Ghanaian artiste, Sista Afia wants music award schemes in Ghana to ‘favour’ female musicians.
According to her, female musicians work hard but do not ge the support they need to make it in the music industry.
Citing music awards schemes as example, she said most times the are awards given to male artistes even though the female acts deserve the awards.
She noted that because the female acts have smaller fanbases, they are always disadvantaged, especially when it comes to soliciting votes for award schemes.
“Sometimes fkkk the “vote for your favorite artist by using this short code” and give the award to who deserves it,” she noted.
In the post which touches on what to do to motivate female musicians to do better, Sista Afia also noted that because a certain female rapper she helped to win an award did not acknowledge her role in winning the award, the rapper’s career is dead.
Even though she did not mention her name, this has been inferred to mean a shade at Eno Barony, who got into a lyrical bout with Sista Afia and Freda Rhymes about two years ago.
The beef, which was orchestrated by Sista Afia, brought a lot of attention to Eno Barony and later won her the Best Rap Performance award at the 2021 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.
Read her full post on Facebook below:
In a country where award schemes are organized and doesn’t “favor” female musicians, you wonder why some female talents give up in this country called Ghana.
90% of the female musicians I came to meet when coming up in 2015 have all given up, the young ones too after me have started giving up already. Don’t blame them, the politics in this industry, purely witchcraft.
Only few are still relevant, I can count five or maybe 6 ladies.
One female rapper I helped win her biggest award in her entire music career did media tour and downplayed my effort, the whole industry came supporting her and she forgot what I started, helped put her there.
Thing is, I wanted to warn her that all those praising her today won’t do that when the hype dies, but since she felt she was there, she enjoyed the hype and acted ungrateful, today I can confidently say she and her music all turn beans, where’s that industry support today?
Last year Sefa was everywhere, is the industry saying if she doesn’t buy vote (airtime) she won’t be awarded? Scam. She held a successful concert in HO and myself together with other musicians were there to support the event. Yet they will go ahead and pick someone else. As if women don’t matter in awards, pathetic
Gyakie, this girl def need to pick up something at least from VGMA y’all can’t say you didn’t see her win in every angle. Both locally and internationally. Sometimes fkkk the “vote for your favorite artist by using this short code” and give the award to who deserves it.
I know sometimes it’s difficult setting up award events, dealing with artists managements and the stress in seeking for sponsorships, after all that stress, you want to make money too cos you don’t want your hustle to be in vain, that’s fine and understandable.
However, the thievery shouldn’t be too obvious. Yes it happens everywhere but sometimes sit down, assess issues and be brave to award who truly deserves it 
one love 
Ghana music has a future. And I must congratulate my dawgment husband Sadiq Abdulai Abu and his able team for what they did at the just ended 3Music Awards’22, this will def go down in our history books forever 
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By: ghanaweekend.com
