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in Essays
… For The People
Shoutout to John Magufuli, president of Tanzania and father of the ‘WhatWouldMagufuliDo?’ meme. In his first week in office, he stripped expense budgets and cancelled his inaugural ball. Later he cancelled the Independence…
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in Art
PoxVop: Ploverbs #2
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in Art
PoxVop: Fashion
Interesting phenomenon, is it not? I especially love how the second-hand clothes market has flooded Ghana with hipster boots and jeans. Very soon we’ll have to discount people’s appearances entirely when forming first impressions.…
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2016!
On 31st December, 2015 — also known as last week Thursday — I joined the billions of people who sacrifice sleep every December to make sure that we make it safe into January. You’d think by now…
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in Music
Music: Christmas Jam
It’s been a very long while since I felt like holding up my music to the scrutiny of the internet, but hey, it’s Christmas. Me and Michael Butsorme (great keyboardist; probably one of Ghana’s best…
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in Art
PoxVop: Forever?
My machine died last week, and because I am an idiot who hasn’t backed up since March, I have now lost all the work from the most productive period of my artistic and professional life.…
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in Essays
On Common Nonsense
You better hope you’re fallingWhen you look up and see brown… That’s the first two lines of a song that almost came to me on Saturday. I have no idea what it means. I have a vague idea,…
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in Art
PoxVop: Ploverbs #1
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in Writing
Swelter: To Be Uncomfortably Hot
How about that sun, eh? It turns out I have sweat glands. It’s always nice to meet new people, I say. But I wish I could have made their acquaintance under different conditions. 2015 is likely to be…