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Meningitis outbreak in Ghana
» This is Ghana The outbreak is reported in the Upper West Region. 70 odd people hospitalized, 31 dead. If you're planning to visit Ghana soon please discuss this with your travel doctor. You can get vaccinated before departing home.br / br / Edit: I just checked My Joy Online and read an article which gave different figures. In any case, please take the time to read this and understand the situation: a href="http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/201002/42555.asp"CSM 10 More die in northern region/a. br / div style="text-align: center;"br / br / div style="text-align: left;"a href="http://www.g-lish.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Ghana-Guide-Sampler.pdf"Download a free sample of the Insider's Guide to Ghana/ab see inside the guide/b before buying. /div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"div style="text-align: center;" div style="text-align: left;" a href="http://www.g-lish.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Ghana-Guide-Sample.pdf"Download a free sample of our Travel Guide to Ghana/ab see inside the guide/b before buying. /div /divimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8826326494207776999-6501016895677333530?l=gisforghana.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=2q_XaVYwle0:NMCInPHydlg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=2q_XaVYwle0:NMCInPHydlg:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=2q_XaVYwle0:NMCInPHydlg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?i=2q_XaVYwle0:NMCInPHydlg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThisIsGhana/~4/2q_XaVYwle0" height="1" width="1"/
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Accra Twestival 2010
» Accra Conscious Forever Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* 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-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}Are you a Social Media freak/fan based in Ghana especially, Accra? Are you positive about creating awareness on social issues such as; Education? Are willing to volunteer, meet-up and share ideas with people who share a lot of information in the Cyberspace?
I’m very privilege to inform you about another social event happening in the month of March in the city of Accra. It’s the first ever Twitter Festival dubbed: AccraTwestival2010. Follow AccraTwestival for more updates and if you want to get involved.
It is an event been co-organized by myself; MacJordaN & RodneyQuarcoo and a few volunteers based in Accra. It is scheduled to happen on Thursday March 25, 2010 and is aimed at supporting a great cause; that is securing Educational materials for children in deprived areas in Ghana. We figured it’s very impossible to say NO when you get the opportunity to throw a great meet-up with interesting people from all corners/areas of Ghana - all in the name of charity.What is Twestival?
On Thursday 25 March 2010, people in hundreds of cities around the world including; Accra will come together offline to rally around the important cause of Education by hosting local events to have fun and create awareness. Twestival™ (or Twitter Festival) uses social media for social good. All of the local events are organized 100% by volunteers and 100% of all donations go direct to projects.
What is the Impact of Twestival?
On 12 February 2009, the first Twestival Global was held in 202 international cities to support @charitywater, who we saw doing incredible work to help the almost 1 billion or 1-in-6 people in the world that don’t have access to clean and safe drinking water. Over 1,000 volunteers and 10,000 donors fund raised $250k+, which resulted in more than 55 wells in Uganda, Ethiopia and India having a direct impact for over 17,000 people. Watch the videos of the first Twestival well drilled in the village of Mai Nabri, Ethiopia.
What does Twestival 2010 focuses on?
In 2010, we turn our focus to education and 72 million children in the world who don’t have the opportunity to go to school. @Concern Worldwide has been selected by the Twestival global team and local organizers to be the recipient because of their comprehensive and well respected approach to Education. This is an issue that involves many different elements; hunger, water, teacher training, building of schools, etc. We hope to use the power of our global event fund-raising and social media influence as a vehicle to give people insight into this cause on a deeper level.
Where will the Twestival funds will go?
Each city hosting a Twestival will be given the opportunity to select an area of education to support. This will be recognized with a special icon on their website once they have set a goal. For as little as $28USD they can provide the uniform, books, pencils, and paper a child needs to attend one year of school. Concern Worldwide is able to guarantee that 100% of Twestival funds will go direct to project costs. This means that the money would be used for material purchases (curriculum, desks, pencils) as well as project activities such as construction of schools; rehabilitation of classrooms; teacher/management training; PTAs; HIV/AIDS school clubs; water and sanitation in schools; health education in schools; education advocacy; vocational/life-skills training for youth, farmers and women; and curriculum development for secondary school/university.
