🚨ICYMI🇬🇭🏆: The Greater Accra Regional Minister has won “Regional Minister of the Year” while her region was underwater this very week at the Ghana Ministers of State Excellence Honours.
3,000 streetlights later, the city’s still dark.
That’s not all.
“Best Deputy Minister” went to the Deputy Minister for Transport whose commuters are still stranded at the station(s) & junction(s).
Ghana Ministers of State Excellence Honours.
Read that title again. Lol.
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Middle class in Ghana think their children speaking English only is a sign of intelligence.
“Eii my child can’t speak any local language oo, only English”
The Brews are related to Richard Brew, an Irish slave trader who built Castle Brew & married the daughter of Anomabu's Omanhene.
I've got this book "West African Trade and Coast Society: A Family Study." Another, "Daughters Of The Trade" too deals with coastal Ga & Fante women.
The gym is very funny
Expensive phones, watches & car keys are left everywhere & no one touches them
But leave your dumbbells unattended for a moment & they're gone
Singapore has no minerals. Japan was bombed to rubble in 1945. Vietnam was at war for decades. All three built cities with parks, public squares, functional public transport, and green urban spaces that serve their people.
Walk through Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, Douala, or Kinshasa and find somewhere to sit that is not a shop, a bar, or a church. You will not find it.
These cities sit inside some of the most fertile, green, tropical land on earth. And somehow every trace of it was designed out of the urban experience. No parks. No shade. No public squares. Nowhere a person can simply exist without spending money.
The geopolitics argument runs out when you look at who recovered from worse and built better. We are collectively and embarrassingly disorganized and we need to start saying that out loud.
Change does not start with governments. It starts with enough people refusing to accept this as normal. Share this if you agree. Talk about it. Demand better from your city.
I feel fundamentally as an academic, you should know the difference between AI and genAI. You cannot be positing that using citation managers such as Zotero is the same thing as submitting work that was written with a chatbot. Zotero can only output references that *you* input
The Sewua and Afari Military Hospitals in the Ashanti Region have not been operationalised, even after 17 months in office.
Beyond the terrible optics of publicly announcing the birth of his child in the U.S., he is also spending time engaging people in social media spats. Vim.
I saw the beds and shouted eii! The beds saf are being left to rot while the functioning hospitals are still using rusted beds from the early 2000s. Herh awurade🤣🤣🤣
I remember when that Police Station was "donated" and valid questions were raised about the independence of the police if members of that club were to be involved in any matter