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… Of the sad departure of talented musician Mama Rams, I have read on this platform claims by some who have sought to blame the industry for a want of a better word ‘ignoring’ Mama Rams before and after her death.
I don’t know what informed their conclusion which at best can be said to be very erroneous.
The fact that you did nothing for her doesn’t mean everyone else didn’t. I won’t pretend that I knew her privately, I didn’t but people who were close to her can attest to the fact that she was a very private person. Only a few close friends actually knew what she was going through, so not everyone could’ve helped!
I have also heard people advance the argument that Radio Presenters stopped giving her songs airplay – one big lie, in fact the biggest of the Year so far! Every regular radio listener in Tamale knows even till date, her songs are still enjoying massive airplay. Ibrahim Alhassan of Radio Justice dedicates close to 50percent of his 2 hour Busy Time program on Radio Justice to playing her songs, every single day of the week, to an extent he was affectionately called Mama Rams Dj. I know others such as Drogba of Zaa Radio, Dj Cliff of Justice Fm, Mma Memunatu of Zaa Fm and several other highlife-hiplife presenters play most of her songs all the time. For anyone to even suggest so means that person doesn’t listen to radio.
Again, another big lie being peddled here is that her colleague Musicians did not show concern over her death – another big fat lie! The old highlife/ hiplife musicians and members of NODRAFIM attended the burial with a bus! The likes of Alhaji Ahmed Adam, Alhaji BBC, Abu Sadiq, Ahmed Saani Minister, Ramatu Fuseini, Sakora, Lawyer Gbangli, Prince Okla and that collection of veteran actors, actresses and musicians were all in Walewale that day.
It is not fair for a few uninformed ‘Holier than thou’ people to ignore the contributions of all these persons, one way or the other, just in an attempt to paint everyone in the entertainment industry black.
Even you those making such statements are industry people, what did you do for her before and after her death?
Let her rest in peace and allow genuine people to mourn her!
By Mumuni Yirifa Yunus, Broadcast Journalist & Blogger