Sponsorship
We are in the process of seeking sponsors for this event. If you want to help make this event a successful, feel free and contact us through the event’s blog; [accra.twestival.com] and we shall be glad you did. If you know any organization/company/individual that is capable of sponsoring, kindly email their details and we shall contact them with as soon as we can.
Let’s all meet-up, create awareness on Education and share ideas for the future. Accra Twestival… Let’s Go
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Ghanaian Roads are about Livelihoods...
» Accra by Day & Night 
...so they must needs remain free (of traffic)!!
I couldn't resist that as this is a picture I used for a post on my ghana blog over here: [ekbensahinghana.blogspot.com] , which I wrote about this way last week:
Roads are our lifeblood. It is what we need to move from A to B. It is what helps us get to our destination. So, when we do not move on it quickly, it invariably becomes more than a headache. We cannot avoid traffic--there will always be accidents, people driving crazily and/or carelessly/foolishly--but we can certainly avoid a situation where the most important parts of our morning are eaten up in traffic on the only thoroughfare that will take us into the capital!
The essence of the post was about the National Road Safety Commission hotline calling me to check--as they did again this morning--whether the Motor Transport Unit of the Ghana Police were there!
The police officer is the one standing in reflective yellow to the left of the picture. That place is strategic, because it is very often the genesis of the chaos that takes a life of its own and finds expression in dual-way traffic northbound, when it should be one-way northbound.
That this confusion is compounded by major construction works on the Spintex Road to smoothen the traffic does little to give small headaches this side of the capital every morning!
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On Lost Joy, and Despondency
» Expression Poesy Shadows cast in sunny places
Forced to hide in open spaces
Malice etched in smiley faces
Long run out of second chances
Absinthe tastes the same as wine
Memories left behind in time
Footprints dissolved into tide
Life feels better in my mind
Drowning on the air I breathe
Orphan of murdered relief
Staring at shattered belief
Dying from my pleasure’s seed
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Sending a package to Ghana and the post office
» This is Ghana span style="font-family: quot;Trebuchet MSquot;,sans-serif;"When someone sends you a package from home, there are a few things to be aware of. When it arrives you’ll receive a postal notice in the PO Box. You take the notice inside the post office where they will retrieve the parcel for you. Then, you have to take the parcel and notice to the customs desk in the post office. There, a customs officer will inspect the value of the parcel, as stated on the customs declaration that was applied by the sender, and ask you to open it. They’ll search through the parcel. They’ll then apply a rate of duty to the package. After they write the duty amount on the form you must sign the form and pay the duty. If you don’t sign this or pay, you won’t receive your package. Since customs will almost always calculate duty amount based on the external value on the coupon stuck on the outside of the package by the sender, it’s worth asking package senders to write as low a value as possible to help reduce your duty costs when you come to take your package. Don’t for into the trap of signing the duty forms before the officer fills in the amount of duty to be paid. Wait until the assessment is done and then sign the form. I hope this helps anyone receiving packages from home in Ghana. /spanbr / span style="font-family: quot;Trebuchet MSquot;,sans-serif;"br / /spanbr / span style="font-family: quot;Trebuchet MSquot;,sans-serif;"/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"div style="text-align: center;" div style="text-align: left;" a href="http://www.g-lish.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Ghana-Guide-Sample.pdf"Download a free sample of our Travel Guide to Ghana/ab see inside the guide/b before buying. /div /divimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8826326494207776999-371224773510794951?l=gisforghana.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=tQ2CGmyBr18:SVpWyt4j-ek:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=tQ2CGmyBr18:SVpWyt4j-ek:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?a=tQ2CGmyBr18:SVpWyt4j-ek:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ThisIsGhana?i=tQ2CGmyBr18:SVpWyt4j-ek:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThisIsGhana/~4/tQ2CGmyBr18" height="1" width="1"/
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No Cheap Movie Ticket
» ANTI-RHYTHM GH¢10 ($7.14) won’t admit you to Ghana’s only real cinema. It will take one-and-a-half times that. I’ve heard it said that most families, here, must live on less than $1 daily, judging from the wages. -
10 Ghana Cedis
» ANTI-RHYTHM Dear Reader, this week, I will explore the theme posts again. I’m going to discover what GHC10 can do for a person. That’s about US$7.15. Maybe, I will rather discover what it cannot do. Maybe you want to share what you can(not) do with US$7.15, or its equivalent, wherever you are. First post coming up later today. Thank you.
