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September 17, 2009
22:20
September 14, 2009
» ‎ Like a naughty girl pulling her skirt up in public

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W0HasRHUmOU/SrK2uFH8XXI/AAAAAAAAAfA/mgyP62iT46c/s1600-h/DSC01327.JPG"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W0HasRHUmOU/SrK2uFH8XXI/AAAAAAAAAfA/mgyP62iT46c/s400/DSC01327.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382565407426895218" //adiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"I had a fantastic birthweek. Thank you to everyone that made that possible. Life is good when its filled with love./span/span/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5520998225063967110-99812689874369734?l=oranabutterfly.blogspot.com'//div

20:55
Bouquet to RACP
» ‎ Border Crossings

In late August the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) released a statement that reaffirmed their position that male circumcision should not be performed on infant boys as a routine procedure. Good on them! Read their statement, a brochure for parents, and the policy which is currently being reviewed. Circumcision seems to arouse incredible passion and [...]

20:45
Kwame Nkrumah: The City of Tema (Part 2)
» ‎ Rain in Africa

Landmarks in concrete.br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fLH5BoGNg7w/SrKitwYI4UI/AAAAAAAADEQ/Gfe6ZGNqlfM/s1600-h/P5010017.jpg"img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 270px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fLH5BoGNg7w/SrKitwYI4UI/AAAAAAAADEQ/Gfe6ZGNqlfM/s400/P5010017.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382543411625124162" / br //aspan style="font-style:italic;" The Cocoa Silos/spanbr /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fLH5BoGNg7w/SrKgnSDuEcI/AAAAAAAADEI/FSDmWUOkcbQ/s1600-h/IMG_4494.JPG"img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fLH5BoGNg7w/SrKgnSDuEcI/AAAAAAAADEI/FSDmWUOkcbQ/s400/IMG_4494.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382541101383946690" / /aspan style="font-style:italic;"The Kwame Nkrumah Motorway /spanbr /br /One of these a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monolithic"monolithic/a structures were never used. The other is the backbone of the Greater Accra economy.br /br /I amuse myself with thinking about if the two had been used - and developed - since the 1960s. br /br /What do you think, does it matter?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20734927-8095847134209752156?l=nonjeneregretterien.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

18:05
Mentoring African bloggers
» ‎ This is Ghana

So, I'm mentoring a Zimbabwean blogger as part of MS Action Aid Denmark's program called 'Global Change' that partners bloggers from all over the world with the program's participants from Denmark and Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. The mentee bloggers will spend three months building their skills in online and offline activism both in Denmark and in fieldwork in Kenya (so div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:4cEx4HpKnUU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?i=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:4cEx4HpKnUU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?i=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:7Q72WNTAKBA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?i=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:KwTdNBX3Jqk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?i=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?i=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:TzevzKxY174"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=718_gJ9nwFk:BJ-5IPIX5pk:63t7Ie-LG7Y"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThisIsGhana/~4/718_gJ9nwFk" height="1" width="1"/

17:29
Quotes By Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
» ‎ Accra Conscious Forever

