{"id":566727,"date":"2010-05-17T13:44:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T17:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/?p=10297"},"modified":"2010-05-17T13:44:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T17:44:29","slug":"young-talents-showcased-at-wapi-%e2%80%98i-rep-africa%e2%80%99-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566727","title":{"rendered":"Young talents showcased at WAPI \u2018I Rep Africa\u2019 Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headlining act for the WAPI \u2018I Rep Africa\u2019 festival, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/music\/r2bees-ready-to-blow\/\" >R2bees<\/a> lived up  to the billing when they thrilled a pack of fun-loving youths at the  Coconut Groove Regency Hotel on Saturday, May 8. The rap group which  flew back into the country from Nigeria, where they are currently  promoting their hit song, \u2018<em>Kiss Your Hand<\/em>\u2019 featuring Wande Coal,  climaxed the event which was filled with exciting new and promising  talents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/columnists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100_4376-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"100_4376\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><span id=\"more-10297\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WAPI is a British Council event for Ghana\u2019s established stars to come  together with the stars of tomorrow, to have fun and network. It was an  opportunity for young, upcoming creatives and artists to network with  the experts in the field.  The finale event saw musical performances  from upcoming rappers and singers interspersed with some performances  from the more established acts such as Keche, Stay J and Dr Cryme. There  was an exhibition of some amazing artworks and a funky fashion show  with young designers such as Nana Asihene and Bubu. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notifications.php#%21\/album.php?aid=210067&amp;id=128955543688&amp;ref=mf\">View  pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a bid to arm young creatives with the opportunity to gain invaluable  knowledge from those who have made it in the creative fields of  broadcasting, journalism, acting and advertising, the British Council  also added an expert discussion panel to the WAPI festival.  The  panelists included: online entertainment journalist and publicist,  Ameyaw Debrah; Ms Naa, YFM DJ and host of the Ryse and Shyne breakfast  show;  Jason Nartey,  Creative Director at MMRS Ogilvy; and Kwaku  Boateng, actor and Founder and Artistic Director of The K. Boateng  Academy of Performing Arts in Ghana.  Kwaku Boateng also held a workshop  on acting for inspiring young actors.<\/p>\n<p>Although WAPI, \u2018I Rep Africa\u2019 was billed to be the last in the Words and  Pictures series, unconfirmed reports suggest that the British Council  might continue the series in Ghana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headlining act for the WAPI \u2018I Rep Africa\u2019 festival, R2bees lived up to the billing when they thrilled a pack of fun-loving youths at the Coconut Groove Regency Hotel on Saturday, May 8. The rap group which flew back into the country from Nigeria, where they are currently promoting their hit song, \u2018Kiss Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}