#ghanian culture

[sheltiechicago]

Derrick Boateng and photography that tells a culture 

Unlike many, who started with courses in academies or universities, Boateng began shooting only when his father, to support his passion, gave him an iPhone , which immediately became the means through which he conveyed a personal vision. Ghanaian. Moving away from the common imagination, Derrick Boateng's photographs immortalize the true soul of his country formed by the people who live there. 

[realjaysumlin]

All the FUFU lovers should gather here #food #foodie #foodlover #yummy #...

Yummy, 😋 yummy FUFU!!!

[notesfromthepalace]

The Exclusive 2 for 2

Hello Sissy Poohs!

I know I need to be better about blogging but chilllllllle, between becoming a full time student, being a hot puppy mom, trophy girlfriend (just playing, but for real, I look good), and a better gym babe, not only am I tired, I'm actually super busy.

But as I said about two weeks ago, your favorite Sissy Pooh is back from being on Holiday in Miami.

Side note: after going to Miami, outside of a family trip, Miami is beautiful and we will be making multiple trips yearly.

While we were in Miami (or Fort Lauderdale), we went to a restaurant in Las Olas beach on our first double together.

I believe I have mentioned that I am Haitian and my boyfriend is Ghanian. One of his closest friends in South Beach is also Ghanian and dating a Haitian woman as well. What are the odds, right?

So we went to this Japanese styled restaurant, and when I say ambiance. The restaurant is called Takato, please check it out ladies.

What we enjoyed about it, as two former club goers (before we met each other) was the music, the low lights, open bar - it gave lounge vibe without all of the hookah and rift raft. Very classy, very exclusive, very expensive.

And it wasn't awkward at all. We all talked as a group, then the men left to go speak on the balcony while me and the other woman sat at the table and talked. I believe they started dating before we did, but my man and I moved in with one another much sooner.

We talked about expectations and speaking with our families because the Haitian parents don't like that. But it was an enjoyable experience.

The first question she asked me was how did I tell my family without it being a huge ordeal. I told her "Hold your horses, sissy pooh. This is not a familial matter, rather a parental matter".

In Haitian culture, your business is everyone's business. So I have learned to remove myself from conversations, group chats, video calls, etc, because the only person I really owe in an explanation to when it comes to my whereabouts is my mother. Don't get me wrong, my mother and I have come a long way when it comes to how I choose to share the more personal and intimate details of my life, but I think we are at a point where she respects it now. So I told her, I talked to my mom separately to let her know that she and my dad raised a very smart daughter and they did a good job (you have to gas them up in the beginning before dropping the bomb) and that we have plans to get engaged and married (which we have both conveyed to both of the parental entities on both sides of this relationship), and this is what works for us. My mother took it rather well, like I know she doe not agree with it, but I also know she would rather know where I am than be kept in the dark.

Her other concern was just the expectations. And I told her that this is the only man I have lived with and it's not difficult, it's just different. But this is where grace and patience comes in.

Overall, I liked homegirl, and that will not be our last double date as a couple. We also exchanged instagrams as well.

Back to the evening at hand: the restaurant, the food, the music, me, was marvelous. The conversations between both couples was great and it was nice to meet a young woman who is also in a serious relationship on the precipice of an engagement and marriage. I know I bring that up a lot, but something that I didn't realize with prioritizing my love life and heading towards a forever over a dating roster, as a young woman, it can be lonely too.

Sometimes I hold back on what I talk about with my girlfriends because I am the only one in this era that I am in, not because I don't trust them, but I don't want to sound like I am bragging or that I am not considerate of their situations. But I would like to talk about relationship stuff with girlies, not my deep business, but gift ideas, home ideas, trip ideas, double dates, etc.

Then we went to a rooftop bar where my man and I realized, we don't like places that are too spicy with too many people. We're on that out of sight out of mind, exclusive places. But overall it was a great night.

On our last day, we went to the airport and went to, I believe it was the sky lounge, due to us both having AMEX Platinum cards. It was nice, quiet, and comfortable. I refrained from taking my phone out to record content because something else I have realized, the more exclusive the area, the more ridiculous you look bringing your phone out to take pictures and videos. People purchase memberships into certain places for the exclusivity and to not see that. The sight of the calmness humbled me very quickly. So I enjoyed my brunch and coffee while he enjoyed brunch and his Old Fashioned.

