So we are here at St. Martin De Porres school in Accra for the ‘one-week’ celebration of music prodigy, Ebony who died in a car crash last week Thursday.
Her music career was only a two-year warm-up at the top of the industry.
It cannot be remembered in recent history when the life of a 20-year old ‘girl’ ever became a subject of national interest.
The nation was hooked to an addiction to Ebony in the last two years of her life with her hits songs topping the charts and toppling established stars.
But death also took a morbid interest in her songs as much as the living and while we bought her songs, death bought her life in a selfish desire to keep the hit-singer as an exclusive performer in his dreary, gloomy chamber.
Chairs and canopies are being arranged. While some ladies arrange their faces delicately with make-up.
Traffic on the thin stretch of road in a densely populated Dansoman suburb will test mourners desire to reach the location.
It is expected to become unmanageable after church services close and fans move in to cover the grounds here as grass covers a pitch.
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Huge traditional drums beat culture into the air, lined up in front of one of the 16 canopies here.
But fans are paying no small attention to the center court where a small canopy sits with paintings of the late star.
For details check a facebook wall near you. It will be full of short, amateur videos, selfies and photos posing with picture frames of Ebony.
Slight showers threaten to participate in the mourning.
Ebony’s father, in white and black cloth, walks into the ground. A beehive of paparazzi, fans, and reporters buzz around him.
Photo: Credit My Joy Online
Source: Dan Kwasi Prince// www.dailyviewgh.com / Ghana
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