Sé:gbɛ:gnön🍀

you who fashion our rugged lives to suit you. your grace is in style. always in vogue. ¬kantamanto nyame.

a visualisation of an excerpt from atukwei okai's kperterkple serenade, a prose poem.

@eben_offen 😂

My first time as a virtual Akan to English & the vice versa interpreter at an American law court in 2023 and I disgraced myself pɔtɔɔɔ. The judge and one other lawyer sounded similar and I heard nothing so I was cut off! From there, I have learnt a lot in this field. 😂😂😂

how africans underdeveloped africa 😂

for every dollar of aid given, the donor gets 5 back.

united africa company (uac) headquarters, kumasi. was absorbed into @Unilever. [one beggar on the road. azumah nelson must be disappointed, if no one helped him.]

man had to wait a whole extra year & write a letter on top of that to plead with lincoln university to admit him. [the letter is publicly accessible, he signed it off with his maiden name] when he eventually made it into lincoln, he sold fish on market streets, spent nights at bus stations, preached in baptist churches to raise money to fend for himself. then the hustling really plenty, chale!

@KZankeli Can you share Kwame Nkrumah's "clear" background. How did he school abroad if his family weren't as prominent as the others who were associated to slave trading? Or we've got it wrong about that bit of his family background all this while

a peep into ghana’s colonial parliament (legislative assembly), c. 1951. the sons of some of those puppets are very alive & well-fed.

to be is better than to seem. why would I want to appear smart before an ignoramus? you claim I am peddling lies, yet you can’t point out a single lie. and you still want me to provide sources? if calling me a liar is your bait to lure me to spoon-feed you with references, sorry to disappoint you my lady.

residents of kpando building their town bridge. c.1958 exemplary nation builders.

students of opoku ware school (what would have been st. thomas aquinas school but for the insistence of the asantehene), with a priestly teacher. santasi, c. 1957

tobacco farmer, ghana, c.1959. let's call him atongo [no offence intended].

when we had a more purposeful education. pictured here are architecture students of @KNUSTGH designing low-cost housing using bamboo to resettle displaced residents of nangodi village in northern ghana. c.1964

ne marshall telecommunications engineering school accra, c. 1964. we get telecoms engineers for ghana as far back as the 60s?

dc stammers telecommunications engineering school, accra, 1964. how all these engineers demma trainee go? last last politicians run ghana telecom to the ground.

trainee land surveyors. government secondary technical school, takoradi. now ghana secondary technical school, gsts. c. world war ii wanna present high school kiddies go fit rub shoulders?

engineering machine workshop, technical institute tarkwa, gold coast. c.1942 where the hands-on engineering skills all pass?

ghanaian laboratory science, kumasi college of technology now @KNUSTGH. c.1954 i wonder what became of these lads. armchair engineers?

market day in a furafura town, bolgatanga, c.1947