Effects On Our Youth

Akua Djanie affectionately called ‘Blakofe’ left Ghana for the United Kingdom at the age of 10. She returned 15 years later and has since became a household name due to her involvement in successful television and radio programmes as well as live entertainment shows. Djanie is also an award winning Writer (‘Best Journalist 2011 by the Ghana/UK Society Media Awards), Stand-Up comedian and Actress who has had the opportunity to work across Africa and the UK. In March 2010, she wrote an article called "Music Videos or Porn with Music?." In this article she speaks about her experience when  she found her children watching music videos that were so explicit, she confused them as porno. She starts off by saying that she usually keeps the television in her room so she can monitor what her children watch but once in a while puts it out in living room so they can watch what they want. The day she decides to give them a little freedom, she finds them watching what she thinks is porn. When she asks about it, they inform her that it's a DVD she had bought them and indeed, it was a music DVD she had purchased for her children to watch. She describes scenes that muted seem like soft core porn. Instead of choreographed dancing, girls were gyrating and shaking their rears for rappers. She described the women to be "seductively caressing themselves whilst sprawled across huge beds." As a woman she feels offended by the lyrics in these songs and she does not understand how a woman would want to dance to it. She also could not find a way to explain it to her kids when they asked her what the lyrics meant. She wishes artists would be more like Wyclef Jean who does not follow any artists lead but creates his own beats and paths she thinks others should follow.

Source:

Djanie, Akua. "Music Videos Or Porn with Music?" New African 2010: 28-9. ProQuest. Web. 14 May 2013 .