The Road We All Took, by Lyndal Asanempoka

So here is some information on my second book, my first novel. My first book, My Sisters & I, is a book of biographical and fictional…

Horizontal Sisterhood – revisited Part 3

So here is the final Part 3 of my posts on Horizontal Sisterhood Revisited. It’s to give some background into what our family went through last…

Horizontal Sisterhood – revisited Part 2

So here is Part 2 of my next installment to Horizontal Sisterhood. Still the background to where I am getting but an important lead-up in terms…

Horizontal Sisterhood – revisited

Here is a post I wrote last June. I am reposting because I am going to be commenting on this situation and what happened since. It’s…

Accra’s coastline of shanty’s and shit now gone but where do my friends and family sleep?

  Accra slum dwellers suspect cholera demolitions are a pretext for profit This is a recent article from The Guardian in Ghana. It was on Africa…

Polygamy in the family – Part 2

Looking at the stats of this site I have seen that my post on polygamy, here, has been one of the most popular. It seems it’s…

Dreadlocks – to have or not to have?

Over the years I have come across people of many different backgrounds who aspire to have perfect dreadlocks, or messy ones as the reality may be.…

Unity Craft Cooperative

This is a cooperative that my husband, Ras Duah, and I run between Ghana and Australia. We have a market stall in Australia from which we…

Ras Duah – Fight

This is a song from Ras DUAH’s second album. It’s called fight and is about a certain conflict that has been ongoing for generations in Ghana…

In defense of the African man.

So my husband is Ghanaian and I am Australian.  He is from a tribe which is only now developing its written culture; so we tell stories…