swear

aribisala0:
The real problem is why Africans think they need Americans to determine awards for best African Music

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by udemzyudex(m): 8:40am On Nov 10, 2025

Kemetian:
Not in this case. Nigeria dominates both African and international music scenes and awards.

So this is just general Ghanaian frustration over Nigeria winning everything, both African and foreign.

I also saw another video where they were lamenting about how the Ghana movie industry had collapsed after Nollywood blanked their actors for collabo etc.... It's not just music.

Lol

Read his post again, it has nothing to do with your explanation.

Simply put, we shouldn't be whining over Grammy awards, it's a white man award.

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by Mirasteel: 8:40am On Nov 10, 2025

Nigeria is the entertainment hub of Africa, if Ghanaians want to be among Grammy list, they should do better.

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by TENHEU22(m): 8:45am On Nov 10, 2025

aribisala0:
Do you understand English?
Is there any award in Africa for best European or best American music?
What is our business with Grammy

it seems that after your teachers assessed you, you used to also insist on assessing them.

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by Bestwt001(f): 8:45am On Nov 10, 2025

Nigerians singers, sings song with English and maes it understandable and sweet, but others who will take their language personal

Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by correctguy101(m): 8:46am On Nov 10, 2025

aribisala0:
The real problem is why Africans think they need Americans to determine awards for best African Music

E no shock you?

Like the Americans can even make good music.

But that's life for you. Most things are turned upside down.

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by DrAda(f): 8:46am On Nov 10, 2025

No they are not. Why do you ask?

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by DiarisGodoo: 8:48am On Nov 10, 2025

aribisala0:
The real problem is why Africans think they need Americans to determine awards for best African Music

aribisala0:
Do you understand English?
Is there any award in Africa for best European or best American music?
What is our business with Grammy

You again. There are certain things that are worldwide. Why should America be so eager about a Nobel prize awarded by Norway or FIFA Wiorld Cup headquartered in Switzerland??
Or why should world leaders troop to New York City for UN? Is NYC centralized?

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by kenneth888: 8:50am On Nov 10, 2025

Somebody should remind Ghana that they are just like 2 states put together ,,,,we are not mate.... well i no blame them ..na bad govt and corruption .......

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by DonBenny77(m): 8:51am On Nov 10, 2025

STFU!
When Nigerians come over to Ghana to upgrade their music and yours in the process you are hostile to them, bill them excessively.
Now you are crying.
How many Ghanian celebrities live or own houses in Nigeria. How many of them invite their talented brothers to come hustle and operate in Nigeria?
You hate Nigerians yet you want to be successful like them rather than submit and learn the ropes.

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by frankoben(m): 8:55am On Nov 10, 2025

We just do it for Africa and the legacy thereof.....the black race is one and the same

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by AlphaTaikun: 8:57am On Nov 10, 2025*

Kemetian:
Ghanaians have had enough of Nigeria dominating everything.

They're now asking whether it's only Nigerians that are in Africa, for them to be winning all the Grammy awards and nominations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-wo_jTrYyU

I watched the FULL reaction video here and I didn't see any overt hatred for Nigerians by Ghananians because of the Grammy Awards. Matter-of-FACT, the Ghanaians largely gave out constructive criticisms to improve the Ghanain music industry so as to be nominated for the Grammy Awards.

INFACT the 3rd boy who spoke wearing a white singlet and the young man wearing a red "gobi cap" who spoke last in the video are Ghananians who gave constructive criticisms to Ghananians and Ghananian musicians on what to do.

Some of the other young male speakers in the reaction video spoke ignorantly in some places especially one creep with the microphone in front of him who sarcastically said Nigerians went to Shatta Wale's Grammy page and started asking questions about who Shatta Wale is thereby depriving him of being nominated. He also said Nigerians usually vote in large numbers for Nigerian artistes during the Grammy nominations unlike Ghananians.

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by Westman001: 8:57am On Nov 10, 2025

aribisala0:
You clearly do not
Grammy Award is just an enterprise for American music companies
Best African music nominations and they are all signed to American labels
No Hausa music, no Swahili, no Yoruba

You are preoccupied with your Ghana hating project
It is petty and small minded

Because of American labels we no longer hear any music from Zaire, Mali, etc

Crucially we no longed hear African instruments
It is all electronic

How many of those nominated can play a single musical instrument
Real African musicians like Seun Kuti are screened out

So the Grammy is not a good thing for Africa
It serves the commercial interests of those nominated and jobless haters like you

Why is there no Grammy for best Asian music?
They refuse to sell out and Americanize their sound

A Best African category only divides us

If it is not in Igbo , Yoruba Swahili etc it is not African
If it is electronic it is not African

That's where you have it wrong. Grammy is not an enterprise for American music. It's for music in general. All genres.

