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• May 22, 2009
• 21:50

  ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH MIDWIFE IN LAGOS, NIGERIA.

   » ‎ Welcome to Inspirare..
  Jo Watts is a British midwife currently volunteering for a Charity Organization(Wish For Africa) in Lagos Nigeria.
  You can follow her blog at [jowatts.blogspot.com]
  
  It just might inspire you to visit Lagos if you have never done so.
  
  Enjoy the blog!

• 21:40

  TeleMed Africa

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://telemed-africa.com/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 86px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/ShccR9X1ICI/AAAAAAAAAVs/zQV4W8ursN4/s400/telemed+africa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338766978128879650" border="0" //abr /spana href="http://telemed-africa.com/"TeleMed Africa/a will be the first low cost medical service enabling millions of sub-Saharan Africans to access timely, affordable, and professional diagnosis and advice. By leveraging existing mobile technologies and infrastructure, TeleMed Africa is advancing the front lines of healthcare.br /br //spandiv style="text-align: center;"spanobject height="244" width="325"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QaW7YbbSzKUamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QaW7YbbSzKUamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="244" width="325"/embed/object/spanbr //divdiv style="text-align: center;"br /br /br //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-8901965998632134382?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 21:33

  AQUADA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.aquada.com/projects.htm"img style="width: 268px; height: 161px;" alt="http://www.aquada.com/amuba.JPG" src="http://www.aquada.com/amuba.JPG" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: quot;Book Antiquaquot;;"a href="http://www.aquada.com/projects.htm"Aquada Development Corporation/a is in the business of developing and managing property and communities for residential, commercial, and recreational use. They undertake large developments as well as small individual projects. /spanbr /br /br //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-8251627837710309894?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 21:21

  Txteagle - transcription service via SMS

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://txteagle.com"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 52px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/ShcYkZAkXmI/AAAAAAAAAVk/vljdg-isryM/s400/txteagle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338762896738639458" border="0" //abr /bDigital Planet/bbr /div class="mvb" span class="byl" Alka Marwaha /span br / span class="byd" BBC World Service /span /divbr /div style="text-align: justify;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/ShcYkZAkXmI/AAAAAAAAAVk/vljdg-isryM/s1600-h/txteagle.jpg"bA new scheme that distributes simple tasks via text messages is being used to target a potential untapped work force in developing countries./b /a/divp style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://txteagle.com"Txteagle/a is making it possible for many people in countries like Kenya to earn small amounts of money by completing simple tasks like translations or transcriptions. /pp style="text-align: justify;"Amazon's "Mechanical Turk" similarly divides up tasks but Txteagle differs in that it distributes them via text messages over mobile phones, which have a higher penetration rate - particularly in the developing world. /pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-288993584481847355?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 21:08

  SHE - Sustainable Health Enterprises

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/ShcW25XPiuI/AAAAAAAAAVc/vPIY7XnHSug/s1600-h/sus+health+ent.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 51px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/ShcW25XPiuI/AAAAAAAAAVc/vPIY7XnHSug/s400/sus+health+ent.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338761015638067938" border="0" //abr /pSHE intends to fulfill girls’ and women’s unmet need by helping local women in developing countries jump-start their own businesses to manufacture and distribute affordable, quality, and eco-friendly sanitary pads. SHE will look to use local raw materials, instead of all imported materials, to ensure affordability and accessibility. /p pimg src="http://sheinnovates.com/images/ventures/fiber.jpg" alt="banana fiber" align="right" height="150" width="187" /SHE will couple its product innovation with a financially sustainable business model operated and owned by women in the community that can be replicated wherever the need exists. SHE will instigate the launch of a local business by/p ulliPartnering with existing local women’s networks; /liliEnsuring a microfinance loan for women who will share start-up costs;/liliTraining local group in necessary business skills and health and hygiene./li/uldiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-1171446432747514640?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 20:57

  African Digital Art

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.africandigitalart.com/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 72px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/ShcTf3VspCI/AAAAAAAAAVM/UxpNoAC3qUw/s400/African+Digital+art.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338757321422840866" border="0" //aa href="http://www.africandigitalart.com/"br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.africandigitalart.com/"African Digital Art/a is an online collective, a creative space, where digital artist, enthusiasts and professionals can seek inspiration, showcase their artistry and connect with emerging artists.br //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-7201143828196621536?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div

