DAME Africa Jan 19 1 min Parte After Parte Villa Monticello has etched itself into the Hall of Fame echelon of Ghanaian Hotels, and rightly so. Year after year, the standards this ...
DAME Africa Jan 18 2 min Life is better on the beach December in Ghana must have been the most talked about topic, especially in the final quarter of 2019, by everyone who had been sucked in...
DAME Africa Nov 10, 2019 2 min December in Accra The heat is rising in Accra in more ways than one as December etches closer. The only question is - are YOU ready? As published in DAME A...
DAME Africa Sep 13, 2019 7 min The Curfew Princess Fathia Nkrumah speaks to DAME about culture, history and her latest role In true Year of Return fashion, there is an extra zest ...
DAME Africa Jun 18, 2019 2 min FUN IN THE MUD If there was ever a good time to appreciate the splattering of mud and the labyrinth workings of a trail, this is it. There were more tha...
DAME Africa Jun 18, 2019 2 min GHANA HAS AFRONATION AfroNation is coming to Accra, Ghana in December. Last week saw everyone weigh in on the big announcement that Accra will play host to th...
DAME Africa Mar 25, 2019 2 min PANAFEST I describe PANAFEST as the perfect journey metaphor in the story of Africa. A journey metaphor that comes alive every other year and serv...
DAME Africa Mar 25, 2019 2 min THE CURIOUS CASE OF GHANA’S RAILWAY SECTOR Dormant is the word that immediately comes to mind when I think about the railway sector in Ghana currently. A century ago (1900-1980), y...
DAME Africa Mar 25, 2019 2 min STREET FOOD CULTURE Ghanaians take pride in their food. As you weave your way through the city of Accra, it is hard to miss local food stalls on the side of ...
DAME Africa Mar 25, 2019 2 min LOVE YOURS Hate it or love it, all, if not most, cultures are open to imitation. As social beings, it is only rational that a ‘behavior’ will be lea...
DAME Africa Mar 25, 2019 2 min FLY KWAHU For holiday fanatics in Ghana, Easter is synonymous with Kwahu. In keeping with the whole resurrection theme, the opportunity to resuscit...
DAME Africa Mar 17, 2019 2 min YEARNING FOR SOME TEA Unconventional. Hip. Multifaceted. Wavy. And definitely for the culture. There is an overload of expressions that can and should be level...
DAME Africa Mar 16, 2019 2 min ACCRAAAAAAA ‘ACCRA STAY BY PLAN’. I don’t know what it means but it is provocative. Wherever you hear this statement, just know you’re in for a good ...
DAME Africa Mar 16, 2019 2 min TRUE MUSIC TRAIN There is no African culture without sonically pleasing sounds. You will not hear a simpler, truer statement than that. Backtracking into ...
DAME Africa Mar 8, 2019 2 min International Women’s Day This past week was highly reflective for me. International Women’s Day came along and so did the flood of female-glorifying posts and act...
DAME Africa Mar 4, 2019 2 min Ghana to The World SZN ‘Ghana to the world’ is a commonality these days and I love it. No, we do not need any validation from anyone, no less people who do not ...
DAME Africa Mar 4, 2019 2 min ….AND HELP US TO RESIST OPPRESSORS’ RULE Independence Day celebrations are a big deal on the continent. With the 62nd Independence anniversary of Ghana beckoning, it is only natu...
DAME Africa Mar 4, 2019 1 min THE GLUE THAT IS KELEWELE Kelewele may just be the only Ghanaian meal that does not divide opinion. A meal fit for all occasions and appropriate for for any time o...
DAME Africa Mar 4, 2019 2 min LOCAL WEARS TAKEOFF The riches of Ghana go far beyond gold, cocoa and timber. These three perhaps are joined to the stock market at the hip in a marriage tha...
DAME Africa Mar 3, 2019 2 min SHIFT OF POWER? Local music is one of Ghana’s more glittery treasures. The artistry that is displayed year after year reflects the innate creativity that...
DAME Africa Mar 3, 2019 2 min TREASURES IN ACCRA YEAAAAHHH! Every GOAL, SET, TRY, RUN, KNOCKOUT is greeted with rapturous applause and euphoria. That is AM&PM in its crowning glory for y...
DAME Africa Mar 3, 2019 2 min THE DAWN OF DIGITIZATION We seem to have been living in this age of digitization for so long that it makes you trip sometimes when you try to remember what some o...
DAME Africa Mar 3, 2019 2 min THE RISE OF COCONUT OIL Over the last decade or so, I have watched coconut oil gain more popularity than myself in Ghana. Quite tragic, if you ask me. No one know...
