Miami is one of those places that I have always had a love/hate relationship with. I love to go there because it is a quick, cheap trip from New York that most often guarantees you great sunny weather, particularly during the cold months on the East coast. The hate part comes in because after about [...]

“I really want 2 write a love song but every time I try the world calls..some other cause hijacks my choice using my voice..I really want 2 write a love song but every time I try I feel this pull, a nudge from my soul redirecting my goals”. Reminiscing as the pull of the Winter [...]

I was on twitter the other day & saw Russell Simmons Tweet about an article he wrote for Global Grind entitled: Lockdown, USA vs. GradNation: We Have A Choice To Make:The Battle For America’s Future Rests At The Schoolhouse Door. In reading the article all I could do was shake my head because I [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]March 13, 2010 will be the ultimate matchup of two great champions, Ghana’s pride & Bukom’s finest, Clottey VS. Pacquiao. I called this match-up between Clottey & Pacquaio during the Cotto VS. Pacquiao fight, as I posted a picture of the yummy empanadas that my girl, Estela made [...]

In a global hip-hop scene where female rappers seem to be an endangered species since the days of MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Monie Love, Yo Yo, Lady Of Rage, Missy Elliott, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Eve etc., it is refreshing to hear a female from Ghana, West Africa that is not just a gimmick, but [...]

African Art is more than just wooden sculptures & NYU-Ghana professor & artist, Lyle Ashton Harris showcases how African art is moving & evolving in the contemporary world. My Alma mater, NYU, continues to make me proud with their efforts in Ghana. Inspiring & exciting to say the least of the campus in Ghana [...]

Today Ghana celebrates it’s 53rd year of Independence from British colonial rule (March 6, 1957). I had a couple of conversations about Ghana with two of my fellow Ghanaians, one saying that Ghana should have kept the colonial name of Gold Coast because it represents a lot in terms of the country’s marketability, its [...]

I was just reading a post on Jezebel.com about how Vogue constantly uses White models on the covers of their International editions in countries that are not predominately White, i.e. Turkey, China, India etc. All I can say to that is why blame Vogue? It seems Vogue is basically giving these nations what they serve [...]

2010 Marks the 50th anniversary of Independence in 17 African nations, setting the stage for Africa as a continent to look deep within our history, to wake up & to make this decade Africa’s decade of fulfilling the change that was to come with independence. There was something in the air in 1960, a leap [...]

As I praise Vogue Italia’s launch of the Vogue Black & Vogue Curvy websites as a step in the right direction, I also SMH that the global fashion industry still just doesn’t get it. We are not looking for Jim Crowe Days of “Separate but Equal”, but rather a time in our global society that [...]