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iAIkdpRgAT4/SrJ1rhAx0EI/AAAAAAAAAmo/Rm7qJ66Q7-U/s1600-h/Kwame_nkrumah_tomb_accra_ghana.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iAIkdpRgAT4/SrJ1rhAx0EI/AAAAAAAAAmo/Rm7qJ66Q7-U/s400/Kwame_nkrumah_tomb_accra_ghana.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382493895117623362" border="0" //a br /meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cxwidaam%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"/o:smarttagtypeo:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/o:smarttagtype!--[if gte mso 9]xml w:worddocument w:viewNormal/w:View w:zoom0/w:Zoom w:punctuationkerning/ w:validateagainstschemas/ w:saveifxmlinvalidfalse/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid w:ignoremixedcontentfalse/w:IgnoreMixedContent w:alwaysshowplaceholdertextfalse/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText w:compatibility w:breakwrappedtables/ w:snaptogridincell/ w:wraptextwithpunct/ w:useasianbreakrules/ w:dontgrowautofit/ /w:Compatibility w:browserlevelMicrosoftInternetExplorer4/w:BrowserLevel /w:WordDocument /xml![endif]--!--[if gte mso 9]xml w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156" /w:LatentStyles /xml![endif]--!--[if !mso]object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"/object style st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /style ![endif]--style !-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in .75in 1.0in .5in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} -- /style!--[if gte mso 10] style /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} /style ![endif]-- p class="MsoNormal" style=""span style="font-family:Calibri;"A couple of Quotes by a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah"Dr. Kwame Nkrumah/a (27 April 1972 - 21 September 1909), who was an influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_%28British_colony%29"Gold Coast/a, from 1952 to 1966…/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style=""span style="font-family:Calibri;"Below are a couple of quotes I came across in remembrance of him during st1:place st="on"st1:country-region st="on"Ghana/st1:country-region/st1:place’s celebration of the b style=""Founders’ Day/b. /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"“Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.”u1:p/u1:p/spanspan style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"u1:p br //u1:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"u1:p“We face neither East nor West; we face forward”/u1:p br //span/pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;" br //span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"“It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else”/span/pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;" br //span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"“The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.”o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p“It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p“Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.”o:p/o:pspan style=""/span/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"span style=""/span/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"span style=""/span“We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.”o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p“st1:place st="on"Africa/st1:place is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism. Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to st1:place st="on"Africa/st1:place’s impoverishment.”o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p“Its concern was based on the fact that such disputes continued to retard development and progress, resulting in increased poverty among the people.”o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p"...I have often said, the party and the nation are one and the same, namely: the Convention People's Party is st1:country-region st="on"Ghana/st1:country-region and is st1:country-region st="on"st1:place st="on"Ghana/st1:place/st1:country-region the Convention People's Party."o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p"Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge - a challenge which calls for the courage to dream, the courage to believe, the courage to dare, the courage to do, the courage to envision, the courage to fight, the courage to work, the courage to achieve - to achieve the highest excellencies and the fullest greatness of man. Dare we ask for more in life? "o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p"What other countries have taken three hundred years or more to achieve, a once dependent territory must try to accomplish in a generation if it is to survive. Unless it is, as it were ijet propelled/i it will lag behind and thus risk everything for which it has fought."o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p"We have the blessing of the wealth of our vast resources, the power of our talents and the potentialities of our people. Let us grasp now the opportunities before us and meet the challenge to our survival."o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p"It is said that, of course that we have no capital, no industrial skill, no communications, no internal markets, and that we cannot even agree among ourselves how best to utilize our resources for our own social needs”o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p"The masses of the people of st1:place st="on"Africa/st1:place are crying for unity…"o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p"In the era of neocolonialism, iunder-development/i is still attributed not to exploitation but to inferiority, and racial undertones remain closely interwoven with the class struggle."o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p"Common Continental Planning for the Industrial and Agricultural Development of Africa is a vital necessity."o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p"It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the iRACE/i question can finally be abolished and eliminated."