Medikal live in London: Ghana missing Afrobeats memo – Music In Africa

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By the time its curtains were drawn down, the show – which spooled pop anthems and happy performances from a supporting cast of fellow Ghanaian popstars like veteran hitmakers Sarkodie, Shatta Wale and Efya, and the flaming hot Kumerica act Jay Bahd – it had already garnered the label “historic” across media outlets back home. Indeed, the verdict by one news website was that the concert’s headliner “saved the Ghanaian music industry.” Sentiments thus (complacency, clever agenda, or proof of Naija-handed exceptionalism?) are…