Joseph ‘King Kong’ Agbeko to resurrect boxing in Ghana

By Oral Ofori

Photo: NEPHP

On March 22, 2013, Joseph Agbeko dethroned Colombian born Luis Melendez in a 12 round unanimous decision fight at the Accra sports stadium in Ghana to become the new International Boxing Organization Bantamweight Champion of the world. I had the opportunity of chatting with Joseph ‘King Kong’ Agbeko a few weeks after the Ghanaian fighter became a champion.

Memoirs of an iBlogger

By Oral Ofori

Here is a 20+ minute audio account of why I do what I do as a blogger, how I started and what I hope to achieve in my pursuit of #TheAfricanDream. If you have the time kindly listen to the audio on Soundcloud and please leave a comment or send me an email to let me know what your thoughts are.

Protecting the peace Ghana enjoys today

Kwame Ansah-Brew, (a direct lineage of Kwame Ansah Sasraku who according to Akan Oral Tradition fought the Danes in battle when they first came to the then Gold Coast--now Ghana) says he feels blessed to be a Ghanaian because Ghana stands as a beacon of hope in Africa, considering the fact that some countries in Africa are plagued by wars and all sorts of civil unrests.

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.

Ghana to host 3rd Annual African HR Leaders Conference in Accra

By Oral Ofori

Kojo Amoasi Andoh of ILO Ghana

Ghana will be hosting the 3rd annual African Human Resource Leaders conference scheduled from 28th February to 1st March 2013 at the Accra International Conference Centre. The conference this year will focus on issues relating to employee engagement, leadership, organizational development and effectiveness as well as other key areas of human resource management like performance, reward, talent and management among others.