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Editorial
What is Ghanaian pride and how do we celebrate this
beautiful country we’ve been blessed with?

THIS IS THE THEME OF THE SECOND ISSUE AND WE

WENT THE EXTRA MILE TO FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT
IT IS THAT MAKES US WHO WE ARE AS A PEOPLE.
OUR TRADITIONAL CULTURES, OUR MUSIC, OUR
INTELLIGENCE, OUR SOCCER, OUR CREATIVITY - ALL
THESE THINGS ARE ARE JUST PART OF THE MELTING
POT OF QUALITIES THAT MAKE US WHO WE ARE.

WE’RE CELEBRATING US.

In this issue, we decided to take two literary think-tanks

and pick their minds on this issue of Ghanaian pride.
Commonwealth-nominated Ghanaian writer, Ayesha Harruna
Attah, and internationally-celebrated Ghanaian writer,
performance poet and social commentator, Nii Ayikwei
Parkes, are the focuses of our FEATURE articles.

Whenever anyone talks about Ghanaian pride, they cannot

ignore touching on and speaking about our tradition
religions. Documentary photographer, Seton Nicholas,
accepted the task of experiencing a traditional religion
ceremony first-hand and documenting it through his eye in
our FLASH (photojournalism) section.

Coming out in June, there was no way we could ignore the

World Cup fever that has gripped our beautiful nation. And
to make things a little easier for you, we’ve included the
complete set of World Cup fixtures in our new SPORTS
section. No time to hustle when you’ve got a game to watch!

And finally, the new ICON section introduces a Ghanaian

heavyweight that not many of us know enough about.

Remember, email the Dust team at info@accradust.com with

any of your comments, recommendations or requests.

We dey for you paa!

 Contributors
Seton Nicholas Bill Bedzrah

Nana Darkoa is a
modern Ghanaian
woman. With a
strong interest in
women’s rights
and issues,
Nana has broke
the mould Malaka Grant
for Ghanaian
Crystal Svanikier women. She Mother, wife,
Crystal has been manages Ghana’s and phenomenal
a freelance writer first and most humorist, Malaka
for three years and popular blog on is a woman on a
studied in Cape African sexuality, mission. Not only
A self-
Town, Oxford Adventures from The writer of our is she the mother
professed social
and Dundee. Nana Kofi is a the bedrooms of very popular, “You of 3 (and expecting
commentator,
She has worked Ghanaian-born African Women. Know You’re in another one),
Seton Nicholas is a
photographer who
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with a number Posts are based Accra When...”, but she is also a
photographer that
of magazines, works across the on the personal Bill Bedzrah is a prolific blogger -
uses the power of
newspapers and African continent experiences of man that typifies putting the rest of
his lens to observe
organisations and beyond. With the contributors the best of what us single, childless
and reflect on all
to come up with a strong interest and falls in line Accra has to people to shame.
the intricacies
creative reports in documentary with Nana’s offer. A socially A new addition
of Ghanaian life.
and analyses. photography. This desire to provide adept business to the Dust team,
The man behind
She is a former issue however, a safe place for consultant, Bill Malaka’s page is
this issue’s
employee of Nana Kofi showed women to express appreciates Accra filled with humor
photo essay,
Global Media his flair for writing, themselves - in a way that most and an astute
Seton explores
6 Alliance (CNN contributing our whether sexually of us don’t know observant analysis
traditional religion
Africa Journalist of first ever Icon or otherwise. or just take for that most people
as an outsider
the Year Awards, piece on the granted. overlook.
and captures
Happy FM, eTV late great Kofi
the spiritual
Ghana), working Ghanaba.
power behind the
as a marketing mundanity of it
executive and all. No miracles,
assistant editor no extravagant
of Sunday World proclamations; just
newspaper (now a ecclesiastical
Weekend World). conviction in
the Gods of our
ancestors.

Nana Darkoa
Sekyiamah
Nana Kofi
Acquah
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T he
Food is
so unique, historic, local, and
complex; classic highlife; the traditional
political institutions that, as an East
African, are my only connection to traditional
African political institutions of any kind. I think
they make Ghanaians more grounded in their
identity than other Africans; unlike Kenyans whose
traditional political institutions are dead! The pidgin;
the cloth; the fact that people tend to speak more
than one Ghanaian language; the gold; the oil; adinkra
symbols; the durbars; the strange hyphenation of
names; oh... the list goes on and on...
J.A. Spintex Road
C old
Fanta
cocktail in a glass bottle,
untouched paradise beaches
in the Western Region, full
bodied women, the dramatic
identical lean of the trees in a
rubber plantation, the market
woman’s teasing banter, jumping in
the pool after walking through the
midday sun, genuine “good-mornings”,
heated arguments in the street (yet
never a punch thrown), the ubiquitous
Ghanaian flag, always feeling at home.
- D.J., Adenta

I W
am a proud Ghanaian because I am a citizen of one of
the greatest countries in Africa, a continent plagued
with several cases of misfortune. Through it all, Ghana
has been a shining example on several fronts and indeed
we are the ‘black star of Africa’. I am a proud Ghanaian
because I believe in the potential and
tenacity of my
people, the
ell the women.... The way a
woman knows how to take care
of her man. No matter her social
standing in life and no matter her exposure
to the western world, a good Ghanaian woman always takes
care of her man! Not just cooking and cleaning etc, but
emotionally, physically, sexually too. A good Ghanaian
woman always takes care of her man. They are the rock
behind every successful man!

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spirit of family K.A. Accra

I
and our strong
n Ghana, its interesting how when you
communities. meet people, they treat you differently
We Rock! because of the school you attended,
the location of your house or the
A. D. model of the car you drive. It can

What
Accra be very beneficial at times until they
start calling you ‘dadaba’!

makes
M.A.K., East Legon 7

you proud
T
he stress-free life, holidays, the fact
that when I was in Ghana my weekend

to be started on Thursday! I miss Ghana.

In the States, it’s a struggle to

Ghanaian, balance work and school. I have no

time to myself! I love your mag

or to live in site. Although you should include

more pictures. Apart from that, it’s

Ghana? excellent!
A.S., U.S.A.

C
heap ganja.
No violence.
Waakye.
I.K.U., Accra
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 FREESTYLE 3.The Registrar
2.You can General’s
1.Grass-cutter find 25 boot- department is full
(also known as of fat, white women
bushmeat or rodent)
legged movies marrying young and
is significantly more on 1 DVD (i.e. fit Ghanaian men or old white men marrying
young and pretty Ghanaian, ladies all
expensive than beef. Chinese VCD). because of “nkrataa” (a Resident Permit).

4.YOU CAN ATTEND 6.People

AN ENGAGEMENT are not sure 7.
ONLY TO REALIZE
THAT THE PEOPLE whether the Garbage
GETTING MARRIED President of
ARE NOT COMING is called
(AN ENGAGEMENT 5.You have to wake up Ghana has “BOLA”.
“IN ABSENTIA”). at 3am to fetch water children.
to survive the next day.

8.A lethal 9.The Holiday

Youknowyou’re
weapon Inn is given more
is legally
class and clout

inACCRA when...
advertised
on billboards than is normally
(Crocodile given to an airport
Machetes). hotel franchise.

12.Every local
TV station
10. The favourite airs at least
alcoholic 11. A HOT DOG one Mexican
beverage is Telenovela....
IS CALLED A (Second Chance,
made by the Irish
(Guinness).
‘SAUSAGE’. Ruby, Rosalinda,
Secreto D’amor
etc...)

13.The police 14.You hear a Lebanse 16.Private

will openly man or woman schools
request for a speaking better Twi or
Ga better than a local. charge in
“handout” by
saying, “Inside US Dollars
no good today 15.Every seamstress instead
ooh.” and tailor claims to be
a ‘fashion designer’.
of Ghana
17.The tallest Cedis.
monument is
not a national
monument, 18. THE MOST 19.All local 20.Its easy to buy a
but a Mormon FAMOUS celebrities speak
angel with a ‘LIGHTHOUSE’ IS A with a ‘Locally cellphone with four SIM
trumpet (on CHURCH AND NOT Acquired Foreign card holders (known as a
Independence A SIGNAL POST FOR
Avenue). SEA VESSELS.
Accent’ (LAFA). ‘Chinese-4-Runner’).

