The doctor asked, can you get hold of Swedish bitters? The older woman smiled. Yes, she said, I believe I can. Then she picked up her phone and called me. After visiting three pharmacies, I found it....
Over the last month, my darling computer has slowly gone to an eternal rest. At first, the battery was lasting for shorter and shorter periods. Then it was suddenly shutting down. Repeatedly. Then in...
In Ghana, election year comes with many activities. Except for the political events, speeches and rallys, the economy sees many hikes and lows. What is happening is that projects in the pipeline sudd...
In this series, I am recommending my favorite blogs. This week, I’d like to share with you Nana Kofi Acquah and his blog: Africaphotographer. My friend and BloggingGhana member Nana Kofi calls ...
Recently, BloggingGhana was invited to the Press Freedom Day event organized by the Ghana Journalists’ Association (GJA). Our executive Nii Ayertey Aryeh, represented us at the event and here i...
After just having posted photos from last week’s BlogCamp 2012 in Ghana, I thought this was pretty interesting. Came across this photo from a blog conference in Sweden, Bloggforum 2012. So this...
Last Saturday, BloggingGhana held our first major event, BlogCamp12, as I wrote about in my last post. Now it is time for the fun part, the photos from the event! If you use these photos, please stat...
I am still recovering from Saturday’s BlogCamp12 event at AITI-KACE. So many people! So many interesting people! So much fun! As the founder of BloggingGhana, I knew about the scale of the even...
The groups of bloggers in Ghana I belong to is tomorrow doing our first major event! BlogCamp 2012! It is terribly exciting! Henc...
There has been some drama : After that first egg, no more came. This was curious as the hens were doing a egg laying sound (don’t ask me!) according to my husband. Apart from that, they seem to...
I cannot stress enough that you need more people than the one(s) on your panel if to succeed with your PhD – well this is what I think, anyways, halfway into the project. Last week, I had the p...
Underbara Clara Clara is THE blogger in Sweden. She is typically Swedish in that she loves nature and works with media. Some of her topics seem contradictory, but Underbara Clara ties them together i...
So right now I am working with the questionnaire that I was hoping to roll out this semester. After more than a year of library studies, I need data! However, with less than a month left of the spri...
I took my daughter and two friends to the Chale Wote street art festival. From the youngest (9 months) to the eldest (40ish) in my little group, we had a lovely afternoon, complete with running into ...
Looking for an online getaway? Follow blogger extraordinaire, Holli Holdsworth, on the journey of her life (as in she sold it all, bought a boat and will now see the world!) The blog is SV Shiloh ...
Currently voters’ registration is ongoing in Ghana. So is the effort to document the process online. Check out iRegistered’s wonderful set on Flickr (and contribute!) Read comments on Twi...
Four days later my egg shell nursing station looks like this. Lettuce and basil sprouted first. Next is finding a way to plant them outside without the yam ants eating all my plants. Any pointers?
Photo: Fiona Leonard Yesterday, I had the privilege to meet with acclaimed Swedish journalist Anna Koblanck. For an “Africa-nerd” like myself, she is a household name as a writer for Swe...
Through Pinterest I found this thrifty idea, nursing plants in eggs which later can be put in the soil as is. I am hoping for dill, tomato, basil, ruccola and melissa to pop up from these eggs very ...
Monday again! This week I am concluding my literature review rewrite. I have a lot of loose ends to tie up, so it will be a busy week. More importantly, I will have to find the book “Student mo...
Photo: Kajsa Hallberg Adu As part of the nation building of the infant national state of Ghana in the late 1950s, Kwame Nkrumah planned for a museum park in central Accra. None of the museums were co...
Over the last couple of years, I have been telling you about the growth of network of bloggers I belong to. The network started with eight bloggers and have over the years grown to include about 150 ...
Adjoa Smart and Richmond the Rooster After receiving a beautiful guinea fowl for his birthday, my significant other suddenly started talking about keeping it ( as opposed to slaughtering it for dinn...
Phew, what a busy news day! It all started yesterday around 7.30 PM when the lights flickered like they do before an unplanned “power off”, then complete darkness followed. Apparently the...
My parental leave is over and I am back to work at Ashesi University College. This semester, I am teaching the freshman class Social Theory. It is an introductory course to political and societal phi...
Inspired by Ghanaian radio channel Joy FM’s discussion this morning, I feel like I have to make a comment on this topic, “What Do Women Want?”. The discussion had a strong start. Th...
Last year around this time, I was pregnant with my first child. It was an amazing and literally nauseating experience. It was a reminder of what it is to be a woman. Being a woman is at times a very ...
Today I updated my page on Teaching with some education resources. The explosion of education on the Internet makes it sometimes hard to find what you are looking for. I suggest you try some of these...
As an adfree and *ahem* somewhat popular blogger you sometimes get emails from people hoping to do business with you. However when the email starts like this, I feel like they haven’t really r...
It is crunch time for an important presentation next week, but let me share with you an insight that came to me through text yesterday. Emigration rates are highest not from the so called Global Sout...
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