Renowned preacher and gospel artiste Sonnie Badu has praised the Dancehall musician Shatta Wale’s unprecedented crowd at his ShattaFest.
Sonnie Badu highlighted that, not even Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s historic Independence Day celebration can match the massive crowd at Shatta Wale’s birthday concert.
In a post on Instagram, Sonnie Badu wrote, “It’s never happened in the history of Ghana, not even on the day of our independence with Dr Kwame Nkrumah. This is huge. @shattawalenima needs to be studied.
We all go throw money for ground, feed the streets, and they got your back. Paaa paaa paaa! I think Ghana is evolving and soon we will take the centre stage again,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, the ShattaFest 2025 was a night to celebrate Ghanaian Dancehall icon Shatta Wale as he marked his 41st birthday on October 18, 2025.
Fans from various parts of Ghana crowded the Independence Square in Accra on October 18, 2025, to spend the night with the artiste as he and various other Ghanaian musicians treated the audience to hit songs.
A star-studded lineup, including Sarkodie, Samini, Wendy Shay, Medikal, Kelvynboy, Amerado, DarkoVibes, Tinny, JZyNo, Kwame Yogot, and DopeNation, among several others, featured during the ShattaFest.
Additionally, Shatta Wale’s Public Relations Officer, Sammy Flex, has clarified that no equipment was stolen.
Speaking in an interview on Hitz FM on October 20, 2025, Sammy Flex stated, “The numbers were crazy, especially around the stage, and everybody was struggling for space. I think out of that struggle, they pulled out the cords or wires from the monitors.
So, at a point, most of the monitors went off because there were no cables connected to them. I’m sure when it started getting that serious, the sound engineers and technicians tried to mobilise and reorganize all the monitors on the stage”.
He added, “That’s why the MC was talking about it, because we wanted to continue the show after that small hold-up. We were trying to bring everything back, but even at that point, it was very tough.
The crowd wouldn’t listen or move back. We even thought that the hold-up would reduce the numbers, but it didn’t change anything. So we had no option but to continue with the performance,” he explained.
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