🔥It's officially #GuinnessAccravaganza Week and we have good news.
⚡️🇬🇭#CultureJoint is now an official media partner for @Accravaganza set for Saturday, March 29.
🔗Read here: https://t.co/Fgmo71Jks1
🎟️Check second slide and get tickets via https://t.co/OPpvkgWQKa now.
We are honoured to have the affable @ChiefMoomen join us for Unplugged & Reconciled📚🍹
A world renowned creative, Chief is responsible for @TheMansaWorld, harnessing the arts to heal, inspire and transform people and nations.
Join the conversation, be there March 6!
We’ll appreciate more support however😌
Kindly reach out via dm to offer funding or any other form of contribution.
6th March, Full Option, See you there🫂❤️
Here is the outcome of our hard work
Unplugged & Reconciled is for those who "used to read a lot as a child"🙂↔️🤣
It's for spoken word artists who crave a platform to showcase their craft,
It's for writers who simply want to network and reconnect with the art.
Calling all Ghanaian writers residing in Ghana. Spread the word!
Submissions officially open on March 1, but we’re sharing this now so you can start dusting off those manuscripts or completing them.
Ghanaian fundamental literature include Ama Ataa Aidoo's No Sweetness Here, Efo Kodjo Mawugbe's In The Chest Of A Woman, Lawrence Darmani's Grief Child and recently Yaw Asare's Ananse In The Land Of The Idiots.
🇬🇭PSA: Ghana will continue to experience dry and hazy sunshine weather condition with varying intensities. Visibilities across the country are expected to range from 1km to 7km.
NB: Caution should be taken when handling naked fires to prevent any form of fire outbreak due to the dryness within the country.
Miscommunication can be disconcerting; it thrives in the slew of attachment styles, pleasant & unpleasant.
✍🏽 “The Currency” is a short, fictional story that underscores the vicissitudes of relationships riddled with silence & unspoken fears.
Do enjoy🥂
https://t.co/0FXs5fSN81
That’s the point. Only the Elite can afford imported water. That’s the point of the fight against Galamsey. Part of the reasons why we’re fighting for clean water is because some of us can’t afford imported water
I always find it baffling when "scandals" break in Ghana and everyone acts surprised. Sometimes, even government agencies pretend not to be aware.
This issue of Lamens importing unwholesome food (rice just being the latest) is widely known across secondary schools.
So much so that even the Auditor General has flagged it since 2020. See attached.
It all started when the political jobbers whose duty it is to convert government policies to "cash for the boys" decided to bring party people onboard to supply food to secondary schools.
Due to headmasters no longer having any serious resources due to the "no fees" policy, food supply is now handled by these politically connected suppliers.
One of the Bosses of Lamens was a kingpin in the "Kejetia Elephant Movement Association", a group of traders reportedly associated with the current ruling party.
Getting fat deals to bring in tons of rice, canned fish, tinned milk, etc was thus a no-brainer. (Later, mining concessions and other goodies would be added on top, but that's another story for another day).
No investigation will go anywhere because this is a systemic issue that has been tolerated for years. Even the Public Accounts Committee, nominally bipartisan, has not seen the need to pursue the matter.
As for the unwholesome stuff, the students have been consuming quite regularly if audits are to be believed.
What we need to also establish is whether the upsurge in chronic disease some physicians say they are seeing among Ghanaian teens has any connection with all this imported canned fish and milk, and rebagged rice, etc.