• 20:23

  some many things

   » ‎ novisi
  Pal dear,
  i just rechecked the 'insignificant' physical space that i occupy compared to all the mind-blowing vastness that exists in this universe! and still there are ongoing discoveries that tell that we actually underestimate the measure of the space that we perceive! true science is the only religion! (the false type of science is the case of HIV-AIDs for example. no sense there! and WMDs too!)
  
  so there are too many things to talk about!
  
  sakawa:
  Down town in man-made Ghana there's a lot of talk about SAKAWA! and i wonder what more could be irrelevant in as much as it is relevant to attract too much attention from our leaders and police who should rather be focused on tackling more practical issues such as robbery, thievery by leaders etc. Suddenly, it seems everyone has a 'sakawa' story to tell no matter how childish or 'toli' it it may sound!
  
  and then the youth are the ones to get the focus of the triviality with all sorts of claims! folks are too easily taken in by all manner of spiritual tales to only make them look helpless! how sad! where is the 'wake-up' bell???
  --------
  
  Middle ground:
  last time i scream YES when Obama told that story in his speech to the Notre Dame folks about the Doctor who emailed him about the 'abortion' issue during his campaign. YES, that's my kind of leadership! (not the person Obama so much, but the principle of reaching the middle ground when it matters). but of course same man Obama could not stand the pressure on his own 'case 5 balls' when pressed about the 'photos' (his explanation me believe is neither here nor there. it's not up to him to decide human feelings or reactions).
  
  Obama again and they say he's visiting Ghana. no big deal! when i asked myself why not Kenya for a first Official visit, my 'heartless' head told me it was all about strategy! and i believe it's a plus for his 'professional' outlook like Maya responds it here! any other country in the 'black' of Africa would score him that point. so a die is cast maybe and it falls on Ghana. no big deal however a jamboree the streets of Accra would turn!
  
  my expectation? i look forward to hearing what he would say! it better be good stuff! and i hope it would be nothing like telling us that the US citizens cannot be apologetic to anyone about the way they live like he did say in his inaugural speech! that is crap and almost Bush's 'bull' (and i'm no tax collector; therefore unlike Obama i'm 'morally' free to make a 'caricature' of him) if we consider the enormity of the troubles that America has served the world. surely there are issues like global warming and the contributions they have made! all the fuel they keep consuming!!! else why is he pushing for renewable energy anyway! i want some more sense!
  
  sexy dream!
  Doesn't sex represent God, Pal??? has the world already undergone the sex-revolution??? why is nudity and sex such a no-go! some say don't let the child see nudity! some say don't let the child see sexual intercourse! else they would be corrupted! but don't the children always see. and even if they don't see, who says they don't know? and what does that akan adage say about letting the child know God! doesn't it say the child learns on his own??? i started becoming aware (knowledge) about sex on my own from my 'environment' (which environment is this same world) as early as about the age of 3 or so as i can remember! so when would the world just accept that sex is part of humanity so much that it is no more a corrupter than food we eat hungrily or gluttony!
  
  Football!
  now comes the showdown! come Wednesday i want Barca to win over ManU and i want Eto'o to score! there must come a retaliation for last season. Pal, i was supporting Inter all the way this term till ManU crashed them! hard luck to Chelsea but this year i was so against them i almost 'cried' till Iniesta's goal made Didier Drogba go mad. yeah the ref was bad alright but what other way could a man be teased?
  
  but Jose Mourihno is teasing me more! i love this man. he speaks both sense and nonsense 'beautifully'! i supported Chelsea last term because of him and now i'm supporting Inter because of him. but Barca seduces me big time! Mourinho says the final would be decided on pens! he predicted rightly that his former team Porto would be knocked out by ManU but did not attempt same for his own team! now i wish Mourinho hadn't just said that because i dread pens for Barca! Eto'o must score!
  
  now what else:
  
  love Pal!

• 17:16

  culmination and frustration

   » ‎ Colleen's Ghanaian Adventure
  So this is probably going to be my 2nd to last post, cause I'll post one more with like a conclusion next week.
  
  Today was the first STI Clinic at the HOPE Center. We tested 13 students for HIV and 11 students for Hepatitis B and then like 15 other random health screening tests. They will come back to the Center Monday and Tuesday for their results. While it was really cool to see things come together, there were a few things that happened that put quite a damper on the day for me and knocked me off my high horse from Monday.
  
