{"id":41267,"date":"2019-11-04T15:45:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T13:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/true-friends-is-fokn-boiss-love-letter-to-their-fans\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:33:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:33:49","slug":"fokn-bois-true-friends-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/fokn-bois-true-friends-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;True Friends&#8217; is Fokn Bois&#8217;s love letter to their fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SsL8i6gEX0I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Ghanaian duo spread love to their fanbase on this afrobeats\u00a0tune with Nigeria pop star <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/mr-eazi\/\">Mr Eazi<\/a>.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This video was shot at Ayata Corner in Bukom, a local bar\/night club know to be open to\u00a0LGBTQ community<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0which is quite rare in the currently conservative Ghanaian society which\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">criminalize\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anybody non-<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">heterosexual<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The cast\u00a0is composed of a band of fearless LGBTQ people who act, dance, and sing professionally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/fokn-bois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fokn Bois<\/a><\/span>\u00a0decided to made the video there after recent mainstream media\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in Ghana concocted and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">irresponsible story that LGBTQ\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">youth in Ghana have strayed\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from heterosexuality because\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of poverty. In other words, the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">story claimed that if their had\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">jobs they would not be gay. &#8220;True Friends&#8221; is taken from <em>Afrobeats LOL,\u00a0<\/em>the latest album from the duo released back in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Afrobeats LOL <\/em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">available <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/idol.lnk.to\/Afrobeats_Lol?fbclid=IwAR3KMph8cYO1elKBZO78E6mDo5n5u2CMrvecAbjSR0qfJPIJdUGeQqwuKmc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. Fokn Bois will performe at\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/le-guess-who\/\">Le\u00a0Guess Who?<\/a> Festival in Ultrech (Netherlands) November 9th.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian duo spread love to their fanbase on this afrobeats\u00a0tune with Nigeria pop star Mr Eazi. This video was shot at Ayata Corner in Bukom, a local bar\/night club know to be open to\u00a0LGBTQ community\u00a0which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944,9408],"tags":[5309],"location":[7994],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41267"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41267"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}