Ghana's love affair with reggae and Jamaican Patois

[Budda]

Do you think it's the Marcus Garvey "Back to Africa movement" that influenced this?

The black star in Ghana’s flag is from Marcus Garvey’s black star line

 

[Jeshaman]

Jamaican music is definitely huge in Ghana, less so in Nigeria. The biggest musical influence outside Nigeria is definitely hip-hop.

That said we have our own musical styles and tend not to be into rap and dance hall as Ghanaians. I hear drill is huge in Ghana as well.

 

[Uncouth Savage]

Not to real Island nikkas.

But u right about Yardie patois having African words and that’s true for all Caribbean creoles. They’re a mixture of European, African and Amerindian languages.

The country peoples patois sometimes sounds like a different language.


It should be noted some blk people arrived at different times.
Slavery went on for a long time.
So you might have some who are more "african" if I could use that word.

 

[DonB90]

Jamaica really the GOAT black country as far as cultural influence. I say that as a New Yorker/Guyanese

No offense to black Americans but for their numbers on that tiny island, they really punching in a different weight class.

Everything you wrote after a New yorker of Guyanese descent was null an void bout AAs. Thanks for the input though

 

[OneManGang]

Everything you wrote after a New yorker of Guyanese descent was null a void bout AAs. Thanks for the input though

Thanks for your input on that breh

 

[Sbp]

Jamaican music is definitely huge in Ghana, less so in Nigeria. The biggest musical influence outside Nigeria is definitely hip-hop.

That said we have our own musical styles and tend not to be into rap and dance hall as Ghanaians. I hear drill is huge in Ghana as well.

Dude drill is a sub-genre of rap music

 

[TEH]

I think the patois tranlations are wrong.

It’s not, ‘Who is that boy singing?’ but the patois from both countries are saying, ‘Why is that boy singing?’


Source

Trust me breh

 

[DonB90]

How the hell African Americans get brought up in a thread about the connection between Ghana-Jamaica is beyond me.

AAs truely are the measuring stick

 

[Givethanks]

Those guys below ‘look’ Jamaican

Same people

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Same people

Jamaicans have substantial admixture from Igbos, but the Akan cultural influence is predominant

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Culture vultures

But seriously Reggae has been big in African countries since the 80s. I grew up in a neighborhood with Rastafarian stalls selling fruit and weed in every street corner.

*70s

 

[Givethanks]

Jamaicans have substantial admixture from Igbos, but the Akan cultural influence is predominant

I know we're just a big mixture of west Africans, I dead ass consider myself West African

 

[Givethanks]

Double

 

[KnickstapeCity]

Jamaica really the GOAT black country as far as cultural influence. I say that as a New Yorker/Guyanese

No offense to black Americans but for their numbers on that tiny island, they really punching in a different weight class.

Guyanese fakkit

 

[RaspberryFitted]