{"id":3660,"date":"2024-03-05T21:44:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T21:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2024-03-05T21:44:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T21:44:49","slug":"creative-arts-and-culture-should-have-a-separate-ministry-kaakyire-kwame-appiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3660","title":{"rendered":"Creative arts and culture should have a separate Ministry \u2013 Kaakyire Kwame Appiah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One of Ghana\u2019s most celebrated Highlife Musicians, Kaakyire Kwame Appiah has called for a separate Ministry for the Creative Arts and Culture sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with AKOMA FM\u2019s Tony Best on Entertainment 360, the musician opined that the Creative Arts and Culture sector will continue to struggle in terms of support and investments by government if the sector is not separated from the Tourism Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He&nbsp;explained that this is due to the fact that government&nbsp;will always have to share funding allocated to the sector with the Tourism sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He further argued that no government from the past to current has the Creative Arts and Culture sector at heart. He believes that there is not much respect for the sector despite the fact that everyone uses music in one way or the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-0e94dcdbd4a7e5878c795a219fae4d98 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XninrDPJ1Tw?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo government has their concentration on the Creative Arts industry, meanwhile for most people, music is used for everything they do. So why are creatives not respected and supported well enough?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe problem that we have is as a result of the fact that there\u2019s only one ministry for both Creative Arts, Culture and Tourism. There is no need putting the two under one umbrella,\u201d he said on March 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaakyire also believes that if indeed the welfare of Creatives is what the ministry seeks to establish, then Creative Arts and Culture should have an independent ministry so that proper attention is given to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Ghana\u2019s most celebrated Highlife Musicians, Kaakyire Kwame Appiah has called for a separate Ministry for the Creative Arts and Culture sector. In an interview with AKOMA FM\u2019s Tony Best on Entertainment 360, the musician opined that the Creative Arts and Culture sector will continue to struggle in terms of support and investments by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[1229,1228],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general-news","tag-creative-arts-and-culture","tag-kaakyire-kwame-appiah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3662,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions\/3662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}