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To highlight the power of collaborations and how they’ve helped strengthen the relationship between Ghana and Nigeria, here’s a list of some unforgettable Nigerian and Ghanaian music collaborations, from the early 2000s to recent times: Unforgettable Ghana and Nigeria Music Collaborations; 1.Fefe Na Fe- Tic Tac ft.
Tony Tetuila, 2004 A line from an Ashanti proverb, Fefe na efehad already been demystified by the late Fela Kuti to mean ‘it is the beauty of a woman.’ And then when the Ghanaian hiplife musician Tic Tachad recruited Nigeria’s Tony Tetuila on a similarly titled record, they’d put out something so fresh and evergreen, a brief listen will act as an instant memory recall of the song for Ghana and Nigeria-born 90s babies and millennials.
This is a feat they sealed four years after their Kiss Your Hand smash hit, this time with a slow-paced number that travelled past being for lovers alone to being for music lovers as Ghanaians and Nigerians everywhere crooned along to Wizkid’s laidback lines on the song and then to rap song lines from R2Bees.
On Painkiller, the rapid-fire spittingSarkodie had flowed at par withRuntown’s chill tempo to cement the chokehold that the Ghanaian-originated Banku music had had on the airwaves of the countries and had given music lovers an unforgettable anthem.
Juls and Efyaboth being Ghanaians, had been the perfect collaborators for the track, with Julswho’d reached out to him earlier on in his career, serving as a catalyst to the growth of Eazi’ssound and Efya becoming a long-running Nigerian collaborator afterwards.
9.Forever Rmx- Gyakie ft Omah Lay, 2021 Gyakie’s Forever off her debut EP, Seed was already a huge hit, but she'd been shrewd enough to see the advantage in a collaboration to make a remix that would further strengthen the impact of her breakout hit.
This time, she'd featured Patoranking and they’d made a hit record that traversed the borders of Ghana to become a hit record in the two countries.
Brewed by a lot of controversies touching on the Nigerian music industry and media seemingly not showing enough love to their Ghanaian counterparts, it had also swirled up in its wake, several discourses, highlighting the many strategies Nigerian musicians and its presiding industry had taken to see to the supremacy of their music.
Making Patoranking’sfirst international collab, it had given Ghanaians and Nigerians one of the smoothest Sarkodie guest verses even while he enjoyed an insane run in the music scene.
Ironically, Wande Coal himself had before that put out a similarly titled record as one of the masterpieces off his debut album, Mushin 2 Mohits, but as fate would have it, it was the cultural exchange that would be the anthem and the soundtrack of the 90s baby’s childhood.
6.No Kissing Baby- Patoranking ft.
Sarkodie, 2016 Much like the opening of a portal, the boon in the Ghanaian and Nigerian music scene as influenced by their collaborations, had led to a further increase in collaborations during the period and it had given us the Patorankingbanku-inflected dancehall anthem, No Kissing Baby..
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