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Sarkodie and Kweku Flick's Odo Pa video tells a domestic violence story from the grave back

The song's title means good love. Its video, starring Efia Odo, opens in a cemetery and closes on an ambulance marked with Ghana's emergency number.

Sarkodie and Kweku Flick's Odo Pa video tells a domestic violence story from the grave back
Image: BAR FOR BAR · Odo Pa episode cover, Qwofi Manuel Studio.

Sarkodie released the official video for "Odo Pa", featuring Kweku Flick, on his YouTube channel on 30 April 2026. It is credited to Sarkcess Music and Eagle Plug and was directed by David Duncan. By 19 October 2026 it had about 1.18 million views.

"Odo pa" means good love in Twi. The lead role is played by Efia Odo, whose real name is Andrea Owusu, as Voice of Africa reported. Yen and NewsGhana reported her telling UTV that "this role was nothing new for me". Her stage name and the song title share a word. Whether that was planned is not known.

A story told backwards

The video follows one woman with two lives. She gets ready at a makeup table, dances at a club, and counts the money she has earned. Then she goes home, where a man counts the money while she reaches for it, and he beats her. The story ends with her on the floor with her toddler beside her, a covered stretcher, an ambulance and a grave.

Kweku Flick walks into a cemetery carrying flowers with Sarkodie in the first minute, so the video opens close to its ending.

Who sings what

Sarkodie raps the verses. In the first, he tells her to "wake up and save yourself", and that line lands just as Kweku Flick starts the walk into the cemetery. In the video Sarkodie appears in her bedroom and behind her at the makeup table, like a friend who sees everything. Kweku Flick sings the hooks. When the hook returns over the ambulance, the same words land very differently.

Viewers in the comments say Kweku Flick sounds like Obrafour. In 2012 Sarkodie released "Saa Okodie No" with Obrafour, produced by Da Hammer.

What the law says

The side of the ambulance in the video reads "CALL: 112", Ghana's national emergency number.

Ghana's Domestic Violence Act, 2007 (Act 732) defines domestic violence to include physical, sexual, economic, and emotional, verbal or psychological abuse. Economic abuse covers depriving a person of money they are entitled to. A GhanaLawHub analysis of the Act says the police must respond even when the person reporting is not the victim.

The QMS take · Opinion

The first shot is makeup. Near the end is a grave. Everything in between is a warning, and if you are the friend in that house who sees it, you can make the call. Good love does not need makeup.

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Sources
  • Sarkodie on YouTube: Odo Pa ft. Kweku Flick official music video (30 Apr 2026)
  • NotJustOk: Odo Pa lyrics page (2 May 2026)
  • Voice of Africa: Efia Odo in the lead role
  • Yen and NewsGhana: Efia Odo on UTV about the role
  • Music In Africa: Saa Okodie No, Sarkodie ft. Obrafour (2012)
  • GhanaLawHub and Graphic Mirror: Domestic Violence Act, 2007 (Act 732)
  • TherapyRoute: Ghana crisis lines, 112 national emergency number

Every factual line in this story is checked against at least two independent sources, unless the text says it comes from one report.