- Celestine Donkor, an award-winning gospel artist from Ghana, has apologized unconditionally to Ewes for her “jokes” regarding their unusual last names. Celestine Donkor, an Ewe herself, has courted the wrath and discontent of her people when, in a lighthearted appearance on TV3’s “Today Woman,” she expressed gratitude for replacing her maiden name, Akakpo Dosu, with a guy with a less conspicuous surname.
- The host, Cookie Tee, who is also Ewe, began the humorous discussion by noting that she had always told her mother that she wouldn’t settle for a man with a large last name. She supported her statement with a few Ewe names. Maybe both women made jokes about having heavy Ewe surnames and taunted themselves in a lighthearted way.
- Celestine Donkor, who has been harshly criticized for demeaning her tribe since the interview went viral on Tuesday, seems that the joke proved to be costly for her.
- In acknowledgement of her “offence”, the Agbebolo hitmaker has apologised, seeking forgiveness in a social media post yesterday.
- She clarified that the remarks were made in good humor and did not disparage Ewes or their well-known culture. After giving it some thought, she said she regretted saying those things and acknowledged that “it turned out to be a bad joke, to be an expensive joke.”
She added :
“Who am I? I’m just human. Most of the time we go on these interviews, as much as we have a pure heart and a clear mind, it’s not everything we say that we’re pleasing to somebody, and so we take it,”.
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