Ghana Must Live Again for April 30

By Forgive Adjoa Forfoe

23 April 2016

With just a few months to the 2016 elections, various organisations, corporate bodies and those in the arts industry are coming together to preach peace and the need to tolerate one another irrespective of political affiliations.

And come Saturday, April 30, at the National Theatre, the National Dance Company of Ghana, in conjunction with Germinal Consult, will stage a play titled, Ghana Must Live Again.

The 6: 00 pm play has a rich cast of Adjetey Annang (Pusher), Edinam Atatsi, Akorfa Edzeani, Chief Moomen, Naa Ayeley Ardeyfio, Pamela Karikari and Kojo Yankson, among others.

Ascene from the play

Ghana Must Live Again is a project that seeks to address the many pertinent issues that face Ghana as a country and the role citizens must play to ensure the progress of the country.

The production will blend poetry, dance and music as a complete story to address the issues.

In an interview with the Daily Graphic, Georgina Asabere, the Business Manager of Germinal Consult, the organisers, said the production, directed by Nii Mantse, is a call on Ghanaians to take a shared responsibility for the country’s present state and for those in the creative arts industry to also participate in nation building which goes beyond their everyday performance.

‘‘Once upon a time, we saw a happy united front, but today, we are very individualistic in all our ways. If things will work again, it will depend on all of us doing things right, and not one political party. What has gone wrong? Who is to blame? What is the way forward?

“There is the need for a change in our general attitude and behaviour towards our country and not the responsibility of a political party. It is also a wake-up call to those of us in the arts to know that our role in nation building transcends our personal interests,” she stated.

According to her, the aim of the play is to instil in the patrons the need to be patriotic and work for the collective interest of the country saying, “I believe we can all work for Ghana to live again”.