{"id":4651,"date":"2011-10-15T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T18:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orijinculture.com\/community\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2011-10-15T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T19:26:03","slug":"you-nah-see-a-ghana-mvado-mad-ova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/you-nah-see-a-ghana-mvado-mad-ova\/","title":{"rendered":"You Nah See A Ghana Mavado Mad Ova?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While many of us throughout the African Diaspora have never been to the \u201cMotherland,\u201d we often feel a sense of connectedness to it. Africa, the place of our beginning and orijin, has this ability to compel us – its descendants, to yearn for its embrace.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally celebrated and renowned Jamaican reggae group Morgan Heritage took heed to this yearning in 2009 and documented it. In their in brief trailer release,\u00a0<em>\u2018Morgan Heritage \u2013 Africa is Calling,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the group spoke about their initial encounter with the people of Dakar, Senegal. Group member Gramps Morgan explained that \u201cthe people received us with a warm heart.\u201d He also spoke of the \u201cancient sound\u201d he heard, through the playing of the African drums, which transcended anything he had ever experienced. As he explained, the experience \u201cwasn\u2019t normal….it feels like your heart is coming out of your chest.\u201d The music and the people \u201cconnected\u201d to his heart.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, international reggae artiste and singjay Mavado also expressed his sense connection to Africa and his intention to move there. After performing at a concert that was hosted by Ghanaian reggae artiste Samini, \u00a0the \u201cGully God\u201d Movado declared \u201cGhana reminds me of home\u201d and expressed that he would love to move to the African country as soon as he is able to acquire land there. He further explained that Ghana reminds him of \u201chome\u201d because of his African ancestry and was very excited about his prospects of living in the \u201cMotherland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By going back to their historical roots and culture, Morgan Heritage and Movado were granted the ability to experience what many of us throughout the Diaspora long for; a sense of understanding, belonging and liberation. While each of our experience and encounter with Africa might be different, we can all appreciate its rich history and culture and the sense of connectedness we feel to it.<br \/>\n<iframe width=\"635\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TO6lbljxspA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"635\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_TwCWVjCGFw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"635\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hcD-a5TYU5c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many of us throughout the African Diaspora have never been to the \u201cMotherland,\u201d we often feel a sense of connectedness to it. Africa, the<br><a class=\"moretag signature-animation\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/you-nah-see-a-ghana-mvado-mad-ova\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a>","protected":false},"author":877,"featured_media":4657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2172],"tags":[579,4800,3479,3411,4801,620,4333,4343,4848,373,3481,4344,297],"class_list":["post-4651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-underground-news","tag-accra","tag-africa","tag-culture","tag-dakar","tag-ghana","tag-jamaica","tag-morgan-heritage","tag-movado","tag-orijin","tag-reggae","tag-roots-2","tag-samini-2","tag-senegal"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/movardo.jpg?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions\/4653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}