Podcasts about Ghana

Presenter Myra Anubi and the team chat about some of their favourite projects that have been covered on People Fixing The World over the last twelve months, from radioactive rhinos in South Africa to the Buz Stop Boys cleaning up streets in Ghana.People Fixing The World from the BBC is about brilliant solutions to the world's problems. We release a new edition every Tuesday. We'd love you to let us know what you think and to hear about your own solutions. You can contact us on WhatsApp by messaging +44 8000 321721 or email peoplefixingtheworld@bbc.co.uk. And please leave us a review on your chosen podcast provider.Presenter: Myra Anubi Producer: Louise Pepper Editor: Jon Bithrey Sound mix: Hal Haines(Image: The People Fixing The World team at the BBC - from left to right, Richard Kenny, Natasha Fernandes, Claire Bowes, Louise Pepper, Katie Solleveld, Myra Anubi, Claire Bates, Jon Bithrey, copyright BBC)

Dr. Thema has an inspiring conversation with her father Bishop Bryant about his journey moving from being a late bloomer as a youth to a champion for spiritual and political liberation. He shares what helped him to launch as someone who struggled with academics and behavior as a result of fear. He shares his success story and his wisdom for parents who are raising children who have not yet flourished. Bishop John Richard Bryant is the son of the late Bishop Harrison James Bryant and Edith Holland Bryant. He was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and is a graduate of Baltimore City College High School and is a graduate of Morgan State University in his hometown. After college, Bishop Bryant joined the Peace Corps and served as a volunteer in West Africa from 1965 to 1967. He has taken seriously the words "study to show thyself approved…" Bishop Bryant received his B.A. in 1965 from Morgan State University, Master of Theology in 1970 from the Boston University School of Theology and a Doctor of Ministry degree in 1975 from the Colgate Rochester Divinity School. He also receivedseveral Honorary Doctoral Degrees from Wilberforce University, Paul Quinn College, Payne Theological Seminary, the Southern California School of Ministry, Virginia Seminary and his alma mater, Morgan State University. In addition, he was honored as an outstanding alumni of Boston University School of Theology and was inducted into the Baltimore City College High School Hall of Fame. Bishop Bryant was a Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellow and while pursuing his doctoral studies at Colgate Rochester Divinity School, he completed special studies at the University of Lagos [Nigeria] and the University of Ghana at Legon and served as a Peace Corp volunteer. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and share.

It's just over 30 years since the brick game was introduced to the world at a department store in London. Made of 54 wooden blocks stacked into a tower in rows of three by three, each player takes a turn to remove a block from the tower and place it at the top. When the tower falls, the game is over. Surya Elango speaks to its British designer Leslie Scott about how a family game that started in her parent's home in 1970s Ghana, became an international hit.By 1986, the game was successfully introduced into the North America market at a time when video games were taking off. It's now in the US National Toy Hall of Fame having sold millions worldwide. Leslie went on to create 40 other games. Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina's Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall' speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler's List; and Jacques Derrida, France's ‘rock star' philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest; the disastrous D-Day rehearsal; and the death of one of the world's oldest languages.(Photo: Leslie Scott with a jenga set in 1983. Credit: Sue Macpherson ARPS.)

Was machen eigentlich zwei True Crime Podcasterinnen in Accra? Wie kommt man überhaupt auf die Idee, eine Gruppe von Creator:innen mit nach Ghana zu nehmen? Heute sprechen wir mit Malte und Tarek von Malternativ über True Crime und das Behind the Scenes unserer Arbeit mit der Gerald Asamoah Stiftung.Schnappt euch euer liebstes Heiß-oder Kaltgetränkt oder die Leine eurer liebsten Puppies und hört rein!SHOWNOTES:Falls ihr die Arbeit der Gerald Asamoah Stiftung unterstützen möchtet, klickt hier: https://www.gerald-asamoah-stiftung.de/de/spendenVideos von Malternativ findet ihr auf Youtube, Twitch, Spotify als @malternativ und @ruhepulsDanke an unsere heutigen Werbepartner:Kaspar Schmauser:Mit unserem Code Puppiesandcrime spart ihr 15% in jedem Kaspar Schmauser.Shopify:Mit unserem Code PUPPIES könnt ihr Shopify kostenlos testen. Klickt hier.Formel Skin:Mit unserem Code PUPPIESANDCRIME spart ihr 40% auf die ersten zwei Monate. Gilt nur für Neukund:innen. Klickt hier. Hier findet ihr alle Links zu all unseren aktuellen Werbepartnern, Rabatten und Codes:https://linktr.ee/puppiesandcrimeSOCIAL MEDIAInstagram: @Puppiesandcrime - https://www.instagram.com/puppiesandcrime/?hl=deTiktok: @puppiesandcrime.podcast - https://www.tiktok.com/@puppiesandcrime.podcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PuppiesandCrimeEmail: puppiesandcrime@gmail.com------- Happy Holidays und einen guten Rutsch --------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In February, American President Donald Trump signed an executive order which said that South African Afrikaners - descendants of mainly Dutch settlers who arrived in the 17th Century - could be admitted as refugees in the USA as they were "victims of unjust racial discrimination". President Trump's move to prioritise the resettlement of white South African farmers reignited global controversy when he referenced what he has described as a “genocide” against white farmers. Thousands of South Africans have now applied for refugee status in the USA, and are waiting to potentially relocate there. Farmers in South Africa are predominantly white, but farmers and farm workers of all races fear theft and violent crime in the country. Claire Mawisa is a reporter for BBC Africa Eye and recently travelled to meet farmers in South Africa. Kings, or chiefs, in Ghana don't hold much formal or political power, but they are hugely important to people and hold a lot of cultural and social influence. But there are also powerful royal women in Ghana. They've held power in certain parts of the country for a long time, but it seems their influence is now on the rise. It is a story that caught the eye of Stefania Okereke of BBC Focus on Africa. This episode of The Documentary comes to you from The Fifth Floor, the show at the heart of global storytelling, with BBC journalists from all around the world. Presented by Faranak Amidi. Produced by Caroline Ferguson and Laura Thomas.

