Greatest Mum At The National Theatre

Saturday February 13, 2010
By James Harry Obeng

For many who thronged the National Theatre in Accra last Sunday, it was the saying age is just a number that was given a confirmation, aside the rich array of gospel musicians who set the 1492–seater auditorium agog with danceable, bone–shaker tunes.

The theatre witnessed what it has not seen in recent times, receiving age–struck octogenarian and septuagenarian mothers to have fun with their contemporaries as part of this year’s Mothers’ Day celebration.

Dubbed the Greatest Mum Gospel Glory Show organised by the National Theatre in collaboration with Hitz FM, an Accra–based radio station, the show saw the attendance of mothers of all age groupings and health status.

Whereas the presence of younger, energetic breastfeeding mothers was not a rare sight, that of frail–looking mothers in their eighties, seventies and sixties was also not a compromise as some defied their age and its related health implications to turn up at the event, ably assisted by their children.

Seventy–eight year old Madam Felicia Sekyi (pictured left), for instance, was ushered into the auditorium by her two children who held her hands to climb the stairs in front of the Theatre.

Similarly, Madam Iddys Asumang, a 69–year old mother from Baatsona, a suburb of Accra, was also helped by her daughter before she could hurdle past the stairs into the auditorium.

Some of the mothers The Times Weekend spoke to, including Monica Torsou, 65, from Alajo, and Comfort Asieduwaa, 60, from Afram Plains, hinted that they were brought to the event by their children “to have fun with our contemporaries.

“And as you can see, we are very happy today”, they added.

In an exhortation, Ms Joyce Aryee, the Chief Executive of Ghana Chamber of Mines, said women were unique among all of God’s creations, saying that it was through women that God continues to create people to inhabit the earth.

She however urged children to take care of their mothers, especially in their old age, because “we are all what we are because God used them to create us”.

Artistes who performed at the show included Pastor Joe Beecham, Christiana Love, Great Ampong, Isaac (the show boy), Cee, Lady Prempeh, Florence Obinim, Phillipa Baafi, Kwabena Kwabena and the Royal House Chapel Choir.

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