Famous Ghanaian Broadcast Journalist and
reggae musician Abubakar Ahmed popularly called Blakk Rasta has said that the day the parliament of Ghana passed a law legalizing marijuana for industrial
use was the day he felt exonerated, happy, and joyful.
The reggae musician who also describes himself as a freedom
fighter, lecturer, poet, Pan Africanist and a vegetarian (vegan type) in
responding to how he’s able to combine all these responsibilities said “in life
one must add to one to make two but coming on Radio especially with the kind of a show I host which is not one that you just come and play music and walk away.
It deals with intellectuality” and that isn’t easy at all”
He was speaking to Original Ras Kofai on GBC Radio Central’s show “Joy in the noonday” today Saturday 29th May, 2020.
When asked how he felt when the news broke out that Ghana had
legalized marijuana for industrial purposes, he said “I felt exonerated and I
felt that yeah, this man here is far, far away from the present generation”.
Just yesterday the MP for Lambusie, Edward Derry called me and said that I was
angry the day that marijuana was legalized”.
I was one of the MPs who invited
you to parliament” but according to Blakk Rasta, the MP now feels the
Parliament of Ghana is being hypocritical because some of its members are
ridiculing him when he called for the legalization of the same in 2015.
But, in 2020, what Blakk Rasta proposed
to be done has come to fruition. He added that now “it is a feeling of
exoneration, happiness, and joy and for everyone who believes in herb” he
averred.
Recounting his music journey so far, the poet Blakk Rasta
explained that he started singing other people’s song in 1995 but started
recording his own album in 1999 and that came out in 2000 called “The Rasta
Shrine” with songs such ‘slave master’, Rasta carry on’ and a host of other
good songs on the album.
“From 2000 up till now we have eleven crazy albums and the last one came out only in November and that was” Timbuktu my road” he narrated.
“Well, in these times, when you read the book of Jeremiah and read
some other books you would get to know that it is time for Jah to pour his
spirit on his people that our old, old men shall dream dreams and our young men
and women shall prophesy and those times are now”. He said this when answering
a question as to whether he was a prophet or not because he composed a song for
Barack Obama and the latter became president.
He further explained that some people have made prophesy so weird as one has to go to a shrine or mountain to be able to get” but in his view, “Jah Jah created us in his own spirit, in his own image and so He has poured unto us His spirit so that we can look at people and tell or foretell what is going to happen”.
He continued that it was with that same
spirit and feeling when he received and did the song ‘Barack Obama’. “That
brought him to Ghana as the first African country” he visited when he became
president of the USA. “I met Barack Obama, we ate and we drank”.
Expatiating on how he writes his songs, the radio personality said
all his songs are inspired by Jah and that he never attempts to write any song
without inspiration. “I write a song because Jah tells me to write a song and
before I write a song He has already put the song there”. He continued that “He
shall put music in our heart and He shall put a joyful song in our hearts” he
added.
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