I connected Spike Lee’s team to the Creative Arts Agency – Director of Diaspora Affairs

The Director of Diaspora Affairs at the Office of the President, Akwasi Awuah Ababio, has revealed that the Diaspora Affairs Department connected American actor Shelton Jackson also known as Spike Lee’s team, to the Creative Arts Agency in Ghana before he touched on Ghana’s soil.

Mr. Ababio disclosed this after Spike Lee made a comment that no creative arts personality has met with him and doesn’t know Ghana has a thriving creative art industry on Asaase Radio.

However, the National Film Authority Executive Director, Juliet Yaa Asantewaa Asante, had explained that when they tried reaching out to Spike Lee, his personal assistant told him he was busy.

The Director of Diaspora Affairs also said the notice given by the American actor was very short, but his office was able to arrange for Spike Lee to meet the creatives in Ghana.

“We did know Spike Lee was coming to Ghana shortly before he came, at very short notice. The American officials decided to inform us that we should be getting ourselves ready and that the clear direction they wanted from us was to get an appropriate hotel to go to and to be taken from the airport to the hotel to be welcomed at the airport. We did precisely that,” he said in an interview monitored by The Ghana Report on Joy.

He said that later, the American officials requested from his office that they would want Spike Lee to talk to some government officials as well.

“We had facilitated that exactly as they wanted it. There in my office right out when they asked for it, they were able to speak to the Director of Creative Arts, then [they] mentioned that the Ministry of Tourism was going to be an interest to them, the GTA, etc. So we brought up the issue and told them what exactly they should do,” Akwasi Awuah noted.

“It was then left in the hands of the American officials to take up the execution,” he further stated.