/span/pp class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"/span/pp class="MsoNormal"meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cxwidaam%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"/o:smarttagtypeo:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/o:smarttagtype!--[if gte mso 9]xml w:worddocument w:viewNormal/w:View w:zoom0/w:Zoom w:punctuationkerning/ w:validateagainstschemas/ w:saveifxmlinvalidfalse/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid w:ignoremixedcontentfalse/w:IgnoreMixedContent w:alwaysshowplaceholdertextfalse/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText w:compatibility w:breakwrappedtables/ w:snaptogridincell/ w:wraptextwithpunct/ w:useasianbreakrules/ w:dontgrowautofit/ /w:Compatibility w:browserlevelMicrosoftInternetExplorer4/w:BrowserLevel /w:WordDocument /xml![endif]--!--[if gte mso 9]xml w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156" /w:LatentStyles /xml![endif]--!--[if !mso]object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"/object style st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /style ![endif]--style !-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} -- /style!--[if gte mso 10] style /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} /style ![endif]-- /pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"If you have more quotes by this great man mostly referred to by many as the "span style="font-weight: bold;"Greatest Ghanaian/African/span" or "span style="font-weight: bold;"Adolf Hitler of Ghana/span" for many reasons, feel free and share it a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5948459444912602771amp;postID=8471101764667962978amp;isPopup=true"here:/ao:p /o:p br //span/pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;" br //span/pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Long Live Kwame Nkrumah...! Long Live /spanst1:country-region style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"st1:place st="on"Ghana.../st1:place/st1:country-regionspan style="font-weight: bold;"!! Long Live /spanst1:place style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"Africa...!!!/st1:placeo:p/o:p/span/p p/pp class="MsoNormal"/pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p /o:p/span/p div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5948459444912602771-3163554370189356673?l=accraconsciousforever.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

16:12
E-mom - Are parents on facebook a no-no?
» ‎ Holli's ramblings

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DnXDQGcPK04/SrJhOkVUpuI/AAAAAAAABHc/b_DohOspIhw/s1600-h/facebookparents.jpg"img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 237px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DnXDQGcPK04/SrJhOkVUpuI/AAAAAAAABHc/b_DohOspIhw/s320/facebookparents.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382471407560337122" //abr /span style="font-weight:bold;"Well it’s apparently official – I’m an E-mom. This is not a good thing. It makes me feel like someone who’s past their prime, trying to be young, hip and cool (a cougar? - hanging out in nightclubs thinking they pass for 20 something but just not cutting it in their leopard skin tights...). br /br /The thing is that I joined facebook quite a while ago. I have a network or friends and contacts… My children also joined facebook. The opportunities for overlapping were there… Of course they accepted my friend requests, and some of their friends even ‘friended’ me… so I thought it was all ok.br /br /But I was wrong. Apparently if you have children, you must be old and by proxy, have no business using social networking sites – because your children are on there and that is their domain … and you are a stalker!!!br /br /Watch this news piece on the phenomenon below…/spanbr /br /object width="640" height="505"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yu4zMvE6FH4hl=enfs=1color1=0x402061color2=0x9461ca"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yu4zMvE6FH4hl=enfs=1color1=0x402061color2=0x9461ca" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="505"/embed/objectbr /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"Are all mothers so uncool? I just feel lumped into this category now - ashamed and utterly uncool. I feel like the pimply pre-teen outcast in Grade 7… who has tried to join the chat in the cafeteria with the cool girls, and they all turn and look at you in stony silence.br /br /Should I retreat? Give it all up to spare my children the embarrassment?br /br /The real issue is that once parents are on facebook, any photos of their children that are uploaded (and tagged), can be viewed and even saved by their parents… And I admit guilt here. Our college aged son is half a world away, across continents even! We are really easy going, non-pedantic, open minded parents. But it’s nice to ‘see what their up to’ from time to time… there have been a few times it would have been better NOT to see though… The truth is that those years are all about finding your footing. Learning how much partying you can get away with, and still make it through to a degree. I suppose if you come out the other end having had fun and succeeded, then no harm done.br /br /But how would I feel if the shoe were on the other foot? If my parents could have seen into my social world when I was a teenager – with evidence of every out of control party, and tweets professing that I was too hung over to get to class … well. I guess I would be equally horrified. br /br /I am so glad the world has only taken this turn toward complete social invasion – with constant updates and photo proof of everyone’s movements – AFTER I got through the teenage years and college.br /br /Not sure my parents would still be talking to me if they’d seen what I see now!br //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8851511451028936152-1752731881266522518?l=hollisramblings.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

