There are symptoms of an election all over Accra. From the giant billboards, to the flags of various political parties extending from trees like prosthetic branches, to the general angst in the air as every news program on the radio, internet and television offers updates on the road to Ghana’s…
You open a book, get two – or on a good day, three – paragraphs in and just as you’re about to congratulate yourself for finally settling down to read…‘ding’. A notification. Just like that, you’re back at square one, trying – in anguish – to get one book on…
By MOHAMMED-HANIF ABDULAI & NII APA ABBEY Pokémon. Pokémon Go. Poke Balls. Poke Stops. Gyms! You’ve probably seen these words flying around for a few weeks and wondered what they meant and what the excitement is all about. Well, if you couldn’t be bothered to find out more about the…
On June 3, 2016, the winners of the 2016 African Blogger Awards were announced via Twitter – and Circumspecte was recognized as a top Africa blog with “world class content” for not one, but two categories: business, finance and entrepreneurship and social issues and citizenship! The African Blogger Awards…
We weren’t playing when we said we would be stripping things down and getting personal behind the seens – but even we couldn’t have predicted just how fun and real things would get during our first Viber chat with An African City (AAC) creator Nicole Amartefio and actress Maame…
If African Twitter was a bar, then the year 2015 would have been one of those memorable nights out. The bar’s speciality would be a cocktail of hashtags and the noisy drinkers would be eating jollof while debating xenophobia, everyday sexism and everything else in between. Under the influence of…
So you put in that application and got called up for the next round: the phone or virtual (skype, G+) interview. Go you! It might seem a bit incredulous, but as it turns out, you’re interesting enough after all! That said, you should by no means think your work is…
Studying interactions on social media is akin to converging focus groups on very pertinent issues within our society. From business promotion to culture display, social media has become a platform for showcasing all things African. It therefore comes as no surprise that social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook are…
In the early 2000s, my father gave me this book: “How to think about weird things: Critical thinking for a new age”. Although I flipped through its pages, I never actually read it – it was either too dense for my teenage mind or I was simply interested in other things…