Obrafour and Tic Tac Shake U C C

Obrafour and Tic Tac last Saturday stormed and shook the University of Cape Coast campus as part of the 48th annual SRC week celebration of the Students Representative Council.

This event was a massive one with students abandoning their academic work and standing and shouting at the forecourt of Valco Hall (where the event took place) from about 9pm deep into the night.

Obrafour 'the executioner' who was the first to perform after scores of student underground rappers and singers had done their thing, arrived in a black saloon waving amidst cheers from the roof of his car.

Anxious students at the grounds that evening couldn't help but to shout on top of their voices when the self acclaimed 'rap sofour' got onto the stage. He was dressed in a white t-shirt, a black jeans and a towel on his shoulder.

He started off with one of his prayer songs and then moved straight to his old time hits.I can undoubtedly state that from this time to the end of his performance
was real excitement.

The 'rap sofour' gave out a copy of his newest album to a student who helped him perform the part of Guru in his new 'kasiebo' track after he had done several of his songs.

He left the stage taking off his t-shirt and throwing it to the joyous crowd.

Tic Tac followed next and by this time the tempo of the crowd had gone wild. He was on stage with one of his new artistes Jay-ho.

Tic Tac also dressed in a coloured shirt with a pair of jeans danced off the crowd with some of his favourite hits; philomena, kangaroo among others. Occasionally, the crowd will tell him what hit song to do next and he willingly listened.

For more than thirty minutes he was on stage as students enjoyed with their hands in the air.Before he will leave he performed his newest single with a line of the song being 'show me your shoe and let me show you your character'.This particular performance was done with shoes raised in the air.

He signed off assuring the crowd of his return to perform at Nkrumah and Valco halls' week celebartion.
written by: abdul-rahim munaga for mycampuspal.com

WHO IS MUSTAPHA ABDUL HAMID?

To some people who will be reading this, you will be wondering why I have decided to bother you with someone you do not know or might not have heard of at all. If you are Ghanaian then I will advice you take some time to know this man because he might one day be a presidential aspirant on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Mustapha Hamid is a lecturer at the Department of Religion and Human Values of the University of Cape Coast. He has been there since he helped Nana Akuffo Addo, the NPP flagbearer for the 2008 elections to lose the presidential bid. He had his O' and A' level education at Bawku Senior High and Tamale Senior High schools respectively. Mustapha then furthered his education to the University of Cape Coast where he had his first degree and second degree respectively. He also holds a Masters in Communication from the University of Ghana.

During his university years, Mustapha swam into the waters of politics because of an incident he witnessed in his childhood. He says he was at home one day when some soldiers whom he claims were sent by former president J.J.Rawlings came to arrest his daddy. To him, he never understood the reason for this as a child but this incident forced his father into exile who later returned home only after the former president had left office. This made him vow to get as much education as possible to one day help in seeing Mr. Rawlings out of office.

In his years at Cape Vars, Mustapha Hamid joined an equivalence of today's TESCON NPP to see to the fruitation of his dream. This helped him take advantage of whatever opportunity that came his way.

He became the general secretary to the local NUGS and later an SRC President of UCC even when he was a graduate student competing with opponents who were undergraduate students in a university where 80% are undergrads.

Mustapha Hamid loves to describe himself as a bold, assertive person rather than a humble person because he thinks leaders must be bold and courageous. Probably from his words one might infer that President Atta-Mills is not the best of leaders.

As a Muslim, he does not repudiate polygamy implying he does not totally rule out the possibility of one day getting married in addition to his current wife whom he has four kids with.

He is not be blamed for his high sense of appeal and one could easily fall in love with this man meeting him for the first time. He is indeed a great philosopher for the NPP and a potential leader of this party and maybe Ghana.

Mr. Hamid comes from the northern part of Ghana with his father a Busanga and mother a Mamprusi. His parents got divorced when he was only six years old and he lived with his father afterwards.