  1. When the students first arrived (they came in a mini bus from the Polytechnic) Opening remarks were given. Usually, to negate any possibly of power struggle, I stay basically mute during all of these public events. However, I had to make a comment today because in the opening remarks the question "Who is here for HIV testing" was asked to the entire group about 5 times. Independent of cultural differences, values, etc - that is simply not a question that should be asked to a group who came to our Center specifically for its discreet location (which was kind of the whole point of adding testing to the Clinic in the first place because the hospital is the exact opposite of discreet). So while I make a point to stay quiet and keep all of my opinions to myself and have been for the past 5 months, I actually turned to the speaker and said, why don't we just let the students write their test requests on these cards you asked me to make so that we can keep everyone's privacy. And then I set up a system where the kids write their name, phone number, and requested tests on a card and then call up students 2-3 at a time, sending those for HIV pre-test counseling with the counselor and the others to wait for the lab. Then after counseling the students who wanted HIV tests were told to wait in the same place as everyone else so that it was not obvious who was getting HIV tests and who was getting the others because all the tests were a simple blood drawing. Then the counselors (who it was their first time counseling) were like "Who's getting HIV tests" in front of the entire group. Thus me being like "here are the cards" lets stop asking who is getting HIV tests in front of the whole group! Plus - all I was doing was asking the staff to follow GHS policies and not act in away that is exactly opposite to the whole program which was a purpose we ALL came up with!..... I could not live with myself and keep my mouth shut there.
  
  So what ended up happening was (and I say this as un-arrogantly as possible) I ran the whole thing, bring people to either Peace, Isaac, or Edith for counseling or just to the lab for other tests. So I was the only person who did anything to actually facilitate the testing (which was NOT what I should have had to do, I should have been totally in the background - this was not sustainable) So while yes, we have this testing now at the Center, I don't have a lot of confidence at the moment for how the quality of it will be carried out in the future.. I have written out a protocol so that things can be more discreet in the future but I have no idea if anyone will ever take it seriously because of the following..
  
  2. Before leaving for Egypt I had spent like 6 weeks designing the entire 3 day Peer Training Workshop, creating a participant manual with educational handouts and a facilitator guide that spells out step by step exactly what to say, do, and even designed simple and culturally significant activities. Point - I had never planned on doing "training" but that was what the Center staff wanted. I left these 2 manuals at the Center to be reviewed by the staff so that when I came back we could run them by the District Health Director then I could print out 100 of them. I even wrote an email while I was gone with a reminder to go over these Guides. On Monday I said "hey did you look through these, what do you think." I was told, "Yes, and they are perfect, you should make the copies now."(thats pretty much a direct quote. Well today, I was briefly looking through them with another person and it was becoming apparent that this was the first time anyone has seen them so I non-nonchalantly ask "did you actually read through them?" And then the answer is now, admittedly, NO. Then I was told, before you make the copies, Director needs to go through them. At this point my last nerve was about to snap, and said as politely as possibly - I asked that these be approved while I was away so that it could be done when I get back which is what you had previously told me was done.
  
  My biggest pet peeves of all are lying, taking credit for something that you haven't done, and when people don't follow through with what they say they will do. Those have always been what bugs me most and today each one of those was addressed!
  
  So it was supposed to all be done, and I thought it was, but apparently I was lied to. Literally, the entire program, and everything that I have created was either requested explicitly or the ideas of the staff in the first place. And then once I do it, its not even looked at. I was asked to create a pre-counseling form based off the GHS one, showed it to the staff on Tuesday, got the approval, and then at the end of today, my boss was like, hey can I see one of those, I never really looked at it in the first place.
  
  The whole point of posting this entry is simply to let the people who may be excited about the program or financially support it know the truth, that yes there's lots of good, but there are definitely still lots of issues.
  
  My solace is that, I've still done everything I've set out to do and done it all based on local policies and with the input of Center staff, I really can't do anything about apathy - that's a systematic problem. And come next Wednesday it's out of my hands and I can hope it continues the way everyone has talked about but I cant control other peoples' commitment. That's my limitation and I've completely come to terms with it. Totally zen right now.
  
  So, yeah I'm pissed at how today played out, but still stand by my last entry where I'm still psyched that I've really done everything that I set out to do. Woohoo in 5 days everything is out of my hands so i cant be pissed, or frustrated, or hurt when other people don't do what they say they will do! just going to relax and accept that what will happen will happen.

• 16:10

  Stressed out on life!

