Pae mu ka @ 20: A Sound of our time In the early nineties, political liberalization and the gradual restoration of freedom in Ghana led to the revival of a dormant music landscape. Young artistes were drawing inspiration from American Hip Hop icons like Tupac, and Naughty by Nature. Mahoney P, arguably produced the first […]
#Skopatomana: The Meaningful Brilliance in Patapaa’s Meaningless Lyrics
#Skopatomana: The Meaningful Brilliance in Patapaa’s Meaningless Lyrics Some few weeks ago, the Swedru-based Hiplife Artiste, Patapaa, got the #SkopatomanaChallenge trending on social media. He had been featured by an upcoming artiste in a song, Daavi, and in his rap verse, Patapaa decided to deliver what is clearly bars of meaningless lyrics. He opened the […]
Rethinking the Career Day Celebration in Basic Schools
Rethinking the Career Day Celebration in Basic Schools Marking of career day in schools has fast become a common practice in many nursery, kindergarten and basic schools in Ghana. For what it signifies, the day offers school children an explicable connection between their would-be long academic experience and their career. In other words, the day […]
The Name of my Mother’s Salon was Black Beauty
Photo credit: Yoway Hairtique At the extreme right of the stores that hedged the market square of my hometown from the busy Kumasi-Sunyani road was my mother’s salon. Painted dark green with white diagonal stripes, the salon bore a big signage. With a clumsy piece of art of a hairy dark woman, the signage read […]