Miami was fun, having an Amex is fun, my life is fun, But God is greater and the reason why my life is fun.

More of my adventures coming soon Sissy Poohs.

With Love,

Sarah Chanel

[image-junkie]

Ato Ribeiro – Yokow’s Maple, 2023, repurposed wood, wood glue, 60″ x 60″

Ato Ribeiro works in a variety of media: sculpture, installation, drawing and printmaking. Born in Philadelphia in 1989, he spent his childhood and adolescence in Accra, Ghana. The articulation of his West African heritage and his African American identity is central to his art. This is evident in his wooden assemblages that reference both Ghanian strip-woven kente cloth and Black quilting traditions of the American South that were used as a symbolic language in the Underground Railroad, guiding slaves to freedom in the North.

Ribeiro works with discarded pieces of wood—a material that he defines as conceptually paralleling the way individuals of African heritage have been treated throughout history. He then pieces these precious scraps together into geometric patterns that are recognizable as a language and even hint at narrative but confound the viewer because their specific code and meanings are not necessarily decipherable. As the artist has explained, “My wooden kente and quilt works, mixed media installations and prints provide educational opportunities to seek out new points of reference, while preserving layers of African cultural heritage and varying ethnic perspectives.”

[pumpumdemsugah]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028200017234

Same anon that messaged you about people saying black women have higher testosterone.

Some dumbass tried to back it up by citing this study that is literally about women approaching menopause.

Um... the results of this don't apply to anyone who isn't a woman approaching menopause. Plus, even this study observed no differences in testosterone levels for the women studied.

I fear the trend of people using pseudo-scientific nonsense to dehumanised black people has come back.

Trans activists are really trying to take us right back to the 1800s.

I had a look at the study and it literally says there isn't lol These people need race science ( lets be real it's their own body insecurities ) to be real so they can feel human. This is why you can't trust white people. They love to hide behind their issues so you don't criticise their wild racism and the current climate we're in, alot of white people that love to wax about gender hide behind how nasty the current culture war is to side step how cartoonishly racist they are and how much shit they inventing about Black women's bodies

This reminds me of this white trans woman trying to prove black women have thicker bones and implying it's indistinguishable from most male people ( but when it came to them, there's no sex differences for their white bodies, just the niggers ) by citing a study about osteoporosis and the conclusion was there isn't big enough differences that it impacts treatment and there's lots of overlap and the black people involved in the study were more involved in physical jobs and were a heavier, both things that will increase bone density. The study recommended they do it again with a bigger and more diverse Black population

Human beings spent most of our time in Africa so there's more genetic differences among black Africans Vs all other races combined. You can't automatically apply what you find for Black people in Colombia to a Kenyan or South African or a Ghanian. Even in their idea of Blackness they assume it's simple, not complex and crude, unlike themselves who are beyond definition and it's offensive to even try

What's messed up these studies are done to see what's the best medical approach for different ethnic groups, IF you even need anything different and if there is a difference how much do social conditions play apart and what can be done to mitigate this? It's not bad to check because finding out you don't need to do anything different is valuable data

This isn't even classic race science, these lot are projecting their own insecurities about their own bodies onto ours because they're so racist all they see Black women as is an empty vessel to feel good about themselves so we need to take on these anxieties they have about themselves as our own. There's no group of people I do this for and I'm not starting. Black women are treated rough because we're masculinised and that simple statement has become this weird insinuation we have the same copy and paste issues as someone white and trans ( and they mean white and trans because they aren't considering anyone not where ) and that's solidarity

None of these people talk to Black women that think of themselves as normal people, if at all. And they never bother to read shit. They link an article and bet on people being too lazy to read the bit that's not behind a paywall. I will always read what's not behind a paywall because I need to know I'm not talking out my ass

I wish I could remember the name of this section from a book I read years ago about white slave masters expecting their enslaved captives to feel for them and mirror their emotions because that's what this has turned into. It stopped being about connection and understanding long ago, we're just validation machines that need to be whatever idea or racist caricature they invent so they can feel small, innocent and physically weaker. Classic racist white behaviour.

