The Cathedral of Hope

After #OccupyJulorbiHouse, what’s next? Do we cast our hopes to the gods of the government’s Cathedral, or channel our anger into a more resolute political action? The level of insensitivity and/or oblivion of the ruling elite of Ghana to the unprecedented suffering of the mass is at its apex. The government has indulged in more […]

A psychoanalytic insight into Akata; Views from the Old Compound House.

This article was inspired by Kweku Smoke’s EP, Old Compound, which paid homage to the blocks that built him, and also describes how street life shapes the psyche. The birthplace of Akata is no doubt the old compound house in the inner cities of Kumasi, which symbolizes the communalism that underpin Ghanaian society. At the […]

Akata, a lifestyle of Ghana’s marginalized youth with universal resignations

“The boy’s going global”, Kweku DMC, an akata-boy, has proclaimed in his freestyle rap song, Off White Flow. But akata in itself is already global. What is local are the people who embody this phenomenon. What is akata and who becomes an akata-boy? The akata-boy is many persons, but also one person. Many persons because the akata-boy is found in many places, shaped by many social […]

KUMACA IS CRYING BECAUSE THE HEALTH SECTOR IS BLEEDING.

I wrote this piece around 2017, when an endemic struck a high school in my neighborhood. In retrospect, I think this incident had enormous impact on my journey to become a population geneticist, with keen interest in the intersection between medicine and evolution. I’m reposting it [as was] because I only shared it with close […]

Protected: Kwame Brenya takes us on a transcendental journey on his new album, Brɛnya Ne Barima

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Be on the alert soldiers; Black Sherif tells the streets.

Music can be such a powerful tool for social transformation. A great artiste is the one who is able to convey public feelings in their arts. In that sense, the artiste becomes a mirror of public sentiments, and they are able to garner popular support with their art. Since his rise to fame, Black Sherif […]

A birth day or a day closer to death?

Birthdays are great reminders of how much time we have left to die. Ominous as death may mean, it remains the only certainty of living-all other events are probabilistic. The fear of death has inspired many human inventions, not any less than overcoming this fear of death. Death, the fear that it generates, and the […]

What does Christianity mean to you?

The last conversation I had with my PI and lab mate before our lab went for the Christmas holidays yesterday was on religious beliefs. One point that stuck with me, which wasn’t actually a new concept to me, was the fact that every group of people claim to be the chosen ones. Americans like to […]

Down In The Skint

A short prose on the life of a dreamer.

Quarantine No. 3: Roommates and Friends

True friends who’d always have each other’s back are hard to come by. Take a ride with me as I talk about my friends and roommates from primary through high school up until now.