Samini, Edem and Grammy-winning reggae family Morgan Heritage will headline the Ghana Jamaica Homecoming Festival, which closes with a concert at the Legon Sports Stadium in Accra on Saturday, 5 December. The billing appears on the festival’s official line-up page, which lists Morgan Heritage as the Jamaican headliner and Samini and Edem as the Ghanaian headliners.
Who else is on the bill
Behind the headliners, the Ghanaian side of the line-up features Rocky Dawuni, Blakk Rasta, Iwan Suhyini, Kojo Manuel, Lali X Lola, Lamisi, Ayisi and Jefri King. From Jamaica come Gramps Morgan, Claudius “Supa” England, MC Blakofe, MC Harry Joe and Original Ras Korby. When we reported Blakk Rasta’s booking in October, only a handful of names had been confirmed.
According to the festival programme, the two-day event opens on Friday, 4 December with a Trade, Investment and Business Summit at the Labadi Beach Hotel from 9am, which is free to attend with registration. Saturday starts with a carnival parade before gates open at noon for the concert, which runs into the night. Saturday tickets on the official site range from GH¢200 for general access to GH¢1,500 for VVIP with backstage access, with VIP at GH¢500 and VVIP at GH¢800.
Gramps Morgan calls on both camps
Morgan Heritage’s Gramps Morgan, who has called the event “my festival”, has been promoting it heavily. In a post on X on 4 November, he said he had “waited many years for this Festival” and asked for support from “Shatta Movement BHIM Nation and all nations”, tagging Stonebwoy, Shatta Wale and Samini.
He went further in a new Instagram post, writing that “BHIM NATION WILL BE IN THE HOUSE AND SHATTA MOVEMENT”, DancehallMag reported on Saturday, 14 November. The caption also urged fans to “Raise The consciousness in Ghana” and buy tickets. As DancehallMag pointed out, the post does not say whether Stonebwoy or Shatta Wale will perform, and neither artist appears on the official line-up. Stonebwoy has his own BHIM Festival coming up later in December.
Morgan Heritage won the Grammy for Best Reggae Album with Strictly Roots, and the festival site credits Samini as the first Ghanaian to win a MOBO Award, so the Legon stage will bring together some of the biggest names in reggae and dancehall from both countries.
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