Dear GC,
I wasn’t sure whether to write in this because I don’t know if I would be taken serious at all. It’s often easier to talk to strangers than it is to talk to those close to you as those close to you always judge you.
I moved to New York when I was young. My mother had passed away and my father was one of those men who decided to eventually move on with a new family.
Some say that opposites attract. I’ll have to be honest here and say yes they do. This is the only reason it is even acceptable in romantic comedies and romance novels. There is research, from the psychological to the biological to the social, to bear out the theory.
Women are attracted by the smell of men with a different gene pool than theirs. High-strung people want a partner who will act as a calming influence on their tempers and even the bad boy wants a nice girl to take home to mama. Analogies are given with the north and south poles of a magnet and the reason more people are heterosexual. Yeah, opposites do attract but for how long?
You see, differences creates an initial attraction – one person has traits that the other doesn’t or vice versa and for some people, this is exciting; in other words, attractive. So in the right circumstances, these two people will get together. They believe they are in love. During the honeymoon phase of the relationship, they may be able to work around their differences – read, they don’t sweat the small stuff – but what about the long term?
Let’s look at some examples; one’s a vegetarian, the other loves beef, one’s introverted and the other an extrovert, one loves football and the other hates all things sports; or an extreme one where one is a frugal control freak and the other an impulsive spend thrift. Just imagine two such people in a marriage with maybe one or two children. I can’t see it, lol.
Observers, they say are always worried! Indeed I like to observe and I don’t mind being tagged as a worried gentleman, so far as what I’m worried about is very important to the development of the Ghanaian and Ghana as a whole. Do I need to keep reminding you that I love Ghana? Certainly not!
It is not new to any of us that Ghanaians love everything foreign. Even if the air we breathe is packaged from outside and sold to Ghanaians, they will buy it. Anything foreign is warmly accepted in Ghana. Period!
Apart from Ghanaian’s strong penchant for anything foreign, we seem to also copy lots of things from the west.
One of the main news stories from Ghana, reaching GhanaCelebrities.Com this morning is that the popular ‘man of God’, ‘Jesus One Touch’ has been sentenced to face imprisonment, after being convicted on charges of Incest and Defilement.
‘Jesus One Touch’- real name Nana Kofi Yirenkyi- who is the Founder, and General Overseer of Accra’s ‘Jesus Blood Prophetic Ministry’, was found guilty on both of the charges he was being trialled on. As a result of the verdict, he now faces 10 years imprisonment for EACH charge (a total of 20 years in prison).
We promised to bring to our readers the photo of Ghanaian Actress Juliet Ibrahim’s baby when we announced that she has been blessed with a cute baby boy. GhanaCelebrities.Com has been given an exclusive photo of the young happy family. Check out the photo below ( Click on photo to enlarge for proper viewing ). Congrats once … Read more
Ghanaian Actress Luckie Lawson who doubles as an entrepreneur is looking fabulous in her recent photo shoot. GhanaCelebrities.Com has exclusively been given some photos from the photo shoot for the viewing pleasure of her fans and our readers. Check out the photos below…
Ernestina Naadu Mills, Ghana’s first lady, gave Michelle Obama a Backes and Strauss “Black Star of Ghana” watch, “crafted in 18 karat gold with diamonds and leather,” White House papers revealed yesterday.
It was valued at USD 48,000.
Compare this to India: The most expensive gifts from the Indian Prime Minister to President Barack Obama was a collection of books with an estimated value of USD 3,572. Singh presented to Obama a burgundy rug with a foliate motif worth USD 1,200, while to Michelle he gifted a beige Pashmina shawl worth USD 666 made by the Kashmir Loom Company.
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WASHINGTON – In his first year as US president, Barack Obama, his family and administration members were showered with more than 300,000 dollars in gifts from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz.
Most readers of GC might know by now that I like sentences and headlines that do catch people’s attention but I just read an article by News One and one of the paragraphs got me knocked out and laughing hard (eii Aba!)…
It reads ” Ghana’s Bundesliga star, Hans Adu Sarpei, has bought a $2,000 designer pet dog for Delores Frimpong Manso, aka Delay, as her 28th birthday gift and the dog, that goes by the name ‘Biscuits’, would be competing for the 2011 Ghana Movie Awards, says information reaching News-One”
How can I find for myself a footballer as a boyfriend too? After Menaye Donkor grabbed and married Sulley Muntari, her cousin who doubles as a close pal is rumoured to be in a hot romantic relationship with Kwadwo Asamoah of Blackstar fame, currently playing in Italy.
