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“while I’m waiting for the sun, dancing in the rain o.” - @amaarae
Accra, Ghana
Joined October 2015
Next time I log back into Twitter I should have finished my manuscript draft.
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I say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm terrified of my people dying. Because they don't just die once. They die every single time you realise they are dead. You've got these intense emotions that you have to go through everytime you think of them and you're like damn, that's it?.
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I love it when a celebrity travels to a new place and then they make a film of their trip. Like when Osuofia visited London in 2003.
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The only reason I haven't told my mother I actually wouldn't mind an arranged marriage is because our priorities are different. She'll go and look for a God-fearing woman, while I'm looking for a woman that God fears.
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@heyannamaria This is so me. Like yes I agreed with person A, but I saw person B's perspective and I rated it too. We should all be able to change our minds/hold space for multiple truths.
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Life delays in this country man. You'll be in your thirties before you secure a job with a paycheck that affords you the stability to plan for the future. Your colleagues in other countries are looking for a vacation home by the time you can even afford to move out.
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2017. I was in a trotro. I had had the longest of days. A full day at work followed by evening lectures. It was almost 10pm. It was raining heavily. I knew that I would have to run from the bus stop across about three streets before I got home. I had no umbrella. My laptop was. .
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This is a great example of how Christianity refuses to coexist with other beliefs by labeling them as demonic. Now juxtapose it to the imperialist idealogy that any culture contrary to western ideals is 'uncivilized' and you see the problem that some people have with Christians.
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Do you know how random it is that you get to build an entire relationship with someone simply because one of you saw the other and said "let me say hi." And then hi turns into hey! and before you know it, you're doing life with a whole human being. Making memories, being there.
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. happening. Not happening to me, just happening. I've approached every problem I've had since then with that calm. The aim isn't to fight the problem, it's to walk carefully through it and come out unfazed. I think of that old man often. I hope he made it home safely.
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Next time I fall in love it has to be very soft. I'm fragile please. Treat me like you're separating your last mosquito coil.
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Nobody:.Ghanaians: Please good afternoon. Please, can you kindly do this small favour for me, please? Please thank you so much, God richly bless you okay? Thanks a lot please.
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If they bring this to Ghana, I envision a few boys gathering around the machine who will offer to do the squats for you for something small.
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Anytime I see taser then I kai some my guy ein story. Kwashey boy try attack am for Osu Cemetry wey e use taser on the guy. Wey the guy start dey laugh kwakwakwa. E slap my guy finish wey e tell am sey e dey do illegal connection as ein day job so e make used to electric shock.
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Genuinely wouldn't mind an arranged marriage though. I feel like I could live comfortably with anybody as long as we are both kind and respectful towards each other. Love is a bonus.
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Yet another picture showing that our darling president Akufo-Addo will meet everybody except the expectations of Ghanaian citizens.
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The whole day the teacher go dey pick delivery calls. Small nor "madam please am camin from Achimota. Where ezarli arh u?".
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I tweet for people who were brought up faux-dadaba but later discovered that money actually no dey house. So now your standards be too high for the level you dey. And you've learned that closing the gap between Sam and Sammy Tuga takes more than your Dansoman upbringing.
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Two people walk into a bar. One sneezes and the other one doesn't. How do you know which one is Ghanaian and which one is Nigerian?. The Ghanaian is the one with Qatar. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
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The other schools for the area no go hear peace for the next few years, you know? You want flex small norr you go hear "but did Kidi come to your school during our day? Talk to the hand cos the face is busy 🖐🏿".
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Ghanaians: I've not eaten since morning. I had only tea and bread for breakfast. The tea and bread:.
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"So that's the little I want to add." - A Ghanaian that has spoken for more than fifteen minutes.
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*inhales Harmattan air*. Ahhhh. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🥰🥰🥰.
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Ghanaian pidgin is pretty much a young person’s language in the sense that its growth is led by young people of high school/uni age. They are the ones with the creative flexibility to come up with new words, break rules, rewrite the meaning of words and even bring words back.
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Maa Lizzy goodbyes are not bad byes, bad byes are from bad guys with bad vibes so bye bye 🙏🏿.
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Sitting down. Because what sensible old men can see sitting down, tikelenkele cannot see even with his special chair.
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Old Ghanaian album art. I find them both visually pleasing and inspiring.
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Visited my aunt the other day and my lil cousins were all powdered up and ready for bed so I said they look like kaakaamotobi and the eldest said "what's that?". We used to be a country 😭.
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Look at this picture. See the underlined part? That's Edwina (the Prez's daughter & owner of Nsuonam) and Femi, (wife of the Executive Secretary to the Prez & owner of Sandbox & Madam Butterfly). What are they doing? They are laughing. Laughing at you and me. #OccupyJulorbiHouse
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I remember when the dance came out and old folk were upset because “what if al qaeda hear about this and think we are mocking them?”. We didn’t know that the real terrorist was coming in 2016.
