exhaustion! feb 8th

Exhaustion! The culmination of my day! Sums it all up!

Ghana has really kicked my ass, but I have come too far not to complete the battle, prophecy, mission or whatever best describes the necessity for accomplishment of a destiny that is far beyond just oneself!


There is so much work to be done here & the people of Ghana need to recognize that mimicry can never create a film, music, or any type of industry. Authenticity is what makes any industry unique & sort after. Replicating what already exists is never acceptable or very sellable plus the chances are even worse when the mimicry is done badly! There is so much talent here but knowing how to utilize it & making it authentic is very hard to come by because everyone's desire is to go west & to be westernized!

I was on a film set where the main actress, who is well known in Ghana & Africa was clad in Dior from head to toe in an abominable manner, with blue contacts & to me really looking clownish , or better yet a broke down Lil' Kim, but yet everyone thought she looked so hot & thought the costume designer who was putting these atrocities together was fantastic. The costume designer is fantastic because she is perhaps one of the most real & hilarious people I have ever met, so you gotta love her even if she is a hot mess!! Ghana is filled with beautiful fabrics & skilled sewers who can make fantastic, original, & authentically Ghanaian designs with just a little direction, but instead of tapping into this, elevating our people, & really showcasing the talents of Ghanaians , we would rather style our top actresses in Dior & other labels & do it so badly that it takes away from their beauty along with being everything that Dior would never want to be. Cheap Imitation & mimicry will be the downfall of a budding entertainment industry in Ghana if we don't check ourselves & work together to make it authentically Ghanaian!