Posts tagged Ghana

Congrats to Ghanian born Ezekiel Ansah (Detroit Lions) and Edmund Kugbila (Carolina Panthers) as well as Zimbabwe born Stansly Maponga (Atlanta Falcons) for being selected in the 2013 NFL Draft! 

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My Africa Is interviews Kwabena Boateng of Ghana Decides, an organization educating Ghanaians on the candidates and the stakes of the upcoming 2012 presidential elections.

Find out more about the elections by checking out Ghanadecides.com

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My Africa Is Skype Sessions: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah talks sex and Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women. As Africans (yes i’m speaking with a sweeping generalization) we know we don’t really discuss sex education growing up, and we simply figure it out as we go along. Nana breaks down the importance of discussing sex and female sexuality as the foundation for gender rights in Africa. 

Watch the video, and leave your thoughts! Follow Adventures on twitter:

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Want more? Look into Sylvia Tamale and check out this article.

*In the video we stated that Adventures received 20,000 hits a week, that number is actually monthly. 

**The number of women who have trouble reaching orgasm varies by publication, but in 2009 ABC News stated 75% of women have trouble reaching orgasm, based on a sex study from Indiana University in the United States.

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The Ghanian Presidential Debates are currently streaming on Youtube

MY AFRICA IS SKYPE SESSIONS W/ DELPHINE FAWUNDU-BUFORD: At My Africa Is we want to change the way the world sees the African continent. Our skype sessions feature individuals who can help give insights on various topics. In this episode, we speak with Delphine Fawundu-Buford, a photographer who has been documenting the music scene in West Africa, and most recently teaching a self portrait workshop to female photographers in Lagos.

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An Inno-Native approach to architecture in #Ghana


Osae-Addo threw himself into designing a home that would come to be a test for—and testimony to—their new life as a couple. With a passion for the contextual modernism of Finland’s Alvar Aalto, Australia’s Glenn Murcutt, and L.A.’s Ray Kappe, he sought to apply their lessons to Ghana, a onetime British colony where unfortunate concrete-block houses made with imported English portland cement have become the urban norm. “Interstitial spaces and landscape are what defines tropical architecture,” he says. “It is not about edifice but rather harnessing the elements—trees, wind, sun, and water—to create harmony, not the perfection that modernism craves so much.”

Read more: http://www.dwell.com/articles/an-inno-native-approach.html#ixzz1wNQ5wQe4

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Malaka Grant and Nana Darkoa are both Ghanaian, and neither was told much about sex while growing up.

So they started their own blog: Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women.

And they’re having great time breaking taboos and helping other African women.

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