The management of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has authorised Takoradi-based rapper, Kofi Kinaata‘s ‘Things Fall Apart’ song to be studied in the school.
Effective the first semester of the 2021/2022 academic year, Level 200 students of the English Department will take it up.
In a post online, Voice of KNUST on Twitter shared that the Hiplife artiste’s song ‘Things Fall Apart’ has been authorised for literature students.
In the paper attached to the post, parts of the song sung in Fante have all been translated to English.
‘Things Fall Apart’ preaches how Christians have become two-faced; acting as saints in church but ungodly on the outside.
It added that this is the third time the institution’s English Department has authorised the Fante rapper’s song within six years.
This, according to them, is because they have proven to be of great literature work.
In 2016, ‘Susuka’, which preached contentment was authorised, with ‘Confession’ in 2018, and now ‘Things Fall Apart’.
The announcement has garnered massive reactions from tweeps who have chanced on it, with scores describing it as a big win, coupled with congratulatory messages to the rapper.
Within the past 6 years, the English Department of KNUST have authorized 3 of Kofi [@KinaataGh] Songs to their students which is proven to be best of literature works❤
Susuka 2016
Confession 2018
Things Fall Apart 2022 pic.twitter.com/Y3gWPPghoo— 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐊𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐭 (@VOICE_of_KNUST) March 11, 2022
All these songs have earned him the Songwriter of the Year award in the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.
