I was recently in San Diego, CA for IDWeek2012 with 4 other ladies from my hospital. In addition to the conference itself, we looked forward to warm weather, great restaurants, and awesome shopping…oh and yeah, time away from work. Months prior, we had given ourselves an assignment of each choosing a restaurant for dinner. I […]
GhanaProNet Inauguration & Fundraising Luncheon
Click to enlarge Back in March, I waxed poetic about the plight of witches ie. marginalized women in northern Ghana unfairly brandished as witches and banished from their homes. I got really riled up thinking about the women even though I wasn’t able to make it to New York City or to Washington DC for […]
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
If it’s not clear by now, my reading tendencies are novels by African women and novels highlighting the immigrant experience. I find so much of myself in them and cherish that shared experience described in so many different ways usually featuring a triumphant or not so triumphant strive to assimilate old world traditions with new […]
The Observer’s 10 best contemporary African books
…as chosen by Eliah Wakatama Allfrey, deputy editor of Granta Magazine. I am so behind on my own reading list, but I can’t wait to read some of Allfrey’s nominations. Especially… and Fun!
Good Friends, Good News in Boston
After my rather depressing winter, I decided that an attitude adjustment was in order for me. I’ve got a lot of things going well for me although I’m not going to lie – the things that make me unhappy are major (aren’t’ they usually though?)- the seemingly never-ending winters, my life of total boredom attributed […]
Tasting Notes – Esmeraldas Milk
This chocolate is pretty unique in that it’s more than just an eating experience, you become involved in your chocolate. It’s made from the Ecuadorian Arriba cacao supposedly a very superior breed. One bar of Esmeralda gets you involved in Arriba cacao conservation efforts. The local farmers are Afro-Ecuadorian. You can go to the website […]
Passing by Nella Larsen
Picked by my local book club, I once again didn’t manage to make it to the discussion of this novel. Oh well. But I did download a free audiobook version using the Audiobooks app, and listened to it in its entirety on a road trip.I highly recommend the app. But back to the novel. First […]
My first memories of the United States
I was fourteen. I had taken the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) stress-free with the knowledge that the results wouldn’t matter. That exam that would determine whether I would end up becoming a tomato seller at the market with a baby on my back or a smartly dressed Senior Secondary School pupil couldn’t faze me. […]
Crispy Rice-Bottom Tastes Fabulous
I recently cooked a pot of jollof rice using home-made chicken broth and as the delicious aroma engulfed me I couldn’t help but salivate at the thought of what was to come. The intensely flavoured crunchy toasty bits of crispy rice at the bottom of the pot. I have always called that crunchy crispy rice […]
Neglected & forgotten spices & seasonings of Ghana
Summer in New York City is synonymous with a whole cadre of street festivals where artists and vendors sell their wares and one can usually buy something cool like the magic wrap skirt. I recently went on an outing with my mother and sisters to the Lexington Avenue Street Fair and came across a display […]
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.