15:43
The Man Kwame Nkrumah: My Perspective
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iAIkdpRgAT4/SrJbYrSHW7I/AAAAAAAAAmY/SzQMfMfmLvo/s1600-h/Nkrumah.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iAIkdpRgAT4/SrJbYrSHW7I/AAAAAAAAAmY/SzQMfMfmLvo/s400/Nkrumah.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382464984154856370" border="0" //a br /meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cxwidaam%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"/o:smarttagtypeo:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"/o:smarttagtypeo:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"/o:smarttagtypeo:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/o:smarttagtypeo:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/o:smarttagtype!--[if gte mso 9]xml w:worddocument w:viewNormal/w:View w:zoom0/w:Zoom w:punctuationkerning/ w:validateagainstschemas/ w:saveifxmlinvalidfalse/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid w:ignoremixedcontentfalse/w:IgnoreMixedContent w:alwaysshowplaceholdertextfalse/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText w:compatibility w:breakwrappedtables/ w:snaptogridincell/ w:wraptextwithpunct/ w:useasianbreakrules/ w:dontgrowautofit/ /w:Compatibility w:browserlevelMicrosoftInternetExplorer4/w:BrowserLevel /w:WordDocument /xml![endif]--!--[if gte mso 9]xml w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156" /w:LatentStyles /xml![endif]--!--[if !mso]object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"/object style st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /style ![endif]--style !-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} -- /style!--[if gte mso 10] style /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} /style ![endif]-- p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"“Freedom is not something that one people [person] can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.”/span/pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;" br //span/pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was not just the first President of Ghana but a very extraordinary man whose life and works contributed significantly to changing the world. He grew from a little village boy in Nkroful in the Western Region of Ghana to a world leader fully devoted to the struggle to free all black people from all forms of racism/struggle. He was also against everything which kept people irrespective of their color in conditions of slavery. He opposed oppression and exploitation in all its forms./span br //pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;" br /Many historians including a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Davidson"Basil Davidson/a and F. K. Buah credit Nkrumah with the leadership of the struggle which led to granting independence to many African countries under various forms of colonialism. Indeed Nkrumah is placed in the same category as a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein"Albert Einstein/a, a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx"Karl Marx/a, a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin"Vladimir I. Lenin/a, a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_L%27ouverture"Toussaint O’Liverture/a and a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi"Mahatma Gandhi/a whose ideas and actions helped to make the world a better place./span br //p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;" br /Amongst the many things which make Nkrumah stand out as an extraordinary personality was his realization that Africans everywhere ought to unite in common effort to assert their dignity and use their resources for meeting their needs and realizing their aspirations. His ideas for the unity of all Africans has come to be known as Pan-Africanism and they have their roots in his experiences as a colonial subject, his sojourn in the United States of America and the racist experience he suffered there and his association with Pan-Africanism thinkers of the time including a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois"W. E. B. Dubious/a, a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey"Marcus Garvey/a and a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Padmore"George Padmore/a. br //span/p p class="MsoNormal" br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"After completing his elementary school education, Nkrumah went to st1:place st="on"st1:placename st="on"Achimota/st1:placename st1:placetype st="on"School/st1:placetype/st1:place from where he graduated as a teacher. He was still burning with ambition to excel academically and in 1935; he left for the st1:country-region st="on"United States of America/st1:country-region where he enrolled at the st1:placename st="on"Lincoln/st1:placename st1:placetype st="on"University/st1:placetype, first obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree and later doing a master’s course at the st1:place st="on"st1:placename st="on"Philadelphia/st1:placename st1:placetype st="on"University/st1:placetype/st1:place./span br //p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;" br /Given the fact that Nkrumah came from a poor background, he had to work to pay for his education. He worked as a waiter and sometimes as a dish washer. He did anything which would put a few dollars in his pocket and help him fend for himself in a land which was obviously strange to a village boy from Nkroful. br / br /Nkrumah experienced racism at first hand. He saw that Africans were all victims of racism no matter where they came from. In searching for to questions about racism Nkrumah joined black students’ organizations and became acquainted with the ideas of such activists as Marcus Garvey. He read widely and was transformed into an activist./span br //pp class="MsoNormal"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iAIkdpRgAT4/SrJb0E6SHpI/AAAAAAAAAmg/1UdlIaLSi-8/s1600-h/oau.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 242px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iAIkdpRgAT4/SrJb0E6SHpI/AAAAAAAAAmg/1UdlIaLSi-8/s400/oau.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382465454890688146" border="0" //a/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;" br //span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:pWhen Nkrumah moved to st1:city st="on"st1:place st="on"London/st1:place/st1:city in 1945, he joined other Africans and persons of African decent in implementing the ideas he had formed. They worked in the West African students Union and the West African National Secretarial for the sole purpose of accelerating the independence process in st1:place st="on"West Africa/st1:place as part of the general struggle of emancipating the African wherever he may be./span br //p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;" br //span/pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"It is significant that on the eve of Ghana’s independence on 6th march 1957, he declared loudly that “b style=""the independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked to the total liberation of the African continent/b” The organization of the All African People’s Conference in Accra only one year after the declaration of independence attest to the Pan-African Agenda of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. This conference brought together the newly independent states in st1:place st="on"Africa/st1:place and the national liberation movement to strategize on how to speed up the decolonization process. It was also the beginnings of what became known as the Organization of African Unity (OAU). br / br /For Nkrumah the situation in which st1:place st="on"Africa/st1:place remains the richest continent on the globe whiles its people are counted amongst the poorest is untenable. He saw Pan-Africanism defined loosely as the ideology and activism of Africans everywhere united in the battle against their under development as a redeeming force. Pan Africanism was not just an intellectual exercise, for Nkrumah it was the ideology for the liberation of the African from the clutches of oppression and exploitation./span/pp class="MsoNormal" br //pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" Credit: Kwesi Pratt/span br /span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p/o:p/span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family:Calibri;"o:p /o:p/span/p div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5948459444912602771-7471503985397702727?l=accraconsciousforever.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