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide (Liveright, 2025), the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title--referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom--positions this liberation at the center of a "movement of global Blackness," with one charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), at its head.That so few people today know about Nkrumah is an omission that French demonstrates is "typical of our deliberate neglect of Africa's enormous role in the birth of the modern world." Determined to re-create Nkrumah's life as "an epic twentieth-century story," The Second Emancipation begins with his impoverished, unheralded birth in the far-western region of Ghana's Gold Coast. But blessed with a deep curiosity, a young Nkrumah pursued an overseas education in the United States. Nowhere is French's consummate style more vivid than in Nkrumah's early years in Depression-era America, especially in his mesmerizing portrait of a culturally effervescent Harlem that Nkrumah encountered in 1935 before heading to college. During his student years in Pennsylvania and later as an activist in London, Nkrumah became steeped in a renowned international Black intellectual milieu--including Du Bois, Garvey, Fanon, Padmore, and C.L.R. James, who called him "one of the greatest political leaders of our century"--and formed an ideology that readied him for an extraordinarily swift and peaceful rise to power upon his return to Ghana in 1947.Four years later, in a political landslide he engineered while imprisoned, Nkrumah stunned Britain by winning the first general election under universal franchise in Africa, becoming Ghana's first independent prime minister in 1957. As leader of a sovereign nation, Nkrumah wielded his influence to promote the liberation of the entire continent, pushing unity as the only pathway to recover from the damages of enslavement and subjugation. By the time national military and police forces, aided by the CIA, overthrew him in 1966, Nkrumah's radical belief in pan-African liberation had both galvanized dozens of nascent African states and fired a global agenda of Black power.In its dramatic recasting of the American civil rights story and in its tragic depiction of a continent that once exuded all the promise of a newly won freedom, The Second Emancipation becomes a generational work that positions Africa at the forefront of modern-day history. Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former New York Times bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China, based in Shanghai. The author of six books, including Born in Blackness, French lives in New York City. Ayisha Osori is a lawyer and Director at Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

On the 112th episode of Shirley's Temple, I sat with Stonebwoy, the biggest artist in Ghana

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide (Liveright, 2025), the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title--referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom--positions this liberation at the center of a "movement of global Blackness," with one charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), at its head.That so few people today know about Nkrumah is an omission that French demonstrates is "typical of our deliberate neglect of Africa's enormous role in the birth of the modern world." Determined to re-create Nkrumah's life as "an epic twentieth-century story," The Second Emancipation begins with his impoverished, unheralded birth in the far-western region of Ghana's Gold Coast. But blessed with a deep curiosity, a young Nkrumah pursued an overseas education in the United States. Nowhere is French's consummate style more vivid than in Nkrumah's early years in Depression-era America, especially in his mesmerizing portrait of a culturally effervescent Harlem that Nkrumah encountered in 1935 before heading to college. During his student years in Pennsylvania and later as an activist in London, Nkrumah became steeped in a renowned international Black intellectual milieu--including Du Bois, Garvey, Fanon, Padmore, and C.L.R. James, who called him "one of the greatest political leaders of our century"--and formed an ideology that readied him for an extraordinarily swift and peaceful rise to power upon his return to Ghana in 1947.Four years later, in a political landslide he engineered while imprisoned, Nkrumah stunned Britain by winning the first general election under universal franchise in Africa, becoming Ghana's first independent prime minister in 1957. As leader of a sovereign nation, Nkrumah wielded his influence to promote the liberation of the entire continent, pushing unity as the only pathway to recover from the damages of enslavement and subjugation. By the time national military and police forces, aided by the CIA, overthrew him in 1966, Nkrumah's radical belief in pan-African liberation had both galvanized dozens of nascent African states and fired a global agenda of Black power.In its dramatic recasting of the American civil rights story and in its tragic depiction of a continent that once exuded all the promise of a newly won freedom, The Second Emancipation becomes a generational work that positions Africa at the forefront of modern-day history. Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former New York Times bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China, based in Shanghai. The author of six books, including Born in Blackness, French lives in New York City. Ayisha Osori is a lawyer and Director at Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide (Liveright, 2025), the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title--referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom--positions this liberation at the center of a "movement of global Blackness," with one charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), at its head.That so few people today know about Nkrumah is an omission that French demonstrates is "typical of our deliberate neglect of Africa's enormous role in the birth of the modern world." Determined to re-create Nkrumah's life as "an epic twentieth-century story," The Second Emancipation begins with his impoverished, unheralded birth in the far-western region of Ghana's Gold Coast. But blessed with a deep curiosity, a young Nkrumah pursued an overseas education in the United States. Nowhere is French's consummate style more vivid than in Nkrumah's early years in Depression-era America, especially in his mesmerizing portrait of a culturally effervescent Harlem that Nkrumah encountered in 1935 before heading to college. During his student years in Pennsylvania and later as an activist in London, Nkrumah became steeped in a renowned international Black intellectual milieu--including Du Bois, Garvey, Fanon, Padmore, and C.L.R. James, who called him "one of the greatest political leaders of our century"--and formed an ideology that readied him for an extraordinarily swift and peaceful rise to power upon his return to Ghana in 1947.Four years later, in a political landslide he engineered while imprisoned, Nkrumah stunned Britain by winning the first general election under universal franchise in Africa, becoming Ghana's first independent prime minister in 1957. As leader of a sovereign nation, Nkrumah wielded his influence to promote the liberation of the entire continent, pushing unity as the only pathway to recover from the damages of enslavement and subjugation. By the time national military and police forces, aided by the CIA, overthrew him in 1966, Nkrumah's radical belief in pan-African liberation had both galvanized dozens of nascent African states and fired a global agenda of Black power.In its dramatic recasting of the American civil rights story and in its tragic depiction of a continent that once exuded all the promise of a newly won freedom, The Second Emancipation becomes a generational work that positions Africa at the forefront of modern-day history. Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former New York Times bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China, based in Shanghai. The author of six books, including Born in Blackness, French lives in New York City. Ayisha Osori is a lawyer and Director at Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide (Liveright, 2025), the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title--referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom--positions this liberation at the center of a "movement of global Blackness," with one charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), at its head.That so few people today know about Nkrumah is an omission that French demonstrates is "typical of our deliberate neglect of Africa's enormous role in the birth of the modern world." Determined to re-create Nkrumah's life as "an epic twentieth-century story," The Second Emancipation begins with his impoverished, unheralded birth in the far-western region of Ghana's Gold Coast. But blessed with a deep curiosity, a young Nkrumah pursued an overseas education in the United States. Nowhere is French's consummate style more vivid than in Nkrumah's early years in Depression-era America, especially in his mesmerizing portrait of a culturally effervescent Harlem that Nkrumah encountered in 1935 before heading to college. During his student years in Pennsylvania and later as an activist in London, Nkrumah became steeped in a renowned international Black intellectual milieu--including Du Bois, Garvey, Fanon, Padmore, and C.L.R. James, who called him "one of the greatest political leaders of our century"--and formed an ideology that readied him for an extraordinarily swift and peaceful rise to power upon his return to Ghana in 1947.Four years later, in a political landslide he engineered while imprisoned, Nkrumah stunned Britain by winning the first general election under universal franchise in Africa, becoming Ghana's first independent prime minister in 1957. As leader of a sovereign nation, Nkrumah wielded his influence to promote the liberation of the entire continent, pushing unity as the only pathway to recover from the damages of enslavement and subjugation. By the time national military and police forces, aided by the CIA, overthrew him in 1966, Nkrumah's radical belief in pan-African liberation had both galvanized dozens of nascent African states and fired a global agenda of Black power.In its dramatic recasting of the American civil rights story and in its tragic depiction of a continent that once exuded all the promise of a newly won freedom, The Second Emancipation becomes a generational work that positions Africa at the forefront of modern-day history. Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former New York Times bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China, based in Shanghai. The author of six books, including Born in Blackness, French lives in New York City. Ayisha Osori is a lawyer and Director at Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-studies

