Ghanaian gospel singer Evangelist Diana Asamoah has disclosed how her long-term fashion choices were influenced by the teachings of the late preacher Emmanuel Kwaku Apraku, also known as “Apraku My Daughter.”
Diana Asamoah revealed that she followed Apraku’s teachings, which discouraged fashionable clothing, cosmetics, and other worldly pursuits in favor of a more austere way of living, in an interview on Joy Prime’s Prime Morning Show.
She acknowledged that at one point these teachings had made her think that worldly interests, such as wearing trendy clothes and applying makeup, couldn’t coexist with a pious Christian life.
The gospel diva went on to say that, as a recent convert, she was overcome with fear and was compelled to believe what the late preacher and other preachers had to say because, at the time, she was not familiar with the Bible and her main concern was going to heaven. As a result, she would not allow such a lifestyle to stand in the way of her chances of entering heaven.
“When I gave my life to Christ, there were a lot of false doctrines. Apraku My Daughter was a famous pastor by then. So, my church invited him, and when he came, he said that a dwarf took him to a forest where it was revealed to him that ladies’ hair cream is made of blood, the powder is from the ashes of human bones, including make-up products and others, and he made us understand that anyone involved in such things wouldn’t make it to heaven,” she recounted.
Asked whether Apraku My Daughter was the reason why she did not dressed stylishly and avoided wearing makeup, she claimed , “Yes, because he said they were produced by ‘Maame Water’ (Marine spirits) and so when you do it, you will go into the river and not into heaven.”
But subsequently, with the assistance of a pastor named Ato Haggan, she gained an understanding of God’s word, which altered her perspective on fashionable attire.
