Fake 'Game of Thrones' video angers Ghana army

Ghana's military has been forced to deny that West African generals marched into a meeting about the crisis in Niger to the theme tune of TV series Games of Thrones, after a faked video circulated online.

The doctored clip was broadcast by the Ghanaian channel UTV on social media but later taken down.

According to representatives of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), no such songs were played during Thursday's guard of honour parade in Accra that opened a two-day ECOWAS conference.

Regional defence chiefs met in Accra for two days to finalise preparations for potential military action in Niger, where the democratically elected president was ousted last month in a coup. If diplomacy fails, ECOWAS has threatened to use force to restore constitutional rule in Niger.

There are worries that additional instability could deteriorate Niger's already precarious security situation.

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO.

The message

The message being the series is the plot, at its most basic, is a power struggle: who has it, who wants it and how they plan to get it. Interwoven are themes of honour, justice, revenge and redemption layered between issues of ethics, morality and familial bonds.

The music

The music for the fantasy TV series Game of Thrones is composed by Ramin Djawadi. The music is primarily non-diegetic and instrumental with occasional vocal performances, and is created to support musically the characters and plots of the show. It features various themes, the most prominent being the "main title theme" that accompanies the series' title sequence. In every season, a soundtrack album was released. The music for the show has won a number of awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series in 2018 and 2019.