Amaephya
Reflections on identity, growth, womanhood, culture, and life — told from a Ghanaian perspective.
An essay on Accra's flood culture-how improvisation became identity, planning became inconvenient, and disaster became a date we revisit, not a problem we fix.
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Letters and monologues
A letter to my late mother - on memory, love - the quiet kind. The kind that lives in the ordinary moments long after the condolence messages stop.
June 2026
Food for thought
The idle man is not lazy; he is occupied. He searches, he waits, he knows exactly who he is. But knowing and doing are two very different jobs. Which one are you working?
May 2026
Culture, Home - Ghana
In Ghana, we say ‘yere wo ho’- gather yourself. But beyond the phrase lies a deeper truth: growth demands discipline, discomfort, and the courage to face yourself.
April 2026
Inner Rooms
I slipped into 2021 frail.For lack of a better phrase: grey, or something close. Like they say, we don’t look…
April 2022
Culture, Home - Ghana
Broke, determined and ambitious. How does it work? “Broke” is even an understatement for the state I was in when…
February 2021
Featured
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 much of…
March 2020
Inner Rooms
Will you walk out the door, trace the steps of my soul, disregard my privacy, and burst out in the…
January 2020
Culture, Home - Ghana
My attributes distinguish me from the other species — male. My biological makeup carries a roadmap toward a directive destination.…
September 2019
Culture, Home - Ghana
I hope I say “I do” when I truly mean it. I hope the words come out not out of…
August 2019