ENTERTAINMENT ||Anthony Fofana Warns Foreign Investors Not To Invest In Liberia Music Industry – The Sad Truth.

They say “The truth hurts” and for sure a person who speaks the truth usually draws more enemies than friends. This is exactly in the case of Anthony Fofana. The Gossip Liberia CEO who is currently in Ghana had the opportunity to speak with Evans Nana Acquah on the Enan Show in Ghana and was very blunt in stating why the Liberian music industry is still at a momentary stand still and how we can make it move for the better. But many critics and internet fanatics took his words out of context and threw hit speeches and shades at him. But to be honest, and looking at the true intent of his statement we can clearly say that Anthony meant well.

The Chairman of Bloggers Association of Liberia Anthony Fofana alias Rich Guy sent out a very strong message to foreign investors and even the government of Liberia. The Liberian blogger and social activist while speaking with Enan News said the has that the Liberian music market is not yet favourable to accommodate foreign investors. Which we therefore see as the plain truth based on the logical breakdowns he gave in his explanations.

He said that the Liberian music industry is struggling to catch up with the leaders of the African Music Industry also their top competitors, (Ghana and Nigeria). He furthered stressed that this insurance of lagging in the Liberian music industry is as a result of bad administration from the presidency to the musician union itself.

He said in Liberia the government does not have any plant to move the Liberian music market forward or to the next level. Every year they ignore adding a budget to the annual budget of the country to revamp the entertainment industry of the country.

Speaking on the Enan Show He said “The Liberian Music industry is still struggling to catch up with Ghana and Nigeria. I can say within my jurisdiction that the current stage of the Liberian music industry can not accommodate foreign investors. We are lagging because of bad leadership both from the government and the musician union”

Many critics has lashed out at the Chairman of Liberian bloggers without taking into consideration his suggestions on how we as Liberians can help make our industry Investors Friendly and get it prepared for more foreign investments.

These were few of his suggestions firstly recommending that if we want things to get better, the current leadership of the Liberian Musician Union has to be changed. And the Liberian government also need to provide infrastructures and lay out plans that will benefit foreign investors just in case they want to make investments in their music market. If these are certain, then his suggestions below can make a positive impact if taking into consideration.

He said “I suggest to the Liberian government to provide state of the art equipment for our music market to produce quality music which will attract investors. Also, the leadership of the Liberian Musician Union should be dissolved and restructured. We need to change these offices to get away with incompetence”.

The sad truth at the end of the interview was revealed when Anthony said that Liberian artistes prefers fame to money. Simplifying that Liberian musicians lacks common knowledge on the business side of their trade. Instead they prefer people knowing them than for them to make a fortune out of their art.

In his exact words, “In Liberia, most liberian artists want to be popular instead of making money from what they do. They only wants to be famous but will not give ears to the business side of their profession. It’s Show-Biz and one can only propel if the business side of the Show is considered as a priority”.

So to you our readers, do you think Anthony was wrong by telling foreign investors not to invest in Liberia music industry? Before your answer come to think of it. Who wants to invest where they can benefit? And if investors should invest in Liberia Music market, what’s the guarantee that they’ll get back what they putting in? Holding all factors constant as it is now (same old fashioned leadership and government constant ignoring of the need to accommodate foreign investors and their inability to provide state of the art equipments for quality sound production).

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Written by: Kerkula Aketella Blama