Kofi🇬🇭

Afrikan. Public Health. Poetry.

[Kofi🇬🇭 @atsi_sam]

I received this priceless gift 5 months to my b'day from this amazing poet @kwaku_kyereh & Guess what..it was @ilya_poet Deaf republic—this book is one of the truest expressions of what war can be & what peace isn't—all in one metaphorical language (I think)
@kwaku_kyereh 🙏🏾

[Kofi🇬🇭 @atsi_sam]

@Mish46175726 Congratulations 😆

[Rajvi @rajvishah30]

today someone in office said that “worrying is the worst way to use your imagination” and that’s easily the best thing Ive heard all week

[Dr. George @GeorgeAnagli]

UGMC is calling for breast milk donations to support the survival of premature infants.

Kindly spare some breast milk if you can. You could help save a life.

[UTV Ghana @utvghana]

Celebration filled the auditorium as the Ghana Armed Forces launched a Special Needs Centre Building Project at Burma Camp in Accra to mark World Autism Awareness Month.

#UTVGhana

[Auntiededei @auntiededei]

Discovering Music of Africa { 1967} - Ghana 🇬🇭

📷| Bernard Wilets

#AuntieDedei

[The Asante Nation @Asante_nation]

These stunning works are by Visual Arts students from various Senior High Schools across the Ashanti Region, showcased at the Street Art Festival at the Asokwa Interchange. 🎨✨

Pure masterpieces, beautifully executed and full of creativity. Kudos to all the schools and talented students who contributed their skills to transform and beautify the space.

Their consistency and turnout whenever called upon are truly admirable. Indeed, High School students from the Ashanti Region continue to set the standard! 👍🔥

Special appreciation to the Ashanti Regional Minister for championing such a brilliant and impactful initiative.

[Ato Ulzen-Appiah #MightyAfrican @Abocco]

@SportyFM_ @atsi_sam I blogged about this.

https://t.co/RU73CL0uCT

The answer to this question is Woyaya

[SportyFM Ghana @SportyFM_]

🇬🇭🎵 Part 2: From Osibisa's 'Woyaaya' to VIP's 'Ahomka Womu', to Obrafour's 'Oye Ohene' RMX, and more, which of these Ghanaian songs do you think is the 'GOAT'? 🐐

#SportyFM

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

I refuse to let AI take away the hard earned joy of failing to write for 4 hours, going for a little walk, then failing to write for another 4 hours.

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

Normalise thanking God for meeting your needs when your income didn't make sense, that's supernatural provision.

[Yaw @theyawofosu]

…and the writers. Efua Sutherland, Ayikwei Armah, Amu Djoleto, Kwesi Brew, Kofi Awoonor, Ama Ata Aidoo, Lade Wosornu and many others.

[Nana Ama @char_osei]

Happy birthday 🇬🇭. And here’s the world’s best national anthem beautifully delivered by @Lordina_Soprano . God bless Ghana 🇬🇭 #ghanaat69 #ghanamonth

[Yaw @theyawofosu]

The creative minds who gave this country an identity should never be forgotten. On days like this, it is important that we thank Theodosia Okoh for our flag, Amon Kotei for our Coat of Arms and then Philip Gbeho for our anthem. 🇬🇭

[Mr. Arhin 🥷🏽 @MrArhin22]

@shugarbreaddd_ Y’all dey sleep on this track top
Hardest intro ever🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Dr. Samuel Sesah @samuel_sesah]

Today, the Black Star Jersey is being sold at GHS 550.

I can tell you if healthcare was left in the hands of traders, no one can afford it.

[Fentuo Tahiru Fentuo @Fentuo_]

I’ve always wondered this: why is light soup called “light soup”?

Most soups, at least the ones I grew up around, wear their ingredients like a badge of honor.

Palmnut soup announces itself boldly. Groundnut soup is unapologetically peanut. Okro soup doesn’t even try to hide its slimy star. The naming convention is straightforward: this is what’s inside the pot.

And then there’s light soup.

Certainly, it isn’t made from light. No one is squeezing sunbeams into a mortar. So why “light”?

The most obvious explanation is that the name describes its body, its consistency. It’s brothier, looser, less committed to thickness. Fine. That makes sense. But even so, why choose to name a soup after its appearance rather than its contents?

Why elevate texture over substance?

Naturally, the next move is to interrogate the language. When English starts behaving suspiciously, you go back home to the local tongue to see if something got lost (or invented) in translation.

In Akan, the soup is called nkrakra. In Ga, it’s aklor.

Now, nowhere in nkrakra does “light” jump out and introduce itself. Or does it?

Maybe the clue is in “kakra”, which means small, little, slight. If that’s our anchor, then perhaps the more faithful translation should have been “slight soup” or “little soup.” Which, admittedly, sounds like something served on a flight from Accra to Kumasi.

So how did light steal its way into this conversation?

Was it supposed to be slight all along, and somewhere along the colonial highway the “s” fell off the truck?

Or perhaps we’re thinking about this the wrong way.

There’s also nkakra nkrakra, which means “small small.” A little of this, a little of that. No pounding palm fruit for hours. No wrestling with okro’s stubborn viscosity. No grinding groundnuts into submission. Just tomatoes, pepper, onions; small small and before you know it, you have soup.

Compared to the epic labor of palmnut or okro, making nkrakra feels almost breezy. Light work.

This clue we can also find in the Ga word for it, aklor. Which loosely translates to “quick” or “fast fast” easy, light work.

So maybe “light” isn’t about illumination. Maybe it’s about effort. About the absence of culinary drama.

Or maybe it’s about all of it: texture, labor, simplicity condensed into one English word that tried its best to behave.

Still, I can’t help but wonder: if we attempted to name light soup by its content, what would we call it?

[Kofi🇬🇭 @atsi_sam]

@Notoraaay @KafuiDey @ChurchofPoetry @kwaku_kyereh come and see something smiling 😊

[Kojo Akoto Boateng @KojoAB]

This year’s EID weekend, abt GHS50 million worth of rice will be eaten in Ghana, if the average Muslim cooks about 350g of raw rice.

- Where are we sourcing this from?
- How do we ensure this value supports the Ghanaian farmer?

All public rice procurement shd be Ghana rice.

[Jazz Memes @JazzMemes]

Did you know this is the most streamed jazz song ever?

[Gary Al-Smith @garyalsmith]

@chrixton_ Just two weeks ago, we met a guy, possibly 25 years old, Accra boy, who had never heard of Dong Bortey or Charles Taylor. And he's a casual football fan.

They exist.

https://t.co/SLmjpIz4im