14:38
Taking a Page From Nkrumah's Book on Leadership: Vision
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ghana-pedia.org/org/images/stories//nkrumah%20-%20pic%203.jpg"img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 392px; height: 601px;" src="http://www.ghana-pedia.org/org/images/stories//nkrumah%20-%20pic%203.jpg" border="0" alt="" //aa onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.traveladventures.org/continents/africa/images/kwame-nkrumah-mausoleum02.jpg"/aMonday, September 21 2009. That date is important for two main reasons: span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"Eid/span span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"ul/span-span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"Fitr/span and span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"Kwame/span Nkrumah's 100span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"th/span anniversary. Going along with the a href="http://ghanablogging.com/"span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"GhanaBlogging/span.com /a "Nkrumah" theme, I'm gonna focus on what I think Nkrumah's most important legacy to Ghanaians and Africans is. I don't idolize him, but I definitely do admire and applaud him. I strongly believe that the true mark of an span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"individual's/span success is in how (much) he or she is able to positively impact others. Nkrumah definitely did that. Heck, he is STILL doing it. With Ghana's population quickly approaching 24million, it is a wonder that we're not bursting at the seams. divbr //divdivThe fact that our economy is being sustained by infrastructure and systems put into place by this man who, mind you, was an ordinary human being like ourselves, is even mind-blowing! Sure, he had his issues, but that's the beauty of it all! Despite all the criticisms against him, this man achieved what no Ghanaian man or woman has been able to parallel. Critics say he let the power get to his head (what do you think today's politicians are doing?), and that he wanted to rule Africa, and this and that, but at the end of the day, he certainly had one thing that set him apart from all the others (past and present): Vision.divbr //divdivLet's look at the European Union. This span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"vessel/span of power, integration, and a definite symbol of what we humans can achieve if we're willing to work together. Sure, there might still be some cracks here and there, but all in all, it's an amazing thing. It's pretty ironic to think that Nkrumah's very own country (and continent) men swept his suggestion of a "United Africa" under the rug, while the Europeans paid heed to what could only have been the immense vision of this man. The man was simply phenomenal. He possessed the vision and foresight that is isorely/i lacking among our so-called leaders today. /divdivbr //divdivSure, I've listened to my dad and grandma talk about Nkrumah numerous times. I know the acclaimed "Ghana, your beloved country is free forever" speech all too well. And I've felt pride everytime a foreigner recognises Ghana as a result of Nkrumah. He put our country on the map, and indeed, brought a different light to the continent. However, it wasn't until I was conducting my independent research on Ghana and Malaysia, that I fully appreciated what a visionary Kwame Nkrumah was. /divdivbr //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.traveladventures.org/continents/africa/images/kwame-nkrumah-mausoleum02.jpg"img src="http://www.traveladventures.org/continents/africa/images/kwame-nkrumah-mausoleum02.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 525px; " //adivHidden in the depths of chapter four of iCritical Perspectives in Politics and Socio-Economic Development in Ghana/i by Tettey et al. (2003) was a section on how social and ethnic unrest in Ghana influenced (or rather impeded) its development efforts. The author, Adjibolosoo, explored Kwame Nkrumah's attempts at dealing with these tensions. The iGhana Young Pioneers /imovement of June 1960 which aimed at character building and citizen development amongst youth was one of the initiatives that led to the ideology of patriotic nationalism or "Nkrumanism." Through the Ghana Young Pioneers initiative, educational programs were implemented to educate children in the concepts of social solidarity, political action, value stabilization, individual integration into changing social structures, the direction and meaning of life, and learning to think in terms of a nation rather than ethnic groups. I think Nkrumah's target group alone (children) is indicative of how forward-thinking this man was. /divdivbr //divdivAnd, he didn't end there. He implemented similar initiatives at the professional level, where Ghanaians from different ethnic groups were offered civil service jobs in languages other than their own. The current National Service Scheme is remiscent of this initiative; although many Ghanaians today will move heaven and earth to ensure that they remain in Accra or large cities like Kumasi and Tema. Adjibolosoo acknowledges that although Nkrumah's initiatives did not rid Ghana of ethnic rivalries, it did have a significant impact on ethnic dynamics in Ghana. And I concur with that observation. /divdivbr //divdivI cannot imagine what it must have been like living in Ghana a couple of decades ago. Nkrumah knew that in order for Ghana (and Africa) to prosper, we would have to put our differences aside and work together. United we stand, divided we fall. And boy, are we racing each other to the depths of poverty, instability and all the other inefficiencies that plague our country and continent. All nations who have achieved some semblance of democracy and development, have had to let some sleeping dogs lie and work together. In Malaysia, the native Malays and the Chinese and Indian foreigners did this. In the United States, the north and south divides came together. In Ghana...well, let's look on the bright side, things are better./divdivbr //divdivThis example is just a case in point of how visionary Kwame Nkrumah was. We are still living off of his vision. But at some point, the roads, schools, bridges etc that Kwame Nkrumah set up will be in need of serious repair, or will have to be done over entirely. It's time that we quit nit-picking, and go on a full-out campaign to work and make necessary changes. Who cares whether high school in Ghana goes for a term of three or four years? What, pray tell us, are students supposed to be studying over that period of time? That is what we are supposed to be focusing on, the curriculum, the essentialities, the specifics! We need to have a vision and long term goals, and then, we strategize step-by-step and determine how we will achieve these goals. Enough, of the short-term planning already! If we don't commemorate Nkrumah's 100th birthday in any way, I hope we at least take a page from his book on leadership, and strive to be visionaries and work not just in the present, but also for the future. In his own words, "Forward ever, Backward never." RIP Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972)./divdivbr //divdiv--/divdivSources: a href="http://www.ghana-pedia.org/org/index.php?option=com_directoryamp;page=viewListingamp;lid=10amp;Itemid=36"Photo 1/a, a href="http://www.traveladventures.org/continents/africa/kwame-nkrumah-mausoleum02.shtml"Photo 2/a/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30396251-6415069016801461244?l=www.circumspecte.com' alt='' //divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Circumspect/~4/5Nklu2VQA1o" height="1" width="1"/

