Kwaw Kese has publicly criticised the Telecel Ghana Music Awards, arguing that the nomination process has become so unclear that even people in the industry struggle to follow it.
In a recent post on X, the Ghanaian rapper stated the awards often reveal nominees without the public ever knowing how or when selections are made.
“Ghana Music Awards turn gob3. You just wake up one day and there’s a nominees party and you ask yourself how and when people got nominated,” he wrote.
This is far from the first time Kwaw Kese has aired his frustrations with the awards. In 2017, he caused a stir at the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards when he arrived with a wheelbarrow packed with every award he had ever won from the event.
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The wheelbarrow, boldly labeled ‘AWARDS FOR SALE,’ drew immediate attention in the foyer of the Accra International Conference Centre.
At the time, he told Graphic Showbiz that selling some of his VGMA awards while holding others in reserve was his way of protesting what he saw as the declining prestige of one of Ghana’s biggest music nights.
“I managed to sell some of the awards on Saturday, and although I did not have a fixed price, I sold them depending on the condition in which the awards were,” he said, emphasizing that the unusual act was a deliberate critique of the flawed awards system.
