Congratulations! Musician Yaw Sarpong Receives Honorary

Veteran Gospel musician, Osomafo Yaw Sarpong received an honorary doctorate degree in Sacred Music from the Ecclesiastical Bishop Leaders Conference of Africa (EBLCA), an affiliate of the Kayiwa International University, Uganda.

Last Saturday, Mr Sarpong, who celebrated 40 years of a blissful music career, was decorated with the title for his invaluable contributions to the development of the country’s gospel music industry. Also, his band, the Asomafo Band, was also presented with a plaque in recognition of its support to the gospel music icon.

Mr Sarpong is working on an initiative dubbed: “The Prison Project” with the aim to touching and transforming lives in the country’s prisons. His project has led him to sign a six-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ghana Prison Service Board to allow him to establish music centres to rehabilitate the prison inmates.

He told the Daily Graphic, “We want to restore hope to prisoners through music. So in the next six years, the focus will be to build music centres across the prisons because there are talents among the inmates that need to be developed.”