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Dreams
» A Fork in the Road Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* 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-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}Today I watched the sun rise – I woke early in a panic from a dream where I was trying to get my house in order before getting on a plane. I was running around trying to lock windows and doors and make sure my dogs were ok, while all the while receiving phone calls telling me the plane was leaving.
I worked through the next two hours until dawn effectively trying to catch up, to make the feeling of panic go away. My heart eventually stopped racing, but the feeling of disquiet took longer to dissipate. I don’t think it takes too much imagination to work out the origins of my dream.
I love receiving emails from people who are inspired by reading about our travels. It is wonderful that people look at what we do and think ‘I could do that’. And yet all too often my second response is to feel like a complete fraud. I write about the wonderful things we do and see and then lie awake at night beating myself up about the fact that in seven years I haven’t been able to get a single job I’ve applied for and we still haven’t managed to come up with a steady source of income. Who am I to even begin to suggest that people should follow their heart???
And yet, I look back over the last seven years and am just blown away by the incredible things I have learned, the people I’ve met, the places I’ve been and the experiences that I have had. From a traditional career perspective those seven years can best be described as patchy (if you’re being polite) and yet from a personal perspective it’s be an amazing ride.
So many times in the last year especially, I’ve longed for the magic pill, the moment of transformation that would suddenly make everything easy – the job that would provide steady income, the book deal, the contract – and not one has materialised. Each one that passes feels like a failure and weighs heavily. And I have a tendency to let them weigh far more heavily than the small achievements. And yet in the greater scheme of things they’re insignificant. I know there is more to come, I know there are other planes to catch – persistence and faith.
Now the sun is up. From two different sources this morning I received the same good advice – pause and breathe, then take a small step, and another, and so with each step a new day begins.
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An unforgettable February weekend!
» Why so serious? Blogs of a MIghTy African It's been a while since I shared a 'diary' entry. This last weekend presented the perfect opportunity to do so. It wasn't setting up to be that special a weekend. The Harvard African Business Conference was going on, but I did not attend. While I was there last year, I decided to forgo the HBS ABC this year. I was bent on seeing this through and if I had the littlest inkling about changing my mind, my empty-full-of-potholes pocket hammered the final nail in the 'dont-go-to-the-HBS_ABC coffin. So, I was stuck in the Bay but the Bay interestingly had a few good things to offer. It ended up offering an unforgettable weekend. So I missed out on Naeto C? Kini Big Deal. Missed out on the biggest, brightest, most reputable face-to-face tete-a-tete networking potential African marriage-partner finding event? "Duro", didn't drive me crazy because you should know my P. This weekend's Mighty African adventures were not to be missed. Here's the story.
Friday was the day Vusi Mahlasela was coming to perform at Stanford. Yes, he had been invited by 'Stanford Arts', and not the African Students Association or his niece who's studying Aero-Astro engineering. Just joking about the latter. Vusi's concert was going to cost Stanford students $10 and other adults (over 18+) would pay $35. Gone are the days when I used to hang with 18 year olds who didn't attend my school. My 'adult' friends would not come see Vusi for $35. So if my friend who was visiting had to pay $35 to hang with me for a couple of hours, then I would also not pay $10. I am not a big fan of Vusi's music anyway. Give me some Kwaito, give me some Lira, give me some House. Give me some of this. I'd normally support my Africans, no matter what but this was quite a price to pay. So I skipped the concert, entertained my visitor and looked forward to catching Vusi at the reception being thrown for him later.
