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Young Actor Quaye Becomes A Beggar After Being Cheated Out Of $30,000 by dd12345(op): 6:47pm On Aug 24, 2018
Young Actor Quaye Becomes A Beggar After Being Cheated Out Of $30,000 He Was Paid For “Beast Of No Nations”

Caleb Boye
on Monday
I am sad this morning.
I was heading to the Ghana Institute of Journalism campus and I met Striker. You would ask who is Striker? Striker starred in the movie Beast of No Nations. The said film that made Abraham Attah.
Today I met him begging for money on the road leading to GIJ. I called him and brought him to campus.
Speaking to him he tells me he now works with a gentleman who sells Yam at Agbogbloshie Market
He stays with his grandma at North Kaneshie.

In 2015, Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye was featured as “Strika” in the movie Beast of Nations alongside Idris Elba and Abraham Attah. Three years later, he is on the streets of Ghana, begging to earn a living.
The young actor was seen begging by a fan who recognized him and was taken to a local tv station for an interview. Speaking on GHOne TV, Quaye narrated his experience after the acclaimed film.
According to him, he was supposed to be paid $30,000 for the role but the money was taken custody of by a handler who promised to pay the money once he turned 18. Sadly, the said person has not made good on that promise.
“After the movie, I was to be paid 1% of the profit made from the movie. They told me it’s in the bank but I am yet to see the money” - Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye.

The movie was a Netflix adaptation of a book of the same title by Uzodinma Iweala and cost six million dollars to produce. Idris Elba won a SAG Awards for his role and was nominated for Golden Globe.
On the contrary, Abraham Attah who played the main character Agu has since made in roads into a Hollywood career. Having relocated to the United States, he got a role in the Marvel film Spiderman: Homecoming and is billed to feature in the forthcoming The Modern Ocean.
Quaye’s life couldn’t be any different as he continues to scrape by in his home country. He revealed that he was also featured in a Ghanaian movie Jungo Justice but suffered the same fate-the producers told him his fee was used to buy clothes and shoes for him but he never got any actual money.

Re: Young Actor Quaye Becomes A Beggar After Being Cheated Out Of $30,000 by BUHARItesticles: 6:55pm On Aug 24, 2018
Wickedness in Africa
Re: Young Actor Quaye Becomes A Beggar After Being Cheated Out Of $30,000 by zinnydan(f): 7:01pm On Aug 24, 2018
I feel for him....my Africa why
Re: Young Actor Quaye Becomes A Beggar After Being Cheated Out Of $30,000 by Mariangeles(f):
Ghanaian promoters are known to exploit people.

I read a similar experience of one Miss Ghana about how she was exploited and used to raise money in the name of " charity" for her so-called sponsors only for the so-called sponsor to siphon the funds...
She had to give back the crown because it wasn't worth all the stress and threats
Re: Young Actor Quaye Becomes A Beggar After Being Cheated Out Of $30,000 by Mariangeles(f): 7:22pm On Aug 24, 2018
zinnydan:
I feel for him....my Africa why
Not Africa, GHANA!
Let's call it as it is!
Re: Young Actor Quaye Becomes A Beggar After Being Cheated Out Of $30,000 by zinnydan(f): 7:35pm On Aug 24, 2018
Mariangeles:
Not Africa, GHANA!
Let's call it as it is!
Ghana
Re: Young Actor Quaye Becomes A Beggar After Being Cheated Out Of $30,000 by Mariangeles(f): 7:37pm On Aug 24, 2018
zinnydan:
Ghana
Exactly!
Re: Young Actor Quaye Becomes A Beggar After Being Cheated Out Of $30,000 by zinnydan(f): 7:44pm On Aug 24, 2018
Mariangeles:
Exactly!
cool cool cool cool
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