Photos Adom Praiz 2017: How Joe Mettle’s ‘Bo n? ni’ resurrected 14,000 voices

The time was 9 pm and on both the first and ground floors of the Perez Dome, attendees at this year’s Adom Praiz were on their feet shimmying.

The elderly were no longer old and the young were ever energetic. They danced with grace to the sound made by guitar, bass, drum, accordion and a grooved wooden instrument.

“Dancing was my therapy for the night,” an attendee whose handkerchief had proven incapable of mopping the sweat on his face said.

“It was an awesome encounter.”

Joe Mettle’s single ‘Bo n? ni’ featuring Luigi MacLean drifted into the heavens but not without the rendition of the over 14,000 voices at the venue.

Many people would have begged for five minutes' rest after 30 minutes jogging but there was no rest at the Perez Dome last Friday.

Hours of performances by Joyce Blessing, Celestine Donkor, Francis Agyei, Denzel Prempeh and Nigeria’s Steve Crown could have been enough to seal the day as the best night ever.

But Adom Praiz offered more.

The 2016 VGMA Artiste of the Year resuscitated bodies of dozen attendees that had ran out of energy after the previous performances.

Joe Mettle recharged their spirits and soon ‘Bo n? ni’ was not just a song extolling the attributes of God. Bo n? ni became the staircase that led attendees into the throne room of God for a blissful encounter.

“I felt light and could jump,” a woman who gave her name as Serwaa said.

The over 14,000 attendees that thronged the venue ground for the event did not give in to the whims of their bodies. They stood, hoisting their handkerchiefs above their heads as though Jesus was re-entering Jerusalem.

It is only the triumphant entry of Jesus Christ that could trigger the audience reaction witnessed at Adom Praiz.

Once, it would have been hard to find a louder place in the country than the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) during the Ghana Music Awards.

The Multimedia Choir

But when Adom Praiz emerged, the narrative changed. And Perez Dome surged forward.

Inside the mega auditorium conversations with partners were kept brief. The only conversation that was held was the one with the Chief Architect of the universe.

Miracles happened at the then Word Miracle Church International now Perez Chapel International.

With as low as ¢50 attendees were each given a laissez-passer into the heart of miracles and the amity between themselves and God ever strengthened.

The praises and worship were never enough after the event as attendees continued to sing on their way home. It was musical.

The event was Adom Praiz but a ‘Bo n? ni’ moment with a ‘Bo n? ni’ God. Nigeria’s gospel musician Preye Odede could not help but taste the worship of God in Twi.

Nigerian gospel musician, Preye Odede

“I wished it didn’t end,” a lady in her early 20s told a friend whose countenance betrayed her body. She equally would have wished the event did not end.

But it ended and attendees filed out of the auditorium with light hearts replete with God’s majesty. They shed off their burden and their lives will never be the same.

There is no event in the country that can rival the Bo n? ni praise witnessed at the Adom Praiz 2017.

 

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