T’ni briefly touched on this prior. But it was more involved than she recounted under “Daddy’s Run-In With a Policeman”. Daddy has been having car troubles for quite a while. He still has the Nissan pickup from the 1990s, but also a Mercedes minivan and a newer Nissan which has given him trouble since he […]
Guest Post: Excursion to the Fish Farm
One of the memorable moments of our visit to Nzema was a day trip to our father’s farm in Sowodademu, near the border with Côte d’Ivoire. He has had the land there and farmed it for quite a while. When we used to live in Accra in the early 1990s, he would return from his […]
Guest Post:The Cure All Malam
I saw this on our travels and thought K’Chie would appreciate it. We were in Nzema on our way to our father’s farm. We stopped along the way for a few supplies. It was market day in that village and I was walking around taking in the sights. Then I come across this. He’s a […]
Guest Post: Ghana – A few sights
Approaching Accra Nzema greetings at Fort Appolonia Pictorial of Nzema festival “Kundum/Abissa” Nzema beach Nzema beach – Daddy walked along here to get from village to village as a child The river Daddy learnt to swim in decades ago, Bonyere Another view of the river…just across from the sea Cape Coast Castle Cape Coast Castle […]
Atadwe (tiger nuts): The Next Superfood?
It humours me the “newly discovered” diet and nutritional claims made on food products foreign to the American taste. The current farro and quinoa elitism aside, I can’t help but scratch my head at the fancy $20 bottles of African mango (Irvingia gabonesis) pills on the shelves, touted on Dr. Oz as a miracle […]
Alasa fruit (African star apple) Revisited
It’s been a while since I had an alasa fruit. In the process of acquiring one, I have learnt that my mother has no clue what it is let alone how to eat one; and that my sister, M’sa, who claims to have loved it as a child had never cherished it to the point […]
Guest Post: Ghana and I Reunited
Two weeks ago, I told my sister K’Chie that upon my arrival to Ghana, I will give her an all access viewing to my experiences by blogging in real-time. My father had assured the family that we would have Wi-Fi — plus internet — so everything was all set. Two weeks later, here I am […]
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
It’s been over a year since my last book review. Indeed, I started this book last year and just finished it. Sad. This is not a reflection on the book. It’s not an encyclopedic tome. It’s not difficult to read. It’s not boring. Far from it. I’m just slowly losing my status as a reader. […]
Abandoned in the US
Tomorrow, my mother and sisters are going to board a plane to Ghana and leave me all alone in the United States of America. Abandoned seems to be the perfect word to describe what I feel. True enough, I was extended the invite as well months ago but for several reasons, none of which I […]
Censored by Al Jazeera America
When we arrived in the United States twenty years ago, it did not take long for my father, a diplomat who can watch the news from morning to night with an occasional break for a sporting event and sometimes a movie, to find PBS. We would watch the garbage of network news fooled by their […]
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.