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#accra is just chillin there huh #GUESS WHO'S BACK

i’d love to see wealth inequality stats for these places too

#fun fact: we were in the same year in secondary school #so im super proud

Adowarim Lugu-zuri, CEO, Wazuri Ghana Limited, sees untapped opportunity in Ghana’s coconut industry

Her journey from start-up entrepreneur to being the CEO of Wazuri Ghana Limited, a company providing employment to more than 30 direct and indirect staff through the growing and large-scale commercial sales of coconut, is one underpinned by constant research, investigation and swift action. This becomes clear when she tells the story of how coconut became the focus of her business vision.

How did the business grow into what it is today?

Look for #zuricoconut on Facebook today and you will see a vibrant community page with regular updates portraying customers enjoying the products and clearly showing that an agricultural industry in essence, can be merged with a lifestyle brand.

Lugu-zuri states that it took four years to get the business profitable and to a point where they today provide on a retail and wholesale basis to the corporate, professional and working classes. The aim is to make Zuri Coconut a product of choice for these target markets.

#ayyyyyyy #awesome #women

Ghana has the highest percentage of women business owners worldwide, with Uganda in third, according to the Mastercard Index of Women’s Entrepreneurship (MIWE).

The MIWE is a weighted index that helps to better understand and identify factors and conditions that are most conducive to closing the gender gap among business owners in any given economy.

It examined 57 different economies around the globe, including Botswana, Ethiopia, South Africa and Uganda, with Ghana, Nigeria and Malawi as new additions.

Ghana came out on top, with 46.4 per cent of businesses in in the country owned by women. Uganda came in third, with 33.8 per cent of businesses women-owned.

Ghana also scored well in in terms of advancement outcomes, along with Nigeria, with overall scores in this regard coming in at 62.4 per cent and 59.1 per cent respectively. African countries also scored highly in women labour force participation – with Malawi at 100 per cent, Ghana at 96.1 per cent, and Ethiopia at 86.6 per cent.

Today is Ghana’s 61st Independence day! Happy independence day!

Useless Fact: Ghana was the 1st black African country to gain independence from colonial rule

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Happy Independence Day! :)

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Another useless fact: an artist for Steven Universe and OK KO!, Ian Jones-Quartey has a grandmother from Ghana and she was the one who designed Ghana’s flag, iirc

yes! just found this out today. very cool!

#sorta-dad

Today is Ghana’s 61st Independence day! Happy independence day!

Useless Fact: Ghana was the 1st black African country to gain independence from colonial rule

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

(BUT OUR JOLLOF STILL BETTER THAN URS)

Enjoy (your subpar jollof rice on) this fine day where u celebrate freedom from colonisers and we stand with you in solidarity always!

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Happy independence day !! @useless-ghanafacts

THANKS!

Today is Ghana’s 61st Independence day! Happy independence day!

Useless Fact: Ghana was the 1st black African country to gain independence from colonial rule

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

(BUT OUR JOLLOF STILL BETTER THAN URS)

Enjoy (your subpar jollof rice on) this fine day where u celebrate freedom from colonisers and we stand with you in solidarity always!

#islam #religion #ashanti region

i was waiting for it to officially be march 7 in ghana before i replied to this because this is so disrespectful and i wanted to be gracious on independence day.

we love you but you need to recognise our superior jollof!

#useless-nigeriafacts

Today is Ghana’s 61st Independence day! Happy independence day!

Useless Fact: Ghana was the 1st black African country to gain independence from colonial rule

#wish i was home!#misc

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Members of Tijānī on a procession through the principal streets of Asante Mampong in celebration of Mawlid; the birthday of the prophet.

Asante Mampong, February 02, 2018

#its cheaper to use actually #when you pay for data by the mb you want to make sure you use the most data-efficient app

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in Africa

Indeed, WhatsApp has been key to driving internet uptake in Africa. In Zimbabwe, the app was responsible for about half of all internet data last year. Both Facebook and WhatsApp’s over-the-top services have also been responsible for a decline in mobile revenue growth. And Facebook also recently rolled out WhatsApp Business, a standalone app targeting small business owners across Africa, India, and Brazil. E-commerce retailers have also been utilizing it to engage customers and efficiently execute returns and manage failed deliveries.

I take a look at the African graphic design language and handpainted signs

#interesting #misc

Kumawood: Ghana’s burgeoning film industry in Kumasi

In the early 1990s, Naana Hayford, Emmanuel Armah, Augustine Abbey (Idikoko), Grace Nortey, Kwame Owusu (late) and many others began to act in the film industry that was dominated by Accra based actors and producers. The movies were produced mainly in English.

