Sarkodie, D-Black’s lyrics featured in Legon exams

The University of Ghana’s (Legon) Department of English has included lyrics from D-Black’s 2012 hit song “My Kinda Girl” featuring Sarkodie in their English Literature and Critical Discourse Studies examination.

The initiative, led by Dr. Nancy Henaku, a senior lecturer at the university, takes a critical look at the song’s lyrics.

The end-of-semester exam paper paraphrased, summarized, and quoted significant portions of the song’s lyrics, including notable phrases such as “lawyer lady,” “nutty scientist,” and “Dada ba.”

This integration of contemporary Ghanaian hip-hop into academic study makes it the first time a Ghanaian hip-hop song has been studied in a university.

This is testament to the growing recognition of hip-hop as a vital component of modern literature.

POST TAGS

ABOUT: Nana Kwesi Coomson

[email protected]

An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

View all posts by: Nana Kwesi Coomson