All though, Ama K Abebrese has discredited this rumour, GhanaCelebrities.Com’s source insists the two are together and as usual, the young Actress of Sinking Sands’ fame is playing
the celebrity card game with us.
Tattoos and piercings are nothing new in the Western world. However, I must say I’m quite surprised at how quickly it seems to also be dominating Africa as well.
Although I was not raised in Ghana, I’ve always seen my country as being one of the ‘Japans’ of Africa- by this I mean that for an African country, I think we are well developed compare to others, and that we’re not doing too badly for ourselves- I see Ghana as one of the ‘big dogs’ of Africa (not being biased, just truthful).
It always saddens me to see instances where it seems as though our traditional and cultural practices are being banished, in order to make way for Westernised ideologies that do not really suit the moral fibre of a Ghanaian society.
After pushing for sometimes, the rest of the team has agreed to a new column called “Celebrity Status” where interesting or must know celebrity tweets or facebook status update we stumble upon would be featured… With this, you will get to know some of the intelligent, interesting and dumb stuff your favourite celebrities write on their social networking profiles.
To jump start the column, few minutes ago, the ace director Leila Djansi who is currently in Ghana promoting her recent movie “Sinking Sands” wrote her facebook status that she has been robbed and as a result has lost her Iphone and Blackberry…
Check out her message below…( You can click on the message to see it well)
I will borrow the international relation’s definition of power, “The ability of one country to get another to do its bidding” as cited in IR The New World Order of International Relations, fifth edition (Roskin, Michael G. and Berry, Nicholas, O., 2002) to begin my argument in response to Ghanacelebrities.com article, Socrate Sarfo Clears The Air On Kofi Adjorlolo & Ekow Smith Ban + Talks About His New Movie Coming Out Soon “What Sex Can Do”…
The reason for using the opening definition is to eliminate the misconception that power automatically equates force. In reading the aforementioned article I was struck by, what I saw as missing information.
I will therefore, throughout this piece, pose a series of questions that came to my mind as I read the interview.
I needed some clarity on the legitimacy on the Film Producers Association of Ghana so I sought to engage some background information from my friend, Mr. Chris-Vincent Agyapong Febiri. Mr. Chris-Vincent Agyapong-Febiri is the founder of GhanaCelebrities.Com and the person who conducted the interview with Mr. Socrate Sarfo (PR of FIPAG).
I mentioned to Chris that I wanted to write a readers response to the interview but was doing a brief internet research on the legitimacy of FIPAG as to its affiliation with ECOWAS, Ghana’s Ministry of Information and the Ministry of Arts and Culture.
The Ghana Music Awards Festival 2011 has kick started in earnest. The eligibility period (final day of the submission) closed on Friday the 14 of January 2011.
Though the nominations will not be announced unless it has been categorized to its final nominations, GhanaCelebrities.com has come up with our predicted nominations for the various categories.
In this year’s awards, all musical works produced and or released from December 1, 2009 – November 30, 2010 were presented to the GMA Academy for consideration.
As an industry player, what I have below is exactly what I filled in the Nominations Form (You can only disagree).
Accusations and counter accusations, backbiting, insults and misunderstanding have always characterized the awards. For these same reasons, I see this year as no different.
The categorization process will always be with problems. Musicians are confused as to what type of genre of music they do. Others also have problems as when and how they release their albums.
Various people including “Opanin” have been asking GhanaCelebrities.Com what caused the 2 year ban imposed on Ghanaian veteran Actors Kofi Adjorlolo and Ekow Smith Asante by the Film Producers Association of Ghana (FIPAG).
To ascertain what led to the ban of the above mentioned actors, I made a phone call a few minutes ago to Socrate Sarfo, the PR of FIPAG for clarifications on the issue.
According Socrate Sarfo and as most people may know, under ECOWAS which seeks to achieve free movement of people and trade between its member states, any national of ECOWAS can visit Ghana for a limited time to engage in trading enterprises.
THE Ghana Music Awards Planning Committee/Academy has successfully met for the first time to draw up the timetable for the 2011 edition of the prestigious awards scheme.
The Planning Committee members, made up of seasoned industry professionals, are expected to bring their wealth of knowledge in the Ghanaian music industry to bear on the detailed administration of the scheme. The Committee works diligently and dispassionately to ensure that award winners truly deserve awards devoid of any interference.
This year’s Committee Member are; Amandzeba, Mark Okraku Mante, Diana Hopeson, Abraham Ohene Gyan, Fred Kyei Mensah, Sammy Forson, and two top senior Journalist from the Print Media. The Committee member list is completed by Juno Abena Turkson, Theresa Ayoade and Nii Ayite Hammond who represent the organizers, Charterhouse.
