The National Players Award (NPA) was telecast on ETV to honor distinguished footballers last Friday. This was the second edition which intends to honor ex and current players who have played significant roles for various national teams. The event was organized by proton sports service. The award was not given to only the male but the females as well (the Black Queens).
Sherifa Gunu is one artiste who performed during the event. Sherifa is a lady with great talent, a princess of Dagbon in the Northern part of Ghana, dance champion for the Northern Region and first runner up for the 1998 National Dance Championship but failed to impress me on the night of the awards.
The performance of Sherifa during the event NPA was appalling. Instead of performing, she was just talking. She kept on making this statement, “my CD’s are around so try and buy one” almost throughout the performance. I think that shouldn’t have been done, it should have been done by the master of ceremony after her performance. She should have concentrated more on the performance, she was not dancing as she used to.
When your performance is awesome the audience reflects it to you through hailing and even applause. After the performance, the reaction from the audience was something that didn’t really befit her calibre. However, she did well by trying to explain the lyrics in the song since the language is not understood by most people but that was not necessary.
My other advice to Sherifa is that, she shouldn’t use too much of computerized instrumentation since that takes away the true African-ness from her. She can improve her African music by bringing on board several local instruments such as the “atumpan”, dono”, flute, rattle and others.
Source: Flexghana
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