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• February 08, 2010
• 19:01

  Basket Day in Bolgatanga, Ghana

   » ‎ This is Ghana
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PBQZHqzyzy8/S3BghFPF_BI/AAAAAAAAApk/PF9_dSA-M90/s1600-h/27.jpg"img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435950871693622290" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PBQZHqzyzy8/S3BghFPF_BI/AAAAAAAAApk/PF9_dSA-M90/s400/27.jpg" //aI took these photos on market day in Bolgatanga. Every third day, in rotation, basket makers come into town from outlying villages and sell their baskets to middle-men traders. Sometimes they may have only 2 or 3 baskets to sell, but this is enough to buy food for a few more days.br /br /In the Insider's Guide to Ghana we outline a workshop you can do with women basket makers in a village just 5 minutes outside of town. Half-day and full-day workshops will include weaving and taking home your own basket, a village tour and experiencing a taste of life in northern Ghana. The workshop will cost 20 GHC for a full day and 15 GHC for half day, inclusive of finished basket--your gift. Look out for this and hundreds of other insider tips and off-the-beaten track attractions in the guide--coming soon!br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PBQZHqzyzy8/S3Bgg44I_LI/AAAAAAAAApc/fwdRq5hYnUI/s1600-h/26.jpg"img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435950868376124594" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PBQZHqzyzy8/S3Bgg44I_LI/AAAAAAAAApc/fwdRq5hYnUI/s400/26.jpg" //adiv class="blogger-post-footer"Download a sample of the Insider's Guide to Ghana here: [www.g-lish.org] width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8826326494207776999-5594760590701633816?l=gisforghana.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=FXeO_Ppss4Q:ybNn4PT9MMY:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=FXeO_Ppss4Q:ybNn4PT9MMY:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=FXeO_Ppss4Q:ybNn4PT9MMY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?i=FXeO_Ppss4Q:ybNn4PT9MMY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThisIsGhana/~4/FXeO_Ppss4Q" height="1" width="1"/

• 14:32

  As the Week Opens in Accra: Mad Men in the Ghanaian Media

   » ‎ The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana
  
  The week has opened with a lot of noise and speculation in the Ghanaian media about what the British call "cheque book journalists". I would like to think that no country is immune from this kind of journalism. In Ghana, it is just that it has a different twist--rather than the journalists being ashamed that they have succumbed to this kind of atypical journalism, they lament--like journalist Baby Ansabah (who is the talking point right now -- that they did not get anything from the previous government for castigating the incumbent President who was then in opposition. The claim that others got immovable property and cars is just...something else. Issues like these only deepen my perception of the media as riddled with more (square pegs in round )holes than a swiss cheese, and a lot of mediocrity.
  
  It was refreshing to hear CITI97.3fm's Bernard Avle broaching the issue this morning on the "Breakfast Show". I would hope he can talk more about his colleagues in future.
  
  In my view, only a critical self-reflection of the Ghanaian media by their own kind can take the future of journalism to heights that commanded respect in the era of Dr.Kwame Nkrumah when even Nigerians--better journalists these days in my view than my Ghanaian counterparts!--came to Ghana to study at the Ghana Institute of Journalism!

• 14:29

  Dearest Daddy,

   » ‎ Expression Poesy
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  Never really got the chance to show you your worth

  Somehow I always knew you were God’s gift to earth

  Never really got the chance to show you how much I cared

  But I hope you heard these unspoken words

  There were the times when I thought you just a bore

  But I never stopped believing you were exceptional, and much more

  
  

  However fleeting the time may have been

  Thank you Daddy, for giving me my Daddy.

  

• 12:41

  Sighting Mount Kilimanjaro

   » ‎ Oluniyi David Ajao

  
  

  
  
  

  We were cruising at an altitude of about  34,000 feet from the coastal town of Mombasa headed for Nairobi when the voice of the Kenya Airways pilot broke into the quietness of the flight. I took it to be another routine announcement but it  turned out to be different:

  ‘…for those seated on the left side of the plane, if you look out through the window, you would see Mount Kilimanjaro…’

  

  Mount Kilimanjaro, as seen from a flight between Mombasa and Nairobi. Photo by Oluniyi D. Ajao.

