…or my first lesson in masturbation and shame. Hands ( International Business Times AU) I was thirteen, I think. And I was in Aflao. I had traveled to spend the holidays with my cousins who moved to Togo to spend time with their father, and after a month there, were making their way back to Ghana. We […]
…but a lifelong sibling rivalry won’t make Nigeria admit to it Mr. Eazi has ignited a lifelong “fight” between Ghana and Nigeria! (Composite) From music to food and also sports, Nigeria and Ghana seems to have it out for each other. The two superpowers of West Africa are each trying to outshine each other making neutrals like […]
Maybe Tomorrow (FunkyGemini) …a poem by Sena Quashie — 15 jan, ‘16 My eyes are the dew On the wet grass They see only the hand placed On the page of the rainWhere the thinning of poetry Is blurred By trying to reproduce the summer Under the advent of clouds It is a failed watercolor Of a sunshine on the beach But tomorrow maybe The light will […]
The constitution has no steps for such a event as it may probably never happen… “What happens if the president-elect should die before inauguration day?” That is a question highly unlikely to have crossed the minds of many Ghanaians, but as with an unpredictable world, anything and everything is a possibility. Ghana’s current president and vice-president […]
Wax print, predominantly produced in the Netherlands, dominates the continent’s textile market. Ask anyone if wax print is African, and the most probable answer you’d receive is “yes”. But please don’t be deceived, wax print is not African, the only African thing about it is how it is rather killing ingenious African fabrics. The empire of […]
The weapon Africans are yet to harness! 25 New Books by African Writers You Should Read CREDIT: Literary Hub A new trend is emerging in the cultural field in Africa. The signs have always been there, visible from Accra to Nairobi. This revolution, like every other revolution before it, will not be televised, to paraphrase the great artist […]
Originally published at www.facebook.com on July 5th, 2015 I’ve seen shrouded stupid decisions during the Kufuor-NPP and Mills-NDC gov’ts and I’ve seen the Mahama-NDC gov’t in power. I need not say more but I prefer shrouded stupidity to callously plain stupidity. Most of the decisions this gov’t makes can never be undertaken by my younger […]