Monkeys to Man...
to Monkeys.
Start with a cage containing
five monkeys...
Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string
and place a set of stairs under it. Before
long, a monkey will go to the stairs and
start to climb towards the banana. As soon
as he touches the stairs, spray all of the
other monkeys with cold water.
After a while, another monkey makes an
attempt with the same result - all the other
monkeys are sprayed with cold water.
Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to
climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try
to prevent it.
Now, put away the cold water. Remove
one monkey from the cage and replace
it with a new one. The new monkey sees
the banana and wants to climb the stairs.
To his surprise and horror, all of the other
monkeys attack him.
After another attempt and attack, he knows
that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be
assaulted.
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Next, remove another of the original five
monkeys and replace it with a new one.
The newcomer goes to the stairs and is
attacked. The previous newcomer takes
part in the punishment with enthusiasm!
Likewise, replace a third original monkey
with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth.
Every time the newest monkey takes to the
stairs, he is attacked.
Most of the monkeys that are beating him
have no idea why they were not permitted
to climb the stairs or why they are
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participating in the beating of the newest
monkey.
After replacing all the original monkeys,
none of the remaining monkeys have
ever been sprayed with cold water.
Nevertheless, no monkey ever again
approaches the stairs to try for the banana.
Why not? Because as far as they know
that’s the way it’s always been done round
here.
And that, my friends, is how company
policies are made.
Original Source Unknown
 Mind of Malaka

Happy Mother’s Day, PUNK!

I spent Mother’s day 2009 much the same way I’ll probably
spend this one: Pregnant, fat and exhausted. What I’m hoping,
however, is that my children will spare me the antics of last I’ll take the
year’s holiday for the 2010 version.
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As I lay in my bed on May 10, 2009, weary from the grueling

ritual that was taking care of two toddlers, I tiredly asked my
pancakes
and flowers
children to just sit and play in my room while I laid down for a
moment. Nadjah was 4 at the time. Aya was 2 and a half. I only
had 2 weeks left to deliver what I assumed at the time was my
last child.
in bed any
“Mommeee, can we watch TeeeVeee?” Nadjah asked in her day over my
12 shrill, sing-song voice.
kids trying to
“No.”
“Can we build a castle?” she asked again.
play me like a
“No.” I was bone tired and irritated. “Just get some toys and
play on the floor.”
“Okay!”
punk.
The sound of my two children’s chatter filled the room, and I sunk my head deeper into my
pillow ignoring the roundhouse kicks that my son was delivering to my abdomen. Nadjah
and Aya cackled and guffawed, delighting one another with the playful gibberish only
understandable to two sisters so close in age. 10 minutes into my slumber, I felt a gust of
wind come through the window and hit my back.
“It’s chilly and windy all of a sudden,” I thought.
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Then I heard thumping against  aluminum. Next, a tiny voice “Why? What’s wrong?” he
said “My turn!!!” was laughing.
My turn? My turn for what? I quickly gave him the
I rolled my pregnant, obese body over and to my surprise short version.
and horror, my children had pushed the sliding glass “I’ll be home in 15
window up, removed the screen and were running full minutes.”

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kilter across the top of my carport. A 15 foot drop onto
unforgiving asphalt awaited them below if they slipped. When my husband walked
Nadjah was closest to the window, and Aya was gingerly in the door, I had already
walking towards the edge, giggling the whole way. In the put both kids in bed where
calmest voice I could muster, I commanded them back into they would be safe from
the house. my wrath. He called them
out of bed, explained
“Git yer Black butts back in here NOW!!!!” why what they did was
Stunned, Aya stopped in her tracks. Nadjah climbed back in wrong (“and dangerous!” I 13
and her sister followed. I surveyed the room around me. My screeched) and smacked
screen lay on the floor, two screws lifelessly on either side. them both on their
A collection of leaves and pine cones was on the floor. My bottoms. Thoroughly
children stood looking sheepishly at me. chastised, they went
sobbing back to bed.
“What the—??! How the—?!?! You—?!?!?!”
I’m overcome even as I
My inability to form complete sentences was disconcerting sit here writing about that
to my youngest and she began to cry. I reached for a ridiculous day. Lets hope
wooden spoon and prepared to deliver the World’s Greatest Mother’s Day 2010 is a
Butt Whoopin’, but I thought the better of it. I was too angry little less eventful. I’ll take
and I might hurt them too much. Visions of a home visit from the pancakes and flowers
child services darted through my head. I called my husband in bed any day over my
who was sitting in an elder’s meeting at church. kids trying to play me like
“Marshall. You get home right now and you whoop these a punk.
kids right now, you hear me?!”
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FROM KWAME NKRUMAH ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO MODERN

GLOBALLY-RECOGNIZED GHANAIAN ICONS INCLUDING MICHAEL
Ghana
ESSIEN AND KOFI ANNAN, OUR COUNTRY HAS CERTAINLY
STAKED ITS CLAIM IN WORLD HISTORY AND POP CULTURE. OVER Goes
POP
THE COURSE OF TIME, DUST STAFF HAVE BEEN SURPRISED TO
ENCOUNTER REFERENCES TO GHANA IN SOME SLIGHTLY MORE
UNEXPECTED PLACES THOUGH. HERE’S A COMPILATION OF A
FEW OF THEM

Movie: Syriana Movie: El Cantante

One might not expect to
hear Ghana referred to in a
movie starring Hollywood
superstars George
Clooney and Matt Damon
to do with spies, terrorism
and the Middle East. So imagine our surprise
when a couple of minutes into the film,
George Clooney’s spy tells his son that he
has been assigned to the Middle East and
his son asks him why they couldn’t send him
somewhere cool, ‘like Ghana…’ Smart kid.
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In this movie (produced
by and starring his wife,
Jennifer Lopez), actor/singer
Marc Anthony plays Latin
music legend Hector Lavoe.
One of Lavoe’s most many
hits was a song called ‘Chechecole’ - or
as it might be spelt in Twi, ‘Kyekyekule’. In
the song Lavoe recalls hearing the popular
Ghanaian children’s song. Marc Anthony’s
version of the song (for the El Cantante
soundtrack) went on to make the song a hit
all over again in Latin America.

Video Game: Tomb Event: Michael

Raider Legends
Lara Croft is the star of
one of the longest-running
franchises in video game
history and is so famous
that she has been played on
the big screen by actress Angelina Jolie. In
14 the latest game in the ever-popular series,
gamers find themselves transported to an
ancient temple hidden behind a waterfall in
the Ghanaian rainforests where her parents
worked before she was born and left behind
a valuable artefect.
Jackson’s Funeral
Like everywhere else in the
world, the King of Pop was
incredibly popular in Ghana
and everyone who had
access to international television was glued
to their television screens for his funeral.
It was a small but poignant surprise when
Queen Latifah mounted the podium and
mentioned Black Star Square in Ghana as
one of the places where Michael was being
mourned.

Music: ‘As We Enter’ by Nas &

Damian Marley Have you ever
Each a giant in his own genre of music, come across
rapper Nas and Bob Marley’s last son,
Damian recently united to record the album an unexpected
Distant Cousins. On the lead single, ‘As We
Enter’ Damian Marley threatens to ‘switch
reference to
up the language and move to Ghana’. Hardly surprising perhaps
given Rita Marley’s regular activities here (as well as rumours
Ghana? Send it to
editor@accradust.com
that Lauryn Hill-Marley has also been in and out of Ghana a
couple of times).
 How to Have Better Sex:
THE LOWDOWN ON THE FOODS THAT’LL
MAKE YOU SAY MMMMMM!
Oysters, honey, bananas... there is a long list of foods that are said
to be able to get blood flowing to your vital parts and get you in the
mood. Studies have shown that this is because certain vitamins and
minerals boost hormone levels and increase nerve sensitivity.

This is great news for those of us who are as dry as a kola nut. We
found some readily available foods that you should add to your diet to
get you going in the bedroom!

Avocado Pear
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Did you know that the ancient South

American civilisation, the Aztecs, used
to call the avocado ‘ahuacuatl’, which
means ‘testicle tree’? This is because
the fruit usually hangs in pairs, which
resembles testicles. Avocados are full
of folic acid, vitamin B6 and potassium
16 - all great sources of strength to aid
circulation, balance hormones and
improve circulation.

