It just dawned on me that I am unnecessarily squeamish about insects. Flying roaches are one thing, but everyday flies? Hmm! So I’m not satisfied with the apartment that I’m renting. Not only did I run into all those difficulties in my first few days here, I have continued to have maintainance issues after another. […]
Thoughts about The Lion King through Adult Eyes
Not too long ago, my French speaking fourteen year old cousin from Marseille came to the United States to visit the family. It was the first time that she and her aunt, my mother, had met. I don’t know how they communicated as my mother doesn’t speak French and she doesn’t speak English nor Nzema. […]
Public women and prostitutes in pre-colonial Ghana
So while scouring the internet for more information regarding the African prostitutes of Europe I learned that some of the Ghanaian prostitutes are not actually Ghanaian but Nigerian women who have secured Ghanaian passports and that a lot of the Nigerian women involved in this trade in general come from Benin City, Edo State. I […]
The African Prostitutes in Europe
With my recent move and acquisition of a flat-screen TV, I bought a Roku and now am regularly getting my daily news from Al Jazeera. Not only do they inform me of what is going on in the world, they also have thought-provoking original documentaries. Last week, it was a re-broadcast of a 2011 special […]
Plagiarism in the Blogosphere
I’m quite upset today. I just found out that excerpts of my blogpost on Nzema Clans and their Akan Counterparts were copied verbatim on a blog called Trip Down Memory Lane maintained by a blogger called Kwekudee who is based in Tema, Ghana. I feel violated.
Anatomy of an apartment move
I had four months in between my job offer and my start date and not much time off to properly apartment hunt. In addition, I had to struggle to remind myself that I was only in year three of my five-to-six year commitment to live like a resident in my first years of practice. The […]
New Year, New Beginnings, New Me
Happy New Year! I left my first job as an attending in “my village” on December 27th, 2012 and now I’m on to my second job in what my friends call “civilization”, you know as in “welcome back to civilization”. Yes, six months after my anticipated “date of release” I’m finally moving on. I guess […]
It’s 12/12/12. So What?
Well nothing really, aside from this being the last repeating number date of the century! I partied like it’s 1999 in college in 1999 and survived the Y2K scare of the Millennium that had us thinking all computer systems would shut down on 12/31/1999. I actually spent the Christmas holidays and Wintersession that year in […]
Ghana’s Presidential Election 2012 – What’s so novel?
Ghana held elections this past Friday, December 7th 2012 with extended voting into Saturday, December 8th to accommodate technical problems with biometric voting. The current president, John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who became president of Ghana in July after the unexpected death of President John Atta Mills was re-elected president with […]
Talking about “One Day I Too Go Fly”
A Ghanaian-Ukranian friend of mine who came from Ghana to attend MIT, one of our “sibling schools”, is in the process of directing a “coming of age documentary about young Africans on a quest for knowledge at an elite American university”. It chronicles the life of five students from Tanzania, Zambia, Nigeria, Rwanda and Zimbabwe […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.