 Hi my name is Kwame, I'm a documentary filmmaker and a voiceover artist as well as a photographer sometimes and a content creator and of course I do YouTube and I love telling stories, I love sharing my ideas on video, I love mimicking other people's voices or creating some of the ads that you've probably heard and love and I had an entirely different idea for this particular video you're watching right now. There's a lot going on in Ghana at the moment and one of the biggest things going on is how a Rastafarian boy, a GHS graduate is being refused admission into the school for his hair that he's wearing because of his religion and I had wanted to actually record a video with a couple of friends who have locks and have hair like mine. I recently just locked my hair so it's quite young or it's quite new. I have a couple of friends who have locks longer than mine and no they are not Rastafarians they just love the look and they wear it so well. I wanted to record a video interview with them about very regular or basic candid questions like you know where they come from, who they are, where they grew up, the kind of food they like, the kind of music they like. In my mind I was thinking that it would be a great video to portray how people are just people and that not their hair, not their earrings they're wearing, not their tattoos will make them evil or will make you who's not wearing any of that any better than them. And I thought about it why should such a video even be made in 2021? It's rather sad, rather sad. You live in a country that I mean based on your looks you can spend or you you may encounter prejudice especially from the people who you think are supposed to be protecting your interests. Police can waste your time because you look a certain way. Even encountering people in certain spaces makes them draw away from you because they tend to judge you by your look and automatically put you in a certain box that you don't need to be where they are because you decided to lock your hair because you decided to get earrings because you decided to decorate your body. This temporary vessel you decided to do something with and automatically puts you in a certain box that you don't belong or you shouldn't be here and I thought it was rather sad as a storyteller to make a video to try and explain to people in this year 2021 that the whole country is actually discussing a child's hair someone who's wearing his hair based on his religion and beliefs his natural hair that's that's just sad. So I decided to scrap the video idea I had called a couple of friends to come and record this this evening because if you're watching this video I'm recording it in the afternoon and that's basically this sad moment in the history of the country Ghana. You don't judge people immediately by how they look the worst people look the cleanest but who's saying anyway yeah back to normal business that's about this video and uh yeah drop your prejudice it could actually harm somebody real bad