Eggs
We all have been told that eggs are high
in cholesterol and will raise your blood
pressure (eventually increasing your risk
of a heart attack). But few people know
that this food, rich in vitamin B6, is also
good at balancing out hormone levels
and effectively helping you cope with
stress. Stress is a leading cause of low
libidos, so the next time your mother-in-
law won’t get off your case (or leave your
home) try making an omelet.

Steak
The whole of Ghana can rejoice! Beef
and red-meat can help slow down
the production of prolactin, which - at
high levels - kills your libido faster than
the thought of drinking water from a
Jamestown gutter. So if you’re thinking of
going vegetarian, stop for a second and
really evaluate the consequences of your
new-found lifestyle... Just saying!
Garlic
Okay. So, your breath will be a
weapon of mass-destruction for
hours afterwards, but did you know
that eating garlic is one of the most
effective ways of improving your
circulation, making sure that more
blood gets to you ‘down under’?
Honest! By dilating and helping clear
blood vessels, garlic makes sure the
blood is pumped more efficiently and
effectively to where it matters most.
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Oranges
Foods that are high in vitamin C are
not just effective in fight clods and flu.
Vitamin C increases your oxytocin levels,
which leaves you with that ‘lovey-dovey’
feeling. In the long term, it also creates
feelings of attachment, which is excellent
if you’re looking for long term partners.
Chocolate
The good, faithful cocoa; not only does
it do wonders for our national economy,
but it also makes you feel good. Women
all around the world can attest to the
positive (almost drug-like) effect that
chocolate has on them. Furthermore,
studies have shown that it has the same
effect on men too! Cocoa contains
methylxanthine (if you can pronounce
this, you deserve a prize!), which triggers
dopamine (the ‘Happy Hormone’).
So, ladies and gentlemen, don’t deny
yourself that bar of chocolate by the
register at Shoprite; you
know you want it!
 The Dust Guide to Putting Together a

World Cup Mixtape

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, ONE OF THE MOST POSITIVE THINGS AFRICANS ARE
ASSOCIATED WITH THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IS MUSIC. OUR FOREBEARS HAVE GIVEN BIRTH
TO EVERYTHING FROM THE BLUES TO HIP-HOP MUSIC (ASK PANJI FOR HIS THEORY ON HOW
GYEDU BLAY AMBOLLEY – AND NOT JAMES BROWN - IS THE GODFATHER OF RAP). GIVEN THAT
LINK, IT IS PERHAPS ONLY NATURAL THAT THE FIRST WORLD CUP ON AFRICAN SOIL WILL
INSPIRE A LOT OF MUSIC (AND HOPEFULLY SOME DANCING TOO).

HERE AT DUST WE HAVE OUR OWN SONGS WE PLAN TO SING DURING THE CUP, AND WE
KNOW A COUPLE OF SOCER-RELATED SONGS WE RECKON YOU WILL HEAR A LOT. CONSIDER
THIS THE DUST MAGAZINE GUIDE TO PUTTING TOGETHER A WORLD CUP MIXTAPE.

Waving Flag – Knaan

Apparently, ‘Waving Flag’ by Somali/Canadian

musician is not the official World Cup theme song, but
rather it is Coca-Cola’s official World Cup theme song
(see Shakira below for the official one). Whatever. Either
way, this is probably the song you will associate the
most with the Cup in years to come. You can choose
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between the original solo version on Knaan’s quality

album, Troubador, or various versions with Spanish
singer David Bisbal, Nigerian rapper M.I or Black Eyed
Peas frontman, will.i.am.

Oh Africa – Akon feat. Keri Hilson

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‘Oh Africa’ is actually a single to raise funds for Akon’s charity

‘Konfidence’, set up to help underprivileged African youth.
However, it has been included on the Official World Cup album
and with its catchy sing-song chorus, it is probably going to be a
close runner-up to Waving Flag in terms of airplay.

Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) – Shakira

Sexy Columbian singer, Shakira, is well-known in Ghana for ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, her
hit collaboration with Haitian hip-hop star, Wyclef Jean, and to a lesser extent for
‘Wherever Whenever’. Her new song has the distinction of being the official World
Cup song. Why a Columbian is singing a theme for Africa’s first Cup is anyone’s
guess (it’s a global affair, maybe?) and the song does not seem to be going down as
well as Knaan and Akon’s. Either way though, you will definitely hear it this season.
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Asokpo!

Here in Ghana, we follow what seems

to be international standards for sports
programming, with an asokpo song forming
the theme tune of almost every sports show
on radio and television. So your mixtape
must include at least one or two asokpo
tunes the likes of ‘Party Hard’ by Donaeó
or a classic like Crystal Water’s ‘Gypsy
Woman (La Da Di Di)’…

A dash of Kwaito

… or even more appropriate may be South

Africa’s very own brand of local asokpo,
Kwaito. The most popular kwaito song on
this side of the continent is probably the late
Brenda Fassie’s ‘Vuli Ndlela’ but the genre
has definitely moved on since then, making /
Kwaito a vibrant genre. Dust recommends
‘The Way’ by Bongo Maffin and ‘Shibobo’
– a collaboration between

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TKZee and none other than
Bafana Bafana (the South
African national football
team) and Ajax Amsterdam
striker, Benni McCarthy.
Goal – wanlov the kubolor

We’re big fans of wanlov here in

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the Dust offices and we feel that
no Ghanaian song captures the
excitement of football more than
wanlov’s ‘Goal’.
Going Straight to the Top – Talal Fatal

Whether you like it or not, the man from Metro TV has made
sure that ‘Going Straight to the Top’ is the unofficial Black Stars
anthem, played every time the boys have a game to play. This
song is the quintessential Ghanaian football anthem and whether
you like it “or yes”, you are going to hear this a lot during the
World Cup season. A LOT.

If you disagree, send your alternatives to editor@accradust.

com: we dare you!
 FREESTYLE

GHANA ONLINE
HERE IS THIS QUARTER’S PICK OF THE BLOGS AND WEBSITES THAT THE
DUST TEAM HAVE BEEN CHECKING OUT OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS.

Humour
Maize Brek
http://maizebreak.com/
Maize break is one of the internet’s funniest breaks from
reality. If you are ever bored and want a laugh, make
sure to check out this blog’s ‘news’ stories on King
Ayisoba promoting dental care, MP’s disappointment
that Obama brought ‘no cheque’ and Cameroonian first
lady Chantal Biya’s wig seeking compensation from its
owner.

Tech
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Ubuntu
www.ubuntu.com
There’s more to computing than Windows and Mac.
Ubuntu is one of the world’s fastest growing operating
systems, it’s African, it is almost completely virus-proof
and most importantly, it’s free. It can even co-exist on
your computer alongside your Windows or Mac system.
20 Ubuntu 10 came out last month and it’s the best in the
series. Check it out.

Music
DestiNation: Africa
www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/djedu
Even the BBC is interested in young African music and
its ambassador is DJ Edu. The Kenyan-born London
resident hosts DestiNation Africa (DNA), a weekly fix
of the best music from all over the continent. Make
sure to check out his blends of popular African songs
with the freshest R&B. He hosted a special from Accra
during the African Cup of Nations, so expect something
special during the South African World Cup.
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In the last issue we gave you some examples of
some of Ghana’s top blogs. If you want a one-
stop shop for all of them though, check out Ghana
Blogging, which aggregates them all in one spot
so that you don’t miss anything. Who knows which
interesting piece you will stumble on next?

