Jamaican or Ghanaian: It’s all the same, right?
July 7, 2008 4 Comments
To millions of US wrestling fans, Kofi Kingston is the first Jamaican wrestler in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). But his real identity is very different – because to his family and friends, he is Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah from Ghana. Most wrestling fans have probably never heard of the West African country, so the wrestling body decided fight fans would be more likely to embrace a wrestler from the land of Bob Marley and reggae music. And so desperate is Sarkodie-Mensah to become wrestling’s next superstar, he is willing to deny who he is.”I was actually born in Jamaica – to be honest with a name like Kofi a lot of people assume I was born in Ghana,” he says with a bad Jamaican accent, but doing his best to stay in character. … “I told him: ‘Kofi, your cousins watch you on TV in Ghana and want to know why you don’t say you’re from Ghana,’” [his mother] says. “He said: ‘Tell them it is business.’”
See here.[Source: BBC]
Jamaican and Ghanaian are indeed synonymous. Most of us are indigenous to Ghana. Our features are even similar. I love your Africa links. Big up.
Hi St Rachel,
I hope you noticed by posting the item I was trying to be ironic about that kind of ‘race’/identity politics. Thanks for reading and visiting my site though.
I am not impressed. As a Ghanaian woman, I was very ashamed when I read this article. However, this nothing new. I’ve met several of Ghanaians who pose as if they were Jamaicans. I don’t know what that’s all about!
Abena, the fact that there is a link between Jamaicans & Ghanians is not being mentioned to impress u, u are not important in the broad scheme of things, also if you knew more about the history of both countries you would find out a few things like this: in jamaica they eat & grow ACKEE guess what there are only a few countries that do that & one of them is Ghana. Evidently some of the slaves that were brough to Jamaica, came from Ghana & those slaves brought some of the native plants etc to Jamaica hence there is a link historically between the two countries. They did not do all this just to impress u Abena. Abena go read a book & learn something, u idiot. btw Abena as a British/Jamaican I am ashamed of you for your ignorant statement.