Popular Kumasi based producer and CEO of Miracle Films, Samuel Kwesi Nyamekye profiling his work revealed how the Kumawood film industry gradually evolved. His ascent to fame very much intertwined with the emergence of the Twi movie industry.

He established, Miracle Films in 1998 and produced his first English movie “Be Vigilant” same year, but it wasn’t commercially successful, he said.

His second work, “Expectation” was an improvement. Subsequently, he produced Time, which was a hit.

It marked the turning point in his career. His first work in Twi was Asoreba. With over 200 movies to his credit, the prolific director has produced, Kae Dabi, Abro, Nnipa Ye bad, Kumasi Yonko among others.

According to him, he mentored stars like Naana Hayford, Martha Joyce Arthur, Awo Yaa Agyeiwaa, Sabi Debra, Mary Afriyie Forson, Portia Asare Boateng, Raph Samawo, Emelia Brobbey, Gloria Agyemang and Mercy Asiedu.

The new kid on the block, Asare Bediako is part of the Kumasi film making business and has produced widely acknowledged films like Boys Abre, Sure Banker, Aban Bosea. Osita Iheme featured in Boys Abre.

Worthy of mention are other directors, Frank Fifi Gharbhin, Theophilus Amoabeng, Kofi Asamoah, Jackson Bentum, Isaiah Kofi Appiah, Samuel Akwasi Badu, James Aboagye and James Agyemang.

The Twi industry explores contemporary African issues like barrenness, marriage, family, polygamy. The movies also examine topical issues. Some of the plots are woven around these topics like politics, galamsey, vigilante, crime, terrorism, occultism, Advanced Fee Fraud (sakawa) and so on.

The contemporaneity of the Twi movies is one of the factors attributable to the overwhelming patronage by Ghanaians. The English genre is virtually non-existent while the local movies continue to thrive immensely.

#kumawood #film

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An inherent part of The Living In A Tropical Country Experience™ is knowing way too many mosquito names

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Think it’s a joke? Off the top of my head

Aedes Aegypti: transmissor of Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya. Basically a bitch. More hated nationwide than the coach who lost to Germany

Anopheles Gambiae: transmits Malaria which is one of the oldest known diseases to humankind. Nobody has killed it. Nobody ever will

Haemagogus Leucoceleanos: transmissor of Yellow Fever in its most common form. Though the recent outbreak is in urban areas and caused by Aedes Aegypti. Told you it was a bitch

Culex Quinquefasciatus: its bite causes Elephantiasis which BASICALLY SWELLS YOUR BODY PARTS TO FIVE TIMES THEIR SIZE ITS LIKE A HELL CURSE EXCEPT ITS REAL google it if you have the guts

Culex Pipiens: The common mosquito found in everyone’s homes. 65% of national causes for cursing outside of stadiums. Mass killing these dipshits is a national sport

can absolutely relate to this. there’s a chapter in one of my old science books dedicated to diseases transmitted by mosquitoes

#misc

Photo: Dr Owusu Afriyie-Akoto — Agriculture Minister

#nice!

@netflix where is Superstory u cowards?

This Nigerian wishes to relive the shitty tv of her childhood

OH BITCH IT’S ON YOUTUBE

https://www.youtube.com/user/wapTVchannel/playlists

thank you wale adenuga productions (🎶nigeria’s number one🎶human laughter is the best medicine laugh it away socioeconomic problems laugh it awaaaaay🎶papa ajasco mama ajasco pa james boy alinko… ok i’ll stop)

they don’t have the Gods are Not to Blame tho😭😭 that one was so good def my fave cuz it’s a screen adaptation of Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are Not to Blame which is a culturally Yoruba retelling of Oedipus Rex and has JUST BEEN RELEASED ON THE KINDLE I JUST CHECKED HOLY SHIT I HAVEN’T READ THIS SINCE I WAS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

and in case you didn’t realise with my ridiculous musical reference, they also have Papa Ajasco and Co!

who tf needs netflix!

#wowie

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MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED. I dunno how accurate these nutritional facts are but the fact that fufu and soup came up in my food search makes my night (and it’s only 300 calories? Hmmm) s/o to the Lose It! Weight loss App lol

@netflix where is Superstory u cowards?

This Nigerian wishes to relive the shitty tv of her childhood