A CD compilation of Ghanaian songs spanning the colonial and post-independence eras has been launched in Accra. Dubbed "Ghana Muntie" after a one-time signature tune of Radio Ghana, the CD is the product of a four-year project which began in 2008, spearheaded by the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and a German music scholar, Dr. Marcus Coester. Aimed at safeguarding the Ghanaian cultural heritage embedded in music, it was sponsored by the German government to help reclaim about 60,000 music records and audio data stacked at the GBC Gramophone library, hitherto documented in an obsolete media.

Launching the CD, a Deputy Minister of Information, James Agyenim Boateng reiterated the need for Ghana to establish a national sound and film archive to manage its cultural heritage more effectively.

He said this is the only way to protect the country's cultural heritage from natural disasters such as fire and floods citing the 1989 fire disaster that devastated the film library of Ghana Television.

Dr. Marcus Coester delivering his Address at the CD Launch