Stonebwoy has repeated his conviction that Reggae music has its roots in Africa, especially Ghana.
In a later acknowledgment speech at the 25th Telecel Ghana Music Grants (TGMA), Stonebwoy emphasized that Reggae doesn’t exclusively have a place to the Caribbean but has critical ties to Africa, citing Ghana’s chronicled association to the transoceanic slave exchange as prove.
” I just want to say by extension that Reggae music, like I was bashed for it in Jamaica, has its roots itsght here in Ghana because out of the 66 forts that took away the slaves..so like ,sic belongs to Ghanaians as much as it belongs to Jamaicans.”
Stonebwoy’s comments resound his prior declaration in a 2022 meet that Reggae music is in a general sense African. He focused that Ghana’s history, counting its part within the slave exchange, fortifies the country’s claim to Reggae music, challenging the idea that it solely has a place to Jamaican culture.