Have you forgotten that King Sunny Ade has been nominated before.

We have Korean musicians that have been nominated. We have those that have won.

We have Spanish musicians too.

Don't let your hatred for America becloud your reasoning and judgement.
There is a global recognition for things that can be global. Even mathematics that secondary school children learn has a global recognition. Even choirs of churches have a global recognition.

Nobel prize is there. You don't hate that. If Nobel prize is American thing now, you'd probably hate it.

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by Chucks13: 8:58am On Nov 10, 2025

Yes it's only Nigeria because "we no dey take last" we always work hard, harder even hardest to be better in all our endeavours.

Finally, we Nigetians support one another when it come to other things apart from politics every other things we stand with each other.

AND (In captal)

We don't hate our fellow African brothers it's only our African brothers that hate us and their is no way God won't lift us high.

Keep hating us and God keep lifting us higher and higher. That is just the secret.

If Ghanin sing good song we love it and dance it

If South Africa sing good song we love it promote it and accept it

If Senegaess sing good song we take it and dance it, no hating at all but you see you Ghanians and South Africa you are doing opposite when it comes to Nigeria music, change your way or remain complaining forever, we move, that is the mystery of God deeds.

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by lezz(m): 8:59am On Nov 10, 2025

Ghana is inferior to Lagos in every scale of measurements.

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by aribisala0(m): 9:01am On Nov 10, 2025

DiarisGodoo:
You again. There are certain things that are worldwide. Why should America be so eager about a Nobel prize awarded by Norway or Wirld Cup headquartered elsewhere?

Must you talk ignorantly
Worldwide? What does that mean?

Is there any award for best Asian music?
No because they do not sell out themselves

Is there anything like American music? No they have different categories
So why one category for African music?

Even in Nigeria There is nothing like Nigerian music
We have Fuji, juju, Ogene, Highlife etc not to talk of the whole of Africa

The Grammy Award serves commercial interests
If Nigerians want it they should compete with the whole world not for some meaningless consolation category
There is nothing like African music there are dozens of genres and awards like this will kill them because Americans are now telling us what to sing e.g Fela sang about Skin bleaching =relevant to Africans
What is Tyler singing about that is relevant to Africans
The record labels have tried very hard to create a synthetic star with Tyler
Good for her but is her music African?

Bright Chimezie
Wasiu Ayinde
Seun Kuti
Awilo are African

If we continue to collude with this we will kill our own music

Fela could have been a multimillionaire if he did what the record labels wanted
He never sold out

Our music is not electronic

Today you have so called Award nominees that cannot play a single instrument

They are commercial successes but not spiritual and definitely NOT AFRICAN

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by SmartPolician: 9:02am On Nov 10, 2025

HacheNoire:
It’s not even about that. It’s glaring that Nigerian leads in the African entertainment industry, but the point is that, some people are not just worth the nomination.

Davido, Wiz and Burna have had their peaks and released good music in the past, but as of date, in all truthfulness, these guys are not performing and should not be in the nomination.

Many Nigerian artiste killed it far ahead of them. I am lover of Wiz’s songs, but of recent, if truth must be told, it’s all trash! Same with Davido and Burna.

Someone explained to me on this forum that, Grammy’s is a bidding of record labels and why artistes with strong record labels make it to nominations. It is never about the music but recognition to make more profit on their signed artistes.

What did Wiz, Burna and Davido sing compared to their other artiste. Combine all the hit tracks of the three in 24/25, it still cannot flaw the album of an artiste like BNXN.

I think Grammy is seriously looking at songs that are visible in the west and around the world. If you want your song to the visible, you sign to a big American record label or be willing to spend so much money promoting your songs in America. US record labels do this for their artists too.

Nigérian artists spend so much money promoting their songs on billboards and paying DJs to play them on radio and in the clubs in the US. Once they break into the US market, get award nominations, get online streams, get invited to perform or even tour America.

Most musicians apart from those in Nigeria and South Africa don't have the financial capacity to embark on such song promotions. That's why the two countries will dominate and win major awards for a long time. The good thing is that Grammy plans to have Grammy Africa, which will give artists from smaller African countries a voice.

