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I stumbled upon this website: http://QuitFaceBookDay.com when I arrived at work this morning. Strucked by its catchy phrase, I decided to read more into what they are actually preaching. According the site; “Facebook is engaging, enjoyable and quite frankly, addictive. Quitting something like Facebook is like quitting smoking.” They’ve...

Have you come across any lady in Ghana using a hand-bag by Diva Delicious? Did you care to know, who was the brain behind those ideas? Well; yours truly is about to bring more information about the bag and the brain behind it to your eyes and ears. Stay...

I’ve always been a great fan of Mensa Ansa a.k.a M3NSA back in days when he did the “Mapouka” track with Hip-Life Grand-papa; Reggie Rockstone. His energy and passion for music really made him one of the most respected and talented musicians from Ghana. I saw his teaming up...

Growing up in a small trading-town of Keta in the Volta Region, my grand-mother; Madam Doris Degadjor-Deha; a Cereal/Grains Seller in the Keta Market paid so much attention to Education as the only key to eradicating poverty in our family. Back in the day, she always makes me write...

Whiles sited on the rear-seat of the rickety-newly-painted State Transport coach from Accra-to-Takoradi yesterday, I kept reading funny and silly tweets from around twitterdom on the trending topics; #DearFutureWife & #DearFutureHusband. In my opinion, I saw those trending topics as; “Single men and women  expressing their...

Image by AdamCohn via Flickr Yesterday, I had a call from a friend who’s been job-hunting from the middle of last year till now. He’s been lucky to be short-listed for a few interviews but none ever worked out due to the “university degree” menace rocking the nation. This...

TEDxYouthInspire has joined the rungs of the increasing number of African youth-focused development programmes to be hosted in Ghana. Other events recently hosted here that immediately come to mind are BarCamp Ghana and Maker Faire Africa. The brilliant thing about TEDxYouthInspire, and other programmes like it, is that it...

The month of October, 2009 saw me joining Global Voices Online shortly after I had met Georgia Popplewell, who’s the director of the Global Voices Online Community. I was introduced to her by Eduardo Avila after we had met at Maker...