One of Ghana's best and award winning Hiplife artist, Castro Under Fire has reportedly died in a jet ski incident at the Peace Hotel in Ada whilst jet-skiing with friends. Detailed news from Ameyaw Debrahs site says that this occurred as he attempted to save his girlfriend who had fallen into the water from the jet ski. His body was later found lifeless. Meanwhile unconfirmed reports of his girlfriend are circling social media.
Kinky twists have been around for some time. I never really thought they were the type of hair braid to look good on me. First of all, they look tough and non-flexible and it looked like a one way styled hair because every woman i saw with one had it just straight down and short. Just boring. But then over time, the weave used to braid kinky twists got softer and more flexible. Hallelujah! I still didnt try it out. Until last three weeks, when i run out of options on what to do to my transitioning hair that I decided to try the hair that looked like palm kernel female husks (the one that was lit and placed in a bowl to drive away mosquitoes).
Naturally I went to Pinterest for some inspiration and I came across loads of cool pinspiration on long kinky twists. I gathered my vim and went to Auntie Alice and got them done! Boy was it fast too.. i was done in less than 3 hours! I chose to do shoulder length twist braids with Carribean curls because I didnt want to get bored with a monotonous style so as to keep the hair as long as possible. Now I cant get enough of it!
This post is way overdue. I dont blame anyone but myself. Thanks to the defeat at the hands of the USA team, I was too desolate and distressed to post anything after Father's Day.
To celebrate Father's Day this year so that Fathers do not feel left out, i decided to curate valuable Dad lessons learnt from readers and bloggers in my blogoshpere. Up till now I have only 3. Had this been a Mother's Day post, i would have received an overwhelming response. Come on people!
Here are some inspirational quotes from some of my favorite bloggers and friends.
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You can become anything you want to be, as long as you are willing to work for it. Always Respect Women and take responsibility for any action that you take. - Edem Kumodzi (www.edemkumodzi.com)
Your 2year relationship was one-in-a-million and you felt this was your last bus after your very dry spell of being unmarried for a long time. All your friends adored him and your parents placed their stamp of approval on your relationship. The altar was just a few feet away when suddenly….it all came to a crashing end! The rest of the months flew by on silent wings, you lost weight, lost interest in family events, avoided your friends, changed your phone number and became a hermit.
Same old story every year just around this time. Every newspaper screams the same headlines, ‘Floods in Accra!’ ‘Hundreds Displaced By Perennial Floods!’, ‘Homes Destroyed by Floods!’ and it goes on year after year, print after print. It shouldn’t be a headliner anymore I think, just waste of headline space.
Wig caps. The trendy hairstyle for many African women looking to save time at the salon and money spent on weave-ons.
I have a few wig caps myself after I realised how much time and money I could save on my hair life. But after my first three I was faced with a challenge; how on earth am I going to maintain the shape of the cap? O_o??? There was no way I was going to buy mannequin heads for wigs and display them in my room (storage lacking as well) because that would have looked really weird!
Having an iPhone is a whole new experience for especially new users (Android users can boo all they want :p), and just like any smartphone it must be protected in a durable iphone case/cover. There are some really cool iphone covers with different designs, disney characters and the like. But what about an iphone cover having African print designs? Now thats a very unique idea I thought to myself when I came across these fantastic iphone covers by Apparafix.
I first met Ethel Cofie during one of the #TechRepublic meetups at Republic Bar & Grill. We didn't speak much that night but the second time we did. Here was a woman who had some deep insights on technology and business strategy, and as she went on and on about how online payments and banks in Ghana could do a better job than they are now, I knew one of these days I had to feature her, then she told me about being selected as a candidate for YALI. That did it.
A loyal reader reached out to me recently following my post on Free Wifi locations in Osu. I decided to post my response following her query:
I am a follower of your blog. I really like what you do on website. Please, I want to know how website addresses are personalized. I know there are some charges. How are those charges paid and to who, especially in Ghana. Can you also recommend good companies that host websites and are affordable? Thank you so much. - Delai
Getting a taxi in Accra can be sometimes tedious depending on which area you live in. It could be a long wait in front of your house spent looking left or right for an empty taxi or a rather long and dusty walk to the nearest main road. With the arrival of EasyTaxi, an iOS and Android app those days are basically so yesterday. EasyTaxi is a globally recognised taxi booking service app in about 26 countries and 86 cities (and counting) and basically wants to make our lives easier using mobile technology.
I am a free Wifi hunter. I am always on the look out for a free wifi sign which in Accra is almost close to looking for a Dodo. But during my travels, the faintest hint of Free Wifi gives me such a relief and unexplainable joy more than finding 70% discounts at New Look. Yeah.. thats what the Internet has done to me.