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide (Liveright, 2025), the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title--referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom--positions this liberation at the center of a "movement of global Blackness," with one charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), at its head.That so few people today know about Nkrumah is an omission that French demonstrates is "typical of our deliberate neglect of Africa's enormous role in the birth of the modern world." Determined to re-create Nkrumah's life as "an epic twentieth-century story," The Second Emancipation begins with his impoverished, unheralded birth in the far-western region of Ghana's Gold Coast. But blessed with a deep curiosity, a young Nkrumah pursued an overseas education in the United States. Nowhere is French's consummate style more vivid than in Nkrumah's early years in Depression-era America, especially in his mesmerizing portrait of a culturally effervescent Harlem that Nkrumah encountered in 1935 before heading to college. During his student years in Pennsylvania and later as an activist in London, Nkrumah became steeped in a renowned international Black intellectual milieu--including Du Bois, Garvey, Fanon, Padmore, and C.L.R. James, who called him "one of the greatest political leaders of our century"--and formed an ideology that readied him for an extraordinarily swift and peaceful rise to power upon his return to Ghana in 1947.Four years later, in a political landslide he engineered while imprisoned, Nkrumah stunned Britain by winning the first general election under universal franchise in Africa, becoming Ghana's first independent prime minister in 1957. As leader of a sovereign nation, Nkrumah wielded his influence to promote the liberation of the entire continent, pushing unity as the only pathway to recover from the damages of enslavement and subjugation. By the time national military and police forces, aided by the CIA, overthrew him in 1966, Nkrumah's radical belief in pan-African liberation had both galvanized dozens of nascent African states and fired a global agenda of Black power.In its dramatic recasting of the American civil rights story and in its tragic depiction of a continent that once exuded all the promise of a newly won freedom, The Second Emancipation becomes a generational work that positions Africa at the forefront of modern-day history. Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former New York Times bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China, based in Shanghai. The author of six books, including Born in Blackness, French lives in New York City. Ayisha Osori is a lawyer and Director at Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

What is a call? How does a person know if God is calling them to mission service? Join in a discussion as these and other questions are addressed.

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide (Liveright, 2025), the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title--referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom--positions this liberation at the center of a "movement of global Blackness," with one charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), at its head.That so few people today know about Nkrumah is an omission that French demonstrates is "typical of our deliberate neglect of Africa's enormous role in the birth of the modern world." Determined to re-create Nkrumah's life as "an epic twentieth-century story," The Second Emancipation begins with his impoverished, unheralded birth in the far-western region of Ghana's Gold Coast. But blessed with a deep curiosity, a young Nkrumah pursued an overseas education in the United States. Nowhere is French's consummate style more vivid than in Nkrumah's early years in Depression-era America, especially in his mesmerizing portrait of a culturally effervescent Harlem that Nkrumah encountered in 1935 before heading to college. During his student years in Pennsylvania and later as an activist in London, Nkrumah became steeped in a renowned international Black intellectual milieu--including Du Bois, Garvey, Fanon, Padmore, and C.L.R. James, who called him "one of the greatest political leaders of our century"--and formed an ideology that readied him for an extraordinarily swift and peaceful rise to power upon his return to Ghana in 1947.Four years later, in a political landslide he engineered while imprisoned, Nkrumah stunned Britain by winning the first general election under universal franchise in Africa, becoming Ghana's first independent prime minister in 1957. As leader of a sovereign nation, Nkrumah wielded his influence to promote the liberation of the entire continent, pushing unity as the only pathway to recover from the damages of enslavement and subjugation. By the time national military and police forces, aided by the CIA, overthrew him in 1966, Nkrumah's radical belief in pan-African liberation had both galvanized dozens of nascent African states and fired a global agenda of Black power.In its dramatic recasting of the American civil rights story and in its tragic depiction of a continent that once exuded all the promise of a newly won freedom, The Second Emancipation becomes a generational work that positions Africa at the forefront of modern-day history. Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former New York Times bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China, based in Shanghai. The author of six books, including Born in Blackness, French lives in New York City. Ayisha Osori is a lawyer and Director at Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide (Liveright, 2025), the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title--referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom--positions this liberation at the center of a "movement of global Blackness," with one charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), at its head.That so few people today know about Nkrumah is an omission that French demonstrates is "typical of our deliberate neglect of Africa's enormous role in the birth of the modern world." Determined to re-create Nkrumah's life as "an epic twentieth-century story," The Second Emancipation begins with his impoverished, unheralded birth in the far-western region of Ghana's Gold Coast. But blessed with a deep curiosity, a young Nkrumah pursued an overseas education in the United States. Nowhere is French's consummate style more vivid than in Nkrumah's early years in Depression-era America, especially in his mesmerizing portrait of a culturally effervescent Harlem that Nkrumah encountered in 1935 before heading to college. During his student years in Pennsylvania and later as an activist in London, Nkrumah became steeped in a renowned international Black intellectual milieu--including Du Bois, Garvey, Fanon, Padmore, and C.L.R. James, who called him "one of the greatest political leaders of our century"--and formed an ideology that readied him for an extraordinarily swift and peaceful rise to power upon his return to Ghana in 1947.Four years later, in a political landslide he engineered while imprisoned, Nkrumah stunned Britain by winning the first general election under universal franchise in Africa, becoming Ghana's first independent prime minister in 1957. As leader of a sovereign nation, Nkrumah wielded his influence to promote the liberation of the entire continent, pushing unity as the only pathway to recover from the damages of enslavement and subjugation. By the time national military and police forces, aided by the CIA, overthrew him in 1966, Nkrumah's radical belief in pan-African liberation had both galvanized dozens of nascent African states and fired a global agenda of Black power.In its dramatic recasting of the American civil rights story and in its tragic depiction of a continent that once exuded all the promise of a newly won freedom, The Second Emancipation becomes a generational work that positions Africa at the forefront of modern-day history. Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former New York Times bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China, based in Shanghai. The author of six books, including Born in Blackness, French lives in New York City. Ayisha Osori is a lawyer and Director at Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

