Music is a Weapon
by Adeola Eribake I met Nigerian/German musician Nneka last June in Essaouira, Morocco. A day after her performance at the annual Gnaoua and World Music festival. We chatted about her[…]
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#OleleFacts
The Black Stars of Ghana will face the Pharaohs of Egypt on October 15 for a challenging World Cup qualifying match. Football fans are certainly salivating at the prospect of[…]
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Still On Our Private Universities
I have spent the last couple of months acquainting myself with the goings on in our private universities. The (recent) and still unresolved strike by academic staff in our public[…]
The Soundtrack To My Week
Today, I scoured the Internet for new music and came up with the following songs as soundtrack to my week. Let me know what you think in the comments section. Becca- time[…]
Ghana: Smooth Succession and Strong Institutions
Once described by US President Barack Obama as “a good-news story” in Africa and credited with overseeing Ghana’s emergence as one of Africa’s newest oil producers, the sudden and untimely death of[…]
What We Are Reading: Prose In Different Area Codes
PROSE: Salman Rushdie brings heavy guns against George Orwell and Hollywood in Outside the Whale. Chris Abani’s book is pulled off Florida’s summer reading list because of racy content. Read excerpts from[…]
Obama’s face of Africa that is too often overlooked.
The message, In 1985, around 85,000 people visited the tropical country; that number has now skyrocketed to around 600,000. In June of this year, the Ghana Tourist Board launched a promotional initiative with the aim of attracting 1 million annual visitors by the end of 2012.