The portal of the well-known music monthly Rolling Stone criticized the song by Marco Dona of Zoo di 105 in an article by Claudio Biazzetti. The text “ Vengo da Ghana ” was defined as capable of «bringing together all the most racist, anachronistic and disgustingly offensive clichés about immigrants in Italy». The song that ended up at the first place of Spotify’s Viral 50 is in short a mix of «ignorance, vulgarity, compositional poverty».
The Consul of Ghana in Italy , Massimiliano Colasuonno Taricone, also intervened in the affair with a letter to the well-known music magazine.
«The latest invaluable work by Marco Dona from Lo Zoo di 105», Taricone quips in his letter, «is not a «racist text! It deserved the stage of the Teatro La Scala!». «A formidable musical work that deals with the culinary habits of Ghana (even if Dona forgot to mention peanuts) and that even promotes charitable initiatives in Uganda and never mind if in Uganda they were not informed about it. The great Dona has in fact revealed that he wants to donate, (because Dona donates, let’s remember) a handful of bunk beds and some furniture to our Ugandan brothers. And if you are wondering for what bizarre reason the Ghanaians should not benefit from the proceeds made by a song that kindly mocks them, I will explain: the bunk beds of the wise Dona would not fit in the poor mud and straw huts of Ghana. A question of size and shape».
And the letter cannot fail to end with an invitation: “We Ghanaians are not at all outraged by the song of the legendary Dona. In fact, we can’t wait for him to give birth to another one, perhaps on the alarm clocks around our necks. In the meantime, we invite him to Ghana so he can taste some of our bananas, which he wonderfully praises. I’m sure he will appreciate it.”