From fluctuation management to legacy building: Why pricing for raw material surges determines survival - and the brutal truth about loneliness, university-free success, and the discipline system that turns broken-home survivors into branded empire builders. In this explosive episode of Konnected Minds, Felix Afutu - founder of McPhilix plantain chips and Ghana's only branded plantain production company - dismantles the dangerous pricing fantasy keeping young African entrepreneurs trapped in customer-pleasing cycles while their businesses bleed money during raw material fluctuations. This isn't motivational business talk from Instagram gurus - it's a raw breakdown of why you must price with a 20% margin buffer that absorbs seasonal plantain price surges of 500-600% without destroying customer loyalty or business sustainability, why entrepreneurship in Ghana is a lonely journey that breaks you down before building you back stronger, and why the university dropout who survived broken homes, house boy discipline, and public rejection now runs a branded plantain empire while degree holders wait for perfect conditions that never come. Critical revelations include: • The pricing formula that saves businesses during raw material crises: build in 20% fluctuation room so when plantain prices surge, you lose expected profit but stay in business - then adjust gradually without shocking customers • Why raw material prices in Ghana fluctuate with dollar exchange rates - entrepreneurs who price based only on current costs go broke when prices jump 500% between seasons • The brutal truth about entrepreneurship in Ghana: it's lonely, it breaks you to make you, and if you're not passionate enough, you'll fail when the first major challenge hits • Why he's never been to university but speaks business like someone with a business degree - self-education, learning from successful CEOs, following their paths, speaking their language • The survivor mindset: raised fighting battles from infancy, never had "giving up" in his vocabulary - challenges break him down emotionally, but quitting has never been an option • Why he's not in business for money or enormous wealth - the goal is impact, legacy, creating something his offspring will be proud of • The platform rejection reality: people make you feel like you don't deserve success because you didn't go to university - "you want to raise it with a big voice, but you've never even passed a party" • The crying-in-your-room moments: when friends and people indirectly say you don't deserve the platform you've earned, when educated people question how a non-graduate is achieving what degree holders can't • The discipline foundation: raised under strict discipline systems that shaped his entire business approach - motivation fades, but discipline keeps you on the right path • The best advice that changed everything: uncle's warning about planning for the future after seeing his mother lose everything and watching friends disappear when the money ran out • The leadership transformation: used to be a very bad leader, read "How to Lead Without a Title" and learned how to be effective without relying on positional authority • The relationship rescue: struggling with friendships until reading "How People Think" revealed all the errors in how he related to others - understanding psychology changed everything • The confidence restoration: reading "The Psychology of Money" by Morgan Housel confirmed he was on the right path when self-doubt made him question if he was failing The conversation reaches its uncomfortable peak with a truth that destroys education-based success myths: this man never went to university, survived a broken home where feeding three square meals was a challenge, lived as a house boy under strict discipline, built Ghana's leading branded plantain company from a table top, and now gets told by educated people that he doesn't deserve the platform he's earned - because they went to university and still haven't achieved what a non-graduate built through passion, discipline, and survivor instincts. Meanwhile, degree holders wait for perfect conditions, blame lack of capital, and miss the brutal lesson: entrepreneurship in Ghana rewards those who price strategically for fluctuations, build discipline systems that survive breakdown moments, and create legacy instead of chasing wealth - not those who collect certificates and wait for opportunities that never come. Host: Derrick Abaitey IG: https://www.instagram.com/derrick.abaitey YT: https://www.youtube.com/@DerrickAbaitey Join Konnected Academy: https://konnectedacademy.com/ Recommended Books: • How to Lead Without a Title • How People Think • The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel • Surrounded by Idiots #Podcast #businesspodcast #AfricanPodcast

Analysis and discussion of news and current affairs in Ghana with panellists

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide (Liveright, 2025), the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title--referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom--positions this liberation at the center of a "movement of global Blackness," with one charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), at its head.That so few people today know about Nkrumah is an omission that French demonstrates is "typical of our deliberate neglect of Africa's enormous role in the birth of the modern world." Determined to re-create Nkrumah's life as "an epic twentieth-century story," The Second Emancipation begins with his impoverished, unheralded birth in the far-western region of Ghana's Gold Coast. But blessed with a deep curiosity, a young Nkrumah pursued an overseas education in the United States. Nowhere is French's consummate style more vivid than in Nkrumah's early years in Depression-era America, especially in his mesmerizing portrait of a culturally effervescent Harlem that Nkrumah encountered in 1935 before heading to college. During his student years in Pennsylvania and later as an activist in London, Nkrumah became steeped in a renowned international Black intellectual milieu--including Du Bois, Garvey, Fanon, Padmore, and C.L.R. James, who called him "one of the greatest political leaders of our century"--and formed an ideology that readied him for an extraordinarily swift and peaceful rise to power upon his return to Ghana in 1947.Four years later, in a political landslide he engineered while imprisoned, Nkrumah stunned Britain by winning the first general election under universal franchise in Africa, becoming Ghana's first independent prime minister in 1957. As leader of a sovereign nation, Nkrumah wielded his influence to promote the liberation of the entire continent, pushing unity as the only pathway to recover from the damages of enslavement and subjugation. By the time national military and police forces, aided by the CIA, overthrew him in 1966, Nkrumah's radical belief in pan-African liberation had both galvanized dozens of nascent African states and fired a global agenda of Black power.In its dramatic recasting of the American civil rights story and in its tragic depiction of a continent that once exuded all the promise of a newly won freedom, The Second Emancipation becomes a generational work that positions Africa at the forefront of modern-day history. Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former New York Times bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China, based in Shanghai. The author of six books, including Born in Blackness, French lives in New York City. Ayisha Osori is a lawyer and Director at Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/journalism

Analysis and discussion of key happenings in Ghana - in Akan

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide (Liveright, 2025), the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title--referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom--positions this liberation at the center of a "movement of global Blackness," with one charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), at its head.That so few people today know about Nkrumah is an omission that French demonstrates is "typical of our deliberate neglect of Africa's enormous role in the birth of the modern world." Determined to re-create Nkrumah's life as "an epic twentieth-century story," The Second Emancipation begins with his impoverished, unheralded birth in the far-western region of Ghana's Gold Coast. But blessed with a deep curiosity, a young Nkrumah pursued an overseas education in the United States. Nowhere is French's consummate style more vivid than in Nkrumah's early years in Depression-era America, especially in his mesmerizing portrait of a culturally effervescent Harlem that Nkrumah encountered in 1935 before heading to college. During his student years in Pennsylvania and later as an activist in London, Nkrumah became steeped in a renowned international Black intellectual milieu--including Du Bois, Garvey, Fanon, Padmore, and C.L.R. James, who called him "one of the greatest political leaders of our century"--and formed an ideology that readied him for an extraordinarily swift and peaceful rise to power upon his return to Ghana in 1947.Four years later, in a political landslide he engineered while imprisoned, Nkrumah stunned Britain by winning the first general election under universal franchise in Africa, becoming Ghana's first independent prime minister in 1957. As leader of a sovereign nation, Nkrumah wielded his influence to promote the liberation of the entire continent, pushing unity as the only pathway to recover from the damages of enslavement and subjugation. By the time national military and police forces, aided by the CIA, overthrew him in 1966, Nkrumah's radical belief in pan-African liberation had both galvanized dozens of nascent African states and fired a global agenda of Black power.In its dramatic recasting of the American civil rights story and in its tragic depiction of a continent that once exuded all the promise of a newly won freedom, The Second Emancipation becomes a generational work that positions Africa at the forefront of modern-day history. Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former New York Times bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China, based in Shanghai. The author of six books, including Born in Blackness, French lives in New York City. Ayisha Osori is a lawyer and Director at Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

Mu kan komo da karfe 8 na safe agogon Najeriya da Nijar domin sake gabatar muku da labarai da hirarraki, da sharhin jaridu kama daga Najeriya zuwa Nijar har Ghana, da kuma ra'ayoyinku.

