I love music. Melodious music. One of such is Ofori Amponsah‘s “Sampson & Delilah”. The track features Ghanaian rapper “Voltage” and is basically about Delilah’s deception of her lover. The storyline is similar to that of the one in the Holy Bible. What do I like about this track? It’s so easy to listen & [...]

TV just got even more exciting in Ghana as e.tv the first privately owned but free-to-air television station in South Africa has launched a subsidiary in Accra, Ghana. This launch is a big deal because e.tv South Africa that launched in 1998 is presently the largest English-medium channel in SA. e.tv Ghana is a free-to-air [...]

Introductory note: To put this post into a proper perspective, you should read Multi TV Ghana, a new free digital satellite TV service first. Multi TV is at Testing Transmission phase and therefore, some of the glitches I have observed should be understandable to some extent. I got this installation since Thursday evening, my writing [...]

Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, the host of Joy FM‘s Super Morning Show has been teasing his listeners’ for some days now about a new service from Joy FM’s parent company Multimedia Group Limited. The service is essentially a free multi-channel digital satellite system available in every corner of Ghana. From the group’s website: MultiTV is a nationwide [...]

Amongst all the musicians that tickled my eardrums in my childhood days, the eccentric Michael Jackson stood out. It didn’t take much effort to notice this outstanding gentleman who could sing, dance, cry, choreograph and more. Michael Jackson was easily my favourite artist and if I’d be true to myself, still is. Though his dance [...]

LA Times reports: Michael Jackson is dead 2:06 PM | June 25, 2009 Updated at 3:15 p.m.: Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told The Times.

My review of the Ghanaian movie “The Perfect Picture”. This movie is indeed picture perfect. Read why.

A funny audition on South African Idol 2009 featuring a young South African singing and dancing to “Killing Me Softly With His Song”, in a unique way.

It appears Internet connectivity on the African continent especially in Ghana and Nigeria is about to get better soon. The Ghana News Agency (GNA) reports the launch of yet another private effort to improve Internet connectivity in Africa: Work has begun on a 200-million dollar undersea fibre optic cable, which aims to provide reliable Internet [...]

Shocking news. GTV, has ceased operations citing the effect of the global financial crisis. GTV was a multi-channel digital satellite TV service with active subscribers in 22 African countries but their sudden closure has left millions of soccer fans high-and-dry. London-based GTV, launched in June 2008, used Eutelsat’s W3 satellite from 7 degrees East, and [...]

I recently got tagged by a fellow blogger at “Nigerian Curiousity“, prompting me to blog on the topic “Why I blog about Africa”. I am qualified to say I blog about Africa. I was born in Nigeria, and presently live in Ghana. I take interest in everything African and attempt to share my views on [...]

Another great African music icon has just passed away. Miriam Makeba is reported to have died last night in Italy, of heart attack. I remember Miriam Makeba for appearing in Graceland (The African Concert) alongside Paul Simon, Hugh Masekela, and my favourite South African group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Rest in peace Mama Afrika. God bless [...]

The Big Brother Africa 3 house mate that can be described as the cat with seven lives is out of the BBA 3 house at last! Takondwa had hitherto survived 5 evictions and had presented a real challenge to his house mates who desperately wanted to see him out.

GTV (Ghana TV) would soon be among the list of channels DStv subscribers in Ghana can enjoy. GTV is the television service of GBC (Ghana Broadcasting Corporation) which is the official mouthpiece of the Government of Ghana, and is the state TV/Radio broadcast institution. GTV is currently listed amongst the list of channels viewable to [...]

I have been away from home for a little while now and now that I am back, I spared an hour to watch tonight’s Big Brother Africa 3 eviction show. It turns out that the much-hated Mimi from Ghana has been evicted. Mimi had been very confident about her stay and expressed her surprise at [...]