Ghanaian music duo, Michael and Tony Boafo, popularly known as DopeNation, have revealed that they had been estranged from their father for fourteen years, a Fante, with his constant travels serving as the only information about his whereabouts.
The narrative changed dramatically when circumstances brought them face-to-face with their father at the age of fourteen. Raised by their caterer mother in Abeka, a suburb of Accra, the family had to relocate to Takoradi due to their mother’s career change.
They recounted how their mother of Ewe descent, unaware of their father’s presence in Takoradi, moved there for work. Each of them further added to the narrative, seamlessly completing each other’s sentences as they recalled the unfolding events.
“At the time, our mum worked with Unilever. She lived in a guest house, and our dad was in Takoradi, serving as a Principal at Takoradi Technical Institute. Our mum had no inkling that he was there; it was only after she started working in Takoradi that she discovered his presence,” they reminisced.
Describing the experience of meeting their father for the first time, they found it “interesting.”
The revelation of their shared dark complexion became a moment of realization for them. “Our mum is very fair, so we always wondered where our complexion came from. There’s a resemblance, a part of us looks like him, but overall, we really resemble our mum,” they said.
As expected, bonding with their father took time. The incubation period was slow, but the process was facilitated by their father’s performance of fatherly roles, such as buying items for them, picking them up from school, and showing them his properties.
“It was easy building a relationship with him. There was an unspoken conversation about ‘Where have you been; how has life been?’ We never touched that conversation at the beginning because we didn’t click. It was only later, after eight years in Takoradi, that we truly got to know him,” they shared.
“Unfortunately, the connection is no more after we left Takoradi for Accra. We had an interview where we spoke about our dad and after that interview, the news got to him. We had to go and see him and talk about a lot of things, trying to make out for the lost time,” they further added.
Asked if that is an indication that the father only reaches out to them after they mentioned him in interviews, the duo responded in the affirmative.
“Exactly. After reconnecting and thrashing issues out, there’s been silence again. Regardless, we look forward to going back to visit him,” they said.
Disclosing The Concept Of Love
DopeNation Claimed to have never had any sexual relations with any woman since they were born.
Opening up their preferences, DopeNation, who do not believe in the concept of love, labeled themselves as ‘pure virgins’.
The eldest, Michael Boafo, known as B2, spoke on their behalf on whether they were in a relationship or not.
“Mostly, people who are in love happen to be in a situation where it’s all in their head. They feel happy about it and in that same momentum, they can feel very sad. We feel like it’s a scam. The dating kind of love is not even love, it is commitment,” he retorted.
Talking about their sexual encounters with women, they noted that they are Ghana’s only and last virgins, adding that their only fear of detachment was the fact that they didn’t come out as Siamese twins.
They stated that being committed to someone is very expensive citing that should they meet someone they don’t know and get committed to the individual who lives elsewhere and they not knowing what the person is doing is expensive.
The duo artists revealed that they have not reached the time of falling in love yet.