Vi skal dyrke noget af den fantastiske musik som ghanesiske musikere og sangere har kreeret udenfor Ghanas landegrænser igennem tiden. Det bliver pludselig meget pænt, poleret, hifi og sonisk på den rimelig kliniske måde. Men stadig med den vestafrikanske sjæl som man jo ikke kan finde i noget som helt andet musik. Udover det får du også lidt japanske lækkerier blandt andet fra en japansk sangerinde og komiker Kuniku Yamada der synger om at forføre mænd. Det bliver med andre ord også en ret japansk på den lumre måde!

Ladies and gentlemen of the Cha Cha Nation, welcome back to another episode of the Cha Cha Music Review Series. This week’s rotation cuts across Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa, detty December energy, reflective praise, soft love songs, and street-certified production choices.Let’s get into it.This episode is proof that African music is no longer moving in one direction. It’s reflective, experimental, spiritual, playful, and still deeply danceable. 1. Naira Marley — Mmmm (Prod. Rexxie)https://open.spotify.com/track/0QiUFqWBC5Qzho0Oh0c8U92. Nektunez, CIZA, Mega EJ, P.M.F, Shoday, Tiwa Savage & Tripcy — Baddi Ahhttps://open.spotify.com/track/2cwXgbiBHguLs0gxjxjj8a3. Larry Gaaga ft. Patoranking & Soweto Spiritual Singers — Gratefulhttps://open.spotify.com/track/2OUkyY3ibF5RNw29ssSFOD4. Nasty C ft. Soweto Spiritual Singers — Head Up 2.0https://open.spotify.com/track/0BhBwg1NThsfsspTcvw7IA5. R2Bees — Awurade Aye (Prod. KillBeatz & DJ Breezy)https://open.spotify.com/track/5MO3ZW5mDhQiUmrYoYfitt6. Sarkodie ft. Olivetheboy — You & I (Remix) (Prod. M.O.G Beatz)https://open.spotify.com/track/1flano0UcvIuEHv9YxzCc17. Ajebo Hustlers ft. Joeboy — Coco Samba (Prod. DJ Qube)https://open.spotify.com/track/45IGXOKiOxfOQJdd2Ln4PgPress Play to listen

durée : 00:11:07 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - En 1957, interview de Jean Rouch à propos de son film "Les Maitres fous". Ce documentaire illustre les pratiques rituelles de la secte religieuse des Haoukas pratiquées à Accra au Ghana. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Jean Rouch

Del disco del brasileño Seu Jorge 'Baile à la baiana' las canciones 'Sete prazeres', 'Sábado à noite', 'Sim mais', 'Gente boa se atraí' y 'Mudou tudo'. Del disco del italiano Nicola Conte 'Love and revolution' las canciones 'Quiet down' y 'Shiva' -con la voz de Melanie Charles, 'The hapiness tree' -con la de Veronica Harcsa-, 'Do you feel like I feel' y 'Ghana' -con Gregory Porter-, 'Here' y 'Love from the sun' -con José James- y 'Black spirits -con Nailah Porter-.Escuchar audio

Aujourd'hui, je vous présente Charlotte, photographe et maman de deux grands garçons. C'est son fils Tom, 25 ans, qui lui a proposé ce voyage un peu fou : six mois de road trip de Paris jusqu'au Cap en Afrique du Sud, un projet qu'il a imaginé et organisé du début à la fin.Ils ont traversé l'Europe et l'Afrique, pays après pays : Espagne, Maroc, Mauritanie, Sénégal, Guinée, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Bénin, Nigeria, Cameroun, Congo, Angola, Namibie… jusqu'à l'Afrique du Sud .Un récit de voyage marqué par des nuits sous la tente, des rencontres spontanées, un passage de frontière tendu à cause d'un drone, et cette scène digne d'un western quand deux silhouettes se sont approchées d'eux au Maroc pour leur dire qu'ils ne pouvaient pas camper là .Ce voyage en famille a resserré leur lien, six mois côte à côte, souvent à l'aventure, parfois dans l'inconnu.Si l'idée de suivre une route qui change tout vous parle, vous serez sûrement curieux d'entendre leur histoire.-----------Si l'épisode vous a plu, laissez-moi une note 5 ⭐️ou un commentaire sur Apple Podcasts ou Spotify

Kennedy Agyapong is leading with about 53% support and has already won seven regions, including Ashanti. The whole of Ghana is behind him. - Dr. Stephen Amoah, Member of Kennedy Agyapong's Campaign Strategy Team

From Canadian scientist to Ghana factory owner: Why ownership beats unlimited corporate cards - and the brutal truth about two fires, $50,000 equipment losses, employee theft, and the engineering education crisis keeping Africa trapped in raw material export cycles while China produces 500,000 engineers annually. In this explosive episode of Konnected Minds, Fred Ampadu - founder of Posar Industries and former award-winning chemist in North America - dismantles the dangerous safety-first fantasy keeping African professionals trapped in Western corporate comfort while generational wealth gets built by those who return home, survive fires, betrayals, and spontaneous combustion accusations to manufacture locally what Ghana imports for billions. Host: Derrick Abaitey IG: https://www.instagram.com/derrick.abaitey YT: https://www.youtube.com/@DerrickAbaitey Join Konnected Academy: https://konnectedacademy.com/ Guest: Fred Ampadu - Founder, Posar Industries #Podcast #businesspodcast #AfricanPodcast

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Prime morning show analysing and discussing news and topical issues in Ghana, interspersed with music and listener interactions

Hii leo jaridani tunakuletea mada kwa kina ya vijana wanaotafuta fursa za mafunzo kwa vitendo. Umoja wa Mataifa ni moja ya mashirika ya kimataifa yanayotoa fursa hii kwa vijana kutoka duniani kote kuja hapa Makao Makuu jijini New York Marekani au hata katika nchi husika.Ripoti mpya ya Umoja wa Mataifa iliyotolewa leo imefichua mauaji ya kutisha, ubakaji na matumizi ya njaa kama silaha ya vita katika kambi ya Zamzam, Darfur, Sudan. Kwa mujibu wa ofisi ya Haki za Binadamu ya Umoja wa Mataifa OHCHR, raia wasiopungua 1,013 waliuawa katika mashambulizi ya siku tatu ya wanamgambo wa RSF mwezi Aprili, huku zaidi ya watu 400,000 wakilazimika kukimbia makazi yao.Leo, katika maadhimisho ya Siku ya Kimataifa ya Wahamiaji, Katibu Mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa Antonio Guterres amemulika mchango mkubwa wa mamilioni ya wahamiaji duniani, wakati uhamiaji ukiendelea kuwa mgumu zaidi kutokana na migogoro, majanga yanayohusiana na tabianchi na shinikizo za kiuchumi. Ameeleza kuwepo kwa viwango vya juu zaidi vya watu waliolazimika kuhama makazi yao na idadi kubwa zaidi kuwahi kushuhudiwa ya vifo vya wahamiaji wakiwa safarini, huku akisisitiza kuwa uhamiaji salama na unaosimamiwa vyema unaweza kuchochea ukuaji wa uchumi, ubunifu na maendeleo katika nchi za asili na zinazopokea wahamiaji. Guterres amesema, “Uhamiaji unapokuwa salama na unasimamiwa vyema, si janga la kuogopa, bali ni nguvu kubwa ya kuleta mema.”.Na Ama K. Babebrese Balozi mwema wa kitaifa wa shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Uhamiaji IOM mwenye asili ya Ghana ambaye sasa ni muhamiaji nchini Uingereza, katika siku hii ya uhamiaji ametoa ujumbe maalum akisema "Napenda kumtia moyo kila mtu kwamba tunaweza kuwa tofauti, hadithi zetu za uhamiaji ni tofauti tumetoka kwenye mazingira tofauti lakini kitu cha muhimu ni kwamba kama jamii sisi ni kitu kimoja. Uhamiaji ndio hadithi yangu”.Mwenyeji wako ni Anold Kayanda, karibu!

