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

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.