   » ‎ Holli's ramblings
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DnXDQGcPK04/ShbOrWfj8gI/AAAAAAAABAc/wsSETckVDBk/s1600-h/anxiety+girl.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DnXDQGcPK04/ShbOrWfj8gI/AAAAAAAABAc/wsSETckVDBk/s400/anxiety+girl.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338681652461957634" //abr /br /I promise - this is the last cartoon I post for a while - serious posts to follow. I just thought this was my perfect super hero... I can relate!!!div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8851511451028936152-1567608846886118444?l=hollisramblings.blogspot.com'//div

• 13:20

  Got Twitter ? : Confessions of a Social Network Addict

   » ‎ Ramblings of a Procrastinator in Accra
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Google Blogger = Home of Rspan style="font-style: italic;"amblings of a Procrastinator in Accra/span, need I say more../span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"span style="font-size:100%;" br //spanspan style="font-size:100%;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"7. Twitter = Finally, we arrive at my latest addiction. 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Apparently the news was all over Twitter but was yet to reach any mainstream media outlets. At first I felt I had to have an iphone or at least be able to get Twitter updates (known as “Tweets”) to my mobile phone to really participate . To some extent I still think that is still true. br //span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;" br //span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;" What is Twitter anyway? It is basically a network that revolves around updating the question “what are you doing now” but you are restricted to 140 characters. Anyone on facebook would recognize that Twitter is like a social network entirely devoted to updating your status! br //span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;" br //span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;" At first I used to update my Twitter status every couple of weeks and did not see the point. I also did not know that Twitter was open-access so the whole world could see that I was contemplating going to the beach, planning escape routes, craving fufu and groundnut soup . 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Unfortunately, some Twittering twit ruined everything for me by updating their status with the earth-shattering events that ended the season. @#$#@% B#$! br //span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"span style="font-size:100%;" br //spanspan style="font-size:100%;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"Of course the mainstream media has finally caught up with the Twitter craze and you can follow CNN, BBC programmes on Twitter. So lets say you are a fan of BBC span style="font-style: italic;"World Have your say/span like me and have some sort of contribution, if it is less than 140 characters, you can tweet it. They are usually good about reading out tweets during live broadcasts. Early Monday morning this past week, there were quite a few people tweeting that the Tamil Tiger leader, /spanspan style="font-size:100%;"Velupillai Prabhakaran was dead. I checked the BBC and there was no news there. Lo and behold, in a couple of hours it finally hit the BBC. /span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"span style="font-size:100%;" br //spanspan style="font-size:100%;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"If you are a celebrity fanatic, you can follow Oprah, Richard Branson, Ashton Kutcher, Mitt Romney on Twitter and find out what they are doing. Still not sure why anyone would want to know what Mitt Romney is doing at any time of the day! User be warned, some of these celebrity profiles are fake. br //span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;" br //span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;" /spanspan style="font-size:100%;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;" /spanspan style="font-size:100%;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"One thing I've noticed is that there are a lot of Ghanaians on Twitter but it seems that there are very few people Twitter-ing out of Ghana. 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• 11:47

  Asantehene 10th anniversary golf

   » ‎ WELCOME TO KUMASI, THE GARDEN CITY OF AFRICA
  Picture shows His Royal Highness, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II playing his favourite sport - golf. Check the King out as he tees off.
  
  
  
  Picture shows His Royal Highness, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II playing his favourite sport - golf. Check the King out as he tees off.
  
  The Asantehene’s 10th anniversary Gold Cup Open Golf Championship was held at the weekend at the Royal Golf Course in Kumasi.
  The four-day 72-Hole event, which was opened to both amateur and professional golfers from Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia and some other African countries was sponsored by MTN and Diageo with support from other co-sponsors and the Manhyia Palace.
  The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, himself a keen golfer, took the ceremonial tee-off on Thursday in a 4-Hole event with Nana Bi-Kusi Appiah, Manso Nkwantahene, Mr Baffour Awuah, Captain of Kumasi Golf Club and Mr Eben Albertyn, Chief Technical Officer at MTN.
  The competition, which ended on Sunday May 24, 2009, was played in accordance with the rules of the world’s golf governing body and the local rules of the Royal Golf Club.
  It formed part of activities marking the 10th anniversary celebration of the enthronement of the Asantehene on the Golden Stool.
  Mr George Andah, Marketing Officer of MTN said a total of GH¢50,000 was pumped into the competition by the sponsors and added that GH¢10,000 of the sponsorship package was to be used for a water project at the Royal Golf Course.
  The winner in the professional event took home GH¢5000 and a 3.5G wireless modem from MTN.