Surf Yellow Pages

Practical

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http://www.yellowpages.com.gh/
One of the country’s most useful websites, Surf is
basically Ghana’s answer to the Yellow Pages: a
directory of many of the country’s businesses and
institutions. Very useful in case you need a number
and cannot remember the number of your telecom
provider’s directory service (why can’t they all just
share one? Sigh…)
21

Sports BBC World Cup

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/
world_cup_2010/default.stm
Of course, everyone will be looking for somewhere
to get the latest statistics and information on who’s
playing, who’s won and who’s lost during the World
Cup and the BBC’s special world cup site is a
pretty damn good place to start. Also check out
the official World Cup site from the South African
government, ttp://www.sa2010.gov.za/

Feel we left something out? Got a website you visit a lot? Send us a mail at editor@accradust.com
Here are some of the movies to buy, download or
sell A SMALL BODY PART for this season.
Shrek Forever
After
The fourth (and final)
film in the Shrek
series went straight
in at no. 1 on the US
charts, & must be
pretty damn good
to have staved off
competition from
the likes of Prince of Persia, Sex & the
City II & Iron Man 2.
Inception
Clips from Leo
DiCaprio’s
new movie are
reminiscent of
the mind-bending
that happened in
the Matrix series.
Don’t expect a
senseless action film though: director
Christopher Nolan’s last film was
the critically acclaimed (& Oscar-
nominated) Dark Knight.
Get Him to the
Greek
If you enjoyed
Superbad, Knocked
Up or Forgetting
Sarah Marshall,
then this comedy is
definitely for you as
it’s coming from the
same team. Oh, and
it stars a certain Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
Take that, take that...
Do you have a film coming out that will move our cinema industry forward? Send an email to
editor@accradust.com
Knight & Day
This action-comedy
has a cool trailer and
reunites Vanilla Sky
co-stars, Tom Cruise
& Cameron Diaz who
star respectively as
a secret agent with
the world chasing
him and his unlucky-in-love blind date
thrown into his chaotic world.
Predators
With Robert
Rodriguez
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(Desperado, Sin City,
Spy Kids) producing
this film, it looks set
to be more than just
another sequel in
one of the longest-
standing sci-fi franchises of all time.
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the green
hornet
The original TV
series of this comic
book character
starred Bruce Lee as
a sidekick, so expect
high kicks & karate
chops galore in this
action-comedy.
 VENT!

I
always saw myself
as a calm and careful
driver. Not necessarily
an excellent one,
especially when it comes
to manoeuvres, but I
prided myself on being conscientious when
I drive. That all ended when I moved to by Jemima Agyare
Accra. My care on the roads is rewarded
you...) The last time I checked, the Highway
with loud beeps from impatient drivers
Code did not state that driving on the
behind me and my calm road demeanour
right hand side of the road was optional.
has turned into cold aggression. I’m afraid
Also, some of the unique practises, such
that driving in Accra has turned me into
as the use of hazard lights when there is
this.
no hazard in sight, lead to confusion and
sometimes chaos.
My daily routine involves me driving from
Dansoman (where I live) to East Legon
The public transport system in Accra
(where I work). The journey is a long and
(indeed in the whole nation) needs to be
tiring one. I find myself fighting with the
addressed. Although trotros and taxis
Accra traffic and (often) losing the battle.
provide much needed transportation for
I’m on my 4th route (I change routes to try
many in the city, their standards are not up
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and avoid traffic hotspots and potential

to scratch. I recently went in a taxi that had
‘flare-up’ spots) but still get caught in
mosquitoes breeding in the back seat (don’t
endless amounts of traffic.
ask me how) and was so rusty that I felt
like I need to rush to the nearest clinic for a
We all know that congestion in Accra is
tetanus injection. It’s commonplace to see
a serious issue. The sheer volume of
trotros with their doors hanging off (literally)
traffic and the reckless driving that can
and taxis minus one mirror.
be witnessed on a daily basis can turn
24 a seemingly ‘decent’ human being into
I do not want to belittle the drivers that
an enraged monster (I have seen this
are providing a service but I feel someone
transformation happen before my very
has to highlight the fact that standards are
eyes). Road rage is a common occurrence
inadequate and something must be done.
in our city and this is only a symptom of the
underlying problem of the state of our roads
I long for the day when I can leave my
and transport system in general.
car at home, hop onto an efficient,
comfortable, well maintained mode of
I, for one, have grown tired of the disregard
public transportation, and relax as I prepare
for road safety flagrantly displayed on our
myself for a hectic day at the office. As it
roads. This has serious consequences
stands, I arrive to work stressed, frustrated
and contributes to the high number of
and even angry and that’s at 6.30am!
accidents. For example, I have witnessed
There is so much to see and do in this city
cars driving on the left hand side of the
and a modern, well regulated transport
road for no apparent reason (and if you’re
system would make commuting around this
honest with yourself, you have too, haven’t
city a more pleasurable experience.
Is there anything about Accra that makes you want to scream and shout. Tell us about
it. Send an email to editor@accradust.com
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THE BIG IDEA BEHIND DUST MAGAZINE
IS TO HELP TO DEFINE ACCRA’S EVER-GROWING
IDENTITY BY DOCUMENTING THE THOUGHTS,
FEELINGS AND LIVES OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE
WITHIN IT. ONCE YOU PUT ALL OF THAT ON PAPER,
IT GIVES US ALL THE CHANCE TO ANALYZE AND
MAKE SENSE OF WHERE WE COME FROM, THE
THINGS WE SHARE IN COMMON AND WHERE WE
ARE GOING.

No one does this better than a writer.

A good writer observes the life going on
around them and puts it to paper, shaping
stories out of thin air. As Ghanaians, we

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may not read as much as we should do but
we have a lonstanding tradition of
storytelling stretching as far back
as Ananses m AND BEYOND. 27

Today, we have new writers documenting our

country in new ways. Dust SPOKE TO two SUCH
WRITERS, BOTH OF WHOM HAVE BEEN SHORTLISTED
FOR THIS YEAR’s COMMONWEALTH FIRST BOOK PRIZE...

Nii Ayikwei Parkes &

Ayesha Harruna Attah...
AYESHA
Harruna Attah
photo credit. Matthew Mendelson

Not many writers can boast of having as
rich and as interesting a continent as African
writers do, and even fewer can boast about
having recognized fame. Ghanaian writer,
Ayesha Harruna Attah, has both. Her first
novel, Harmattan Rain, has caused a stir in
literary circles around the world, bringing a
fresh vitality to Ghanaian literature that has
been missing for the past twenty years.
At the age of 26, Ayesha has achieved what
most writers only dream of achieving. A
successful journalist, trained biochemist and
recognized “emerging literary icon”, Ayesha
is making a name for herself in a notoriously
difficult industry. So much so that her very
first novel was shortlisted for the 2010
Commonwealth Writer’s Prize (Africa region).
To put this into perspective, the
Commonwealth Writer’s Prize is a leading
award for fiction - one of the most sought
after prizes in the literary world. Winners
receive enough clout to negotiate deals
worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
with international publishing houses. It’s the
opportunity of a lifetime.
You must be wondering who this young
woman making waves is. Ayesha Harruna
Attah was born and raised in Accra. Growing
up in Accra’s residential areas, Ayesha says
her childhood experiences are what shaped
her as a person, and consequently as a
writer.
“In the places I lived, there were people
whose parents changed cars whenever
they felt like it and there were others whose
parents couldn’t afford to buy mosquito
proofing to cover their windows. I learned
the disparities life offers quite early, and that
has made me very conscious of the choices
I make. I think on the whole, the
kind of exposure I had made me
want to effect some change in the
world, however small.”
Her parents are the owners of one of Ghana’s
biggest private newspapers, The Mail, so
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Ayesha had a very early introduction to the
world of writing. Describing herself during
that time as a ‘closet writer’, Ayesha says that
there are so many stories dying to be told.
Speaking specifically about the African
Experience, Ayesha argues that it’s not
monolithic and can’t be defined, “The
African Experience is a fascinating world
of contradictions and complexities. It’s a
world of laughter and sadness, opulence and
poverty, overdramatic grandmothers and
taciturn grandsons. It’s full of actions that
make sense to no one but the African.”
Its an interesting description, especially now
that the world is beginning to appreciate
what African writers have to offer. Whether
this is the result of international trade or
globalization, African writers like Ayesha are
finally beginning to receive recognition on
large international platforms.
However, the most significant contribution to
the increasing prominence of African writers is
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the internet. Ayesha reckons that the internet
has been “liberating” for the African writer.
She sites the example of African Roar, an
online anthology of African writing, produced
by the Zimbabwean writer, Ivor Hartmann.
“He has started a blog for showcasing stories
from African writer and now using that as a 29
springboard, he’s created a network of writer
and readers of African literature. On StoryTime
(Ivor’s blog), the stories range from science
fiction to love stories to literary fiction - none
of them conform to anybody’s idea of what
African writing should be.”
And that’s exactly what makes Ayesha’s
writing so fresh: her exposure to
unconventional takes of what African
writing is. Her own novel, which depicts
the circumstances of three generations of
Ghanaian women at different points in Accra’s
history, celebrates the cultural and social
melting-pot that defines this metropolis, and
we at Dust celebrate her for it!

