The Independence Arch towers high above the make-shift market created to house vendors at the third annual Taste of Ghana festival. The initiative – a portraiture of Ghanaian culture through the lenses of food, music, fashion, photography and cinema – creates opportunities for small and medium-scale businesses to audition...
A fool changeth not his path
Sampling
Cocktailing
Binging
Partying
All from a pocket bereft of starving holes
Bread he orders
And tables are filled
Food he eats
For they eat
All sorts spread
Assorted choices
Assorted options
Apportioned portions
Buffeting in sorts
All from a pocket bereft of starving holes
Sampling
Designs
Colours
Designing to fit
Wearing to match multiple colours
All from a pocket bereft of starving holes
Posing...
Chilled leek and potato soup, also known as Vichyssoise, is a classic French cream soup of velvety-rich potatoes with sharp, green alliums made soft and mellow by chilled cream. It can serve as an ultimate elegant appetiser for a summertime dinner party.
The famous dish is traditionally served chilled during...
Lies lie in your eyes
Lies, they lie in the corner of your eyes
Corners you to truth
and I,
choosing myself to believe in the lies,
find me damned, belied
Worse for my deceit than you for yours
Lies, they lie within the cornea of your eyes
and fear deep within my soul
and with you and...
When we were young, we used to hear the adage: “What men, can do, women can also do better.” This has been marvelling my mind until I found a non-government organisation championing the course women empowerment in the Northern sector. Women are perceived to be for the kitchen and...
It is 2023, and many economies of the world are on an uneven rebound from ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic while others are still reeling from the dark clouds of global political and economic unrest.
The resources of many countries are stretched, and governments are having to engineer the growth...
The topic of automation and artificial intelligence replacing jobs is a recurring one that arises every time new milestones in the automation roadmap materialise. In part-two of this three-part series, we will delve deeper into ChatBot GPT’s risks (opportunities and threats) posed by an increasingly automated world of work,...
Egypt is on the brink of a financial and economic abyss. The portfolio inflows that fuelled its sovereign debt market have dried up, repeated currency devaluations have driven the Egyptian pound off a cliff, and inflation is at 21% following the rapid erosion of the country’s foreign-exchange reserves.
After initially...
Tax constitutes by far the most secure, convenient and reliable means by which governments around the world raise money to finance public expenditures. And for centuries, governments have relied on tax revenues to finance expenditure items such as the payment of public sector compensation, healthcare, security, roads, education and...