• 10:52

  Alger Telecom 09

   » ‎ Mobile Africa

  Event name: Alger Telecom 09

  Venue: Palais des Expositions d’Alger, Algiers, Algeria

  Date: October 05 – 07, 2009

  Type of event: Exhibition

  Description: Alger Telecom will provide a mix of technical papers and panel presentations describing promising new approaches to security problems that are practical, and, to the extent possible, have been implemented. It stands for a highly efficient 3-day business-to-business event with a clear focus on quality attendees.

  Cost: n/a

  Event homepage: [www.alger-telecomp.com]

   

• 10:17

  Titles

   » ‎ 20sAvVy
  There’s a new trend in Ghana (Maybe I’m only just noticing it). It’s the pretentiousness and pomposity of it all that baffles me. It’s with titles and how we want to attach some kind of importance to ourselves. If we manage to do well for ourselves and get some kind of “white colour” profession we want it stated before our name (Oh, please bold and highlight my title. I want everyone to spot it a mile away! Lol). A doctor is Dr., they save lives, let’s just leave it. Military men have ranks. They need their titles. But we go on with Lawyer so-and-so, Architect so-and-so, and Engineer so-and-so. Is it really necessary? What about the traders, masons, seamstresses? Are we to call them Trader Ama Mansa or Yam Seller Mary Bonsu, how about Mason Kwabena Manu? Or do they not deserve a title? Now people dedicate songs on the radio for their wives referring to them as Mrs Gladys so-and so! Does it matter whether she is Ms, Miss or Mrs?br /Ok now I want to be called, Law Student Iris Aggrey-Orleans!br /Let's refuse the pomposity!;-)div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/746845767677232800-4113922883060104971?l=20savvy.blogspot.com'//div

• 10:00

  Get up and dance

   » ‎ In My Eyes
  span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"span style="line-height: 14px; white-space: normal;"span style="font-size: medium;"Did you fulfill your dreams today?br /Are you headed in the right direction?br /Or was today another day dedicated to the others?br /You know the ones that lived their lives and never reached their full potentialbr /That see your youthful energy and get reminded of all the things they ought to have beenbr /So they send you off saying "son I really want you to be a banker"br /br /And because you love them so much a banker you becomebr /When deep down in the pit of you you really are a dancerbr /But you never had the courage to stand up and dance your dancebr /So the world is spinning and waiting to give you that perfect chancebr /br /Tomorrow is but hours awaybr /But for many it's a day that may never comebr /So darling no matter what anyone saysbr /I'll tell you today you've got the perfect chancebr /Get up and dancebr /And let your soul be happybr /Don't worry one day daddy will understandbr /It was your dreambr /This is your chancebr /Get up and dance,br /Get up and dance!br //span/span/spanspan style="font-size: medium;"br //spanbr /div style="text-align: right;"span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"span style="font-size: medium;"09:51-09:58/span/span/divdiv style="text-align: right;"span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"span style="font-size: medium;"22.05.09/span/span/divdiv style="text-align: right;"/diva href="http://performancingads.com/learn/publishers?origin=14106"img alt="PerformancingAds" src="http://ads1.performancingads.com/banners/publishers/125pxperfads.png" style="border: 0;" //adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3603534453365737072-3082188287838575071?l=inmyeyes29-3-7.blogspot.com'//div

