He told Berla Mundi in an interview on NewDay on TV3. “Whether you are GA, Akan, Ewe, we deserve equal respect and I don’t think we should even say we deserve it, we should take our respect because Ghana is for everyone of us, and so I tell everybody that as far as I am a son of the Eweland, I will not allow anybody to disrespect us,” he explained.Įdem further recounted how he was nearly denied a contract from a multinational company and how he was denied a show because he is an Ewe. “I was very disappointed and appalled because, we are in a time where we are supposed to write our history, books, magazines, movies shapes how people see things, and is a powerful thing that is why people think Africans are monkeys, and so if ourselves, in the quest to rewrite history are putting things that are going to cast a certain insinuation on a whole group of people and that is not to say they are people who wouldn’t do certain things, but a whole group of people is totally disrespectful, and I don’t feel that it should be done to any tribe in the country and we all deserve equal respect.
Ghanaian artist, Edem has explored further his stance on the primary 4 history textbook which suggested Ewes are ‘Juju men’.Īccording to the award winning artist, every tribe deserves equal respect and documenting history of Ghana in books, movies, magazines shapes how others see the country but must be done with equal respect to avoid people casting insinuations on a group of people.
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