Jewel Ackah’s Laid to Rest

The final funeral rites for the late Ghanaian Highlife Legend, Jewel Ackah happened today August 4, 2018, in Tema.

Legendary, Jewel Ackah died on Friday, April 27 at age 73 and was laid to rest today.

The funeral was preceded by a wake keeping on Friday, August 3 at the Tema Community 11 Complex Park. The burial service and final funeral rites was also held at the Complex Park.

The legend was laid to rest in Axim, his hometown in the Western Region after the burial service. A memorial service will be held at the Joshua Generation International Ministries at Taifa on Sunday, August 5, which will be followed by a final tribute concert at the Complex Park in Tema which will feature a wide range of musicians.

Former President Jerry John Rawlings joined hundreds of mourners at the Complex Park, Tema to bid farewell to ace Ghanaian highlife musician Jewel Ackah.

The late musician was known for his popular highlife lyrics and for the National Democratic Congress, he is eulogized for composing the party’s anthem and a host of others that featured on their campaigns.

 

About Jewel Ackah; his life and death

Jewel Ackah was born in 1950 at Axim in the Western Region of Ghana to Emmanuel Ackah and Cecilia Dye.
He started his education at the Axim Roman Catholic primary and completed in Takoradi in 1963. Jewel had a career as a footballer and later joined a shipping company called Palm Line.

He realised shipping was not his field so he was introduced to a traditional drumming group and within a short time he became the best in the group. Jewel was picked up by a renowned musician named Ebo Tailor before going solo.
He is one of the few musicians who made popularized the gospel music genre in Ghana after he had drifted from secular music.

The highlife legend started battling stroke and other sicknesses some 10 years ago and was reported to have passed away at his home in the late hours of Friday April 27, 2018.

Jewel Ackah has over 27 albums to his credit. Some of his songs are ‘Asomdowoe Hene,’ ‘Abena,’ ‘I’m in the Mood,’ ‘Joyce Sane Bra,’ and ‘Me Wo Bi.