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by lezz(m): 9:02am On Nov 10, 2025

aribisala0:
The real problem is why Africans think they need Americans to determine awards for best African Music

Dumbest quote ever since the digital age

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by Airlord2030: 9:04am On Nov 10, 2025

Yoruba artists not Nigerians

Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by DarkJeddi(m): 9:04am On Nov 10, 2025

aribisala0:
You clearly do not
Grammy Award is just an enterprise for American music companies
Best African music nominations and they are all signed to American labels
No Hausa music, no Swahili, no Yoruba

You are preoccupied with your Ghana hating project
It is petty and small minded

Because of American labels we no longer hear any music from Zaire, Mali, etc

Crucially we no longed hear African instruments
It is all electronic

How many of those nominated can play a single musical instrument
Real African musicians like Seun Kuti are screened out

So the Grammy is not a good thing for Africa
It serves the commercial interests of those nominated and jobless haters like you

Why is there no Grammy for best Asian music?
They refuse to sell out and Americanize their sound

A Best African category only divides us

If it is not in Igbo , Yoruba Swahili etc it is not African
If it is electronic it is not African

Ogbeni,all these ranting na imaginary hullabaloo.

You people like to find excuses for your inadequacies and inefficiencies.

Did the Hausa,Yoruba or whatever language music you are on about,stop to exist because of an Award presented in America?

The Grammy have been Awarded to other countries and continents since the 50s and 60s,it reaches your turn it becomes something else.

You people likes to play victim on top everything.

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by Ojagun(m): 9:07am On Nov 10, 2025*

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by aribisala0(m): 9:07am On Nov 10, 2025

DarkJeddi:
Ogbeni,all these ranting na imaginary hullabaloo.

You people like to find excuses for your inadequacies and inefficiencies.

Did the Hausa,Yoruba or whatever language music you are on about,stop to exist because of an Award presented in America?

The Grammy have been Awarded to other countries and continents since the 50s and 60s,it reaches your turn it becomes something else.

You people likes to play victim on top everything.

Ogbeni you are blocked

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by Bahamas95(m): 9:13am On Nov 10, 2025

aribisala0:
The real problem is why Africans think they need Americans to determine awards for best African Music

Even in Africa we're dominating and Ghanaians know already.

Na eye just dey pepper dem, na small thing Ghanaians take beta pass South Africans in terms of hatred for Nigerians.

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by SmartyPants(m): 9:16am On Nov 10, 2025

HacheNoire:
It’s not even about that. It’s glaring that Nigerian leads in the African entertainment industry, but the point is that, some people are not just worth the nomination.

[b]Davido, Wiz and Burna have had their peaks [/b]and released good music in the past, but as of date, in all truthfulness, these guys are not performing and should not be in the nomination.

Many Nigerian artiste killed it far ahead of them. I am lover of Wiz’s songs, but of recent, if truth must be told, it’s all trash! Same with Davido and Burna.

Someone explained to me on this forum that, Grammy’s is a bidding of record labels and why artistes with strong record labels make it to nominations. It is never about the music but recognition to make more profit on their signed artistes.

What did Wiz, Burna and Davido sing compared to their other artiste. Combine all the hit tracks of the three in 24/25, it still cannot flaw the album of an artiste like BNXN.

Even at their best, none of them has created a masterpiece like Asa's Jailer.

Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by aribisala0(m): 9:18am On Nov 10, 2025

Westman001:
That's where you have it wrong. Grammy is not an enterprise for American music. It's for music in general. All genres.

Have you forgotten that King Sunny Ade has been nominated before.

We have Korean musicians that have been nominated. We have those that have won.

We have Spanish musicians too.

Don't let your hatred for America becloud your reasoning and judgement.
There is a global recognition for things that can be global. Even mathematics that secondary school children learn has a global recognition. Even choirs of churches have a global recognition.

Nobel prize is there. You don't hate that. If Nobel prize is American thing now, you'd probably hate it.

You said Korean musicians were nominated
Please educate me for what category
You said Sunny Ade was nominated
Again educate me for what category
I have no problem with Nigerians nominated for World music awards
Let them compete with everyone else

My problem is with the category

Best African Music Performance
It is new and it is disrespectful

African music is too broad too diverse to be reduced to one award
Because certain categories especially those that don't use English will never win and they will be slowly killed

They have pop ,country, rap, classic , jazz , folk etc in America
They would not accept Best American so why should we accept Best African?

We have even more categories than they do
We have drumming categories alone

All the nominations are electronic
They don't play African instruments

It should be clear to anyone with pride we need our own awards with at least 10 categories

That is my point

Talking About hatred for America is gratuitous insolence
You don't need that on this topic

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by sundayezege4(m): 9:21am On Nov 10, 2025

Wuna papa, local people.
Until your musician start singing what people will hear 😀😀

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Re: ''Are Nigerians The ONLY Africans?'' Ghanaians Rage Over Grammy Nominations! by SonOfDSoil01: 9:22am On Nov 10, 2025

won binu omo ologo…….when you re big, you are big, you can’t do nothing about it grin

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