Food in Ghana at Global Voices

We have a new site www.g-lish.org where you can read all articles from This is Ghana in a much more organised fashion. Read Food in Ghana at Global Voices there.

I had a lot of fun reading dozens of blogs about Ghanaian food. You can read the whole post over at GV here. There are some great blogs referenced in the post, especially betumi.blogspot.com. Can you believe two bloggers went on quests in Seoul and Guangzhou to find Ghanaian food.

Here is a short excerpt.

"Mushy, gooey, fragrant, grainy, tasty, starchy, spicy, creamy, rotund, freaking amazing—these are just some of the adjectives bloggers use to describe Ghanaian cuisine. From Seoul to London, Guangzhou to Tamale, people are blogging about Ghanaian food."

BPO in Ghana

We have a new site www.g-lish.org where you can read all articles from This is Ghana in a much more organised fashion. Read BPO in Ghana there.

And here is an excerpt from a Global Voices round-up of blogs about the announcement of an agreement to further establish Ghana as a leading business outsourcing destination (BPO) in Africa. I bet you didn't know that NYC parking tickets are processed in Ghana...

"Few know that A.T.Kearney rated Ghana as sub-Saharan Africa's number one Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) destination in 2005 and, as of June 2009, the
nation’s achievements in this field look set to continue. Several bloggers
reported on an agreement signed in early June between two leading ICT
organisations that will provide unprecedented opportunities for ICT students,
create thousands of jobs, and underpin the growth of this nascent
industry."

For example, Fusion is a well-known BPO company.

More interest in Obama's visit

We have a new site www.g-lish.org where you can read all articles from This is Ghana in a much more organised fashion. Read More interest in Obama's visit there.

I was also surprised and chuffed to see the "reactions to the announcement of Obama's visit" post quoted at a US Government site, By The People:

"There’s a lot of speculation and excitement ahead of the president’s visit,
says Gayle Pescud, a blogger for Global
Voices who lives in Ghana. Since Obama’s trip was announced in May,
Pescud writes, “from street traders, to young urban professionals, to the newly
elected members of parliament, the chatter was all about one thing.”

More to come on President Obama's visit at GV shortly.

Global Voices: Interview with YPWC Founder

We have a new site www.g-lish.org where you can read all articles from This is Ghana in a much more organised fashion. Read Global Voices: Interview with YPWC Founder there.

If you ever wonder what technology can do to bring people together throughout the developing and developed world, you may want to read my interview at Global Voices with Michael Boampong, the founder of YPWC. Here is an excerpt:

I had an opportunity to interview Mr Michael Boampong, the Executive
Director of Young People We Care, based in Kumasi, Ghana. YPWC is no ordinary NGO and Michael is no ordinary young man, by anyone's standards. Operated by young people, for young people, YPWC exploits new media to create links with like-minded individuals and organisations around the world to enhance opportunities for young people here in Ghana.

Global Voices posts

We have a new site www.g-lish.org where you can read all articles from This is Ghana in a much more organised fashion. Read Global Voices posts there.

I'm contributing to Global Voices, a brilliant new media site that, in its own words, "aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore." Check out the coverage on Iran.

Incidentally, one of the GV founders, Mr Ethan Zuckerman, is the excellent author of My Heart's in Accra.

I'll link my posts as they are published. Here was the first one, summarised:

"Bloggers around the world speculate about President Obama's choice to visit
Ghana first in sub-Saharan Africa. Across the continent Africans have been
asking, “Why Ghana?” Many commentators are suggesting that the choice to visit
Ghana first is an explicit endorsement of the nation's recent peaceful elections
and that the USA values peace and democracy above personal affiliations and more powerful nations."