Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

“Kuffour, idiot! Mills, idiot! You take Nkrumah’s plans to make motorway and name it George Walker Bush Motorway??? George Bush?? I’m ashamed!” – FOKN Bois

Fucking with the puritanical social mores that pervade the world’s most religious country is the clear and conscious intent of Ghana’s popular and controversial hip-hop duo, the clever FOKN Bois, writes Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah. 

M3nsa and Wanlov the Kubolor are the FOKN Bois: controversial, unapologetic and boldly venturing into territories that other Ghanaian musicians stay well clear of. The duo met as college students in 1997, and Wanlov would “lie to M3nsa’s teachers that M3nsa was needed at the school administration block by staff, and we would run off to freestyle rap all day”. Their reunion a few years later led to the creation of the FOKN Bois, whose music is woven from the persistent threads of religion and sex.

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