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Ghana make hard right now my nonchalant niggas start dey chalant about politics.
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I'm generally not a very available person, but I've felt myself becoming more reclusive this year and I'm not entirely sure why. I can tweet without any problems but I will actively avoid direct communication. I won't pick calls, I delay in responding to messages, etc.
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I met a guy that works in procurement and his mates kept calling him Tor. I thought they said Thor so obviously I asked if it's because he's the. ahem. God of Tender. Man didn't even blink at my joke. Just shook his head and said "No, iz because my name is Torgbor.".
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Earlier in the year I had to go to Bawku for work and I didn't fully understand the scale of the conflict till we crossed Zebilla and I saw what a ghost town Bawku is. Most commercial spaces were shut down, there was heavy military and police presence. You could see. .
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He is also the General of the Africa Warfront Alliance Military. More popularly known as AWAM.
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This year has been weird. I meet some SS kidde wey dem dey call am Tune. I tell am sey I dey like ein name, where e get for? He dey rap? He say no. He dey sing? He say no. He dey like Lil Wayne? He say who dat? I say okay, tell me. My man say ein full name be Opportunity.
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"It's raining at my side o" - A Ghanaian about to cancel a meeting.
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Niggas performed impossible feats during interco only to give up sports and work corporate because sponsorship no dey. Sigh.
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British Soldier: Cover me! My rifle is jammed!. Ghanaian Soldier: Did you say jams?. British: No, I-. GH: Risky, give the gunshot! Kɛ kpo, kɛ kpo!
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Last year the Church of Pentecost threatened to vote out govt if it didn't pass the anti-lgbtq bill. They threatened to rally their followers against govt. This year, while people are suffering from hunger, have lost jobs and businesses, they've opted to fast and pray.
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Ordered food from a restaurant and I paid but Vodafone didn't send the money. As I dey chop my phone dey ring sorr. I pick up, Felicia vex for phone top dey ask me "Mr Antony, have you heard that someone has eat restaurant food and didin pay before? What you're doing isnɔ fine.".
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Your parents have worked hard their entire lives to support you and they should be resting now, but they still have to dip into their savings to hold you down for every life milestone you achieve. And you're one of the lucky ones. At least you have parents that can support you.
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Only reason that GWCL doesn't get as much flak as ECG is because Ghanaians have a water conservation culture that goes back generations. Ebi hard sey you go enter somebro ein house wey you no go see at least a drum full of "just in case" water. But GWCL is just as bad as ECG.
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Too many people out here reading self-help books, and not enough people reading fiction.
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You're 29 but you don't feel like your life has started because you're two bad months from being in the same financial state you were during your national service. Years of work with nothing substantial to show for it.
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Men display intense emotions every day but because we equate emotions to tears, and we've been socialized not to cry in public, we think we are "more logical". I genuinely find that sentiment hilarious. Let's be serious, please.
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You've worked hard. You want to reward yourself with a car, you can't buy. Plot of land, wahala. Put the money in investment, it's locked. So what sin did we commit that we cannot enjoy decent lives in this fucking country? #OccupyJulorbiHouse.
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This is to all police. In 1948, when veteran soldiers and other aggrieved Gold Coasters protested, local police were ordered by a British Colonel to shoot into the crowd to disperse it. They refused. Our grandfathers knew how to refuse an order from above.
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"So guys, imagine you're in a plane like the one I've drawn on the board.".
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USD 25 million. That's how much one daughter of the president was paid to "beautify" Accra by painting murals on our intersections. Can this be allowed to continue? #OccupyJulorbiHouse.
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I know some people are asking: why #OccupyJulorbiHouse? Here are a few reasons for our protests. 1. Mismanagement of the Economy: Due to overspending and overborrowing, Ghana is currently bankrupt. Over 850,000 have been pushed into poverty and Government has done little. .
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They should put red cloth around the tanker and say they are doing protest, the police will show up there right now.
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UG has some great LLM/MA graduate courses that you don’t need an LLB to apply for. For those interested in specific fields of law that don’t want to go through law school.
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This is one of the Ghanaian lecturers exposed for sexual misconduct in the BBC documentary 'Sex For Grades'. He's remained an active political commentator, platformed by radio stations, and is now Secretary Elect of the University Teachers Association of Ghana.
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Passport office madams in Accra will bring you jacket to wear and tell you to remove the "blings" you're wearing.
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Even when he was young this nigga looked old. Wey small god we go carry make he chop president no?.
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I need people to understand that protests are important in any democracy. Even if "nothing" happens out of this protest, knowing that people care about a better Ghana moves others into action. I know many potential whistle-blowers who don't blow the whistle because they believe. .
