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Continue reading →: The Silent Epidemic of Toxic Women in LeadershipWriting a blog about toxic women carries a huge risk as it comes across as sexist. Afterall, anyone can be toxic. Men can be toxic just as women can. To narrow in on toxic women in this blog deserves some justification. Am I implying that toxic women are worse than…
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Continue reading →: Journey to the Unknown: Open conversations about death and burials (Part 5).Blog 5: Planning for your own death The concept of preparing for your own eventual death is completely new to me. It’s just not a thought that has ever occurred to me. I have never even seen a scenario like this play out in a movie. The only scenario on…
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Continue reading →: Journey to the Unknown: Open conversations about death and burials (Part 4).
Blog 4: Sustainable burial practices – Can we honour the departed in an eco-friendly way? Welcome to the fourth blog in this five part series about death and burials. I am attempting in the series to normalise death – a natural occurrence in life. I mentioned in the first blog…
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Continue reading →: Journey to the Unknown: Open conversations about death and burials (Part 3).
Blog 3: The journey to join the ancestors: Akan burial practices I am fascinated by history, culture, archaeology and anthropology and I enjoy watching documentaries about the history of the planet and humans. One documentary I watched recently was about a new archaeological site in South Africa and how it…
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Continue reading →: Journey to the Unknown: Open Conversations about death and burials (Part 2).
Blog 2: The realities and practicalities of deaths in Ghana. Welcome to the second blog of my five part series about death and burials. Be sure to read the first blog for a contextual background and what motivated me to write on this topic. I would imagine that most readers…
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Continue reading →: Journey to the Unknown: Open Conversations about death and burials (Part 1).
Blog 1: Let’s normalise conversations about death On 12 November 2023, my mother unexpectedly died. Losing our matriarch was the most shocking and heartbreaking experience of my life. At 45 years of age, it would be my first time attending a funeral of someone I personally knew. It was a…
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Continue reading →: Your profession matters: Be relentless in its pursuitI was born in 1979, right at the tail end of the Generation X (those born between 1964 and 1979). I am very much a Gen X in my mindset and approach to life but I am often around millennials aka Gen Ys (born between 1980 and 1994) and so…
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Continue reading →: Beaches, Basilica, Botanics, Oh My! Le Beau Pays de la Côte d’Ivoire.Bonjour a tous! Greetings from Côte d’Ivoire. I am still falling behind on the blogging due to this thing called life but I have been on a relaxing staycation and I feel inspired to share what I and my family have been up to and why I am falling more…
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Continue reading →: Five Quick Tips On Becoming a Published AuthorIn 2017, I published a blog called Legends of the African Sun. It was a working title for a children’s book I hoped to publish in the future. In 2020, I completed the book and published it in 2021. Writing has been a longstanding passion and the joy of receiving…
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Continue reading →: Building My Dream House in Ghana: How I did it.Three years ago, I shared a blog about my home in the lovely Akuapem mountains in Ghana. At the time, it was liveable but unpainted, unfurnished and just very unfinished. In this blog, I want to share the updated photos of the finished home and also share some insights into…
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