Some places have to tighten security following game losses, but sure, my small fangirling over reality TV is on the same level as male parasociality seen in violent occurrences.
Eight years and four months ago, I responded to a man’s greeting in a store outside my house in Ghana, and what followed was one of the scariest experiences of my life.
This stranger trailed me home and tried to force his way into my house while yelling “how much do you want for a night?” at me, and telling me to stop acting like it’s not prostitution I came to do in Ghana because that’s what Nigerian girls do here. Mind you, he was Nigerian, a fellow Igbo person (I know because he kept switching between English and Igbo while yelling at me for refusing him entrance to my home).
I managed to prevent him from getting into my home that night and he threatened that he’d be back. He never came back. However, every night I spent alone in that house till I graduated (I was already in my final semester), I slept with a knife beside me. I felt so unsafe that I left Ghana two days after my final papers. I didn’t attend my convocation in December of that year.
I have traveled to many places since then, and yet I have never returned to Ghana. I will return some day soon though because I’m on a mission to make new memories in cities where I have had traumatic experiences. But that’s not the point of this post.
The real point of this post is what I am about to say below:
When that man said “hi” to me in a store full of people, I did not know he was a creep. I did not think he’d trail me and attempt to rape me. These things are not written on the faces of people. So, no matter the context under which a woman does not respond to a stranger, whether it was from fear, she’s having a bad day, or she is simply a snob, I would never find it okay to harangue her for not responding to a person’s greetings.
What I find actually problematic and bizarre is people making a fuss because they feel entitled to a response from a stranger. That’s weirdo behaviour, and the aim of such silly behaviour is to “humble” the stranger because you think someone’s refusal to engage you is a statement of your worth as a person. The person that needs to do inner work the most is you. Fix your sense of self worth.
Every four years the losing party suddenly discovers all the corruption the winning party's been doing....then conveniently forgets their own record the moment they're back in charge.
Ghanaians keep falling for the amnesia cycle like it's new information each time.
Pour rappel, la sélection haïtienne 🇭🇹 n'a pas eu le droit de jouer avec un maillot qui rappelait symboliquement la bataille de Vertières décisive avant l'indépendance du pays car la FIFA a jugé que cela était un "message politique"
C'est à la carte ou à la volonté de la Maison Blanche désormais la "politisation" à la FIFA...
Just look at this. $145 million o.
But the Sports Minister said Ibrahim Mahama told him to get the plan of the Boston Stadium so they can build some in Ghana. The fooling for this country is crazy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Even our degrees don’t guarantee jobs after NSS, so why should they pay 60 cedis for ‘capacity building’?
Why not seek sponsorship instead?
Deducting 100 cedis for cloth + 60 for a program out of 715 is crazy.
@Shejackiesays@koboateng
Our brains are incredible pattern-recognition machines.
They're constantly looking for familiar shapes and numbers, but sometimes that ability works against us. One famous optical illusion hides the number 58 inside a grid filled with nothing but 5s and 6s. At first glance, everything looks identical. The more you stare, the more your brain blends the patterns together, making the hidden number surprisingly difficult to spot.
Football fans aren't so different.
For years, rival fans have become so used to seeing Arsenal challenge at the top that they overlook just how consistent the club has become. Season after season, they search for flaws, convince themselves the Gunners will fall away, and miss what's right in front of them: a team that's firmly established among Europe's elite and competing for every major honour.
Sometimes, the truth isn't hidden because it's invisible. It's hidden because people are too focused on the surrounding noise to recognise the obvious pattern.
But why 58?
Because, ladies and gentlemen… it's been 58 days since Arsenal won the league title.