He believes Northeners are not violent people but rather a group of individuals who stand for what they believe in and that is why greedy politicians tend to use them for their selfish gains. He shares the thought that because colonial lazy people wanted to continuously use the Northeners on their farms, they deprived them for so many years as about 80 years and this has left his people and my brothers and sisters behind other ethnic groups in Ghana. Education to him is the solution to the problems of the north and the growing grievances of political 'foot soldiers'.

He is currently a member of the Nana Addo campaign team. We all can learn a lot from this man, he loved school, he is a leader and is bold to defend his believes.

This was how Mr. Hamid chose to describe himself on a radio program 'crossroad' on ATL Fm.

Update: Mustapha Hamid is currently serving as the Minister of Information for the AKufo-Addo led NPP government.

CASFORD AND ATL CLASHES; THE PERSPECTIVE OF A HYBRID AFFILIATE

It is not the best at all when would be leaders (members of parliament, teachers, farmers, CEO’S etc) engage themselves or should I say decide to use their youthful exuberance in this manner. Not only does this shameful act tarnish the image of the people and halls involved but also our reputable and the only university of choice in the whole of the world.

I describe myself as a hybrid affiliate to these great halls because, though I was officially affiliated to the Atlantic Hall (Mariners) and still am, I spent my first UCC year at the Casely-Hayford Hall (Gentlemen) due to this same clashes they engaged in a year before my admission into the university. Let me at this point congratulate the security guards and the school authorities for their proactive and swift response. This is what we need. I wouldn’t want to go much into details the issues of this matter since a committee has been setup to investigate the occurrence. My humble plea therefore is for them to try as much as possible to be fair especially to casfordians.

Sunday 25th of April 2010 saw the hall of gentlemen organize the usual ‘sharp brain proce’ to usher in the end of semester exams. This enetertaining procession is very peculiar to casford and this is where you see one student carry a minimum of hundred heavy books on his bare head. The procession starts from the forecourt of the hall through the other halls of the north campus, to the diaspora (a community for continuing students) and then to the south campus. At the south campus and particularly at Adehye Hall (the ladies of casford), the gentlemen display all the animalistic skills they have acquired through the course of the semester in order that they impress and woo their ladies. It is normal at this event to strip naked and dangle some balls.

But for this Sunday, everything was quite different because of an incident that had occurred when Atlantic Hall celebrated its hall week. Casfordians were armed to the teeth (some sharpened ends of sticks to make them into spears, others took lids of refuse bins turning them into shields) as they prepared for the procession some hours later. Mariners also got wind of Casford’s preparations and also gathered stones at the entrance of their hall making them look like the people of Gaza in defense against the army of Israel.

That evening, casfordians did not march through all the streets as they usually do but through a few streets and then headed to the old site (south campus). At old site, they were refused entry to the forecourt of Adehye Hall by the security guards and as they tried to force entry, hell broke loose as some eye witnesses say mariners begun to pelt stones at the frustrated casfordians. By this time some casfordians had succeeded in entering the forecourt of Adehye which is very close to the entrance to ATL and also decided to retaliate. These exchanges are what intensified to become what you may have probably heard on Adom fm, Joy fm, other radio stations or some print media. It is difficult to tell the truth as some people say the Supremo (supreme leader) of Casely Hayford Hall ran away to seek refuge at Amamoma (a community for both students and indigens) leaving behind his traditional garment amidst the conception by the various halls that they had won the ‘war’. Well, if what I heard on Adom fm is right then the should be ashamed ATL Hall won the battle.

The last time I checked on the rankings of renowned universities in Africa, great UCC was not among the first one hundred. This is what the interim alumni president of casford hall and a one time president of the JCRC of ATL Hall said on ATL FM that, these group of students should sit down to think about and not to waste their energies on shameful acts. From my small brain box, I also think what happened was shameful and embarrassing to Cape Vars and I advice that both halls should channel their exuberance into healthy competitions that will add onto the standards of these halls and the university at large. UCC may be at war but we remain the only University of Choice and the best academic environment in Ghana.