What did you start out
wanting to do?
I just wanted to have fun. In
primary school, I threw stones,
played football, and stole
mangoes. I grew up in North
Kaneshie and I was almost a
kubolor, but my parents were
a little too strict to allow that
to happen. Ghana was all
mystery, beauty and magic: I
came when I was five. There
were all these languages; all
this dust; trees I could climb;
chicken, sheep and goats... it
was just incredible. I started
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making ice lollies for the boys
in the area. I could get people
to wash my clothes at home
because they owed me money.
I never really thought about
what I wanted to do until
Achimota School where I joined
the drama club. I think that
is where my love of language
30 crystallized. Drama was the
thing I wanted to do: I wanted
to be an actor.
Is that when you started
telling stories?
Coming to Ghana, I was a
talkative kid. There was all this
stuff around me and I wanted
to talk. I made up stories. My
mom says I had an excuse for
everything. I wasn’t conscious
of it, but that’s probably where
it started.
My father used to wake up
early in the morning to read
before he would go to work.
There were four of us and I was
the one kid who could wake
up early, so I would do that so
it was just me and my father.
Because he was reading, he
could not talk to me. So he
would hand me paper and I
would doodle. At some point,
that became writing stuff down.
I never gave it a name. I was
probably ten or eleven when I
showed him something and he
said ‘oh, you’re writing poetry
now’. That became something
which had a name. From that
time, I started to save the
things I was writing. It was just
my thing.
What do you think defines
Ghanaian writing (the good
and the bad)?
There’s an incredible range
of social and linguistics
experiences in Ghana that
change how a person sees the
world so I would be hesitant to
say that this is the Ghanaian
voice. You have people like
Mohammed Nasiru Ali who
writes his stories based in the
Kumasi zongo. His stories are
like a new country to me. What
he’s choosing to write is an
experience I don’t know. I’ve
always been wary of labeling
things. But I would say a
Ghanaian novel should have
some indication of linguistic
range because that is most
Ghanaians’ experience: you
can’t live in Ghana and not hear
two languages in a day.
I’ve been quite worried that
because of the lack of libraries
people haven’t been aware of
the evolution of the English
language. People still write
quite stiffly, in a very Bronte
sisters type of language, which
is not the right costume for
the Ghanaian experience. I try
to tell people to look at slang

in English novels: they are
the ones who brought this to
us. I really feel like
when people stop
apologizing for who
we are and start
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to write language
the way we speak it
then you will start
to see in writers
from Ghana the kind
of muscularity you
see for example in
Latin America. We
own the language
in speaking, but we
don’t in writing. It’s
almost like we are
apologizing for what
we speak.
Which writers have
influenced you?
I don’t know if I’m conscious
of influence but I admire
certain writers. I don’t read
them to imitate. But I always
mention Mariama Ba, Ngugi,
James Baldwin… people can’t
get their heads around the
idea that a black guy wrote a
story about a white guy. It says
that you can write anything.
Locally, there’s Atukwei
Okai. His work is about the
music of language: ‘Lorgorligi
Algorhythms’. Most striking
of the Ghanaian writers I
read was Kofi Awoonor and
his book,‘This Earth My
Brother’. I love that book. Not
just because of the Accra it
paints of its time and how it
shows the variety of people’s
origins but also the dual
approach where he would
write something that was quite
abstract and alternate
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I ended up reading more than
I would have read than I would
if I’d just stayed in Ghana. It
became a bit more embedded.
When you’re in England,
people ask “what writers are in
Ghana?” and you have to have
an answer.
Is there anything that
defines a Nii Ayikwei Parkes
book?
I’m very interested in the
notion that a man differs from
his brother significantly. So
as much as they are brothers,
they’re different. I also play
with the idea of love not being
reversible. I don’t believe that
if people have loved, they can
take that love away. Even if
they call it hate, it’s a kind of
love.
I portray the non-human
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pursuit of wealth as a kind
of path to destruction. It’s
very directly used in one of
my short stories, ‘The Smell
of Petrol’ in which this guy is
trying to hold onto a car that
he bought. The car is pulling
him into a ditch but he’s tried
so long to put that car on the
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road that he is even neglecting
his family for it.
The Tail of a Blue Bird is an
exploration of power and
the fact that you can never
escape your family. It’s a very
claustrophobic notion but I
think a lot of Ghanaians will
recognize it. People around
the world even. If you’re not
talking to your brother and he
goes to do something, people
will still say that’s your brother.
To find out more about Nii &
his writing, visit http://www.
niiparkes.com
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A Village Boy’s
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Dream AN EXCERPT
The new book, A Village Boy’s Dream: a will to
succeed, is an autobiography by Koffi Addo.
The book traces the author’s life from a small village to his becoming a
prominent Ghanaian business man. The novel, told in a conversational and
reminiscent tone, is a historical piece that documents the social, political
and philosophical mindsets of a time we’re quickly forgetting. Here’s an
interesting excerpt from the novel:
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“The flair in this enterprise-culture was, however, doused one day when my plans
fell short of expectations. In the course of time, I had become aware of stipendiary
speakers on lecture circuits, so when I received an invitation to travel to Hope,
Arkansas, to speak at a high school there, I sang the Hallelujah Chorus with a thrill
of delight in praise of God, the Great Provider. At the appointed time for my travel,
however, I painfully discovered that I did not have sufficient funds for the journey. But
bolstered by hope and confidence that I would be richly rewarded after the lecture, I
took a risk and raced downtown to a familiar pawnshop and deposited one of my only
two lounge suits as security for a loan.

This transaction turned out not to be a sensible bargain for me because the hard
pawnbroker devalued by Gold Coast (Ghana) custom-made outfit as generations out-
of-step with fashion in the United States. The two-piece suit fetched some paltry three
dollars, and the man added - cheekily - that he had done me a favor. The money was
just enough for my return-transport-fare from Pine Bluff to Hop, Arkansas. But as I have
said, I was fully convinced that my host, the high school, would pay me handsomely to
enable me redeem my gray flannel suit back into my wardrobe.

Now, the auditorium at the school was packed to capacity with anxious staff and
students to hear me speak about my country in Africa. I treated my subject expertly,
and if the enthusiastic applause that punctuated my speech was the index of the rate
of my remuneration, then I would have been richer by far at the end of the function. But
sadly this was not to be. I had widely miscalculated because the compensatory gesture

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that I received was a regular lunch at the cafeteria in the company of the staff; and a car
ride to the Greyhound bus terminal where I was left to my own devices.

Contrary to my estimation, the hands that stretched to bid me good-bye at the station
transferred no stuffed envelope as recompense. I had raised my expectations, only to
have them dashed. My experience was, no doubt, an exercise in futility. To say the least,
I was crestfallen all the way back to my school, and whenever I glanced at the mirror
on the roof above the bus driver’s seat, I could see the look of disdain that clouded my
face. 33

Upon arrival on my campus, interested friends milled around me to enquire about the
outcome of my trip - and I wished that I could have narrated a story as hopeful as the
name of the school town implied: Hope, Arkansas. But I lacked the courage to acquaint
my friends of the fiasco of the day and confess my disappointment. However, my
sunken face alone might have betrayed me and said everything.

The recovery of my pawn too, gnawed at my soul. Soon the three months
pawnor’smoratorium expired and I lost my suit for three miserable dollars as I could not
redeem it on the due date. That was an austere and disagreeable lesson in life in which
- like a game of chance - a winner is among several millions of other stakers.”