Why is everything about Black women nowadays something that exists for someone else to feel good about themselves? It's anti-intellectualism + racism + pseudo-science + projecting body insecurities onto another group of people so we're now responsible for how they feel about themselves

[eretzyisrael]

Synagogue inaugurated in Abu Dhabi

The first synagogue to be built in the Gulf states was inaugurated recently as part of the Abrahamic Family House, which includes a church and a mosque. Visitors attending the ceremony in Abu Dhabi included UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and Bahrain politician Huda Nonoo. The Circuit reports:

Guests at the inaugural ceremony for the Moses Maimonides synagogue

The white-stoned mosque, church and synagogue anchoring the Abrahamic Family House, a monumental interfaith compound that was unveiled last week in the United Arab Emirates, will serve as a busy forum for promoting religious cooperation in the Middle East, its founders said.

The individual structures that make up the new complex, which was designed by the acclaimed Ghanian-British architect, Sir David Adjaye, are linked by a central exhibition space, public garden and conference center that will open to visitors on March 1. The project was inaugurated last Thursday in a twilight ceremony in the capital city of Abu Dhabi led by members of the UAE’s royal court and leaders of the three faiths.

“This will be a great convergence point for the world,” Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, the chief rabbi of the Jewish Community of the Emirates, said in a webcast address from the new synagogue’s podium on Friday. “It’s the kind of place where great religious leaders and great cultural leaders will come to be inspired,” he told members of the Association of Gulf Jewish Communities over Zoom.

Built in the new cultural district on Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island across from the dome-covered Emirati branch of the Louvre museum, the prayer compound is visually striking: Its three cube structures are built with identical dimensions of 30 meters in height, width and depth, while distinguished by iconic design elements referring to each religion. Visible in the desert landscape from the island’s main road and lit up at night are giant posts beside each building that carry the symbols of a crescent, a cross and a menorah. Adjaye previously built the award-winning National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

The UAE president, Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed, hailed the opening in a tweet, declaring the country’s strengthening commitment to religious tolerance.

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[wood-addict]

If you listen to the words in this song says it all she crazy in love with someone not featuring her! This is the bitch Elisabeth Troy when I refused her advances on holiday in Thailand where she followed me! Dumped her at the banjan tree resort in Phuket so she could lounge by the pool drink herself silly do lots of nose powder Ghana bitch wanted to hang out with the fashion and celebrities music and Primrose Hill set there. Now that to me was work I wanted to explore the country and culture. Anyway she met Kate moss (nose powder while pregnant?) and told her I was a paedophile and later when I lived in nyc added Rapist to that accusation. I am a gay man who likes other men not boys definitely not girls! What is it with black chics you don’t fuck them on command and they tell everyone your a peadophile it’s happened to me 3 times! It’s one of the reasons I don’t do black girls hair anymore! Don’t miss all the weavery and wiggetry at all. Sad thing is it gave the fashion set dream team something to talk about and spread like wildfire thanks to Kate, Naomi,Ronnie Newhouse, Edward Enningful and Pat McGrath all these bitches I used to work with they knew me and they destroyed my reputation in Uk and Europe and America it’s why I stopped hairstyling all together be careful if your a stylist for any of these and 3 British Black chicks Elisabeth Troy(Ghanaian) Naomi Campbell (jamaican yigga) and Ineka Burke (Dominican green eye redskin bitch). GOOD LUCK IF YOU WORK OR CHECK FOR THESE BITCHES! They want Chinese in them I Wasian because they want pykny with good hair some bitches please??? Crazy Love alright??? #fashion #fashionblogger #hair #hairstylist #music #musicbusiness #musicblog #fashioneditor #magazine #fashionshow #fashionshoot #celebrity #celebrityhairstylist #fashion #music #blackbritish #african #africanamerican #blasian #wasian #asianamerican #blackgirlmagic #ghanian #ghanians #lgbtq #lgbtq🌈 #lgbtqia #gayparents #lesbianmoms #lesbians @gay_parents_of_the_world @gay.parents.connect @gayparentmagazine prepare your possibly gay children for straight people! 2nd generation here!@gay_times_group

[veganmabelpines]

EatWithAfia on Tiktok : "How A Vegan Lifestyle Brought Me Closer To My Ghanian Culture"

[floral-alchemist]

A lot of the options made sense, and were sort of analogous to the stuff Americans make fun of brits for. Watergate salad an unseasoned meatloaf especially point out how unrepresentative of British cuisine some of the dishes we make fun of Brits for are. But including African-American takes on Native-American foods (grits, boiled peanuts) in this list just doesn’t fit in that context. Americans don’t make fun of Brits for regionally specific crops.

