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DESTINATION GHANA?
This is a guest post by Festus Tumi, an experienced, perceptive, highly dedicated Ghanaian tourism professional. The article was first posted on the SCRAP SHORT TERM TOURIST VISAS FACEBOOK GROUP PAGE. Festus is also the author of the continuation of Mahama-Zuma conversation…see the comments for the last post (scroll down). FOOD FOR THOUGHT-PERSPECTIVE FROM FESTUS […]
SCRAP SHORT TERM TOURIST VISAS TO GHANA: CHANGE.ORG PETITION
May 7, 2013
Chris Scott, a.k.a. Madinghana & Four Villages, has started a petition to the Ghana Ministry of Tourism, Ghana Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ghana Immigration Service and the Ghana Tourism Authority to SCRAP SHORT TERM TOURIST VISAS TO GHANA. Sign the petition and share. To date, and it was only started yesterday, we have 25 signatories. […]
THE CASE FOR KUMASI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
May 2, 2013
Picking up from the last comment on the madinghana blog, Ian’s comment, on this blog: “When a yam doesn’t grow well, we don’t blame it; it is because of the soil.” This comment was made in response to my observation on how Ghanaians overseas “shine, shine shine”. Anyways to continue, I share here a wonderful […]
SCRAP SHORT TERM TOURIST VISAS TO GHANA: FACEBOOK GROUP
May 1, 2013
HAPPY MAY DAY! It’s morning and it’s raining here in Kumasi. Decided to do some real work on Worker’s Day, like create a Facebook group to advocate for something I am passionate about….TOURISTS COMING IN THEIR NUMBERS TO GHANA! Here’s my inspiration. Yesterday our son Frank told me he had been talking to a friend […]
A QUICKIE PIXER PHOTO POST COMMENT
April 28, 2013
Why, oh why, would a ‘friend’ take a picture of a receipt for electrical goods and like it!? And, by the way, it is NOT ME! Is the person so proud of his purchases that he/she wants to show off? Is the person aghast at how much the purchases cost in comparison to,let’s say, last […]
KUMASI: OUR NEW MAYOR MEANS BUSINESS!
April 27, 2013
….who cares how he gained office…but that’s the subject of another post A perennial subject of this blog is local governance and the issue usually is the proliferation of signs in this once beautiful city and the charging for signboards to locate your business on your property saying that its advertising. Yes, how Kumasi has […]
HAPPY EARTH DAY 2013, BUT NOT IN GHANA OH!
April 22, 2013
The subtitle for this post is “SUNDAY’S SACRIFICES” Why? Well, Four Villages Inn is located on the road that leads to Sokoban Wood Village where Ashanti’s mammoth logs at sawed for local use and for export. Mostly, the big timber lorries pass by on Sundays when there would be less monitoring on the roads… Now […]
KUMASI HAS A NEW MAYOR!
April 18, 2013
Yeah, judging by his victory speech, we are in for some positive change in this city…pretty hard to believe for this region that voted massively against the party in power. Still hope springs eternal…. Here’s the item as it appeared on the Ghana Web internet news service site: And my comments: 1. Loved “open door […]
ACCRA IS A COUNTRY!
March 11, 2013
This article “Which African cities will see the most growth over the next five years?” appeared on the How we made it in Africa Insight into doing business in Africa website out of South Africa no less. The article is subtitled “Companies looking to expand into Africa should seriously consider setting up shop in Accra, […]
NO POLITICAL WILL TO DEVELOP TOURISM: THEORY NO. 7
March 8, 2013
It’s early on the morning of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2013. 6:30 am breakfast because guests, two parties, are both taking early morning planes to Accra. What else they have in common is that they both once used Kumasi’s big “International Standards – Local flavours” hotel, but have now switched over to the real […]
May 13, 2013
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