Today I went to church in my grandfather’s village, Asikabew. I sat in a blue gye Nyame chair, occasionally glancing (in judgement) at the picture of white Jesus on the wall and then checking the time on the white Jesus clock mounted just above the pastors head. I am still learning Twi, so I caught …
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Ghana Is My Muse: Behind the Ahofe Fashion Line
“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within, strength, courage, dignity”- Ruby Dee, African American Actress Last December, I decided that starting 2018 I was breaking up with fear, leaving my crippling inhibitions, anxiety and baggage in 2017. It was too heavy a load to carry and it …
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Issa Family Reunion: A Visit to Accompong Town, Jamaica
“You are from Ghana? Our people came from there”, the old man said to me. I sat on the ground, next to him and a group of young men sitting in a circle, smiled and said, “I came looking for you all." Ever since I was a young girl, I wondered where my family members …
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Asiedua’s Imprint 