Paying tribute to Chinua Achebe with Jackson M'vunganyi

By Oral Ofori

A young Achebe looks into the future

On Friday March 22 in the year 2013, the world was told that Chinua Achebe, the great Nigerian author and father of African literature, had passed away at the age of 82. The whole of that day saw me reflecting on this great Nigerian literary giant who in 1958 transformed the way all writers in and out of Africa wrote about the continent. Achebe's 1st novel--'Things Fall Apart'--slapped me into an awakening when I first encountered it at age 15 in my junior high school years in Ghana.

3D Blending arrives in Ghana with first trainer certified

By Oral Ofori

The past few years have seen Ghana chalk remarkable successes in many facets of the Information Communication Technology world (ICT). The expansion of technological infrastructures and systems have brought with it a burning desire among young Ghanaians to exploit the positives that comes with ICT. Rexford Nkansah is one of such many Ghanaians who are specializing in areas formerly known to be dominated by people in the more advanced parts of the world. One of such areas is the 3D modeling and animation.

Ghana Ambassador to US grants first ever interview to a blogger

By Oral Ofori

I had the privilege of interviewing the Ghana Ambassador to the USA earlier in the month of March 2013 in Washington DC. His Excellency the Ambassador; Daniel Ohene Agyekum, was kind enough to grant me audience when I visited with him at his office where we talked about Ghana-USA relations, Ghanaians in the diaspora and what the current government in Ghana is doing to ensure that the discovery of oil in Ghana does not become a Dutch disease.