Ei Kojo, e be your kiddies that? Yea, dem be Nii den Ayele. Nice! Ayele, te tɛɛ? Ma guy, dem no dey hear Ga ooo, e be blɛ pɛ dem know. How?!?! Man, I shock give you waaa. I dey beg make I do ma body prim pro small den talk you something… Despite the dearth […]
The Social Construction of the Ghanaian Police Officer
Image from: Tilapia / http://3news.com/cartoon-scrubbing-to-restore-public-confidence/ Growing up, one of the strategies some parents used to “put the fear of God” in us when we went wrong was to threaten a call to the police. “If you don’t finish your food, I will call for the police to come and catch you”, those who raised us […]
#IAmANAS! No, You Are Not: A Country, A Man, A Veil and A Recorder
Rapper Dadie Opanka dressed as Anas in the video for his song, I AM ANAS In the last few months, the Ghanaian news media has been dominated by the investigative report on football operations in the country authored by Anas Aremeyaw Anas. At least once or twice each year in the last few years, this […]
Waist Shapers and the Fashioning of the Ghanaian Woman’s Body Ideal
Photo Credit: Anny Kareem-Abdi Osabutey (Facebook Page, 2018) ROUND BUTTOCKS POMADE AVAILABLEINSTANT FLAT STOMACHSMALL WAIST, BIG HIPSREDUCE 3 INCHES IN 3 MINUTES… Beauty ideals are not set in stone; they are fluid, constantly changing and usually influenced by sociocultural contexts. Globalization, and the associated dominance of Western consumer culture are increasingly ensuring the exportation of the […]
Public Debates in Ghana and the “It-Does-Not-Put-Food-on-the-Table” Narrative
Photo credit: Tilapia Public Debates in Ghana and the “It-Does-Not-Put-Food-on-the-Table” Narrative If you are like me with the somewhat high moral pretension that there is a definitely strong linkage between a people’s choice of diction and their perceptions of socio-political life, you’ll probably notice that much of our national discourse on other-than-bread-and-butter issues tend to be […]