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GIVE ME NANA OYE LITHUR FOR MY BIRTHDAY!
Background: Nana Oye Lithur is a high-profile, gutsy Ghanaian human rights lawyer who champions all human rights including those of homosexuals here in Ghana where it is a crime. She has been nominated by President Mahama for the cabinet position of the Gender, Children and Social Protection ministry. I think her nomination is a stroke […]
A RARE BIRD!
January 22, 2013
Reblogged from fourvillagesinn: Yes, you can imagine the consternation of the 15 birders to happen on a sighting of a real rare bird-an expatriate Canadian who has spent more than a third of his 66 years in Ghana. And imagine their consternation at how vocal this bird was when his shrill song reached their ears: […]
ABOUT ME
December 4, 2012
Jackie shared another picture which I just shared on my Christopher Scott Facebook page “You can size somebody up by the bumper stickers.” So what are my bumper stickers: 1. GIVE YOUR HORN A BREAK-I got this sticker from the nearby Environmental Protection Agency office. Noise pollution here in Kumasi is everywhere compromising the quality […]
KOFI ANNAN’S QUOTE
October 7, 2012
Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Born in Kumasi (note madinghana’s city now) April 8, 1938 (age 74) I have an iPad. I just downloaded the TED TALK and the TED BOOKS apps. This morning I […]
MADinGhana June, 2012 Review: WHAT A MONTH!
July 1, 2012
Not only was it a great month at FOUR VILLAGES INN, but I think madinghana broke a record for the number of posts in a month, or if not that, the number of controversial posts……maybe there’s a correlation between success in work and self expression…Anyways, in June MADinGhana hit the 400 posts mark….all original. Now […]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AKROKERRI COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
June 30, 2012
Yes, on October 26, Akrokerri Teacher Training College, that’s how I know it, will be celebrating its fiftieth birthday since its inception back in 1962. I was there from 1973 to 1979. It was a wonderful six years working at a wonderful institution staffed by dedicated professionals from all over this world of ours. I […]
PEACEFUL ELECTION PLEA FROM GHANAIAN COMEDIAN KSM.
June 18, 2012
Our family has always been a great fan of KSM, the Ghanaian comedian who spent years abroad, but returned to his homeland to put an intelligent spin on Ghanaian life. Like madinghana, KSM fears for the December 7th elections here and he has issued a plea for peaceful elections in the form of a letter […]
VODAFONE INTERNET COLLAPSE @ FOUR VILLAGES INN
May 3, 2012
In follow-up to the previous post (Draft from the Past), I emailed the Commercial Director at VODAFONE, one Marc Norris, but alas like all recipients of complaints he never replied….Turns out Marc never saw the email and thus could not reply.(observation made on 04-05-2012) Anyways I’ll post this one on the madinghana blog and NOT […]
POSITIVE ACTIVISM
May 2, 2012
This is a combo post of three things that have all come together. First, up a great article commenting on Ghana’s nemesis. WHAT A RANT! In a nutshell, Ghana’s lack of development results from the corruption of public officials which is the result of the Ghanaian people suffering in silence and NOT protesting! Bang on! […]
I WANT MY HAT BACK
March 14, 2012
Last week, I looked after my grandson Justin during his spring break. We went downtown to a giant bookstore-where else would yours truly want to hit-and lo and behold activities were going on for kids. So while Justin was helping to build a volcano,(I have a great pic, but can’t get it from the iPad […]
January 26, 2013
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