G-lish: Ghana travel guide and inspiration

Introducing an excellent blogger for writers, artists, travelers and fringe dwellers to boot.
Chris Guillebeau’s The Art of Non-Conformity shows that one need not adhere to conventional notions of “how life should be” to live a meaningful and satisfying life. I had been reading his Blog and admiring his simple, pull-no-punches writing style for a month [...]

Today I published a post at our other blog, This is Ghana, in honour of Africa’s greatest living woman, Wangari Maathai, and partly to urge Ghanaian women to question the status quo in Ghana from a female and environmental perspective. Check it out and let us know what you think. Do you know Ghana’s Wangari Maathai?

This is the second post in our series about making a difference. If you want to read the all, head over to our page Are you MaD?
There has been a lot of buzz about micro-finance in the past few years, not without reason. That statistic about living on a dollar or two dollars a day [...]

I write a little for Global Voices Online on matters related to Ghana. What distinguishes this news and information source is that it’s written by ordinary people like me living on the ground, close to stories that they write about. Also, their focus is social media like blogs, facebook, twitter, and so on. GV has [...]

An interview I conducted in 2009 with the founder of www.isabt.org, Jonathan Thurston, was published at Global Voices Online on Friday 26th of February. You can read the full article–Ghanaian Students Contribute to Virtual Media Library–by clicking the title and its link.
Here is a short excerpt:
“In July 2009 I had the privilege of catching up [...]

Here are some of my favourite links online this week.
I love this blogger Blog called Sassytrash. I have a bit of a thing for used and old jewelry and mementos and this blog could do serious damage to my bank account if I spent much more time here.
Chris Guillebeau, an excellent writer and inspiration for [...]

This is the first in a series of posts about how you can make a difference from anywhere with an internet connection or in person, if you wish. You can read more at our Are you MaD? page here at G-lish.
But we start with what we believe is the most important element in development: education.
Education [...]