Gyedu-Blay Ambolley talks highlife, praises its greats and urges governments to support it more

By Oral Ofori

Cover of the new album

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is one of the most original musicians to come out of Ghana, he is noted for being a pioneering highlife musician, songwriter, producer, composer and the inventor of the 'Simigwa' genre.

Ghana’s Black Satellites receives morale booster for 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup

By Oral Ofori and Angela Asante

Ghana’s youth football team, the Black Satellites, have received a psychological boost to overcome their challenges at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup currently taking place in Turkey.

The 38^th edition of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana Awards crowned several athletes and other illustrious personalities of the Ghanaian sporting arena on June 29, 2013. One particular announcement however received huge applauds from guests at the event and it was to do with the qualification of the Ghana U-20 national football team to the Last 16 of the on-going 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

US animal advocacy group wants Obama to visit African lions

Will Travers

Will Travers, the Chief Executive Officer of Born Free USA, an American based national animal advocacy nonprofit organization has called on U.S. President Barack Obama to reconsider his decision to not visit African lions during his upcoming visit to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania from June 26 to July 3.

According to the White House, the President's African tour forms part of plans to reaffirm U.S. commitment to peace, security, development, and prosperity across Africa.

Raymond Narh; former Olympian records a win after two years without fight

By Oral Ofori

Ray 'The Emperor' Narh of Ghana announced his return to the ring with a convincing win over Ronald Cruz on June 14, 2013 at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center in Pennsylvania USA where both fighters locked horns in a Welterweight division bout. Narh dedicated the win to his mother; Flory.

Boxer Ray Narh biblically alludes to his rebirth by vowing to defeat Ronald Cruz

By Oral Ofori

It has been two years and two months since Ghanaian boxer Ray 'Sugar Ray' Narh stepped into a ring to fight, that fight however saw him record his second ever loss to Mike Alvarado of the USA in Las Vegas Nevada. Come the 14th of June this year, Ray Narh tells me all that is set to change as he battles Ronald Cruz in a 10 rounder tune up Welterweight fight in Bethlehem Pennsylvania.

2013 citizen journalism/news blogger in Ghana talks plus and minus of social media future in Africa

Jemila Abdulai is the founder and writer of Circumspecte.com and a consultant at the African Center for Economic Transformation in Accra, Ghana. She is very passionate about Africa as I came to discover in my recent talk with her about social media and its effects on the youths of Africa during which she made a passionate call on political leadership on the continent to be more involved with youths and carve out workable policies to make ICT more practical.

Rocky Dawuni talks politics, and up coming album

By Oral Ofori

Rocky Dawuni and John Legend

I first featured Rocky Dawuni on my blog in March of 2012 but prior to that, we've had a relationship lasting beyond that timeline and it was in my attempt to check in on him recently that gave birth to this piece where we got to talk about what is new with him and delve a bit into politics. Below is how our conversation transpired