Meet The First Ghanaian Female Inventor/Promotor/ And Master Planner Of Wear Ghana Month / Heritage Month Slated To Be Celebrated Annually In The Month Of March Birthed By Dr Edna Boatemaa Salifu/ Stage Named As Eddy Marbella Music.
Astutely Known By Then As Minister Edna Boatemaa Salifu/ Naaki Singer Who Ministers To Almighty GOD Through Music Least Expected Was Literally Humbled To Be Added To Elects Of The Most GOD Since She Saw Herself From The Onset As A Singer. She Became A Fin Of Beads After Her Great Grand Father Paramount Chief Of Assin Fosu By Named Okumanin Dr Nana Obiri Yeboah (Esq) Solicitor, PhD And Former Member Of Council Of State Now Of Blessed Memory As Well Who Is The Founder Of Effutuakwa Stools At Assin Fosu In The Central Region As Well As Stool Effutuakwa Traditional Area Including Komkomkwire Respectively In The Central Region Of Ghana In The Person Of Okumanin Dr Nana Obiri Yeboah Who Ordered Nana Darkoa To Go Get Her As A Betrothed Daughter Of Him Nana Obiri Yeboah But To Be Kept As Secret Between Them. By This She Was Mostly With Him In His Chambers Upstairs.
They Were Living Upstairs With Her From The Onset Since They Wanted To Change Her Name Since Her Late Father Willingly Agreed To Release Her To Be Sent To The Paramount Chief Who Was The Key Reason Of Her Leaving Camouflaged By Nana Darkoa’s Consent. Hence Should Stay With Her Nana Darkoa As A Daughter Even Though He Basically Was The Betrothed Father. She Gave Her A Sword To Perform With Any Day She Dances He Cautions His People To Give Her A Sword Not To Dance With Bear Hands.
Hence Her Dance Steps As The Princess Has To Go Along With One Of The Sacred Sword Of The Paramount Chief Signifying Power With Or Without His Presence Her Princesseship And Power On All Akan Townships Still Remains That’s What He Explained To Her. Given Her By Her Bethrothed Father The Paramount Chief Dr Nana Obiri Yeboah Asked Her To Come Into His Closet In Tesano Residence. She Was Mostly With Him At Tesano On Weekly Basis Also Connected Business Moguls Just As He Called To Establish Her Edna During Their Earlier Plan To Travel To Asaman In Preparations Towards Establishing Her Into Becoming Whom He Vowed And Planned To Make Her The Most Wealthiest As A Princess But News Of His Demise Broke Her For Years.
The Foreign Investors, Moguls Returned Back To Their State Of Origin After They Heard Of His Unfortunate Demise. In September, 2005 He Gave Up The Ghost. After His Demise All The Above Didn’t Get To A Standstill She Continued Her Service With Krontihemaa Nana Darkoa Throughout 2006 She Edna Single Handedly Spearheaded The Organisation Of Panafest 2007 And Others Emancipation After His Demise By So Doing She Remind Both The Krontihemaa And Nana Afranse Also Of Blessed Memory .
The Nod To Get Ready With Their Regalias Their Nana Okyeame’s And Kept Nana Afranse The Then Queen Mother Also Of Blessed Memory To Get Ready With Their Settings Such As Regalias, Dancers, Palanquins, Trumpet Blowers, Drummers, Talking Drums, She Provided All Drinkables And Assorted Items Needed For Libation At The Different Locations At Assin Manso Slave River Of No Return, Cape Coast As Was Based In Fosu And Worked As The Head Mistress And Pastries Seller For Her Granny Turned Mother’s School.
The Then Nana Afranse Made Her Aware If She Wants Panest And Emancipation To Thrive On Assinman Then She Must Swiftly Get Something Doing Since The Panafest Organization Needed Funds To Push Diasporians Arrival And Hostings,. She Kept Nana Darkoa Informed Of This Locate The Manso Chief For Visitation Since Nana Obiri Yeboah Before His Demise Kept Her Informed To Follow Unendlessly Even If Others Are Reluctant To Do So. Push Up From Assin Manso Palace As Well They Got To Meet The Paramount Chief For Unward Communique On Emancipation Matters And Panafest Respectively Of Which The Chief Promised Her Edna Then Known As Oheneba Edna To Step Up The Course For Consistent Follow Ups To Be Done When Our Africans In The Diaspora Arrive For Emancipation And Panafest Celebrations Which Is Usually Done Before Panefest Follows Up Depending On Prefared Locations Chosen.
Message Was Sent To The Chief Of Assin Manso By Nana Darkoa To Get Ready To Meet Oheneba Edna Ahead Of Her Meeting Edna’s Arrival With Her Team To Have Talks With The Chief For Constant Emancipation Celebrations And Panafest. All Things Being Equal Vehemently Respectively To Be Held In Elmina And CapeCoast Respectively Without Fail. Her Role Brought Development Prayed For Her Blessed Her Before Their Departure Back To Assin Fosu In The Year 2006.
