Adjetey Anang has said he would love to see Sarkodie record a song to champion an end to illegal mining, otherwise called galamsey.

The actor and educator spoke exclusively to Prince Benjamin (PB) on the Class Morning Show, Friday, October 4, 2024.

To fight galamsey, "I'd love to see my guy Sark, Sarkodie, do a song," Anang fondly said, with perceptible cheer in his voice.

The West African movie star explained Sarkodie had powerful influence especially because "of the dialect he uses" in music. 

Rap heavyweight Sarkodie's use of the Twi dialect of the Akan language, Anang remarked "has wide reach".

| Sarkodie when he received the first-ever BET Best International Flow Award (2019) 

While gold mining and export is a major contributor to Ghana's economy, illegal mining (galamsey) continues to destroy farmlands and forest covers. According to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), galamsey threatens the very "foundations" of cocoa farming and production, for instance. COCOBOD, also, noted in its recent statement the urgent need to address the menace to avert economic hardship via the European Union Deforestation Regulation which comes into effect in January 2025.

Read: Int'l Cocoa Day: COCOBOD joins #SayNoToGalamsey as illegal mining threatens 'foundations of cocoa farming'

Among other repercussions, galamsey has poisoned the nation's water bodies impacting potable water production by the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL).

University of Media, Arts & Communications (UniMAC) lecturer Adjetey Anang recently said seeing the state of Ghana's rivers breaks his heart. He underscored, also, how storytelling through different art forms, especially film, could effectively address the galamsey disaster. The multiple award-winning actor starred in the movie Galamsey: Enemies No Be God, directed by Benjamin Sarpong.

Anang's latest film offering is in collaboration with Lynx Entertainment, titled Pawn. See a trailer of the action movie here.