1. Notability is a yes/no question, which needs to be established (just once, for the entire lifetime of the article) using only reliable sources, dealing directly with the subject, but independent of the article subject. (This was also covered in the training in Ghana.)
2. NPOV, on the other hand, is *not* a yes/no question, but a general bar you have to meet *in each and every sentence of the article* (except inside quotations etc.), and that can rely on all sorts of sources and even no sources at all. (e.g. "X is a Ghanaian singer" is perfectly *neutral* even without sources. It won't be enough to establish *notability*, but those are separate questions.)
I deliberately asked about NPOV, because I recognize that Notability is made tougher to establish for African subjects because of relative paucity of sources on the one hand, and possible bias on the other hand. This person may or may not be notable -- I have no idea and haven't done research myself -- but it is concerning that your article was also found to be promotional. The reason I am concerned is that *even though* the two questions are logically distinct and, properly, should be judged separately, in practice if a patroller sees an article with what they perceive as a blatantly promotional tone, they *would* be a lot more suspicious of the article's notability as well.
So, you can obtain the article text via [[WP:UND]], and then we can perhaps schedule a call to rebiew it and have a discussion, and either fix it if it needs fixing, or learn from it if it can't be fixed and look for more notable subjects. I am generally flexible these days, and am in the UTC+3 time zone. Are there days/times that would be particularly convenient for you (plural, any of you who may be interested)?
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