Craig Richards talks in Accra, Ghana about his big main event this Saturday against Dan Azeez. 'Spider ' reflects on his journey so far, World Title ambitions for 2026 and boxing in Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ghana has deployed troops from the 48th Engineers Regiment to support Jamaica's reconstruction efforts following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa

From broken-home Jamestown kid to branded plantain empire: Why living as a house boy taught entrepreneurial discipline - and the brutal truth about table-top startups, family betrayals, and the 6am radio jingle that programmed business timing into a future factory owner. In this explosive episode of Konnected Minds, Felix Afutu - founder of McPhilix plantain chips and Ghana's only branded plantain production company - dismantles the startup fantasy keeping young African entrepreneurs trapped in waiting-for-perfect-conditions cycles while real businesses get built on table tops by kids who couldn't afford three square meals. This isn't motivational business talk from Instagram gurus - it's a raw breakdown of why a broken-home child from Jamestown with separated parents, no university degree, and a childhood spent moving between relatives' homes across all four corners of Accra turned hardship into the resilience that builds million-cedi companies, why living as a house boy with an entrepreneur who ran one of Madina Market's biggest stores in 2008 became the unintentional business school that taught discipline, timing, and zero tolerance for laziness, and why the 6am Great Dogana radio jingle that signaled "time to leave" programmed the kind of operational discipline that separates sustainable businesses from survival hustles. Critical revelations include: • The broken-home beginning: parents separated by class one, raised by different relatives across Jamestown, Kaneshie, and East Legon - wherever food and shelter were available • Why he chose his mother over his father: tradition says the man raises the child, but basic needs like food and somewhere to sleep mattered more than cultural expectations • The house boy entrepreneurship training: waking up early, doing morning chores, going to the shop in Madina Market to help set up, attending one of the best free schools in Madina, returning after school to close the shop - zero room for errors, laziness, or academic failure • The 360-degree culture shock: moving from Jamestown to East Legon meant adapting to two completely different societies and communities - the sharp transition built adaptability • The radio jingle discipline system: at 6am, Great Dogana played, then Radio Ghana news at 6:00, then back to Open FM at 6:30 for the money drive segment - when the jingle rang, wherever he was, it was time to leave • Why relatives who weren't family became his rescue: they noticed the gaps in his upbringing and stepped in - even though he became like a house boy, they gave him structure, entrepreneurial exposure, and moral training • The grandmother attempt that failed: she couldn't handle him because he was "hard" - so he went back to his father, then eventually to the entrepreneur family in East Legon • Why he gives effortlessly: supporting other entrepreneurs, showing up at events, donating gifts to audiences - it comes from abundance within, not obligation The conversation reaches its uncomfortable peak with a truth that destroys privilege-based entrepreneurship myths: this man grew up in a broken home where feeding three square meals was a challenge, lived with relatives who couldn't afford his education, worked as a house boy while attending school, had zero room for laziness or academic failure, and still built Ghana's leading branded plantain company from a table top. Meanwhile, young entrepreneurs with university degrees, family support, and startup capital wait for perfect conditions that will never come - because the discipline, resilience, and timing instincts that build real businesses come from environments where survival demands excellence, not environments where comfort breeds excuses. Host: Derrick Abaitey IG: https://www.instagram.com/derrick.abaitey YT: https://www.youtube.com/@DerrickAbaitey Join Konnected Academy: https://konnectedacademy.com/ #Podcast #businesspodcast #AfricanPodcast

Prime morning show analysing and discussing news and topical issues in Ghana, interspersed with music and listener interactions

EU-US relations remain tense after Washington's new national security strategy slammed the European Union's migration policies, warning that the bloc risks “civilizational erasure.” Also, heavy winds, rain and cold are making life dangerous for Palestinians in Gaza. And, a lawyer takes Pakistan's government to court over taxes on pads and tampons. Plus, a look at a traditional celebration in Ghana known as Detty December. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Send us a textAfrica is not waiting for the future—it's building it. In this inspiring conversation, Joey Pinz sits down with Kwame Numapau, Ghana's Director of Technology & Innovation, to explore how a continent rich in creativity and resilience is shaping its own digital destiny.Kwame shares how AI, cybersecurity, drones, and robotics are transforming daily life across Africa, from crowd safety to agriculture. He discusses why mindset, not money, is Africa's biggest challenge—and how empowering youth to “fix before they call” could spark the next global wave of innovation.From government policy gaps to Starlink-powered connectivity, from curbing corruption to mentoring a new generation of builders, Kwame paints a vivid picture of a region on the rise. His optimism is contagious: within five years, he predicts, the world will turn to Africa for both tech support and inspiration. 

Mining Stock Daily discusses the latest developments at Newcore Gold's Enchi Project in Ghana with CEO Luke Alexander. The discussion covers recent drilling results from the Boin gold deposit, the upcoming pre-feasibility study (PFS), financial strategies including warrant exercises, and the exploration potential of the project. The conversation highlights the company's focus on resource expansion and the positive outlook for 2026, driven by strong market conditions and strategic drilling efforts.

The Idiots talked with John Chew from the North American Scarbble Players Association and he spelled out the winning strategy.  Ted doesn't recognize when our tipper gets fired.  Ted shares that he's never gotten a Christmas present.  

Bafana Bafana het in ʼn vriendskaplike wedstryd op die Dobsonville-stadion in Soweto ʼn 1-0-sege teen Ghana behaal. Dit was die Suid-Afrikaners se laaste kragmeting voor die span na Marokko vertrek vir die Afrikabekertoernooi wat vandag begin. Sipho Mbule het die wedstryd se enigste doel in die 57ste minuut behaal. Afrigter Hugo Broos was nie beïndruk met sy span se vertoning nie:

① Jimmy Lai convicted—would Western states tolerate similar crimes to their own political systems? (00:45) ② From cold resources to hot growth—how did China build a booming ice-and-snow economy? (14:55) ③ Ghana's president: China is a true friend of Africa. (24:33) ④ Washington orders blockade of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela—what is it aiming for? (34:16) ⑤ Arctic sees warmest year on record since 1900: report. (42:57)

