Posts Tagged ‘ghana’
So many invitations to make millions, so little time
I don’t know what website I recently put my email address into, but now I’m getting an email a day from Festac Town. Of course, email phishing scams know no national boundaries, but Eamon Kircher-Allen looked at the most famous of them a few days ago: the great Nigerian oil email scams. The Nigerian government [...]
Ever on the edge
I’m keeping a list of things I need to blog, and I’ll get there, I promise. In the interim, a newsflash from the other side of the continent, where ethnic violence in a small town in Ghana is worrying the country. Ghana’s not really a place you think about as prone to ethnic violence…then again, [...]
Greetings, or “What am I supposed to do with your hand?”
Anyone who’s ever left the States–hell, anyone who’s left a small hometown for a big city, or vice versa–knows that awkward squishy feeling of saying your how-do-you-do’s. Especially in a foreign culture, it’s a guessing game of non-verbals…a form of communication which itself is totally unreliable, because non-verbals are not universal. That cute little informal [...]
I am a freelance journalist and multimedia producer who covers human rights, Africa and foreign affairs. [