Hiplife veteran Okyeame Kwame has swapped the stage for the lecture hall. The rapper says he has started teaching second-year Development Communication students at the University of Media, Arts and Communication (UniMAC) in Accra, as reported by 3News and YEN.com.gh.
He shared the news with a classroom video on Instagram on Tuesday, 10 November. “I have started teaching at @unimac_gh. My second year students in Development Communication are teaching me more than I teach [them],” he wrote.
He called it “a beautiful experience”, thanked GIJ, the former Ghana Institute of Journalism that is now part of UniMAC, “for this great learning opportunity”, and made fans a promise: “I will share some of my lectures with you.”
Inside the classroom
The clip, filmed from the back of the room, shows students at their desks as he speaks in front of a projected slide. According to YEN.com.gh, the slide carried a quote attributed to the French philosopher René Descartes, and Okyeame Kwame used it to push the class to question what they are told. “Doubt is the origin of wisdom,” he told the students, as quoted by the outlet.
His post does not give his formal title at the university, and 3News noted that UniMAC had not published an announcement about the role at the time of writing.
No stranger to academia
The move fits a long academic journey. According to a Citi Newsroom profile published in March, he holds an MPhil in Public Relations from UniMAC, is pursuing a PhD in Development Communication at the same school, and already teaches Level 200 voice students as an adjunct lecturer in the University of Ghana’s Department of Music.
Okyeame Kwame first came to fame in the 1990s as one half of the hiplife duo Akyeame, before building a long solo career with songs such as “Woso” and “Made in Ghana”. He has stayed busy this month too, launching an open verse challenge for his single “Big Up” and joining the bill for Lekzy Unleashed: Godfathers Edition at UPSA on 7 November.
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