Award winning rapper and Favor hit maker Edem has called out Okyere Baafi to revise his book Golden English for basic kids.
The book by Okyere Baafi is to help kids better their writing. One page of the book had the sentence:
“Efo agreed and prepared Juju for the players.”
This sentence in the book did not resonate well with Edem who just released a tape called mood Swings.
In his responding to the sentence, Edem tweeted:
Okyere Baafi….It would be good to put respect on my people and revise your book….All narratives like this,make us deepen the crack on issues surrounding us….#Gbevunation #Gogetem pic.twitter.com/65tmWxvWCB
— Goget’em (@iamedem) March 9, 2021
The rapper is not the only one who was disturbed with the sentence in Okyere Baafi Golden English Book for kids, as his fellow rapper C-real also joined the conversation asking Okyere Baafi to revise his book.
C-real also wrote:
Very backward piece of literature.
— C-Real (@C_RealMC) March 9, 2021
Kids are learning this crap? Bro @iamedem .
😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡
Entrenching bigotry and tribalism in kids books.
Who is this Okyere Baafi Alexander and who approved this for educative purposes?? https://t.co/jpSecH5zOy
There were several comments on social media about the post from Edem.
I skipped this when I was teaching my kids
— Nungua Cameraman📸🇬🇭🔥 (@kobedeuces) March 9, 2021
Best if you don’t even use that book
— Mr. Gibson (@Gibson3G) March 9, 2021
Edem just released a new hit called Favor- listen now