And biscuits and gravy… I think the best British analogue would be curry. You can see why someone would be grossed out based on color/texture; they’re wrong for being grossed out since it’s absolutely delicious; and even if it were actually gross, it would still be super racist to say something negative about.

There are so many American foods to be grossed out by. That person had the right idea of including American chocolate—European chocolate is better because it relies less on cheap sugars, and Ghanian chocolate is better for the same reason plus it actually isn’t produced by slaves.

And that—our reliance on mass production and exploitation and our failure to see or adopt alternatives to these things—is a valid thing to make fun of us for. Laugh at our sad slices of white bread. Laugh at our overpowering ketchup that is mostly sugar. Laugh at our chocolates that would fail to meet basic regulations abroad. But don’t laugh at people of color for having their own cultures that happen to fall within US borders.

Idk maybe it’s not my place to say this, but I’m still not over that salty British person trying to come up with “gross sounding” American foods to put on their poll and choosing almost exclusively southern foods like biscuits and gravy, grits, and boiled peanuts. Like America has food abominations, no one would’ve had an issue if they just filled the poll with stuff like deep fried butter or the gelatin abominations made by us white people in the 50s, but no they go after soul food of the American south????

[edenumeadi]

Secondary research- James Barnour

James Barnour is a British- Ghanian photographer who's work was mainly focused on capturing images of black lifestyle in London and Accra. This included things such as fashion, music and lifestyle. He took many photos over the years to show the social and political developments in both areas.

This links closely with my narrative as I aim to showcase Nigerian and Sierra Leone culture throughout my sketchbook.

[notesfromthepalace]

Vanilla Coconut

I don't mean to boast but I am a well-traveled woman and I know how it feels to be sought after by men from all Nationalities, okay.

And as said before, the Lord has sent me my African King so I am not looking for attention from other men or woman - I am beyond happy.

And as I write at one of my favorite places, "On My Mama" by Victoria Monet is playing - and I know I've been giving big body gyal and goals lately - "I look fly, I look good".

But back to being world-wide and highly sought after.

Prior to being with my Ghanian heart-throb, I have and have always been open to dating outside my culture and race, meaning dating men that are not Haitian, and also men who are not Black. Even now, with both he and I being Black, we're still of different cultures.

Friends, when I went to Europe at 19, the men were enamored. The hair, the curves, the skin, I was exotic to them.

Now, at 25, I understand some of it was the hyper-sexualization and fetishization of Black women, but for others, that were just mesmerized by the beauty, I allowed them to take me to fancy dinners and have amazing conversations about the world and everything glamorous and expensive.

Point being, I am not un-accustomed to they eyes of men that do not look like me.

Now, what I have noticed is you'll have men that are not black, but are well traveled and when they compliment you its:

"You are so beautiful"

Actually, it's always that.

But when it comes to American white men who are not from a diverse community - and you can tell their version of traveling is just being on guided tours and not immersing themselves in the culture of whatever country they're in, the compliments are either very racially insensitive or super "frat-boy" language:

"You're so hot" "You're so different" "I love how long and straight your hair is" "You're hot AF" "I always thought you were so hot"

Emphasis on the "hotness" thing right? That's how 16 year-old horny teenagers talk. And if I'm completely honest, after hearing it multiple times from the same person, especially with the statement being an assessment of just sex-appeal, it starts to make me feel a little uncomfortable just because I don't like being hyper-sexualized. And those comments usually come from a place of hyper-sexualization.

Sometimes it doesn't, but you mean to tell me that there are grown men who are well established who don't know how to talk to women?

Further more, there are women who are actually receptive to this type of dialogue?

*Bombastic side eye

Mind you, I am so messy when it comes to spilling the tea to the African Chief: I was literally on the phone with him telling him everything this man was telling me as he was slipping and sliding in my DM's, and still is - even after I said I had a boyfriend and that I'm not interested.

And of course, my Lover-man makes the joke "Oh, you thought you would get a man and other men would stop trying to get with you? No baby, you are a beautiful woman, men will always seek you".

Before I continue with the story, I just wanted to thank God for my man. He is truly a Godly man who understands that:

He is with a woman who loves him unconditionally - meaning I tell him these things because he's my man, but I am not going anywhere. He gives BIG HUSBAND BIG PROVIDER GREAT FATHER GREAT LEADER - and that's what I prayed for when I felt like I was ready to be with the love of my life.

