This Easter: Give Blood

Credit: Ghana National Blood Centre Everyone wants to be a hero. At least that's what I'd like to think so please do not pop my bubble. Perhaps we're used to super heroes like "Superman", "Optimus Prime" "Black Widow" who risk life and limb to save the world. Maybe our ideas of heroes are of the brave men and women who fight wars to...

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Enough is Enough

I was checking out Adventures From, yesterday and read something that dug into me.  The topics discussed on that site usually jab at me for various reasons but this article pretty much sums up a lot of what's been on my mind. The article is titled "What Exactly Are Our Attitudes About Abuse" and it's written by Malaka. Malaka points out a lot that's wrong in the way our society handles victims of abuse in general and sexual...

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Save A Life: Part 2

So back in December, 2012, I worked with Blogging Ghana, StACC-Ghana and Noguchi on the "Save A Life" Blood Drive.  It was all pretty rushed but we got 30 people to Give Blood at Korle Bu  and Noguchi. Several Bloggers (eg here, here, and here ) gave their takes on  their experiences, or asked people to go #GiveBlood. The...

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Blast from the Past: National Identification?!!!

Remember when I blogged about the National Identification Scheme and questioned whether or not Ghana was ready for such an exercise? I was concerned with the amount of information that was being collated and questioned whether it was safe for our security personnel to have access to it. It's been four years since and since then I've noted...

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ECG: Tale of an Energy Monopoly

If you're a Ghanaian then chances are you've heard these phrases before: Electricity Come and Go Either Candle or Generator Energy Crisis of Ghana Ela-TDC (yes it's its own political party and won -0.05% of the Ghanaian populace over) Dumso Dumso Here's the thing.  Someone let their pet monkey loose in the Electricity Corporation...

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Accra: Village, Slum or City?

Woke up this morning to see this article floating about on twitter. In this article, Eonline reporter  Alyssa Toomey writes, "The handsome boy-banders visited the impoverished village of Accra and took to Twitter to detail their eye-opening experience." From what I can surmise, Comic Relief (responsible for Red Nose Day) ...

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