She Got A Day To Meet With The Then Chief Of Assin Manso. Assin Buses Were Made Available For All Who Followed Up To Emancipation On Tmely Basis By Her Edna’s Own Resources Thereafter Others Preparations Were Sent To Assin Manso Palace As Well For Organisation Of Chairs And Canopies Under Her Edna’s Sponsorship Which Swiftly Coursed The Chief To Invoke Nananoms Blessings Upon Her Life For Swift Turnaround Of GOD’S Blessings Right At The Palace Upon Her Since She Had A Task To Perform. Etc.
Edna She Organised Vehicles To Convey The Royals And Indigenous Who Opted To Attend. V Spearheading All Programmes Directed By Nana Darkoa Since By Then There Was No Krontihene For Assin Fosu As At 2006Upwarda She Edna Singlehandely Performed All Taskes Hosted Visitors From Far And Near For Days Right Even If Sometimes There Was No One Present By Then At Home In Fosu. She Did Well Nana Kutin And Nana Sereboe All Of Assin Fosu Praised Her For Her Collective Presence And Unflinching Support In Every Aspect. Even Though Nana Obiri Yeboah Before His Demise Had Planned To Establish Her When They Planned To Introduce Her Into Beginning Their Mineral Businesses At Asaman Even Though He Did Well Planning But Unfortunately Death Knocked At His Door Until Now She Can’t Fathom Why That Duration Upon Which But His Health Deteriorated Due To Old Age 37. Untill His Unfortunate Demise Hit Her.
Hence She Contacted Reverend Henry For G Visited Him At 37 Military Hospital With Reverend Henry Adzornu His Unfortunate Demise. Until Still Has The Sword Till Date. Whiles Performing At Home And The Palaces They Sent Her Away To Perform In Palanquins During Panafest And Emancipation Era At Assin Manso And Assin Fosu Respectively. Change To Bring Her To Brought To Serve Edna Her To Be Dressed In African Kente And Beads To Perform At His Palace During Asked Tasked Her To Be Display Kete Dance At The Palace LearBe EsTheWas Then Based In Assin Fosu With Her Then Granny Who Took Her As A Daughter Nana Darkoa Who Was Then A Queen Mother In The Area. Before Her Formal Marriage She Was After Her Formal Marriage To Prophet Dr M.Mohammed Salifu Who Also Doubles As A Major General) She Began Her Ministry With Musical Interludes And Continued As Coordinator/ tutor In Churches.
In The Course Of Her Humble Begginings And Getting Opportuned . Artis Mrs Edna Narki Marbell Then Became Mrs Edna Boatemaa Salifu After Formal Marriage To The Great Prophet Of GOD And Major General Then Serving With The Ghana Immigration Service In 2007 At Her First Station Known As Honuta Border.
Upon Attending Family Programs She Got Acquainted With A Chief Known As Togbe Boama A Court Clerk Invited Her To Meet With The Chiefs Daughter Another Day At The High Court In Accra Who Linked Her To An Interrelations Contact To Meet The Paramount Chiefs Daughter Of Which She Did. Fellow Chief’s Daughter Based At Her Station Of Which She Did, Upon Inviting Her She Found Afrocentric Beads On Edna’s Hands Marched With Her African Caftan Casual Wear Bought For Her From The Arts Center, Accra As A Gift By A Close Ally In 2007 During Her Visit To Accra. Cultural Arts Center. She Met The Princess Of Which She Made Her Aware She Was Into Bead Making, Bags, Sandals etc Thus After Seeing Her Dressed In The African Caftans and Beads, they both got into agreement to do merchandise In bead Making Whiles She Financed The Materials To Be Produced Henceforth After Final Agreement Resulting In Business Booms After A While More Products Were Produced Afterwards Including Bags Purses, Whiles Edna Added Colourful Wears To Complement Style Coaches For All Authentic Afrocentic Ladies.
In View Of The Above Deals With The Princess Result InTheir Businesses Sometimes She Sends Some For Sale At Various Places Of Interest. In Her Quest To There’s Ample Time They Complied African arts wears Together Any Day She Was Free From Work Whiles At Honuta Border Post. She Leveled Up To Co-Venture As Partner And They Both Agreed Dr Edna Salifu Becomes The Owner After Manufacturers Of All Afrocentic Products. In Her Quest To Promote African Wears Of Which She Succeeded With All The Above. Hence After A While She Received Others From Other Ghanaian Corporate Workers To Import More Of Corporate Office Wears & Bags From Turkey Of Which She Did For Unisex Suits And Wears Such As Zara, M&S, Marks And Spencer, Kate Spade.etc She Began To Be Convinced By Clients She Imported Foreign Wears. But With Time She Stopped The Importation Through A Lady Friend To Go In Person Abroad T o Get The Stuffs Upon Which Money Was Sent For All Purchases. Since She Had No Time To Travel Out Of Ghana By Then Another Friend Went On Her Behalf To Get Designers Due To Busy Artinaries.
