PANAFEST And Emancipation Day To Promote High Life Music

This year?s celebration of PANAFEST and Emancipation Day, in spite of the numerous problems plaguing it, still seems to have some interesting activities to refocus the otherwise monotonous activities that mark the programme during its biennial celebrations.

One of the new programmes introduced this year is the special high life music show.

The high life show is aimed at making Ghana?s sole traditional music, popular on the international music scene so as to compete with already known brands such as the Caribbean ?calypso? and the Jamaican ?Reggae?.

Kofi Abotchie caught up with the Group Corporate Director of the event organizers, Argon Group of Holdings, Moses Foh-Amoaning who is promoting this concept and first asked him whether there will be anything different from the usual PANAFEST programme line-up.

But publicity of the biennial PANAFEST celebration dedicated to the ideals of Pan-Africanism, appears to be low-keyed.

Members of the general public, especially, those in Accra do not seem to have caught the normal euphoria that go with PANAFEST and Emancipation celebrations.

A section of the public interviewed by Joy News seemed not to know anything about the two events.

But Moses Foh-Amoaning, the Group Corporate Affairs director of Argon, the events organizers says he doesn?t totally agree with the view that publicity of the programme has been that bad, although he agrees that the publicity hasn?t been too good due to some financial constraints.