AFRO-DANCEHALL MUSIC IN GHANA

Afro-dancehall music is a fusion of Dancehall music and any of the various African music genres like hip life. Dancehall music originated from Jamaica in the late 1970's, the music genre was formed outside Reggae music. It is characterized by the 'patoi' language and its ability to be used to dance unlike the original Reggae music which mostly has a rhythm not suitable for dancing.

 To me, the term afro-dancehall indirectly is a repetition of an idea. Jamaica's root is Africa due to slave trade, and so if a music genre from Jamaica comes back to its roots, there shouldn't be a word to introduce or further qualify it. Hence, Afro Dancehall must be just dancehall.

At the moment, Ghana is doing tremendously good  in Afro-Dancehall music with acts like Samini, Shatta Wale,MzVee, AK Songstress, Iwan, Khakie, Episode, Stonebwuoy and others spicing the music genre with great pieces. In Ghana, afro-dancehall music took center stage when suddenly artistes doing the genre begun to battle out for the bragging right of being the "King of Dancehall". Now, there are bodies who award deserving  afro-dancehall artistes  at events like the BASS awards.  Personally I am not a fan of Reggae music but it's offspring, "afro-dancehall music" has really won my heart. My problem with afro-dancehall music is the use of broken language by the artistes with the intention of speaking patoi, this makes their music uncomprehending to people in listeners in other countries. in addition, the artistes put on violent acts which to them, signifies the culture of the origin of the music genre which to me, is far misconceived.

ErskineSay's " Afro-Dancehall music has really come to stay! lets revamp ourselves to liking the genre because regardless everything, it is our own music genre"