• 8:58

  Gbaa (gaffe) of the year - Ecomini by John Evans Atta Mills

   » ‎ Why so serious? Blogs of a MIghTy African
  I couldn't resist this. Ghanaians, I am sorry. After praising Paul Kagame as an entrepreneur president and salivating over Jacob Zuma's dancing skills, this is what I have to say about Asomdwoe hene Professor John Evans Atta Mills. br /br /John Atta Mills became the third consecutive Ghanaian presido called John on January 7, 2009 after edging Nana Akufo Addo in the slimmest of margins. Since then, there hasn't been much he has done to forecast what his presidency will do for Ghana in the next four years. If I have missed this, please let me know. But when many Ghanaians talk about him today, it's about his 'slip of the tongue' sayings when he delivered his first sessional address to parliament. I don't have the full speech yet but you can listen at br /http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mit_SJPUCcUbr /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mit_SJPUCcUhl=enfs=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mit_SJPUCcUhl=enfs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/objectbr /br /http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=77167219973br /br /http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=151604695091br /br /Some soundbites from the speech - "Our ecomony, our ecomini is resilient." "Madam Speaker, when you are proda, pronouncing". (Did you hear Madam Speaker say Order)br /"madam Speaker, when you are pronouncing such figures in billions, and I want to remind you, but I didn't even know how to translate them to 'orpepepepeepeee'." Huh? br /br /As if having the speech on Youtube and Facebook wasn't enough, some smart dude has produced an 'ecomini' ringtone. It's hilarious. Parts of the speech is remixed with Asem's a href="http://museke.com/en/node/1739"Gimme blow/a. This 'ecomini' ringtone is taking the mantle held by King Ayisoba's a href="http://museke.com/en/node/847"I want to see you my father/a and Becca's a href="http://museke.com/en/node/1323"You lied to me/a. br / br /ecomini remix with Asembr /http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KluTZDxsPXgbr /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KluTZDxsPXghl=enfs=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KluTZDxsPXghl=enfs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/objectbr /br /Some lyrics: "But let me hasten to add, that you should not give cause for despair". Hem hem hem hem! "When you are pronouncing Ecomini". Hem hem hem hem. "But I didn't even know how to translate them to 'orpepepepeepeee'."br /br /My good friend, Ato Kwamena Dadzie a href="http://atokd.com/blogContent.aspx?blogID=158"blogged/a about this ringtone. He has even put the ringtone up on his website for download. I hear 'orpepepeepeee' is the new word for cash? As if kawukudi, luuchi and dough were not enough.br /br /In related news, some lecturer in Ghana has called the 'ecomini' ringtone an a href="http://news.myjoyonline.com/politics/200905/30048.asp"affront to the presidency/a. Why so serious me people?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4957153574047966177-4952221982821627347?l=mightyafrican.blogspot.com'//div

• 8:41

  walk me home

   » ‎ Nana Kofi Acquah - Ghana Photographer
  style type="text/css".flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }/stylediv class="flickr-frame" a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackwize/3553861072/" title="photo sharing"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3574/3553861072_708813f442.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" //abr / span class="flickr-caption"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackwize/3553861072/"walk me home/a, originally uploaded by a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/blackwize/"NanaKofiAcquah/a./span/div p class="flickr-yourcomment" /pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1392769759109690709-5107592052985695811?l=nanakofiacquah.blogspot.com'//div

• 8:12

  The Poison Hunters in Accra

   » ‎ ANTI-RHYTHM
  They flip the top of each soda they buy, hankering hungrily, but not after the fizz and flavour. They fish for harlequin hints of paddling particles, damning drops of detergent or some alien allergy in the bottle. First, they’ll blackmail and menace the manufacturer. If that ship sinks, they curse and sue for devious damages. They can rent false injury at twenty Cedis per devil-dealing doctor.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7564356874518161776-2567205976564509190?l=antirhythm.blogspot.com'//div

• 8:00

  New business idea?

   » ‎ Expressions in Words
  span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" I had lost count at 50, or was it 60?br /The canopy, chair, table, and catering side of things seemed already well cornered for the funeral crowd, but what about hand sanitizer?br /Embossed with a picture of the deceased of course!br /After all, people do the same with handkerchiefs and bottled water.br /Recount - I must have shaken 70 hands at the very least!/spanbr /br /div style="text-align: right; font-style: italic;"Funeral customs in Ashanti (I am not sure of elsewhere) demands that you greet the family formally. We started from one end of the 'square' and shook the family's hands, then moved around the rest of the 'sides' shaking hands with other well wishers who attended the funeral. Luckily, we only had to shake the hands of those seated in the front rows, nodding politely to the rest. Interesting isn't it what a hand shake conveys?br /From the wimpy to the strong, to the wet to the dry.br /I tried hard not to think about where these hands may be coming from - noses, elsewhere?br /My imagination - as is usual - runs wild.br /Seated on the opposite side of the square facing the family were other chiefs who were denoted in rank by the size of their umbrellas, the largest belonging to the son of the former Asantehene. To shake his hand, and the Chief's beside him we also had to take off our shoes. Fortunately, I wore my first pair of ademas (hope I spelt that right) to complement the black lace dress I wore - also my first lace kaftan!br //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25517958-9089042618494354867?l=decla.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

• 6:52

  Old Together

   » ‎ ghana photojournalist nana kofi acquah
  
  
  One of life's most significant blessings is the opportunity to age gracefully. I dream of a life where my friends and I can walk into old age together and never ever miss any of the fun along the way.

• 0:00

  Politics Sakawa: No difference

   » ‎ Ato Kwamena Dadzie Latest Blog Articles
  Hundreds of young Ghanaian men and women are resorting to get-rich-quick schemes, popularly known as lsquo;sakawarsquo;. Most of these schemes are hatched and executed on the internet. In internet cafes from Accra to Agona Swedru and from Kumasi to Keta people are using the World Wide Web to defraud people ...