12:24
Nkruamah was a saviour but not a messiah!
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I was at the Nebuke Foundation for an art exhibition last weekend. Among the many pictures that were, in the gallery it was one particular one that caught my attention.

Nkrumah had been described in 13 different ways. I wanted to share that with you so that you tell me what you think. Are these terms really objective definition or just another hero worship for Kwame Nkrumah?
1. The Messiah
2. The Saviour
3. Fountain of Honor
4. Teacher
5. Redemeer
6. Leader
7. The Infallible
8. The Ideolgical Mentor
9. Show Boy
10. Osagyefo
11. Asomdwehene
12. Oyadieeyie
13. Kasapreko

12:17
Do you love your vagina?
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div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fxYWUHEdphY/SrFixBOKkXI/AAAAAAAAAFM/G4pDMlyWa5o/s1600-h/FGM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fxYWUHEdphY/SrFixBOKkXI/AAAAAAAAAFM/G4pDMlyWa5o/s200/FGM.png" //a/divdivWell I do and I believe most people in the world also love vaginas.Whatever you choose to call them: vajayjays; pussies; fannies; coochies and the like, who doesn't love them? They are the source of much pleasure and the porthole of life. However, there clearly some in this world who do bnot/b have the same respect for vaginas as I do. I'm talking about bFemale Genital Mutilation (FGM)/b. Specifically about FGM in Ghana. I don't know about you but I was shocked when I discovered that FGM was practised in areas of Ghana. I've long been aware of the process of FGM in countries all over the world, particularly in Asia and Africa, but (call it ignorance) I was unaware that this practice was present in my beloved Ghana.br /br /For those of you who aren't aware of what FGM is, it is the practice of female circumcision which often includes the removal of the clitoris and the removal of the outer and/or the inner labia. This usually occurs at a very young age with the consent of the female's parents/ guardians. It is supposedly carried out for religious/ cultural reasons.br /br /Firstly, looking at the physical aspect of this, it is bnot /bsafe. This isn't carried out in a sanitary hospital somewhere, but usually in the home of the older female who performs the procedure. In many communities this older female is held in high regard because of the work she does. Excessive bleeding is the norm with risks of serious infection and in the very worst cases, death occurs. Some forms of FGM (infibulation) involve stitching the vaginal opening closed with only a tiny hole left for the expulsion of menstrual blood. In these cases, the usual risks of childbirth are greatly heightened along with the risk of suffocation of babies in the womb. I feel squeamish even thinking about some of these things.br /br /Now FGM occurs for various reasons but one of the the main ones is to reduce the "plague" of female promiscuity. Because clearly when a woman has sex she has sex by herself and the men sleeping with her to put her at risk of being labelled "promiscuous" have nothing to do with it . There are no proven health benefits for FGM and the fact that this practice still goes on (despite being banned by several countries) can only be described as bbarbaric/b. I don't care who I offend but there can be bno/b possible rationalisation for this.br /br /Going back to FGM in bGhana,/b we have one of the lowest rates of FGM in African. However, the 9-15% rate is still far too high imho. It should be zero. FGM is almost non-existent in southern Ghana and more likely to be found in the North among the Frafra, the Kassena, the Kussasi etc. Whilst looking for more information on FGM in Ghana, I came across this:br /span style="color:#cc0000;""/spanspan style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;"span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="color:#cc0000;"The practice among some groups in Ghana appears to have few spiritual roots. It is not perpetuated by religion, but rather by traditional tribal beliefs. Some believe it leads to cleanliness and fidelity of the woman. Others believe it will increase fertility and prevent the death of first-born babies. It is also seen as a way to suppress a woman’s sexual desires and make her less promiscuous. Other common beliefs are that children born to uncircumcised women are stubborn and troublesome and more likely to be blinded or otherwise damaged if the mother’s clitoris touches them during birth. In some areas the presence of a clitoris in women suggests she is a man and must be buried in men’s clothing and the funeral performed as a man’s when she dies. Uncircumcised women are regarded by some as unclean, less attractive and less desirable for marriage."/span/span/spanbr /span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;"span style="font-size:x-small;"a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080306201636/www.state.gov/g/wi/rls/rep/crfgm/10100.htm"Source/a/span/span/spanbr /br /span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;"Now as I said previously, I was unaware whilst growing up that things like this occurred in Ghana. Was I being hopelessly naive? To Ghana's credit, she has been one of the most proactive countries in eliminating FGM and has actually a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/28/world/world-briefing-africa-ghana-prison-term-for-genital-cuttings.html"arrested/a people for violating the ban put in place against FGM. One of our neighbours, Burkina Faso, with an almost a href="http://www.fgmnetwork.org/gonews.php?subaction=showfullamp;id=1243007696amp;archive=amp;start_from=amp;ucat=1amp;"70% /arate of FGM in women, has begun construction of a "span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family:'Times New Roman';"a href="http://www.fgmnetwork.org/gonews.php?subaction=showfullamp;id=1247053244amp;archive=amp;start_from=amp;ucat=1amp;"Pleasure hospital/a" where surgical reconstruction will be carried out on victims of FGM. It's encouraging to see that in our part of Africa, at least, something is being done about this practice./span/span/spanbr /br /I'm not trying to write a whole essay here but I was just wondering if I was alone in my (incorrect) belief that FGM was not a part of Ghana? Has anybody had any experiences or know of the way in which FGM is perceived in Ghana (or anywhere else in Africa)?br /span style=" ;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;color:#cc0000;"span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;"br //span/spanbr /There is lots of information about FGM on the web, in libraries etc. If anybody is interested in a more personal account of an issue that affects over 130 million women worldwide, Somalian supermodel Waris Dirie's book bia href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Desert-Flower-Waris-Dirie/dp/1860497586/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8amp;s=booksamp;qid=1253189299amp;sr=8-1"Desert Flower/a /ispan style="font-weight: normal;"is a good read./span/b/divdiv/divdivspan style="font-size:x-small;"Image /spana href="http://www.buzzvines.com/end-female-genital-mutilation"span style="font-size:x-small;"source/span/a/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8966828029284505556-3513781952494556746?l=lifenlivingit.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

9:44
Kwame Nkrumah - Hard Target
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Jan 2, 1964. Kwame Nkrumah walks the grounds of Flagstaff House with personal guards and ‘trusted’ cops aplenty. An assassin (who sent him?) squeezes off a bullet and misses. Salifu Dagarti throws the Prez down, and probably saves his life. For reward, the next bullet drills cleanly through Salifu’s loyal skull. Onlookers remain bystanders as the assassin chases after the President into a kitchen. Prez is screaming, but no help arrives. Kwame Nkrumah personally wrestles and overpowers a gun-toting assassin. On this day, he’s 54 years and 125 days old! But he escapes with only a facial bite!div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7564356874518161776-8715544807282168614?l=antirhythm.blogspot.com'//div

