THE OBRA GROUP: FLASHBACK

Not long ago, Obra group picture was making it way via twitter and facebook, questioning audience who they remember among that cast. The answers came, some answer where blended with jokes others were just off the bar. A few right ones here and there.

They were part of the Obra group that captivated the imagination of their generation. Among those identified in the picture were Super OD, S.K Oppong, Fred Adei, Kwadjo Kwakye, Osofo Dadzi, and Mercy Ofie that’s how far the search uncovered.

Super OD is still alive and kicking, you might still catch a glimpse of him at the Santana Hotel where he normally hang out and chit chat. Occasionally you might hear his voice on late night shows on radio.

When Obra died out, the spotlight on the stars went dim but S.K Oppong stage a comeback during the Cantata epoch. But now he is resting in the bosom of the Lord.

Osofo Dadzi, a prominent member of the Obra group who customary always ends the drama with Biblical quotes, it has been murmured of him being alive and passing his days somewhere in the United States.

Of Kwadjo Kwakye and Fred Adei, they left the scene in the early 1990s. Kwadjo Kwakye was the first to join his maker and not long after his burial Fred Adei followed. Their death was a big tragedy to the nation, the nation did mourn. The stories in which they acted resonate with the common Ghanaian and the market women.

The woman in the picture, there were lots of doubt as to her idenitity,  Mercy Ofie was the often repeated name. The best person to do the identification is Asunaba Kwaku Darko aka Super OD, or Maame Dokono If one is to chance on them at an event.

Super OD, S.K Oppong, Fred Adei, Kwadjo Kwakye, Osofo Dadzi, and Mercy Ofie were mighty actors of a beautiful nation with their memories still in the minds of those who saw them act; but so sad to admit of so little being known of them and no biographical work on them.

 It would sound nice to end on the words of a sage, to actors, actresses and participants of the cultural industry, where a neigbour’s bear is on fire, get a bucket of water on standby by yours.

In this era of information and internet, it is hoped our stars will have memoirs and autobiographies by which they will be remembered and honored should the icy hands of death makes a call.  On this mourning note, curtain down, adieu.