  “Kili-what? Did he say left side of the plane?” I wondered as I didn’t believe my ears. I was on a window sit on the left side of the plane and it sounded too good to be true but I looked out all the same. Out there in its majesty, stood Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. The same mountain I learnt about severally in my childhood days and have fantasied climbing.

  It was such a thrill to have sighted it, albeit from a safe distance & the comfort of a Boeing 767-300ER jet. Since I had my Nikon D60 camera between my laps, I quickly started taking shots of Africa’s tallest landmark.

  While tourists on the flight scrambled to the left side of the plane to catch a glimpse, the Kenyans sat on, unperturbed. Obviously, they’re used to the beautiful sight.

  

  Mount Kilimanjaro as seen from the clouds. Photo by Oluniyi D. Ajao.

  It stands tall with a little cap of snow atop it. This made me re-think my dream of climbing that mountain. Rather than scare me off, it gives me a more realistic sense of the mount called Kilimanjaro and helps me to calibrate my fantasy of climbing it.

  Kilimanjaro, is the highest peak in Africa at 5,895 metres (19,341 ft) and most of it is in Tanzania with only a part of it in Kenya.

  As the aircraft gently descends down into Nairobi, I am elated to have seen Mount Kilimanjaro with my own eyes. Not from a photo, nor TV. How many of my peers would have the same opportunity? I thought to myself.

  This is an exciting way to end a fulfilling week. I would share some details of the Mombasa weekend thrill, later.

  Note: I wrote most of this mid-flight on a smartphone in offline mode.

  As always, comments are welcome.

   

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• 8:30

  3 More Historical Tales – Ga, Nzema, Dagomba

   » ‎ ANTI-RHYTHM
  span style="font-weight:bold;"Nii Bonne III – the Ga Gandhi/span br /br /January 1948. The Gold Coast is still a British Colony. In protest against racial discrimination, Nii Kwabena Bonne III organises a boycott of European goods. The boycotts spread across the nation. Riots follow. 1 month later, a deranged British policeman shoots three local WWII veterans, and kills them. European and Asian shops are looted. The rioters break into the central prison and release inmates (The Bastille, huh?) The “Big Six” nationalist leaders are imprisoned. In less than a decade, Ghana will emerge independent.br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"Anton Wilhelm Amo – 18th Centry Nzema Philosopher/spanbr /br /Nzema land, the year 1707. A 4 year-old Nzema boy is shipped off to Amsterdam. Some accounts say he was a slave; others say he merely accompanied a missionary! Some say the Dutch wanted a native who could speak both “Native” and “Dutch” to facilitate trade. The boy is presented to a Dutch Duke who educates him. He masters English, French, Dutch, German, Latin and Greek. He obtains a degree by studying law, medicine, metaphysics, logic, physiology, history, astronomy...need I go on? He obtains a doctorate in philosophy and lectures at University of Halle. His “father”, the Duke, dies, and he is subjected to extreme racism. He is forced to go back to Africa – Ghana, where his Nzema father and sister (who he does not know) are still alive. Being “Dutch” he is prevented from “mixing” with the natives for fear that he may sow dissent. Therefore he is kept in a Dutch fort. He disappears from the eyes of history, and probably dies, aged 56, in 1759!br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"Tohadzie – the Red Hunter/spanbr /br /A master of archery travels from Zamfara (present-day Northern Nigeria) to the Mali Empire. He settles in a small town which is dying from drought. Their only water source has been taken over by a wild beast. Tohadzie kills the beast and is a hero. He marries a Malian princess and they have a son, Kpogonumbo, who is the father of the great Dagomba people. Kpogonumbo grows up a great warrior, very much his father’s equal in exploits. He marries 2 women whose militant sons are always at war with one another. There is a migration from the initial family to Pusiga (present-day Upper East Ghana) and further downwards. More descendants break off to found the great kingdoms of Modern Dagbon, Mamprusi and Moshi.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7564356874518161776-3058089247725838489?l=antirhythm.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

• 0:00

  “Master of my fate…”

   » ‎ Ato Kwamena Dadzie Latest Blog Articles
  I watched an unforgettable movie over this past weekend. lsquo;Invictusrsquo; should most definitely be one of the best movies I ever watched. Incidentally, the man playing the leading role in lsquo;Invictusrsquo;, Morgan Freeman, also plays the lead role in my favourite movie of all time ndash; lsquo;Shawshank Redemptionrsquo;. In ...