One time revered Ghanaian actress and ex-Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Dzifa Gomashie, has announced her retirement from acting career.
She said she would no longer be working as an actress. The reason, she revealed, is political.
She wants to focus on her political career as a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
“I don’t act no more. Whatever I do now is either John Mahama or the NDC…” she said on Friday.
Dzifa was speaking at the premiere of a new Ghanaian series titled ‘Puzzled’ at the Executive Theatre in Accra when she made the comment.
According to her, she was contacted to act in the new series but she recommended actress Lydia Forson for the role because she no longer acts.
“I got a call from my niece, Yayra and she said they wanted an actress to play a role. I said I don’t act no more. Whatever I do now is either John Mahama or the NDC, you know what I mean. And I want to stay out of trouble. So she said what about Lydia Forson? I said yes why not Lydia Forson, because she is a brilliant, talented and sometimes opinionated girl,” she revealed.
Dzifa is described as a down-to-earth and affable personality and she holds an MPhil, BFA, Theatre Arts and Gender Studies from the University of Ghana, Legon.
Her acting career is dated back to 1985 when she joined the Talents Theatre Company.
She has later been part of other major productions. She was the producer of the popular story-telling-themed television series By The Fireside, which enjoyed relative success in the 90s, and was hosted by Grace Omaboe, also known as Maame Dokono. She has also held other very important portfolios in the past in society.
In 2013, she was nominated for the position of Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts & Culture and later got the position. Unfortunately, she lost the position after her party was voted out of power.
However, she prefers staying in politics to going back to the acting industry.
Source: Daily Guide
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Naturally. How successful were you as an actress?I empathise with you; you are no spring chicken. age is relentlessly creeping up on you . So what else can you do? In NDC you get free money .With Mahama you will probably get some contract branding the gutters of Accra. so my sister get on with it . Fight for the return of the most inept ,corrupt, thiev1ng leader this country has ever had, It is typical of the NDC crowd.
Ndc are joking, the only thing they dream of is power but not vision and they think talking loudly and criticizing every good thing means victory! hahahaha! nothing is hard on this earth than living with f000*00ls! Ghanaians recollect the NPP brought NHIS, FREE MATERNAL CARE, FREE SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAM, LEAP, MMT, YEP etc and they've brought again NABCO, FREE SHS, RESTORATION OF TEACHER AND NURSES TRAINEE ALLOWANCES, PAID THE GARGANTUAN DEBTS that ndc left behind, have brought 1D1 factory, 1 VILLAGE 1 DAM, PLANTING FOR FOOD AND JOBS, ZONGO DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY and more of that coming. Ndc mention just one intervention you brought through your 8 years for us the good people to reconsider you? just one! you think the good people are f000*00ls like you? look at the display of cash and materials during your last primaries and you think we will give you Ghana to create l000*00t and share and use some to build your so called 1 constituency 1 ndc ideological school? mo y3 agyimifuo ! you will come to power only if the 5 regions are not in Ghana ! tweeeaaaa! you think we wash our faces from down to up or we use our tongues to lick back our vomit ! let's cross our fingers for 2020 and we see how ndc will come back ! apuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! I tell you it will be easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle than ndc coming back to power! We are all waiting to remind ndc their wickedness, cruelty, insults, arrogance and boisterous attitude they showed to Ghanaians. STOP TAKING GHANAIANS FOR GRANTED!
U taste small NDC create loot and SHARE so u r very comfortable SO U V STOPPED ACTING, SAME WAY MEGA RICH TEACHER KOFI ADAMS LEFT THE CLASS ROOM TO FOLLOW JM GOOD FOR U GUYS
hahaha
Who cares what you do? You can even worship John 'Ford' Mahama and the NDC no one cares. The pipe through which your part of the create, loot and share money was running is blocked. JDM did give you enough anyway so you don't have to work anymore. your days of retribution will surely come.
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Because there is free money in politics than acting...... So this woman too was a dep. minister under John Ford? No wonder they messed up big time.....
WE HAVE ONLY REGRETTED FOR WASTING OUR VOTES FOR THIS INCOMPETENT, W1CKED, SELF CENTERED, SELFISH NDC PARTY AND JOHN MAHAMA AKA TIO. THE ONLY THING THEY THINK OF IS FOR THEM TO CREATE, 100T AND SHARE AMONG THEMSELVES.
the battle is still the Lord's
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