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I love how the British named their currency you know. It feels mature. A currency for business. First name Pound, last name Sterling. Only first name I've ever heard for the Cedi was Wonitwɛa, and honestly the way prices are going it feels a little right.
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LET THEM FUCKING HEAR IT BRO!!. That's my brother o, that's my brother 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am so fucking proud!! #OccupyJulorbiHouse #FixTheCountry.
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I dey talk to my boy wey he say something so I talk "Roger that" wey my man ask me "why, where e dey?". I need dbee friends 💀.
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Packaging be disease. I just kai some time I dey buy fufu wey some big man dey my front. E buy fufu then one fish, wey e turn to me, a complete stranger, start dey explain sey e no really dey hong but e dey on medication so e for chop something small.
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I just called Basillisa to order shawarma and fries and they mentioned their new prices I said let me check something and call you back. I'm not checking anything biaala it's crying I'm coming to cry.
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Imagine you wake up early to cook jollof for your child's our day, and they bring it back home untouched because Nana Kofi wrote a small note that went viral. 💀.
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They don't even meet him at events o. They just enter Jubilee house gbaingbain, and ask front desk "Is Willie in today?" and front desk will call Eugene Arhin and he will come out of his office and say "oh Dave Chappɛɛ, let's go in, he's not doing anything at all.". True mmom.
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Economy scatter to the point sey account wey for supply we information dey demand answers from we.
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Bruh. Ghana is a country where if you pay a bribe to escape a queue you still have to join a queue because someone ein bribe dey senior your own. The system is so broken that you need money to get free things. What a country. #OccupyJulorbiHouse.
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I am protesting because when war broke out in Ukraine, many Ghanaians refused to come back home because they enjoyed more opportunities in a war torn country than in their own "peaceful, beacon of Africa". Why must this be so? #OccupyJulorbiHouse.
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Worst part about ordering food is having to wear clothes to go and open gate.
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I am protesting because @konkrumah and co paid themselves large sums of money as hazard allowance during COVID but the Healthcare Workers that were on the frontlines keeping people alive didn't receive a dime despite promises. #OccupyJulorbiHouse.
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It's enough to make even the most optimistic person bitter, honestly.
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I've traveled Ghana but I've never met any thieves as audacious as Cape Coast thieves. I just remembere in SS one guy saw a thief sneaking out our dorm and just as he was about to shout, the thief put a finger to his lip and said "Dam hei-hei no gyae. Epɛ a, bra yɛn kõ.".
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You don’t get it do you? Nothing you can see will make us see NDC as a terrifying option because whatever terror you think will scare us no, we’ve witnessed it under you. What? They will steal? Arrest us with no cause? Insult us and our intelligence? Cripple our economy? 🤣🤣🤣.
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I personally suspect pilots. My theory is that they put the plane on autopilot and fok drastically. "Turbulence" is just what happens when Captain Osei's ass hits the steering wheel by mistake. Tbh that's why they call it the cockpit.
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Hello @X @Support Ghanaians are exercising their civil right to protest by using the hashtag #OccupyJulorbiHouse. Some elements of government are trying to silence us by reporting this hashtag. This is an app used to voice civic dissent all over the world. Please support us.
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When the Akosombo Dam spillage happened, so much avoidable damage occurred. Over 20,000 lost their homes, businesses, farms, everything. What did the president have to say to those communities? . He made a joke about how the people in those areas don’t vote for him. I can’t even-.
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I started looking at drugs differently when I heard that some street boys would buy tramadol because one of the effects of the high is that you can go long periods without feeling hungry. For some people drugs is recreational, for others it's survival.
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As long as I’m alive I’ll fight against the whitewashing of Akufo-Addo’s legacy. What a failure!.
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Osu girls are great lovers till they start using Gen Z Ga slang on you. They'll be speaking and you keep hearing "tafz" and out of curiosity you ask oh what's that and Adoley will look you straight in the eye and say "It's short for taflatsɛ" 🤣.
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Convertible in Accra deɛ you're asking for it. One time during small traffic on Laterbiokorshie Road, this guy pulls up in a BMW convertible feeling fresh. A passing biker slows down, knocks him, and speeds off. My man hold ein head for the car inside for ten full minutes 😭.
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I will not engage anyone who puts political party over country. Even if I know you personally. We pass "debate". I'm very comfortable burning bridges.
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There's a guy who sometimes prays at incredible decibels at around 2 or 3am while walking through the neighbourhood and I want to understand what it is about religion that gives people license to be so incredibly selfish.
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We need to stop approaching relationships with "what do I/they have to offer" because let me tell you if you don't know, there's absolutely nothing in this world that you can offer that the other person cannot get elsewhere. Nothing. It's simply not a sustainable approach.
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Accra will make you look like you’re not working hard enough and you’re financially irresponsible. I always have to remind myself that I live within my means, ebi the economy wey cast.
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