FOR UNATHI NKAYI, life is all about investing in experiences, be it in her music or her travel sojourns. The popular South African musician and Idols South Africa judge has lived in and visited several countries around the world, but one of her most abiding memories of a holiday was last year in the coastal African country Ghana.
“I felt the beauty of the continent in Ghana and her pride and respect and her anointing,” Nkayi tells FORBES AFRICA.
In December, she accompanied a friend who was traveling to the West African country, and spent six days in the capital Accra, well into the New Year.
They stayed at the Mövenpick, situated on a busy street down the road from the military base, the presidential house and in close proximity to the beach.
“I’m a beach person so wherever I travel for leisure, I have to be on the coast,” says Nkayi.
On New Year’s Day, she was at one of Ghana’s most popular beaches, Labadi Beach, and it was the most beautiful she had seen – and what attracted her to it more, were the Afro beats emanating from it as she arrived at the parking lot.
The air was spiked with a medley of music, from Burna Boy to Tiwa Savage to D’banj and Wizkid.
As she sauntered closer to the white sandy shores, the music got louder and it became apparent it came from the restaurants serving food to serpentine queues of visitors on the beach.
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