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Ideas
We’re failing as feminists because we’re talking to men
In this patriarchal world, every person — especially women — needs to go through a process of re-education, to identify oppression against women. I have this one friend who gives me daily updates of everything that happens in her life. She says it from her point of view and most often than not, I say nothing but just listen — and listening […]
What happens if the president-elect and vice president-elect die before inauguration day?
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 […]
The internet is “the largest surveillance network in the world”
It is time to reflect on technical decentralization but also focus mainly on user awareness. Tim Berners-Lee With the US-based FBI doing everything possible to be able to tap into emails and web browsing history without resorting to warrants issued by a judge, revelations of Edward Snowden have only echoed that the Internet could be […]
Why I kept my website ad-free
Advertising is highly effective — we might not realize it, but it works on our subconscious so that we want to buy things. It plants desires in our minds, and creates a mindset that, whatever our problem, buying something is the solution. It creates the mindset that buying is the norm, and there’s no other choice. And […]