He also understands that he is with a very desirable woman - meaning he's so secure in himself that he knows men will throw themselves at me because I am attractive. But he loves the fact that when we walk into places with me on his arm, we're the focus of the room - really me but we all get the point *wink wink

And we talked about it and from a Spiritual standpoint, the devil will always try to destroy good things. But my GOD is greater and rebuke all of that.

And even as I am writing this, this man is still in my DM's.

And yes, the Ghanian Protector will hear about this tonight.

But I thought this was just too juicy to keep to myself until the weekend.

Moral of the story is homie is giving single-white-female and the Ghanian King knows everything!

As always ladies,

Fall is here and it is time for the oranges and yellows, boots and coats, and smoky eye-shadow.

With love, a little shade and tea,

Sarah Chanel

bisous

[430box]

Music: Popito - Putiro

Huzzle Records’ new signee Ebuka Jude Ezerioha aka Popito has released his debut single under the record label titled: “Putiro” meaning “We Outside” Popito’s song Putiro is an afro beats sound, which mixes several music cultures together, Nigeria, and Ghanian High life music with the Congo Makosa tune churned with South African Amapiano Rhythm. Directed by: Unlimited LA Download Music: Popito –…

[theindyreview]

Check This: Immy Owusu - Flashback

Check This: Immy Owusu - Flashback Aussie artist pioneers his own unique brand of Afrodelik music on this excellent single @hopestreetrec #newmusic #psychedelia #zamrock #alternative #afrodelik #ImmyOwusu #Flashback

Artist: Immy Owusus Song: “Flashback” Album: LO-LIFE! Label: Hopestreet Recordings Genre: Zamrock, West African Hi-life, Psychedelia Growing up in the Australian surf town of Torquay, Immy Owusu was exposed to both the coastal rock scene, as well as the West African culture of his Ghanian roots. Spending time in Ghana to study under his grandfather, a renown Ghanian Hi-Life musician, Owusu…

[pcvcinghana]

despite the left-leaning ideology, many ghanians are participating and functioning under the capitalist policy. many workers are a part of an informal economy, especially when entering rural areas. bartering is still prominent in their culture. walking in the market, i saw many of the pieces embedded with black stars or other things meant to represent national pride.

[papa-yaw27]

Chapter 6: Fieldwork

I was born to a Ghanaian mother and father in the Bronx, New York. My mother would immediately move from New York to London around when I was 8 months old to go and live with my father, who was in college in London. It was the first time I met my father, and we would celebrate my first birthday. My mom's ethnicity is Ghanaian, and her family tribe belongs to Ashanti. My father's ethnicity is Ghanian, and his family tribe belongs to Kwahu. My parents met in college but came together in London, where they settled for a little while before they separated. My dad went to America to start his life, and my mom moved to Canada with me, where I remained until the age of 2. I lived with my Grandfather and Grandmother in Kumasi, Ghana, for the next 5 years.

Ghanaian heritage

One of the few matrilineal societies in West Africa is the Ashanti, the largest tribe in Ghana. Approximately one million people live in Ashanti, which covers 9400 square miles. The Ashanti public has forever been known as wild contenders. Around the 13th century, a kingdom called the Ashanti emerged in central Ghana. They had grown powerful and prosperous through the slave and gold trade by the 17th century. The Ashanti were incorporated into the British Empire after Britain colonized the Gold Coast.

The agriculturalists known as the Kwahu or Okwawu are famous for their business-oriented Kwa language and are hardworking mountain dwellers. They are a subset of the larger Akan ethnolinguistic group that live in south-central Ghana, on the west shore of Lake Volta, in the Eastern Region. According to the census, the Kwahu are a small Akan tribe of about 132,000 people who are said to be very similar in language and culture to their neighbors in the west and south, the Ashanti and the Akim.

My father moved here in 2005 to start a life for himself. 5 years later I would come to live with him full time as he brought back from Ghana. He had a small apartment that we lived in with his best friend who is my youngest brother God father. My mom and little brother would join us 5 years later as we moved into a bigger house that we could call our own.

[hiphopnewsoftheday]

Stonebwoy On Collaborating With Shaggy, New Album, Ghanian Culture, His Caribbean Accent + More

Stonebwoy On Collaborating With Shaggy, New Album, Ghanian Culture, His Caribbean Accent + More