{"id":37615,"date":"2023-09-12T16:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=37615"},"modified":"2023-09-12T16:09:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:09:45","slug":"i-created-akokor-dance-adjetey-sowah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/09\/12\/i-created-akokor-dance-adjetey-sowah\/","title":{"rendered":"I created \u2018akokor\u2019 dance \u2013 Adjetey Sowah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For most creatives, having a unique identity is important to their craft, and that is what veteran Ghanaian dancer Adjetey Sowah did by creating his own dance moves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, he wanted to stand out so he created a dance called \u2018Akokor\u2019 at the prime of his dance career in the 1980s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI created a lot of dances. [For example], there is a dance called the \u2018Akokor\u2019 dance and everybody knows about it,\u201d he said on <strong>Joy FM\u2019s Showbiz A-Z.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked if he patented it, he told the host Kwame Dadzie that \u201cback in the day we only danced. We didn\u2019t have a way of stamping our identity on it, and everybody copied.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adjetey Sowah who started dancing at the age of 6 in school cultural troupes, develop the love for dancing and decided to take it as career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He won a lot of dance competitions in Ghana and later emerged winner in the World Dance Championship held in London in 1986.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dance legend said he has made a lot of gains from dancing because he always made sure he was paid his due.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He disclosed that he took at high as 1000 cedis in the 80s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At present, he is into real estate but he says he is still\u00a0\u00a0available for dance gigs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Did you know that the &quot;Akukor&quot; dance was created by Adjetey Sowah, the 1986 World Dance Champion?\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bx6RpXS2fwY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/myjoyonline.com\/tag\/adjetey-sowah\">Adjetey Sowah<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/myjoyonline.com\/tag\/akokor\">Akokor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most creatives, having a unique identity is important to their craft, and that is what veteran Ghanaian dancer Adjetey Sowah did by creating his own dance moves. According to him, he wanted to stand out so he created a dance called \u2018Akokor\u2019 at the prime of his dance career in the 1980s.&nbsp; \u201cI created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":37617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[10550,9951,10551,8364,10552,192,4521,12234,2702,10104,3684,6220,12273,6736,36,594],"class_list":["post-37615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-adjetey-sowah","tag-age","tag-akokor","tag-cedis","tag-dance","tag-ghana","tag-ghanaian","tag-host","tag-identity","tag-legend","tag-london","tag-love","tag-real-estate","tag-school","tag-world","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37618,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37615\/revisions\/37618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}