From ₵1,500 table-top hustle to branded plantain empire: Why discovering your gift early beats university degrees - and the brutal truth about family betrayals, contract-free partnerships, and the calculated risk-taking that separates victors from victims of poverty. In this explosive episode of Konnected Minds, Felix Afutu - founder of McPhilix plantain chips and Ghana's only branded plantain production company - dismantles the safe-path fantasy keeping young African entrepreneurs trapped in white-collar job cycles while real businesses get built under abandoned trees by kids who calculated their future salary at 20 and said "no." This isn't motivational business talk from Instagram gurus - it's a raw breakdown of why a young man from a broken home chose the roadside over tertiary education despite family expectations, why identifying your target audience before starting means choosing between Airport Residential, Spintex, and East Legon instead of selling to everyone, and why the partnership betrayals that sent him to police stations and turned family members into business competitors taught him the contract lesson most entrepreneurs learn too late. Critical revelations include: • The community value question: what problem exists in my community, and what exceptional value do I carry that can impact the community while generating income? • Why cooking was the discovered gift - no culinary school, just natural ability to prepare any local dish and perfect new recipes overnight • The food business exposure ladder: working with caterers, frying bread, selling yam chips, yam trophy, Ban Koon - multiple experiences across different food trades before discovering the gap • Why plantain chips was the chosen path: people were selling it in tight rubbers on the street, but nobody was packaging it to appeal to a specific caliber of clientele • The senior high school packaging knowledge: learning how to package a product to make it appealing to a certain level of client - not branding yet, just packaging • The target audience calculation: looking for working-class, business-class communities where people are too busy to cook and need quick snacks they can carry anywhere • The three community options: Airport Residential, Spintex, East Legon - calculated choices based on where the target audience lived • Why university was rejected early: discovering strengths and weaknesses early, calculating monthly salaries, envisioning goals before 30, and realizing the white-collar path couldn't get him there • The 50-50 risk acceptance: either you fail and get experience, or you win and become a victor - no regrets, only lessons learned • The ₵1,500 startup structure: family and friends contributed ₵100, ₵50, ₵500 loans - combined into capital for table, stove, gas, plantain, oil, salt • The packaging range: rubber packets ranging from ₵2-3 depending on size - nothing fancy, just standardized basic packaging on a table top • The partnership ignorance trap: wanting to help relatives and friends because of personal struggle, starting with multiple partners who eventually dropped out • The corporate branding pioneer move: opening a shop at American House to sell corporate gifts when corporate branding wasn't big in Ghana yet • The diversification strategy: using plantain chip profits to invest in other businesses while maintaining focus on the core brand vision • The family betrayal reality: a relative managing the corporate shop demanded partnership, got rejected, separated - then opened the same corporate business three days later right next door • The contract lesson learned too late: trust is good, but controls are better - Africans are great until you put a contract in place, then suddenly they don't want to do business anymore • The inexperience admission: just a young guy making money who wanted to support family and friends around him - no contracts, no legal protection, just trust that got betrayed The conversation reaches its uncomfortable peak with a truth that destroys family-first business fantasies: when you start making money as a young entrepreneur, relatives and friends will want to be part of your success. They'll help you manage shops, work alongside you, celebrate your growth - until the business becomes profitable enough to replicate. Then the same family member who rejected your partnership offer will open the exact same business three days after separation, right next to your shop, using everything they learned while working with you. And because there's no contract, no legal protection, no controls in place - you can only watch as trust becomes competition and family becomes your biggest business threat. IG: https://www.instagram.com/derrick.abaitey YT: https://www.youtube.com/@DerrickAbaitey Join Konnected Academy: https://konnectedacademy.com/ #Podcast #businesspodcast #AfricanPodcast

A crisis doesn't have to break your church or organization. In this powerful conversation, Dr. Mark Rutland, Executive Director of the National Institute of Leadership and founder of Global Servants, joins Phil Cooke https://philcooke.com to share hard-earned insights on leading through crisis, turnaround leadership, and building a lasting leadership legacy. Drawing from firsthand experience in crisis management at Southeastern University, Calvary Church, and Oral Roberts University, Dr. Rutland explains why crisis isn't always about scandal—and why vision, systems analysis, and truth-telling are essential for renewal and growth.

Lesley Sackey is a leader in the realm of women's boxing and the visionary tech founder of Pillow, a transformative AI integrated platform dedicated to powering survivors to thrive after domestic abuse.  As founder of Fight Forward, a social impact business, she has a mission to support women to reclaim their strength and voice after experiencing abuse. Pillow: Pillow powers a community of survivors to thrive by connecting them to people, tools and resources through an AI-integrated ecosystem. Fight Forward CIC A not-for-profit organisation that uses boxing as a tool to improve the mental health of survivors of domestic abuse. Our mission is to help 100,000 women to Fight Forward. A trailblazer in the sport, Lesley became the first British woman to win gold at the EU Championships in 2008 on first entry, proudly representing England and Great Britain on numerous international stages.  Motivated by her own personal journey out of abuse, Lesley launched the pioneering initiative The Fight Back, which gained prominent coverage on Channel 4, SKY Sports and the BBC. Her ambitious goal to help 100,000 women "fight forward" out of abuse is rapidly gaining momentum. "My work with Fight Forward is particularly disruptive because it challenges preconceptions about boxing. We are using what is typically considered a violent sport to heal women who have experienced violence. The program helps women reclaim consent over their own bodies and voices, connect with their bodies in a healing way, find community and connection and process trauma through physical movement". Lesley's influence extends beyond the ring. She co-produced an independent documentary with BBC Sport that highlights the challenges faced by female boxers in Ghana, broadening the narrative around women in sports globally. Additionally, her expertise has been showcased as a guest trainer on Channel 4's "How To Get Fit Fast" and as an athlete on BBC 3's "Last Woman Standing." ---- SOCIALS: Website: www.fightforward.org.uk & www.getpillow.ai Instagram: @lesleyboxersackey & https://www.instagram.com/fightfwd LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/lesleysackey

