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Flooded urban area with people wading and using boats among submerged houses

Culture, Home - Ghana

Accra Couldn’t Stay By Plan

An essay on Accra's flood culture-how improvisation became identity, planning became inconvenient, and disaster became a date we…

Julia Nana-Fosua and her mother Adwoa Agyapongmaa smiling together

Letters and monologues

Adwoa Agyapongmaa – My Mother

A letter to my late mother - on memory, love - the quiet kind. The kind that lives…

⁠Food for thought

The Idle man will find a job

The idle man is not lazy; he is occupied. He searches, he waits, he knows exactly who he…

Young Ghanaian person sitting thoughtfully, representing self-discipline, personal growth, and doing hard things.

Culture, Home - Ghana

Do Hard Things – Yere Wo Ho

In Ghana, we say ‘yere wo ho’- gather yourself. But beyond the phrase lies a deeper truth: growth…

Inner Rooms

Grey or Something Close

I slipped into 2021 frail.For lack of a better phrase: grey, or something close. Like they say, we…

Culture, Home - Ghana

Moving Out

Broke, determined and ambitious. How does it work? “Broke” is even an understatement for the state I was…

Featured

Note To Self

Born an uncertain foetus.Before sprouting your wings,fully transforming into human-being.You were meant to be.You lived. You’re living.But how…

Inner Rooms

Will My Mistakes Follow Me?

Will you walk out the door, trace the steps of my soul, disregard my privacy, and burst out…

Culture, Home - Ghana

I am feminine

My attributes distinguish me from the other species — male. My biological makeup carries a roadmap toward a…

Culture, Home - Ghana

When I say “I do”

I hope I say “I do” when I truly mean it. I hope the words come out not…

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