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Dramatic Week: Nigerian Terrorist, Togolese Team Attacked and Oil Curse
This week passed really quickly. I went back to work, now preparing for the spring semester. I had one friend leaving town (bye Uli!) and one coming back (Hi Tuuli!). It is somehow a big relief that...
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SLS Literary Contest
I challenge all the good writers I know to enter into the Summer Literary Seminars Unified Literary Contest, see a message from the organizers below: Summer Literary Seminars is announcing its annual...
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Good News for Ghana's Economy
“We want to move the economy forward quickly and we want to try as much as possible to make an impact on the road sector, which includes city, urban and feeder roads,” was the message from the Finance...
View ArticleMore on Togo Team Attack
Through an email from a fellow blogger, I was pointed to Ethan Zuckerman's interesting analysis of what happened in Angola.He writes:Hosting Africa’s biggest football tournament – that is, up until the...
View ArticleOn the Usefulness of Blogging and Tweeting: Earthquake in Haiti
Feeling so sad as I read the live reports of the earthquake in Haiti, see for instance the continuously updated BBC report here.This people that has been through so much, why? Today, I think of my...
View ArticleGhanablogging January Meet-Up Today
Today Thursday 14th Jan 2010, the network of bloggers called Ghanablogging is meeting at our regular hangout, Smoothies in Osu, Accra, Ghana at our regular time 6.30pm.If you are a blogger who happens...
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Blogging in Sweden
I came across some interesting information about blogging in Sweden, compiled by the Swedish research institute World Internet Institute - I wonder where similar information about Ghana could be...
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Ghana Loves Haiti Concert
The Friends of Haiti and Ghana Red Cross has sent out a joint press release about an upcoming concert to raise funds for our brothers and sisters in Haiti.The campaign consists of a star-studded...
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Did I Dance with Kojo Antwi?
Before we headed to the Haiti Benefit Concert I mentioned here, we had dinner with some friends. One of them had heard the rumour that Kojo Antwi wouldn't come to the benefit(sadly his personal website...
View ArticleDid I Dance with Kojo Antwi? Part II
He gestures for me to come up on stage, "Come!" and I feel myself letting go of my handbag, barely glancing over to see if my husband takes it for me and taking a few decisive steps onto - is this...
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New Ghana Road Tolls Today
The increase in road tolls in Ghana takes effect today. A regular car that used to pay 5 pesewas is now paying 50 p, a heavier car like a pick-up or trotro which used to pay 8p now pay 1 GHC (or about...
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Work Blog
Just to let you know I have incorporated my favorite pasttime, blogging, into my work. *drumroll* I p r o u d l y p r e s e n t Social Theory Bloga classblog for Social Theory, one of the courses I...
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Did I Dance with Kojo Antwi? Part III or Photo Evidence
Finally, courtesy of pro-photographer Nyani Quarmyne there is photographic evidence of that YES, I DANCED WITH KOJO ANTWI*!This is for you my loyal readers! :-)Read Part I and Part II of this story...
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Involuntary Absense
So some of you might think I decided to check out completely just because I turned 29 on Sunday.But that is not the case. I mean, Yes, I was a bit shocked ("29, already? Wow, that means I am soon to be...
View ArticleBusy Everyday Life
This week was also not a good blogging week - what is happening to me? Well, let me tell you and at least that gives me a few days respite!These days I teach Monday through Wednesday. It is a lot of...
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Valentine's Day in Ghana - All You Need To Know
Valentine's day became a day to celebrate in Ghana first after the airwaves were deregulated and private radio channels like Radio Gold and Joy FM entered the stage around 1995.But if Valentine's Day...
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Ex-President Rawlings' House on Fire: Was It Electrical?
The shocking news reached us yesterday morning, the former president J.J. Rawlings' residence in Ridge was on fire. Today, facts are a bit more clear:- Nobody was hurt- Only Mrs. Konadu Rawlings and...
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Inventory of Normality Feat. Paulo Coelho
Ok, so normally, I hold a fair share of skepticism against everything signed Paulo Coelho - the bestseller writer who's recipe for happiness is to "seek the truth in the desert" (The Alchemist) -...
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New Favorite Blog: Silverjuggler
My friend Andreas is trying out life on a old-fashioned farm (well, minus the snow mobile and the website) in mid Sweden 7 km from nearest road and he writes beautifully about his experiences. The...
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Ghanablogging: Citizen Media
This evening the network of bloggers in Ghana, GhanaBlogging, will meet again! Even bloggers with a Ghanaian connection outside of Ghana will probably join in by Skype chat. Especially exciting for...
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Meet the Snow Leopard Kwame Nkrumah Acheampong
I remember the first time I heard of Kwame Nkrumah Acheampong...A Ghanaian man, raised in tropical Africa, who six years ago for the first time stood on a pair of skis...and now is going to compete in...
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Swedish Coach to Super Eagles
What is with me? I am really no sports fan and now a second post on sports already this week?Anyways, Swedish coach Lars Lagerbäck has signed with the Nigerian national team the Super Eagles (or Super...
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Première: Cinderama, the African Cinderella
Greetings, my people. [..] I have travelled across hills and mountains, crossing streams and rivers, big and small and lakes and forests, thick and thin. [..] I have a good story for you. In facts it...
View ArticlePhD News
Last Friday I got a phone call. It was late in the afternoon and I was in the Accra Mall stocking up for the weekend with a friend. I had to run into a quiet place because I thought I heard something...
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Last Post
Has it stopped raining in Africa?No, it hasn't. Actually raining season is around the corner. However, thanks to the plenty riches of Ghana, I feel like I've outgrown this positive Ghana-centric "Rain...
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