Winneba Masquerade Festival : The First Party Of The Year In Ghana

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If you want to start your New Year with colour, celebration, and pure energy, there is only one place to be on 1st January, Winneba . While everybody is still sleeping after 31st Night, Winneba is already awake. Drums, brass band, costumes, masks. This is the Winneba Masquerade Festival, locally called Fancy Dress. It is the first major festival in Ghana every year. And it is the second biggest festival in Winneba after Aboakyer. There is a morning in Winneba that does not feel like any other morning in Ghana. By 7am, you can hear it. The brass band far away. The drum, shouting and the crowd. If you are in Winneba on that day, you cannot stay in your room. The sound will drag you out. I remember the first time I followed the sound. I thought something had happened. I thought maybe there was a funeral. But when I reached the road, I saw something I had never seen before. Men wearing masks. Big, colourful, scary, beautiful masks. Some looked like animals. Some looked like old white men ...

Capital X Releases New Single ' The Vision'

 Born in Brooklyn, New York and now residing in Nodeland, Norway. Capital X is still showing no mercy and no signs of giving up on his mission.Rapper/Activist Capital X’s new single ‘The Vision’ being released on April 28, 2021. The Vision was produced as well as mixed and mastered by Capital X.


Capital X Released New singleThe Vision

The boom bap style beat laced with eerie strings, keys and flute like sounds sets a perfect backdrop for this autobiographical track which also pays homage to those he left behind the walls. X speaks about the moments he began to transform into the prisoners rights activist he is today.  Having spent well over a decade in and out of American prisons X warns of the cold reality that the prison industrial complex is nothing short of modern day slavery. 

The corruption that leads to many innocent people being imprisoned even sentenced to die doesn’t sound as foreign today as it did some 12 years ago when X released his debut album 305375 The Voice of the Voiceless Vol. 1. The Vision gives listeners a birds eye view of just how 305375 came to be.


 The Vision is now available on all streaming platforms as we as on X’s website