Rap sensation from Ghana, Emmanuel Kweku Owusu Darlington, better known by his stage name Kweku Darlington, has opened out about the difficulties that precipitated his one-year hiatus from the music business.
Darlington claimed to have been the victim of spiritual attacks by people he had thought of as friends but who had subsequently turned against him with the intention of ruining his career.
In a recent Joy Prime TV interview, the rapper revealed that the severity of these attacks compelled him to give up on his musical career since he felt “buried spiritually.” He linked a quarrel with two ex-friends to his health problems.
“I had a misunderstanding with someone, but I didn’t take it seriously because, you know, boys will be boys. It shouldn’t have gone that far. It was just between two friends—a male and a female.
“I was down for the whole year, last year. It was so bad for me—I had friends who turned into enemies. It escalated to the point of involving juju and all that. It was very crazy, so you didn’t hear much from me during that time. It even affected my skin; I couldn’t go out. The whole idea was to keep me inside because I’m dangerous when I’m outside—when I’m making music and all that.”
“In a nutshell, I was buried with only my head outside. I was sick for the whole year. I wasn’t eating; my mum was always crying,” he recounted.
The singer of the popular song “Sika Kankan” went on to say that he had tried several hospitals and herbalists for assistance, but nothing improved until he attended a Christian fellowship in the Atwea Mountains, where he had a spiritual awakening.
“It wasn’t a medical issue; it was spiritual. It started with my eyes. I went to the clinic, and they did all they could, but they couldn’t find the cause. They gave me drugs, injections, and spectacles, but nothing worked. It was my congregation back at Atwea Mountains that identified what had happened to me. After that, we had to clear all these things before I could start taking the prescribed medicine,” Darlington explained.
