Category Technology
Stop Patronizing the African Entrepreneurs
Nigerian’s Mark Zuckerberg, Africa’s Bill Gates, “Africa’s this”, “Africa’s that”. When is this patronization of the African going to stop? I am this, and not that of Africa or Ghana or whatever village I come from. I think it is wrong to measure our achievements on some arbitrary scale to make us feel good. I would […]
Rwanda: The Hope for Africa
What crosses your mind anytime you hear of Rwanda? For me, until a few weeks ago, it had always been the genocide and civil war. Therefore, when I had a business opportunity to visit Rwanda, almost all close relations who knew I was going to Rwanda feared for me. Even at the boarding gate, the […]
Who Says There Are No Jobs in Ghana?
From the onset, I bet most readers will disagree with me just by seeing the title of the blog. I crave your indulgence to understand my views. I am a consultant to a business, which had to go through a lot to get the right skill-set to fill certain positions. We had over 500 applicants […]
VodaCrap Services in Ghana: Monopoly and Complacency
They have stolen more than GHS 200.00 ($100.00) talk- time and data allowance from me. For some reason, Vodafone services went crappy in July 2013 in what I will better describe as a voodoo-style vanishing of data bundle plans. Some clients were caused to lose all their data plans and in some instances talk-time. Myself,my […]
Oops!! I didn’t mean to “reply to all”?
How many times have you been caught up in this scenario when you mistakenly reply to all in a mail correspondence? I have read similar stories with great interest, on some of the experiences of email users who mistakenly click on the “reply to all” link when in that instance they just want to send […]
Why Not Adopt “911” as the Emergency Number in Ghana?
Can you recite any of Ghana’s emergency response numbers by rote? I mean any of the police, fire, and ambulance emergency numbers to call? I don’t know any and I believe most of us if not all of us might be like me. I was watching on CNN the lock-down of Boston in the quest to arrest […]
A Better Analogy for Domain Name Registration Concept
In my line of work, I have come across majority of clients who find it difficult to understand domain names (website address), its registration and web hosting in general. I have continued to use some analogies which I think do the trick, it brings the whole virtual concept to their understanding. My favorite one, which […]
Stop Thinking Outside the Box, and rather “ACT” Outside the Box
How many times haven’t you heard motivational speakers asking young entrepreneurs to “think outside the box”? Really? Anyway, for those who have no idea what “Thinking outside the box” means, a little education courtesy of Wikipedia will do. “Thinking outside the box (also thinking out of the box or thinking beyond the box)” is a […]
The Effect of Piracy on the Software Industry in Ghana
Are you an IT Professional in Ghana or better still in Africa? Narrowing it down, are you a software Developer? If so, do you sell your product out there on the market? And how do you come out with price costing? Do you have it easy selling your product to potential clients? At this point, […]
Action and Results-based Mentality
This weekend was one of the most fulfilling ones for me. In fact I had the opportunity to work together with other members of mFriday to move furniture to the yet to be launched Tech Hub in Ghana. Mind you, it is really, the first of its kind here in Ghana. We had to carry […]
Kofi Said it 