You can purchase Koffi Addo’s ‘A Village Boy’s Dream: A Will to Succeed’, from
Silverbird bookstore, EPP Bookstore, Challenge Bookstore, Melting Moments,
Q’ticules & Nails, Artists Alliance, and Sytris Bookshop.
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Changing Careers

LIFE IS HARD. THIS IS A FACT THAT ALL GHANAIANS KNOW INTIMATELY. SOMETIMES
IT’S THE CUT-THROAT COMPETITION AT WORK, OTHER TIMES ITS THE LOW SALARY
PACKAGES. DID YOU KNOW THAT MANY GHANAIANS ARE UNHAPPY WITH THEIR
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STEP 1: ASSESS YOUR LIKES
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Many people want to
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STEP 2: RESEARCH NEW
CAREERS
Once you’ve discovered
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Some people tend to
get nervous at this point
because, as they do more
research, they begin
to fully understand the
change they’re making
- but don’t allow fear to
prevent you from making
the change that will
benefit your life and well-
being.
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Step 3: Transferable Skills
In making your final
decision regarding a
career change, you
have to take stock of
your current skills and
experiences and see how
they fit in your possible 35
new career. Some skills
- like communications,
leadership, and planning -
are transferable and always
good to apply to a new
career.
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Step 4: Training and
Education
After compiling your
transferable skills, it
may become clear that
you may need to update
some of them or even to
broaden your knowledge.
Be smart about this step.
If the skill you need is
one you can use in your
current job, see if your
current employer would
be willing to pay for your
training. Also, start slowly.
Take a course or two from
a professional college
(like GIMPA) to make
sure you like the subject
matter.
Step 5: Networking
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This is one of the most
important elements to
successfully changing
careers. People you know
will most likely be able
to give you information
of employment
opportunities around
36 town, offer advice and
introduce you to the right
people that’ll be in a
position to help you get a
new job.
Step 6: Getting Experience
Another scary part of
changing careers is the
lack of experience you
may have for your new
job. You’re starting your
career again from the
very beginning and it
may be worth thinking
about getting a part-time Extra tips:
job or some volunteer in • Learn to cope with
your new field to gather failure and criticism
up your experience. Do
• Make sure your
whatever it takes to get
choices take you in the
the necessary experience
right direction
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• Make sure you have
not likely to hire someone
emergency funds when
that doesn’t have a clue
changing your career
about the job they’re
supposed to be doing. • Aim for the best
opportunities and not
Step 7: Find a Mentor the best money.
The process of
changing careers can
be overwhelming at
times and one way to
manage that stress if to
find a mentor. Another
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a mentor is that they’ll
introduce you to their
contacts in their industry,
which will help you with
your networking.
Step 8: Be Flexible
When changing your
career, it is advisable to
be flexible about nearly
everything. You will need
to be flexible about your
employment status, the
possible need to relocate
and the likelihood you
will receive a dip in your
salary for a bit. Career
advisors often advise that
“Learn to
you should always set
positive goals for yourself, cope with
expect setbacks and
unexpected challenges, failure and
but don’t let them prevent
you from achieving your criticism.”
end goal.
 save
How to
when you make
peanuts
“Money isn’t the
most important
thing in life, but
its reasonably
close to oxygen
on the gotta-
have-it scale”
- Zig Ziglar
Let’s face it. Saving money
in Ghana is as difficult as
digging the foundations of
a two-bedroom house on
your own - not impossible,
just mad difficult. The rising
cost of food, transportation,
utilities, clothing, and other
hidden expenditures make it
hard not be in debt, let alone
save.
There is more to saving
money than just spending
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saving, it is crucial to clear all savings pot. Or start saving
your debts. Only then can you money by taking lunch to
redirect your finances into
savings.
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Once you are on top of
your finances and have
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savings (this can range from
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are in a position to begin
investing your savings.
There are a number of
ways to invest your money
without making yourself
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vulnerable to risk. A high-
yield savings account is an
example you can enquire
about at your bank.
At present, the best bank
facility on the market
appears to be Databank’s
E-pack facility. It is a long-
term investment facility - 12
Once your debt is cleared,
you need to set savings years - that offers significant
goals and decide what returns. Imagine you had
you’re saving for. For short- invested GH¢5 every month
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term goals, this is easy: all from 1996, by 2008 you
you need to do is find out would have gathered a hefty
GH¢12,549 (as opposed
how much your goal costs
and put money away until to the GH¢720 you would
you’ve got enough. For have saved normally from
long-term goals, like saving a savings account at your
bank).
for retirement, a bit more
strategy is required.
Go to your local bank 39
Making a budget is branch to find out what
essential because it allows options are available to you
you to identify all of your and don’t be afraid to go to
expenses and will show other banks as well to find
you how much you need to out what they have on offer.
spend each month. Making
a budget is relatively easy TIP: Open a US Dollar
when you have a regular or Euro offshore savings
salary. For those that do account and when you get
not have a steady source paid, change a portion of it
of income, saving a little into that currency. It could
each time you get paid is a be as little as GH¢20, but
good way to increase your it will enable you to protect
some of your funds against
rising inflation.
work instead of buying it
there.
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IN THE
PRESENce
OF THE
gods
Words & Images by Seton Nicholas

I take my first steps into the

Atia Yaw shrine, Mampong
Akwapim overly pre-occupied
with protocol. I have visions of
being asked to provide a sheep
or fowl to be slaughtered for
some breach of it. I am after all
about to be dealing with Gods
and Deities…the super-natural
and one must overall be careful
not to offend. A woman rushes
and sweeps first Nana B, (who
has helped make this happen.)
and then, me into a bear hug.
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The disconnect between what I

witnessed and what I expected
to see somehow throws me
off balance. While everything
seemed strange, it was all so
familiar. For instance watching
Kobina Dua, one of the Gods,
42 dance was no different from
any dance you would, say,
see a knife bearing obrafo or
ahen kwa do during a festival
and yet this was Kobina Dua,
manifested through, Ama, a
woman.

This was just another animal

slaughter; no different from
the several that take place in
many households every festive
season. Except this one’s
death had more ceremony
and its blood more sacred
purposes to serve.
 This was me… same old me sitting with
two women and one man and puffing
on Rothman cigarettes and making
small talk. Or was it? The only thing I
can say with some surety is that we
smoked cigarettes. For I was drunk on
how surreal it all was and my smoking
buddies weren’t quite themselves.
Each of them possessed by a spirit.
“Baffour”, gives up after a couple of
puffs and gives away his cigarette. He
curls up his lips in distaste and says “mi
di min p h Kingsize oooh, kai! Tusker
na mi p h!” I’m given an ashtray, which I
offer to share when I notice that my new
friends are ashing their cigarettes into
their palms, except I am turned down.
My ashes are to be kept separate.
Each time a differnt god posesses a person new
hellos are said and old friendhips rekindled
Theirs will be used at a later point as part
of a ritual.
It turns out this isn’t just a cigarette break
after all. Some of the Gods like their
tobacco and their booze and it turns out
that while several pipes and even more
cigarettes are to be smoked that day, I’m
the only one smoking “recreationally.”
The other day, on television I watched
the presenter of a popular tele-magazine
programme remark that Africa was no
longer a “dark” continent. The statement
offended me because in my opinion Africa
never was… a dark continent, that is. Only
represented as such through colonial and
racist depictions of it. Depictions we have
read, studied, absorbed, internalized.
 FLASH

That I have internalized, I think, as

I realize that my preconceptions
of exotic rites and traditional
acts of worship couldn’t be more
off-centre. What I discover is a
spiritual celebration so mundane
and so familiar that I almost feel
a sense of nostalgia for the dark
exoticism I came expecting to
find. At some point, having been
formally welcomed I ask permission
to start taking photographs. And
as I pull out my camera I think to
myself that I hope nothing I say or
do earns their mistrust… reduces
me to just another cargo pants and
Birkenstock wearing, DSLR slinging
“tourist”. Bound to misunderstand…
to mislabel.