After Upon Her Persuit To Venture Into Critical Analyses She Realised Her Money Was Going Into Other Accounts After Sales Of Such Corporate Wears Aside Tema Outlet Also Had Other Female Business Partner Moguls As Her Course Mates From The University Of Cape Coast. Dr Edna Salifu Aside Also Had Another Partner Located At Accra Central. However After A While More Clients Switched To Corporate Wears Deserting The Ghanaian Made. Upon Struggling To Convince Them On Choices As Their Style Coach They Vehemently Obliged To Her Request And Rather Kept Ordering For On Insisting On Preference As Corporate Suits Etc. Hence She Taught That Was For Only Office But They Kept Ordering For Polo Cotton Dresses As Well Instead Of Afrocentic Clothings Which I Had S Struggled To Reconvince Them Clothings, Laces Were Avalaible But They Preference Didn’t To Corporate Wears Became Higher Than The Order Of Afrocentric Beads Making My Toil Be In Vain Since The Petronise Of Such African Stuffs Got Low. After Taking A Sober Reflection She Had Realised She Needed To Reflect On What To Do To Generate Much More Revenue For Ghanaian Households. One Evening She Left To The Beach To While The Time Away And Lo And Be Hold Got A Plan B To Grab ByFalse All To Petronise Made In Ghana So She Tasked Her Husband To Help Her Achieve This Aim To Find Convince Made In Ghana Let’s Find Some Days Like Friday For African Wears And A Month For Wear Ghana Month, By This Think We Can Achieve These Through The Ghana Culture Centers She Quizzes Please Dearie Kindly Take Along These Beads And Clothing Styles To Show Them For Unisex This Is How I Want It To Be Done Let’s Wear Ghana, Eat Ghana, Dance Ghana Everything To Be Petronised Such As Necklaces Or Hand Bangles, Leg Anklets, Should Be Made In Ghana Beads Or Wears Since There Were Plenty Unsoled Products In Stock Abandoned Just Then I Said O GOD We Can’t Do This Alone Please Help Me. Just Then My Dr Salifu Quizzed Can See You Making Beaded Necklace, Stuffs, Bags, Sewing African wears at your leisure hours And Stuffs Hence If That’s What Makes You Happy Will Advertise As On By Then He Worked At Was With GBC, TV3, CRTV, Hence He Had His Own Way To Create All Contents Had Given And Discribed For Display ?? Just Watching Beads And Kente African Stuffs Makes You Happy, Then Will Meet Your Request Cus I Wana See You Always Happy ??
He Quizzed….. Again It Was Written As ” Wear Ghana Made Clothings, Petronise Ghanaian Made Goods. ” Happy Heritage Month/ Happy Ghana Month Respectively. By God’s Grace After Carefully Championing This Course In 2017 By Calling For Symposiums, Summits, Exhibitions etc To Be Held For Ghana to be Marked Recognized And celebrated Annually Routinely By All Ghanaians To Be Observed In The Month Of March By Dr Edna Salifu/ Lady Marbella Is The Brain Behind This Course, With Her Husband’s Help On Publishing And Advertisemet With The Various Stake Holders They Agreed To Her Pleas Of Inventing Wear Ghana Month, Etc To Be Observed And Given Due Recognition By All As The Master planners Of Such . By herself And Began To Ask Herself Questions Within Her Inner Mind’sEye. Can This Be Possible Oh Yes I’m Sure It Can Be Possible. By So Doing There Won’t Be Banter Or Struggle To Attain The Ambition Of My Afrocentric Gimmicks Styles Coaching Anymore. With Her Inner Being She Said ” Yes I Can “. I Believe With GOD All Things Are Possible. After A Phone Call With A Banker Friend There Was A Twist In Conversation And She Said What Can I Do One Do Evening To Reflect On What To Do To Generate Or Infuse Much Cash Into Ghana’s Gross Domestic Products. Whiles At The Beach Side She Asked Her Self How Can I Convince These People To Petronise My Products ” Since I Have natural love for beads and Afrocentric Wears Don’t Think Can Throw Ghana Made Aware Since Am Still Here In Ghana So Therefore Let Me Swiftly Get A Masterplan To Quash Their Tricks Away Outrightly Yes Let me Do It This ” Way Kakpakpakpa Let’s Wear Ghana Month Yearly Let’s Display By Holding Forums, Exhibitions Etc To Attain This Goal Getters Missions As Dr Edna Salifu’s / Eddy Marbella Musics Month Of March Is Named By Her As Wear Ghana Month/ Heritage Month. Extending Much Thanks To You All Who Made A Time To Hear Us Out Both Our Male And Females Every Tom Dick And Hurry From Videos To Cameras, Organisation Of Lecturers By Our Own Hon Dr Gyampo Of The University Of Ghana And All Who Were Present At All The Ministry Of Tourism, Ghana Tourisn Authority For Picking Up With My Vision When I Became Voiceless. GOD Richly Bless Us All And Bless Our Homeland Ghana !!!!!!.