3:09
Flashback: 2000
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p class="MsoNormal"The year Y2K seems so recent since it’s in the 00’s...then I remember that we are getting to the end of 2009, that’s nearly 10 years! This means I am well within my rights to term some of the following songs as old school classics...they definitely feel old when you hear them!/p p class="MsoNormal"uspan style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;"The Ramp;B Flash/span/u/pp class="MsoNormal"/pullispan class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"Kelly Price - Love Set's You Free/span/span/li/ulThis song featured i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"everyone/i! Aaron Hall, Babyface, Case, Dru Hill, Kandice Love, LovHer, Montell Jordan spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"(in leather pants! Muhahahaha)/span/span amp; Tamar Braxton...woah! This song sends me right back to secondary school, it was such a jam! But UMG will not allow me embed it, so here’s the Kelly Price amp; Aaron Hall version. The beat is so reminiscent of the time, I hope it gets you happily grooving like I am now, so here you go...this Ramp;B banger is a bonus track off of i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"Mirror Mirror/i, i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"span style="font-variant: small-caps"Love Set’s You Free/span/i.p/p span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "a href="http://www.okmusicvideos.com" embed name="'RAOCXplayer'" src="'http://allmusicvideocodes.com/asx/lovesetsyofree.asx'" type="'application/x-mplayer2'" width="'300'" height="'300'" showcontrols="'1'" showstatusbar="'0'" loop="'true'" enablecontextmenu="'0'" displaysize="'0'" pluginspage="'http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'"/embedbr /span style="'font-size:"Music Video Codes/span/aa href="http://www.myspacemusicvideos.us"Myspace Music/a /spanullispan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"Ruff Endz - No More/span/span/li/ulp/pp class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"Now if you weren’t feeling i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"this/i at the time I don’t know b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"WHAT/i/b you were feeling! Another solid Y2K Ramp;B banger off of their album i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"Love Crimes/i, which incidentally had another good song, i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"span style="font-variant:small-caps"Missing You,/span/i on it./p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="apple-style-span"span style="Arialquot;,quot;sans-serifquot;;font-family:quot;;font-size:7.5pt;color:black;"object width="445" height="364"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xaJMnaJybMsamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xaJMnaJybMsamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"/embed/object/span/span/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"/pullispan class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"3LW - No More (Baby I'ma Do Right)/span/span/li/ulp/pp class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-size:18px;"/spanNow even at the time this song was a guilty pleasure even though i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"I/i was young and it was a big tune just because I always thought i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"they/i sounded so young! I love it though, reminds me of my first serious crush...shout out to Jerry! LMAO!! And also jamming with my SSSO girls and at ’venture!/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="apple-style-span"span style="Arialquot;,quot;sans-serifquot;;font-family:quot;;font-size:7.5pt;color:black;"object width="445" height="364"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q-9gTnSS7cUamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q-9gTnSS7cUamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"/embed/object/span/span/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"/pullispan class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"R. Kelly - Fiesta (Remix) ft. Jay-Z, Boo amp; Gotti/span/span/li/ulp/pp class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-size:18px;"/spanMy days!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mr. Robert Kelly smacked it on the i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"TP-2.com/i album, it was soooo hot. For me so many jams for that year came from this album, the i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"span style="font-variant:small-caps"I Wish (Remix) To The Homies We Lost/span/i was amazing, as were the i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"span style="font-variant:small-caps"I Don’t Mean It Remix/span/i, i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"span style="font-variant:small-caps"Like A Real Freak/span/i and i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"span style="font-variant:small-caps"Strip For Me/span/i. But back to this song in particular—i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"Day/i-i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"um/i! I knew b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"ALL/b the words, yes I i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"was/i that sad, c’mon now sing along...After the show is the Afterparty, AND, After the party is the Hotel lobby AND.../p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:10px;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "object width="445" height="364"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1AzDWw40oDsamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1AzDWw40oDsamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"/embed/object/span/span/span/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"/pullispan class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"Jaheim - Just In Case/span/span/li/ulp/pp class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"Back when i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"Ghetto Love/i was out, Jaheim was on top of the world, his fortunes have since changed and his popularity has perhaps waned somewhat due to his inability to progress as an artist. b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"However/i/b, the album was sooo good, I really did think he has the voice of an angel...!/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="apple-style-span"span style="Arialquot;,quot;sans-serifquot;;font-family:quot;;font-size:7.5pt;color:black;"object width="445" height="364"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Dli8qtZ_leEamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Dli8qtZ_leEamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"/embed/object/span/span/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"/pullispan class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"Jagged Edge - Let's Get Married/span/span/li/ulp/pp class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-size:18px;"/spanFrom J.E. Heartbreak, this song along with i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"span style="font-variant:small-caps"Keys To The Range/span/i and i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"span style="font-variant:small-caps"Did She Say /span/iwere really good. This was a big favourite and I remember i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"everyone/i vowing that this would be their wedding song! b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"Please note: /bI went to a girls’ school, I don’t know any i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"guys/i saying that at the time, but I could be wrong.../p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="apple-style-span"span style="Arialquot;,quot;sans-serifquot;;font-family:quot;;font-size:7.5pt;color:black;"object width="445" height="364"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IuKDg5xncPYamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IuKDg5xncPYamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"/embed/object/span/span/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"/pullispan class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"Joe - Stutter ft. Mystikal/span/span/li/ulp/pp class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"I thought this song was groundbreaking at the time, Mystikal’s delivery was fire and it was like waking up sleepy generally boring-love-song-singing Joe to a whole new world of Ramp;B. And his bank balance didn’t suffer for it, either! From the Ramp;B classic album i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"My Name Is Joe/ispan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;" /spanspanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"(random thought: Have you seen the cover? He looks like such a sleaze!)