I went to the reception as planned, though it started later than advertised. Kai, even Stanford can operate at African time sometimes. Feels good, neh? :-D Stanford's favorite accapella group, Talisman, performed some beautiful South African songs at the reception. Even after performing for two hours, Vusi still found the energy to join them in singing "Ahuna Ya Tswanang Le Jesu". They also sang 'Shosholoza' and another I forget right now. Hey, it's about the only thing I forgot from this weekend ;-) Spoke with Vusi eventually and told him about Museke, etc. No, no time for interviews this time. I've decided to listen to his music more. Check out his songs, River Jordan and Jabula, good stuff. Local is lekker. Had a lot of interesting conversations with a Berkeley student and her German boyfriend. Ended up being one of the last people to leave the reception venue as a result. This always happens. I don't know why I always manage to stay till the very end. Sigh.
My Saturday 'began' when I saw two missed calls from my Nigerian buddy (5:30 & 5:45pm). So I decided to call him back (6:30pm). "Chale, the Angelique Kidjo concert is at 8pm at Berkeley, we are leaving at 7pm". Yikes! I had a little under 30 minutes to transition into Saturday, shower, get dressed UP and go. Funny thing is, I wasn't prepared for this Kidjo show. My Nigerian buddy hadn't mentioned it when I saw him Friday night and no one had talked about it all week. Naww, Impossible. Possible, Africans @ Stanford weren't that giddy about seeing one of Africa's best performers, especially when it was an hour's drive away. Me, I had just missed Vusi's concert, missed Kidjo when she performed in Boston and was made to endure 'taunts' from my friends who went about how they danced with her on stage and how magnificent she was. Wasn't going to miss this one. Eventually, joined my Nigerian buddy on the journey and after we picked up our Ethiopian 'sister', we were concert-bound (7:30).
8:40pm. We've just paid for parking after circling the concert venue in Berkeley and are looking for directions to ZellerBach Hall. We get there and we are greeted by a white lady who tells us they stopped selling tickets for the show 30 minutes after it started. For those of you keeping score at home, that means we are 10 minutes late. We can't even go buy online tix and come back. #AreYouKiddingMe???!!! We drove all the way to Berkeley to see Kidjo 'shekete' and we can't get tickets? The show is at least 2 hours long and we still have 80 minutes to go. I turn around and shout "CAL SUCKS!" Some white dude outside remarked, "the place is probably half-full". And I'm pretty darn sure it was! Seriously, why be so prim and proper? Couldn't they just sell us tickets? What do they lose? I blame Angelique Kidjo. She's so big these days, she's on some 'international record label', we don't have access to her, we have to pay top dollar to see her and there's no flexibility. Imagine if it was some African promoter who had brought 'Samini' to perform at some local spot in Berkeley. Samini would come on stage 2 hours late, so there's no way in 'Sodom and Gomorrah' that we're missing him, tickets would be sold from 'krainkrain' to 'krankran' till the show ends and the price would probably remain the same. I'm done with Angelique Kidjo concerts.
9:15pm. My Ethiopian friend and I are both hungry. She and my Naija paddy want chicken and waffles. I'm like, "We've come all the way to Berkeley, we have to eat at an African restaurant". We've paid for 3 hours of parking so we're not getting the car, we're walking to find this food. Eventually, we realise the African restaurants are not that ubiquitous and we can't spend too much time reaching them. We settle for some 'black' food at 'Louisiana Kitchen'. This is after we've decided to remedy the evening with watching 'Up in the Air' starring George Clooney. Movie shows at 10pm, counting previews, we should be seated by 10:20 at the latest. American restaurants don't operate like chop bars, so we have to wait in line, declare our order, eventually get seated, continue chit-chatting, and wait for the food. This can take anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes. So, by the time the food arrives, it's maybe 9:55.
So I order some chicken fresh from ze kitchen, my Ethiopian friend orders some crawfish dish, and my Nigerian guy orders some Jambalaya from this black buka. Normally, I'd ask to taste some of what my friends ordered, and share some of mine. Sharing is caring. I couldn't eat the Jambalaya because I've given up eating pork and beef for Lent. No lie. So if you thought this was going to be easy, it ain't. I was refusing food (a whole me) because it had some kind of meat. "Asumasi mmɛ hwɛ n'adamfo. Joseph mpo, y'awe!"
