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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.

Wickedness in Africa

I feel for him....my Africa why

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

zinnydan:
I feel for him....my Africa why

Not Africa, GHANA!
Let's call it as it is!

Mariangeles:
Not Africa, GHANA!
Let's call it as it is!

Ghana

zinnydan:
Ghana

Exactly!

Mariangeles:
Exactly!