/span/span./p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="apple-style-span"span style="Arialquot;,quot;sans-serifquot;;font-family:quot;;font-size:7.5pt;color:black;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "object width="445" height="364"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tE56SMO3FQQamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tE56SMO3FQQamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"/embed/object/span/span/span/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"/pullispan class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"Kelis - Caught Out There/span/span/li/ulp/pp class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-size:18px;"/spanWho didn’t scream along with this, ladies? If you say no, you b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"lieeeeeeeeeeeee/b! Ah, this song could appeal in various moods...it appealed to pissivity of the highest order, to those days you just wanna crank it up and scream for no apparent reason and when you wanted to listen to mad production. These were the days before i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"everyone/i had been done by the Neptunes and it was an amazing track off of i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"Kaleidoscope/i...i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"span style="font-variant:small-caps"Caught Out There/span/i./p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="apple-style-span"span style="Arialquot;,quot;sans-serifquot;;font-family:quot;;font-size:7.5pt;color:black;"object width="445" height="364"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-D0Qs3cy22camp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-D0Qs3cy22camp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"/embed/object/span/span/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"/pullispan class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"Kelis - Get Along With You/span/span/li/ulp/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"I didn’t know this had a vid! This was my favourite song off the album, i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"Kaleidoscope/i. So here you go.../p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:10px;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "object width="445" height="364"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JYsqgScbPp4amp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JYsqgScbPp4amp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"/embed/object/span/span/span/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"/pullispan class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"Lucy Pearl - Don't Mess With My Man/span/span/li/ulp/pp class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"Lucy Pearl...just saying the name makes me smile. So sad there was only one album, because I really liked it, but such is life. i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"span style="font-variant:small-caps"Don’t Mess With My Man/span/i was one of those tracks that got you neck rolling thinking about if b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"she dared to even think about messing/i/b with your man....lol, I was i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"how/i old at the time, like 14? LMAO, I could still relate!/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:10px;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "object width="445" height="364"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/93AAjDN_cAYamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/93AAjDN_cAYamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"/embed/object/span/span/span/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"/pullispan class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"Pink - There You Go/span/span/li/ulp/pp class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-size:18px;"/spanAnother solid Ramp;B album of the time, i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"Can’t Take Me Home/i, spawned this megahit. The album was sick, this song was sick and the video was sick...especially when she rides the bike into the window, plus i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"I/i think she looks real sexy with that hair. Wow, memories of when people used to discuss if Pink was fully white or ‘had some black in her’ a la Charlie Baltimore, LOLS!/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="apple-style-span"span style="Arialquot;,quot;sans-serifquot;;font-family:quot;;font-size:7.5pt;color:black;"object width="445" height="364"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G68IfDtcunkamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G68IfDtcunkamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"/embed/object/span/span/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"/pullispan class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"Next - Wifey/span/span/li/ulp/pp class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-size:18px;"/spanY2K was the beginning of the mainstream success of Ramp;B, and a good time too because Ramp;B was still good then spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"(arguably it’s a bit rubbish now)/span/span! And i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"span style="font-variant:small-caps"Wifey/span/i is a key jam of the time, it was played everywhere at every party and we loved it. I must admit that by 2004 I hated it but recently I have been listening to i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"Welcome II Nextasy/i and I remember how it used to sound and why I loved it. Now i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"that/i album was...woah...hmmmm, sex album anyone?/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="apple-style-span"span style="Arialquot;,quot;sans-serifquot;;font-family:quot;;font-size:7.5pt;color:black;"object width="445" height="364"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/g7vj1lG5KLIamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/g7vj1lG5KLIamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"/embed/object/span/span/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"/pullispan class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"X-2-C - Bonafide/span/span/li/ulp/pp class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-size:18px;"/spanThis song features on i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"Save The Last Dance/i, a film I loved at the time and still quite like now. I bought the soundtrack to the film such was my love for that film and this was one of my favourites off the album and the film. i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"span style="font-variant:small-caps"My Window/span/i by Soulbone was great as well, I know you’re all thinking shouldn’t Shaka Demus and Pliers, Ice Cube or Fredro Star remind me of the film...ok yeah they do, but this was a better song. I was became soooooo sick of i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"span style="font-variant:small-caps"You Can Do It/span/i!/p p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"span class="apple-style-span"span style="Arialquot;,quot;sans-serifquot;;font-family:quot;;font-size:7.5pt;color:black;"object width="445" height="364"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vM7iLeBmL08amp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vM7iLeBmL08amp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"/embed/object/span/span/p p class="MsoNormal"Soon come, with the rest of the Y2K jams, gotta cut this before it gets i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"way/i too long. Plus, I’m off to have a Y2K Ramp;B par-tay!/p p class="MsoNormal"Bye people,/p p class="MsoNormal"xXx/p p class="MsoNormal"Nsoromma...Child of the Heavens/pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8966828029284505556-5032128075893241043?l=lifenlivingit.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

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