Again, Not one single line about “buying you Bugatti, or Ferrari, fly you to Milan or Maldives and Karachi”
Love songs were about how the person felt, in words and it reflected in the dating scene, until your favs came in the 2010s and socially engineered relationship dynamics
You argue that African filmmakers sacrifice originality and authenticity to appeal to Western audiences. Fair enough.
But I don’t see how that explains the poor quality. The audience they’re targeting consumes much better work.
I cannot believe Akokɔmɛsa (West African basil (botanical name Ocimum basilicum) is not a national asset...
It's like lemon basil, sweet basil and holy basil had a kid and got adopted by lemon grass for a tad bit then went of to find its own identity.
A special special herb/weed that grows in lots of random places on Accra...
Thrives in harsh conditions... Once it takes root , you are assured to have it in abundance for three 2 month windows in a year.
Great with chicken, beef, pasta, mushrooms, duck, pork and in salads or stirfries.
One of the things I enjoy foraging 🌞
How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects?
Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner?
CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS.
Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song.
Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been.
Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on.
Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about.
There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable.
There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.”
Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable.
A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE??
And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself?
Your body started as ONE CELL.
ONE.
And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to?
The iron in our blood was made inside a star??
We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?
We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?
Aside from the corruption sector, nothing in this country seems to work. Not education, not transport, not housing, not healthcare, not sanitation.
NDC fail across board.
NPP fail across board.
The dysfunctional duo.😒
I can’t believe Joseph Bukari Nikpe and Dorcas Affo-Toffey actually wake up every morning and tell their families that they’re going to work at the transport ministry.
The transportation ministers must go. Done zero about the long queues for intra-city buses. And then they’ve doing absolutely nothing about commercial drivers sticking to the agreed 8% fare increase. Some are charging in excess of 30%
Although the transport ministry and GPRTU announced a 8% increase in fares, drivers have increased fares by between 15-20%.
That's exactly what happens when a state fails to play an important role in PUBLIC transport.
African leaders go to UNGA and go on about Gaza.
They don’t talk about the killings in Nigeria, Congo and how sub-Saharan African is being ravaged by Islamic terrorists.
Such a useless bunch.