After I realize that it is not Akwapim

the chief obosomfo is speaking
but Fante I walk up and introduce
myself. Properly this time… my
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name is Kweku Abaka, I am from

Saltpond. He says he is from
Anomabo… instantly we are friends.
And soon our conversation is
deeper, more familiar; more intimate
even us he takes me on a tour. In

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Kobina Dua,manifest in Ama, a local woman

Fante every thing means more. Nothing is lost in

translation. Slammed under that ever so broad
and inadequate description that is FETISH. This
is much more…this is faith. Traditional Ghanaian
Religion. Before I leave the Obosomfo ensures
that I am fed past my fill, in his living room, where
I flip through his photo albums while eating a
sumptuous meal of yam and ntroba froyi, which I
wash down with a cold beer. I insist on wanting to
eat with everyone else but he in turn insists that
I am a guest and he will accord me the proper
protocol.
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perhaps as evidence of the many sacrifices and rituals that have have
taken place over time

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the more sweet toothed

When night starts to fall and I beg leave
of him, he thanks me, for coming, for
caring even. He tells me of future plans
for the shrine. A replacement shrine for
Kobina Dua and perhaps some day a
conference area where lectures can be
given to tourists and pilgrims. With a
smile, almost like he knew my initial quest
for the exotic, he says never mind that
I didn’t witness much magic and other
evidence of the supernatural That was not
what today’s rites were about. And Tigare,
one of head deities of this shrine would
not have approved. There’s a grand durbar
coming up soon. ‘m h sh da ato nsa afr
wo… hor na y h b h dzi agor kakra a ma
wayhu.” I laugh with him, clasp his hand in
mine in a firm handshake and head off into
the night.

By Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
There are lots of taboo subjects
when it comes to sex in Ghana.
Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Group Sex…in
fact any type of subject concerning
sex is very much taboo, but the
biggest taboo of all is ‘Gay Sex’.
The average Ghanaian will declare
that Homosexuality is taboo. ‘It’s not
natural’ is an argument that you
will hear time and time again, ‘how
can a woman and another woman
sleep together?’ Or you might hear
some-one say, ‘It’s a sin’. Another will
say ‘ It’s not African, it’s a bad habit
from the West that people have picked
up’.
Now there are a lot of things that
I do not know where sexuality is
concerned but there are a couple
of things I will wager to be true.
Lesbians and Homosexuals have
always existed in Ghana and Africa.
There! I said it. Come on, we all know
this to be fundamentally true. How
else can we have expressions like
‘Kojo Besia’? You must have heard
an elderly aunt say at one point
in time, ‘Ei, oy3 Kojo Besia’. Terms
such as Kojo Besia are used to
describe men who are regarded
as effeminate or suspected to
be homosexual. Of course being
effeminate does not automatically
equal being gay but in the
Ghanaian context the two are often
lumped together. The points to be taken
from expressions like Kojo Besia are
gender identities are not always fixed,
sexual identities are also not always
fixed and we cannot always box
people up into neat sexual constructs.
Very often in Ghana the issue of
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pedophilia is intertwined with
homosexuality. Many stories
abound in the print media
of ‘foreign’ men who prey
upon young boys but we
conveniently forget about the
uncles who prey on their little
nieces or the aunties who
sexually abuse their young
nephews. Let’s deal with the
issue of child abuse in our
midst and not pretend that
instances of pedophilia are always by
homosexual foreigners.
Gay Pride? Does it exist in Ghana?
Should it exist in Ghana? What does
it mean? The idea of Gay Pride
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is an effort to turn something
perceived as negative into a
positive. In many ways the
idea of ‘Gay Pride’ is similar
to the idea of being ‘Black
and Proud’. For many years
(and to date some will argue)
the Western world has looked
down upon black people, 47
perceiving black people to be
inferior, less intelligent and a
step down the humanity scale.
The civil rights movement in the
United States sought to turn this
notion on its head with many people
declaring themselves to be ‘Black and
Proud’ (cue James Brown). Today,
the Heterosexual world looks down on
the Homosexual world in the same
way, and considers Homosexuals
unnatural, deviant and oftentimes
freaks of nature.
It is an interesting repetition of the
past. Will this also change? Will a
Gay Rights Movement change things?
Time will tell.
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I
was catch-
ing up with a
long distance friend
over Gmail Chat about
relationships and we started
talking about cheating. He was
telling me how he had learnt from
his previous relationship and asked
what I thought about abstain- ing
from sex at the start of a new re-
lationship. I told him that absti- nence
is not a theory I subscribe to although
I can see the rationale. Sometime dur-ing
the chat, I asked him why he had cheated
in the past (he has not cheated
in his current relation- ship).
His response: ‘I cheated occasionally
when I was feeling bad about the
relationship and needed a break’.
We started talking about the importance
of communicating with your partner and
telling them about having cheated in
the past and what led to it (in order to
prevent you from cheating again). I
told him about a past relationship
where I cheated on my partner
and how I told a later ‘buddy’
about it. My friends thought it
was a bad idea. They were
WHY (rightly I think) concerned
that he would judge me
DO unfavourably for having
cheated.So I did some
PEOPLE research. I texted
my friends who I
knew had cheated
before or are cheaT-
ing currently. I also
texted one friend who I
had no idea whether he had
cheated before or not: ‘Okay
doing some research for the
blog. Why do people cheat? What
are your thoughts?’These are some of
the responses I received. I feel that men and
women cheat for different reasons so I’ve
indicated whether the response came
from a man or woman to see if any
trends emerge:
• Because you want out of the current
relationship, On a subconscious level you are
trying to break up (woman)
• Cos they are selfish – you do it because you
do it, simple (woman)
• Dissatisfaction generally, sex, fantasy, love,
fulfilment, recognition and respect, seeking
attention, irresponsibility on partner’s side,
beauty, communication, generational gap,
I can go on and on, these are my personal
experiences. (woman)
• Easy, Indiscipline (woman)
• The thrill of experiencing sexual attraction
with someone other than your partner, it’s
more exciting. People cheat because they
are bored/unhappy/unfulfilled (man)
• I don’t know why. Plus I don’t really cheat
so I really wouldn’t know ? (man – I know
he has cheated although in the text he
(jokingly?) denies it)
• Because they know they won’t be
caught and there is a certain allure to the
naughtiness of the act. Plus and more
importantly a relationship is not the natural
state of things, all the things it promises, a
sense of security, joy, constant sex…what
you end up getting is boredom and all the
insecurities the other party brings to the
table, none of the romance or excitement
you were hoping for ( man)
• They’re weak? They can’t be bothered to
try and stay committed? Can’t let a skirt get
away? I think it’s mainly the idea they can
get away with it and so why not? (man)

One of my friends said her response was too long to send via text so she sent an email. I am
reproduing the relevant bits in their entirety below:
“Firstly, I’m assuming we’re talking about sex because personally I believe you can cheat by
kissing or fooling around with someone who isn’t your partner or even by getting emotionally
closer to another person. But, we both know how ‘extra’ I am.
Once you separate the act of lovemaking from the notion of love, the reasons for cheating
become clearer. For some people I think a lot of the thrill is in the chase of pursuing someone

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and in the discovery of sexual pleasure with someone new. As much as you try to maintain
spontaneity and creativity in a long term relationship you grow to anticipate your partner’s likes
and responses. For some this is a turn on, for others it’s the beginning of sexual death and is
boring. Cheating happens at a point in time you find someone else more sexually attractive
or they can give you something or perform sexual acts in a way that your partner can’t or isn’t
willing to try.
Some people cheat because they are in denial. They think they are fooling themselves, their
peers and wider society by maintaining the facade of being heterosexual and being in a
conventional relationship when really they’re bi-sexual or gay (not that I like those labels) and
need to explore or fulfil that side of themselves with someone of the same sex. They may also be 49
scared of reproach if they come out.
The only thing I can tell you with any certainty is why I personally cheated, which is not
something I’m proud of or thought I was capable of: I guess we never really know what we’re
capable of until we’re tested in a given situation. I felt emotionally neglected and distant from my
partner. That chasm allowed me to become very emotionally close to someone else and once
you feel that bond it’s easy for attraction to develop and not too big a leap for you to act on it.
The reason why I continued cheating? Because I fell in love and I guess I wanted to explore that
side of myself.
The crux is, it’s only cheating if your partner doesn’t know about it. So the real question is, why
don’t people tell? That’s a whole other debate. I guess because if you’re married or co habiting
for example you risk losing a lot. Access to children perhaps, money in a settlement, the trust
and closeness of someone whom you may care about and have a shared history, your best
friend perhaps. So maybe people don’t tell because they’re scared of losing those things and are
cowards, but often I guess because they know their actions will hurt someone they may love, but
don’t care enough not do it”
What are your thoughts on why people cheat? Have you every cheated? Tell us at
www.adventuresfrom.com and don’t forget to indicate whether you’re male or female.
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DEAR NANA
I need help. I am an emotional wreck. My boyfriend broke up with me a few months
ago for no good reason. I later found out that he had been cheating on me. I
feel even more hurt than I did before. I can’t accept that our relationship is
over and want to get back with him. I’m still in love with him. I have tried so hard
to get over him. I’m a fairly attractive woman and get approached regularly by
other men yet no one compares to him. My other dilemma for the last couple
of weeks has been sexual. I love to have good sex but none of the men I’ve been
involved with since the breakup have been able to satisfy me in bed. At best, I have
not been satisfied with my subsequent lovers and at worst I burst into tears
because I am still thinking of my ex. I’m tempted to give my ex a ‘booty call’. I
really do not know what to do. Please help. Afua

