Black Sherif, KiDi & Stonebwoy on How Ghana's Music Scene is Taking Over – OkayAfrica

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A person with light-colored hair and sunglasses sits on a brown couch wearing a black Chicago Bulls jersey with the number 91. The background features a white curtain and part of an air conditioner. Their playlist streams Black Sherif, an emblem of Ghana's music scene spotlighted by OkayAfrica.

“Ghana is hot,” is a saying you’ll hear a lot while in the West African country. Whether you’re talking literally or in the local dialect more generally: ingenuity, creativity, the economy, frustrations, dreams – they’re all boiling over. At the Black Star Square, where the nation announced its independence in 1957 and became a beacon for the rest of the continent, Accra, Ghana is once again in everyone’s sights. This time around, the year festival Afro Nation sprawls across the historic site, bringing together Africa and the…