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Entertainment of Tuesday, 4 September 2007

Source: Space FM,Sunyani

Ghanaian Movie Producers Challenged To Go International

Space FM, Sunyani- Ghanaian-American politician, "Osagyefo" Kwame Appiah Boateng, has hinted that a movie that could walk viewers from the nation's colonial days to the state of Ghana today, including the politics of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, J.J. Rawlings and president J.A. Kufuor with highlights of his own "Osagyefo's" "political bonanzas", entitled "The Last Emperor Of Gold Coast Ghana" could put Ghana on the map of the international movie industry.

The maverick politician in a press release, is therefore appealing to the Ghanaian movie industry to exploit the opportunity of making such a movie to fetch more money for the nation's movie industry.

The Ghanaian-American politician, who broke ethnic and racial barriers by becoming the first indigenous African to run for a higher public office in the history of America, since America gained her independence from Great Britain in 1776, and the first Ghanaian-American to run for Mayor of Los Angeles in 1993, said he thought about encouraging Ghanaian and African movie industries to come out with a movie, " The Last Emperor Of Gold Coast Ghana " when he heard about a popular movie entitled, "The Last King of Scotland".

"If the Last King of Scotland fits Africa's most ruthless former dictator, Idi Amin of Uganda, then former president, Rawlings of Ghana, a [refined] "Look-Alike" of Idi Amin may find a character to play in "The Last Emperor Of Gold Coast Ghana", noted the politician.

The charismatic self-proclaimed "reincarnation of Ghana's first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah" and leader of Africa's first continental political party, Uhuru African Convention (UAC) - said the ball is now in the court of Ghana's movie industry and the movie Industries of other African nations such as Nigeria to make such a movie that could easily generate world interest.