Dear Afua,
Yes, it can be very hard to get over a relationship especially when the other party is the one
who takes the initiative to end the relationship. Rightly or wrongly I have always felt the person
who takes the initiative to end the relationship has a slightly easier time because they have
mentally and emotionally prepared themselves to move on. There are a myriad of reasons
why someone chooses to end a relationship. It could be because they no longer feel you are
a right match for them, it could be because they no longer see themselves spending the rest
of their lives with you, and it could be because they have fallen out of love with you. All these
possibilities are extremely frustrating for the other party, who is is left with questions and no
answers.
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You may never fully know the real reason why your partner chooses to break up with you but
that is part of the frustration you have to live with. The reality you have to accept though is that
he no longer wishes to be with you and its time for you to move on.
So how do you move on when you have been so emotionally involved with someone?
1. Acknowledge that the relationship is well and truly over. Do not deceive yourself into
thinking that he will want you back. Do you really want to get back with someone who was
50 cheating on you? Does a leopard ever change its spots?
2. Allow yourself time to heal. I always feel it is helpful to spend some time as a singleton after
one relationship has ended. This is important and allows you to mourn the death of one
relationship, to assess what was good and bad, and most importantly to determine what
you really want from your next relationship. Too many of us are scared of being single and
do not take enough time to reflect before jumping into the next relationship.
3. Sex with an ex is always tricky. Especially an ex that you are not yet over. Don’t do it! Sex
tends to bond us physically and emotionally to another person and if you do give in to the
‘booty call’ urge you will find it even more difficult to detach yourself from your ex. From
the post- break-up sexual experiences you have recounted, it also sounds like you are
not ready to have intimate relations with other people. Use this period to rediscover the
joys of singledom. Go on dates with as many people as you wish – but remember these
dates do not have to end in the bedroom. Take time to discover your sexuality – remember
that rediscovering your sexuality does not need to always involve another person. Most
importantly rediscover who you are. The real you. The you that doesn’t need another
person to feel fulfilled. The you that is happy whether you are single or not.
Send your sex & relationship problems to Nana at editor@accradust.com
THE TUNNEL BOYS

BRONI LUKAS
DELA.
BARRY.
STAR.

photo credit. Crystal Svanikier

HACKMAN.
RICHARD OSEI.
ANANI.
FRANK ASIEDU.
ANAZU.

F
or anyone that lives on the
Spintex road or in East
Legon, you’ll know exactly
who we’re talking about. For
many of us, the boys that direct
traffic at the tunnel linking
densely populated areas have
been providing an invaluable
service to an ever-increasing
community of business-
owners, housewives, young
professionals and professional
hooligans.
For those of you that do not
know what (or who) I’m talking
about, this tunnel is a narrow,
one-road thoroughfare that,
without guidance, easily turns
into a vehicular nightmare.
Impatient drivers coming from
each side, often being trapped
by other impatient drivers
behind them, it is not unusual
to hear of - what is normally - a
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30 second drive becoming a the main source of income
2-hour congestion. for these guys.
It was for this reason that, in “Whatever you make
1994, Richard Osei began on your shift, you
directing traffic in the tunnel,
keep; but if someone
and it wasn’t long before he
was joined by fellow area boys makes a lot of money
51
until they became a group of during their shift, we
nine.
tend to share it.”
Dividing the day into four
shifts, the guys at the Tunnel On a normal day, they make
maintain the integrity of the an average of GH¢ 15.00,
road (which can be translated but they can make up to
to mean clearing the road of GH¢ 60 a day. I know that
rubbish and filling in pot holes) doesn’t sound like a lot, but
and direct on-coming traffic its managed to put some
from opposite sides through of them through technical
a narrow one lane. With no school and it’s also enough
help or recognition from the to help support their families.
government and minimal
assistance from the local Next time you pass through
police, making a living from the the tunnel, spare a cedi or
tips generous drivers has been two, and help the guys that
help you every day.
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This piece was first published online at
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www.powerofculture.org and is being
reprinted here in honour of the legend
that is Kofi Ghanaba.
D
uring and after the era of the
transatlantic slave-trade, jazz
as a music form with deep
African roots morphed into
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the many styles of African- American,
Afro-Cuban, Puerto Rican, Brazilian
and Dominican jazz , generally losing
its African-ness, as time passed, in the
diaspora.
Warren Gamaliel Akwei (Guy Warren,
later to be commonly known as
Ghanaba) in the mid Fifties became
the talking drum that sounded African
American jazz musicians and music
lovers back to their roots. A move that
could possibly be the summary of his
life’s work can be summed up by the
one Ghanaian proverb he still stands
by: ‘Sankofa, wonkyir’ (‘There’s nothing
wrong with going back to your roots’.)
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The man who gave the world
African
jazz
WORDS & IMAGE BY NANA KOFI ACQUAH
I met Ghanaba on a Saturday morning in the
village where he hides out for a photo-shoot on the
occasion of his son Glenn’s upcoming album. I was
excited. I had heard so much about this 84 year old
who lives in isolation and yet touches many hearts
with his life’s work. The click of the camera and
popping of the flash seemed to awaken the star in
him. He came alive, opened up to me and started to
share his story with me.
Ghanaba was born in Accra. As a student, in
1940, he joined the Accra Rhythmic Orchestra
as a drummer. After this period, he worked as an
undercover for the Office of Strategic Services, a
United States Agency dealing with overt and covert
operations during the Second World War. He also
worked as a DJ, a reporter and he did a series
of jazz programmes for the British Broadcasting
Service
He was a founding member of the Tempos, where he
played drums. The Tempos was considered by many
the epitome of an African jazz ensemble. In 1955 he
moved to Chicago and joined the Gene Esposito band.
This ensemble recorded his best known album, Africa
Speaks, America Answers in 1956 for Decca Records.
In 1957 he moved to New York City where he formed
the Zoundz ensemble, and continued developing
a musical style which he called African jazz. He
performed with such greats as Charlie Parker, Lester
Young and Thelonious Monk.
Today, the New York University intermittently
marches their students to sit at his feet and to
learn from him. His message of Sankofa continues.
It seems he has been deliberately forgotten for
political reasons – he was a mentor of Jerry John
Rawlings - but someday soon, Ghana will go back,
dig through his work and learn from the living
legend.
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Free State

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Group A Group B Group C Group D

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SCHEDULE South Africa
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July 5

July 6

July 7

July 8

July 9
52 20.30 58 20.30 64 20.30
1B 1 Winner I
v. v. v.
2A(2) 3 (A) Winner II

00 54 20.30 60 20.30
1G 6
v. v.
2H (7) 8 (D)

46 16.00
PRK
v.
CIV

30 50 20.30
1C
v.
2D (3)
Rest Da ys

Rest Da ys

Rest Da ys
48 20.30 51 16.00
SUI 1D
v. v.
HON 2C (4)

30 56 20.30 59 16.00 61 20.30

1H 2 A
v. v. v.
2G (8) 4 (B) C (I)

45 16.00 53 16.00 62 20.30

POR 1E B
v. v. v.
BRA 2F(5) D (II)

00

49 16.00 57 16.00 63 20.30

1A 5 Loser I
v. v. v.
2B (1) 7 (C) Loser II

47 20.30 55 16.00
CHI 1F
v. v.
ESP 2E (6)

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