We finish eating, get to the cinema to get our 'Up in the Air' tix and the ticket sellers no dey. I look to my Naija friend and we figure we'll just open the doors and go watch the movie anyway. "Syke" The doors are locked. A concessionary seller in the cinema tells us the theater is closed. We see him. We stand there. He sees fit to come toward us and open the doors. He pokes his head out and tells us "the theatre is closed". @#&%^E@I We heard you the first time! Luckily enough, there was a theater right down the road. Berkeley is good for a few things. The ticket seller waits for 10 minutes as the three of us debate what movie to see. My Ethiopian friend doesn't want to see Avatar, and I haven't seen it (#FAIL). She's seen Sherlock Holmes and we haven't. The guys don't want see It's complicated. We end up choosing Denzel Washington in 'Book of Eli', and it's just starting. After watching 3 minutes of Book of Eli, we decide the movie is too slow, nothing is happening and it's not worth watching. Upon reaching the room where AVATAR 3D is showing, we realise the boxes for recycling 3D glasses are empty. WTF? People take the 3D glasses to show off to their friends? They keep them so they can bring them back to watch more 3D movies? The ticket seller won't give us 3D glasses unless we buy tickets to AVATAR 3D, too. We end up watching Sherlock Holmes, at least, it was a good movie.
Going home to Stanford wasn't even easy. We drove a while looking for highway signs. We ended up circling one particular block on Telegraph Avenue (in Oakland now) three times. On one side of the block, a police car was parked. I mentioned, "hmmm, this policeman may think we are picking up drugs or doing a drive-by the way we keep on coming around here". I run into a Nigerian friend who was frolicking with her other girlfriends and thanks to her directions, we headed home.
I woke up on Sunday just in time to go play with FC Palo Alto in our first game this year. Manchester United had lost badly to Everton the day before (Thank God I didn't watch the game) and I was in no mood to wake up early to watch football. I get to the field and it's raining. Nice! I end up not starting the game in defence like I usually do. I had sucked a bit in practices so I understood my coach and captain's decisions. Hey, have to support the team no matter what. Allen Iverson, that's for you! We concede a goal in the 3rd minute and after 10 minutes, we're two down. By the time, I get to play, we have taken three unanswered goals and it's still raining. Horrible football weekend. The Stanford Athletics monster comes to close down the field and put my team out of our misery. We agree to play the second-half at a later date and my captain decides our team should go practice for an hour. It's still raining! I saw this as a punishment. "This team sucks so bad, we're not going home, let's go practice even if it's raining". 1, 2, 3, FCPA!!!!
Fast forward to 6:30pm. I am preparing to go a potluck empty-handed. For whatever reason, I felt I didn't need to cook for this one because the email looked like it was being organized by three namesakes. Feel no more. It may just happen to me next time. I cut a phone conversation with one of my favorite people short to go join my Zimbabwean friend to go to this potluck. We have a little trouble finding my Ghanaian host's place, a place that is on campus. Tscheeeww. I request for some Golden Tree Chocolate to finally celebrate Valentine's Ghanaian Chocolate Day and have a couple glasses of Sangria. I am trying my best not to get drunk or tipsy on a Sunday. My other Ghanaian friend walks in with Naija roommate and asks, "where's the waakye?". Uh huh, here's a potluck, Mighty African is here and there's no waakye. That means, chale didn't cook. Should not happen again.
Anyway, here's the menu. Chicken dish, peanut groundnut soup, grapes, brownies, rice, chocolate, jollof rice, and a cake with blueberries, strawberries and kiwis. I find out the jollof rice is cooked with beef. Taflastse! Why? I have to forgo this jollof too, I am getting more than I bargained for for this Lent thing. After boxing with my conscience, I take out the beef pieces and eat the jollof. Here's our guestlist, Ghanaian PhD in education, his girlfriend from El Salvador, his Aero-Astro roommate from Germany, Zimbabwean PhD in education, Ghanaian PhD in engineering, Nigerian PhD in engineering, and then two Nigerian and Ghanaian law chool students. We had some really enjoyable conversations, but the highlight of the night was probably the new information I found out about 'dimples'. See me in chambers if you want to know.
So that was the weekend. I hope I was able to tell you about in an exciting way as it happened. Very memorable. And that's even half of it. Of course I can't tell you everything that happened. I have to stop telling and you have to stop reading at some point ;-)
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