All You Need To Know About M.anifest

 

Personal life and education

Kwame Ametepee Tsikata (born 20 November 1982), known professionally as M.anifest is a Ghanaian musician, rapper and record producer.

M.anifest is the son of Ghanaian lawyer and academician Tsatsu Tsikata and Rev. Dr. Priscilla Naana Nketia, a lawyer and pastor. His maternal grandfather Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia was a composer, professor and ethnomusicologist. M.anifest emigrated to the United States in 2001 to attend Macalester College in the twin cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, where he graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in economics.

M.anifest went to high school at SOS-Hermann Gmeiner International College in Tema. He was the entertainment prefect of his school known as Amet Tsikata. He has had artist residencies and given lectures in St. Lawrence University and the University of Ghana, and spoken to several classes in Hamline University, (his Alma mater) Macalester College, Penumbra Theater's Summer Arts Institute and Ashesi University.

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Between the two tracks, the album is filled with songs that talk about the invisible man and his struggles (Invisible) and the aspirations of a poor man (Rich People Problems). Despite the verses about human struggles, Nowhere Cool includes the promise of a brighter end, which is captured on Now Here Cool, an anagram to the album title.

M.anifest has described Nowhere Cool as his best project yet. Its title came from a short story of the same name by foremost Ghanaian author and poet, Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo. On Now Here Cool, she is heard reciting a piece from the same story:

"Nowhere cool sister, ain’t nowhere cool. Therefore let me hide here among the thorns while I dine on wild desert green. And if they should ask you of me, tell them the name of the game was life, and I never learnt the rules.

Awards

Songwriter of the Year (2008) - City Pages

Minnesota Emerging composer Award (MECA) (2010) - American Composers Forum

Best Hip-Hop Video - 4syte Music Video Awards

Hip-Hop Song of the Year (2013) - Ghana Music Awards

Best Rapper of the year (2013) - Ghana Music Award

Best Special Effects Video (2016) - 4syte Music Video Awards 

Best Individual Style (2016) - Glitz Style Awards

Hip-Hop song of the year (2017) - Ghana Music Awards

Best Rapper of the Year (2017)- Ghana Music Awards

Midem Best Artist (2017)- International Midem Awards, France

Best artiste in African Hip Hop award (AFRIMA 2018)

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Known to his fans as the Greatest Rapper of All Time