Genevieve Keeney-Vazquez explores universal themes in death rituals, examining how funerals, grief, and cultural customs intersect at the National Museum of Funeral History. Museum exhibits include gynecological coffins from Ghana, jazz funerals in Louisiana, and Victorian mourning practices, providing insight into how traditions shape the grieving process and honor the dead. Religion and cultural heritage guide communities through loss, establishing rituals that unite people and create space for healthy grieving. Grief is recognized as an ongoing experience, with individuals choosing solitude or seeking support from loved ones. Genevieve Keeney-Vazquez shares personal experiences with grief and emphasizes practices that foster healing. This conversation is part two of a two-part interview with Ashley Gould for On the Table with Ashley, a podcast dedicated to meaningful conversations across diverse life experiences and professions. Plan your visit to the museum today at nmfh.org and take a journey through over 30,000 square feet of fascinating history. Subscribe to The Final Curtain Never Closes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Key Takeaways 1. Rituals surrounding death are universal, but they vary widely in their practices and meanings. These customs serve dual purposes: aiding the grieving process for the living and, in many traditions, helping the soul or spirit of the deceased to “transcend” or move on. Regardless of the specifics, a common thread is that every culture finds ways to honor and remember loved ones, and most have beliefs about life after death or the soul's journey. 2. Funerary practices, including burial containers like coffins and caskets or unique customs such as Ghanaian fantasy coffins or jazz funerals, reflect both cultural values and practical concerns (like public health). These practices evolve over time—sometimes merging, adapting, or being challenged by modern sensibilities—but always provide structure and meaning during periods of loss. 3. Grief is a lifelong and deeply personal process. The transcript emphasizes that grieving varies from person to person and is affected by culture, tradition, and individual circumstance. Equally important is the message that grief should be honored and experienced—not masked or ignored—as unhealthy grief can have lasting physical and emotional impacts. Support from community, rituals, and sometimes professional help, can be vital. 4. Objects, photography, and even art made from cremains are powerful tools for remembrance and healing. These items enable people to hold on to memories, honor the dead, and sometimes find new ways to process loss. The meaning attached to such objects often transcends their physical material, providing comfort and a sense of continuity. 5. Professionals in the funeral industry are both caretakers and guides for grieving families. The transcript highlights that even those with expertise in death care are affected by grief and must manage personal boundaries and seek support when needed. There's an ongoing need for empathy, community, and sometimes humor, to balance the emotional demands of the profession, as well as recognition of the human aspect behind every role.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Somewhere on Earth, we explore two groundbreaking ideas: taking back control of your online creativity and transforming fast-fashion waste with the power of fungi. 1️⃣ Rebuilding a Human InternetRabble (Evan Henshaw-Plath), Co-creator of Nostr Divine Rabble, Twitter's first engineer, unveils Divine - a new six-second video platform that rejects algorithms, bans AI-generated slop, and returns ownership of old content to creators. Built on open social protocols, Divine aims to restore a human, interoperable, user-driven internet.  2️⃣ Mushrooms vs. Fast FashionTomasz Mierzwa, Co-founder of Myco Renew is on the show to explain how their fungal bioreactors can break down textiles - even polyester - in weeks and turn the leftovers into eco-bricks and new biomaterials. With 92 million tons of clothes thrown out yearly, this fungi-powered circular model could help clean up landfills from Poland to Ghana. 

Small Cap Breaking News You Can't Miss!Here's a quick rundown of the latest updates from standout small-cap companies making meaningful moves today—covering clean energy, AI, and gold exploration.HPQ Silicon (TSX-V: HPQ)HPQ Silicon reached a major commercialization milestone after securing UN 38.3 certification for its ENDURA+ lithium-ion battery cells. This globally required certification allows HPQ to safely ship its high-performance 18650 and 21700 cells worldwide by air, land, and sea. For investors, this marks HPQ's transition from R&D into commercial readiness, opening the door to customer qualification programs, global partnerships, and near-term revenue opportunities across electric mobility, robotics, and industrial markets.Nextech3D.ai (CSE: NTAR)Nextech3D.ai strengthened its growth engine by appointing veteran sales executive James McGuinness as Global Head of Sales. With decades of experience scaling enterprise SaaS and event-technology platforms, McGuinness has already built out a full sales team. The move signals Nextech3D.ai's shift into a revenue-focused execution phase as demand grows for its unified AI-powered event and spatial computing platform heading into 2026.Newcore Gold (TSX-V: NCAU)Newcore Gold reported additional near-surface gold intersections at its Enchi Gold Project in Ghana, including 3.16 g/t gold over 3 metres and 0.78 g/t gold over 16 metres. Nearly all drill holes in the current program have intersected gold, reinforcing continuity across the Boin Deposit. These results support Newcore's plan to advance Enchi toward a Pre-Feasibility Study in the first half of 2026 while continuing to test higher-grade potential at depth.Onyx Gold (TSX-V: ONYX)Onyx Gold delivered another strong drilling update from its Munro-Croesus Project in Ontario, reporting 194 metres grading 1.8 g/t gold at the Argus North Zone, including multiple higher-grade intervals. The results confirm continuity between drill holes, expand the mineralized footprint to roughly 900 metres of strike, and support a growing discovery in the prolific Timmins gold camp. With a well-funded treasury, Onyx says it is positioned to continue aggressive exploration through 2026.Loncor Gold (TSX: LN)Loncor Gold cleared a major transaction milestone after receiving final court approval for its proposed acquisition by a subsidiary of China's Chengtun Mining Group. While the deal is not yet closed, the court order significantly reduces procedural risk. If completed, the transaction would transition Loncor and its multi-million-ounce Adumbi gold resource in the Democratic Republic of the Congo into the hands of a larger global mining group.Stay ahead of the small-cap story.Follow AGORACOM for more breaking small-cap news, in-depth company coverage, and investor insights—and don't forget to followhttps://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/mB8A9pKJ9Yb

The five Northern regions of Ghana are facing a deepening education crisis, with betting, teenage pregnancy, poverty, and inadequate school infrastructure forcing thousands of children out of school

This week Ivy Slater, host of Her Success Story, chats with her guest, Michelle Jewsbury. The two talk about talk about transforming personal trauma into global advocacy, building educational opportunities for survivors in Sierra Leone and Ghana, and the challenges of leading a nonprofit devoted to empowering survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking. In this episode, we discuss: How Michelle Jewsbury transformed her personal experience surviving severe domestic violence into the founding of Unsilenced Voices, using settlement funds from her lawsuit to launch a nonprofit dedicated to empowering survivors globally. What inspired Michelle's international expansion—from bartending in Hollywood to establishing programs in Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Rwanda, where her organization now supports approximately 1,800 individuals across two villages. When Michelle recognized her calling to create broader impact, channeling her one-woman play about abuse into a published memoir and curating "Breaking the Silence," a collection of survivor stories addressing trauma, trafficking, addiction, and grief. Why persistence defines effective leadership—Michelle shares a powerful lesson from India: "It is not up to us to finish the project. It is up to us to start it," urging nonprofit leaders to overcome imposter syndrome. How Unsilenced Voices plans for sustainable growth, including building a dedicated school in Sierra Leone for vocational training, counseling, and medical support to break cycles of abuse and dependency.   Michelle Jewsbury, a dynamic force in transforming personal stories into powerful narratives, is the founder and CEO of Unsilenced Voices. With a mission to empower survivors of pain and trauma, Michelle has emerged as an internationally recognized speaker, coach, and advocate. Renowned for her expertise in translating adversity into business and personal success, she has graced stages across the globe. From sharing her journey of breaking the cycle of abuse, Michelle inspires individuals to transform their own stories into impactful narratives. As the driving force behind Unsilenced Voices, Michelle Jewsbury is dedicated to engaging business owners, entrepreneurs and organizations harness the transformative power of their stories. Website: https://unsilencedvoices.org/ Social Media Links: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.jewsbury https://www.facebook.com/unsilencevoices https://www.tiktok.com/@michellejewsbury?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc https://www.instagram.com/michellejewsbury/ https://www.instagram.com/unsilencedvoices/ https://twitter.com/mjewsbury https://twitter.com/unsilencevoices https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-jewsbury-5310953b/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/18824076/ https://www.youtube.com/@michellejewsbury    

The Mancave catches up on the latest news, Jasmine Crockett runs for Senate in Texas, Man from Ghana builds 8 Noah's Arks, Antisemitic Islamist Terrorist attack in Australia, and Joe Biden mispronounces "The United States of America", and much more!

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