The Ink 12th Edition (Spring 2016)
Indulge Yourself.
The Ink 12th Edition (Spring 2016)
The Ink 12th Edition (Spring 2016)
EDITORIAL “Hold up, wait a minute. Y’all thought that we were finished?” For the hip hop enthusiasts, I just harnessed my inner Meek Mill in saying that. Point is; The Ink is going nowhere, and here I am again with fake deeps on excellence and how to survive as an Ashesi student. Here goes... Time really flies; faster than the spring rolls and meat pies at Essentials. Maybe, this is supposed to be expected since this semes-
Indulge Yourself.
ter has been packed with so many fun activities. From the parties, FDE launches, to the Fashion show, ASC week, sports events and
COVER
the gospel concert, we have really gotten
Model: Nadine Madjoub
the chance to jam our hearts out. On a
THE EDITORS
personal note, it surprises me that I have
Mawuli Adjei, Kingsley Agyekum, Ewurabena Hagan, Adwoa Adobea Armah, Ahomka Mills Robertson, Eugene Akorli, Naa Adukwei Quarcoopome, Victor Eghan, Daniel Bempah, Vanessa Sam.
reached my last issue as Editor-In-Chief of
GRAPHIC DESIGN
a good run, but I have to move on for a fresh
Alex Adu, Kojo Anyinam-Boateng, Micaiah Wiafe.
PHOTOGRAPHY Alex Adu, Charles-Martin Buckle, Micaiah Wiafe, Selasie Atisogbui, Sefa Nkansah
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Alfred Achiampong, Michael Fiifi Quansah, Daniel Bonsu.
The Ink magazine. You can all simultaneously start playing Sam Smith’s ‘Stay With Me’ to express how you feel about me leaving. Okay, I am getting emotional now. It’s been pair of hands to work. My parting
advice to you is threefold.
Strawberries are disgusting, don’t eat them. And, make sure you show love with all your heart at all times. Happy reading, much love.
All rights reserved. Copyright © The Ink 2016
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Mawuli Adjei, Editor-In-Chief
CONTENT ADVERT Barclays EY
ASC Pressing Issues
FEATURE #KobbyAndShari Mi Dunu
SPOTLIGHT Audrey Ngozi Cole Benjamin Epton
STORY My World Calculus at Ashesi
CAMPUS Career Fair 2016 IT’s LIT Love Splash ISA Week 2016 FDE Businesses
POETRY #BlackBeauty
SPORTS Ashesi vs UPSA
PIECE Valentine’s Day Playlist The Week
FASHION Checkpoint Monochrome Fashion Show
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FEATURE
The Ink Congratulates and Celebrates Our Very Own Kobina Graham #KobbyAndShari Page 04
THE MISSED CALL
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PRESSING ISSUES Kwabena Bamfo President || ASC
I hope you saw what I did there. President. Press. Pressing. You don’t appreciate it? Sigh. It’s one semester in and I kind of love it so far. Stress? What stress? The balancing act is not as difficult as everyone makes it seem, and that is in large part due to the wonderful team Michael and I put together. Melissa Akita, James Mugo, Ayeley Commodore-Mensah, Kingsley Agyekum, Nadia Amasa, Brian Martey, Pinamang Genfi, Eugene Afranie – you guys deserve all the praise that is coming your way. My message this semester is that of ‘doing’. There are many things we think of as students. Sometimes, they are major keys, but we sit on them. We wait for better conditions, for a better time. What I’m saying is, don’t wait. Of course you have to spend time planning. Plan, and do so diligently. But when that is done, go ahead, just do it. Moving on to a lighter side… What’s my biggest social reservation thus far? “Presido!” It irks me in all honesty, and I’m pretty sure my mentioning it here will only lead to an increase, but you can’t blame me for trying. Guys, my name is Kwabena. Kwabena Bamfo. Better still, Kobby. But if that’s what you want to call me, go on, do you. To all those calling for a first lady, I campaigned with a sub-message of continuity. Michael Quansah, to the best of my knowledge, came into office single. Mr. Odame followed suit. Esther, I think, served her term without a first gentleman. So ladies and gentlemen, who am I to think myself better than my noble predecessors? With that said, I think I’ve found someone… or have I?
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ASHESI CAREER FAIR 2016 SPONSORS
GOLD SPONSORS TULLOW OIL Tullow Oil is a leading independent oil and gas exploration and production company. Our focus is on finding and monetising oil in Africa and the Atlantic Margins. Our portfolio of over 120 licences spans 22 countries which are managed as three Business Delivery Teams. We are headquartered in London. Our shares are listed on the London, Irish and Ghanaian Stock Exchanges. The delivery of our strategy is dependent on the skills and expertise of our people. Their actions and behaviours are responsible for delivering our projects safely and upholding our values and reputation in the countries where we operate. We are proud of our entrepreneurial culture. At Tullow, we believe in giving our people the freedom to innovate and find the best ways of working, while managing risks appropriately and in line with our policies. As Africa’s leading independent oil company we look for people who can take our business forward. If you join us, you’ll find that life at Tullow is fast-paced and challenging. You’ll be working alongside people who will challenge you and your ideas. You'll learn a lot but you'll achieve much more.
General Electric(GE) GE is the world’s first Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. With over $140 billion in annual revenue, GE operates in over 170 countries worldwide and employs more than 360,000 people. In 2014, GE opened a 200-capacity permanent office in Accra and currently has about 80 employees, majority of which are locals. Committed to building capacity of the labor force to help speed up the nation’s socio-economic development, GE businesses in Ghana include Oil and Gas, Power, Healthcare and Capital Aviation Services. In 2011, Ashesi became the first university in Ghana to be added to GE’s prestigious list of Executive Schools, and is actively engaged Page 06
CAMPUS with the company in mentorship programmes, internship and employment opportunities. GE Africa has just launched its new career website (http://www.ge.com/africa/careers) with the aim to align with the global GE brand, create a fresh feel and give talent more GE Africa focused updates. Featured jobs opportunities include Engineering & Technology, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Field Services, Sales and Internships. Also engage with GE Africa Careers on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter!
GNPC The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) is the National Oil Company that was established in 1983 by PNDC Law 64 to support the Government's objective of providing adequate and reliable supply of petroleum products and reducing the country's dependence on crude oil imports through the development of the country’s own petroleum resources. Our mission is to lead sustainable exploration, development, production and disposal of the petroleum resources of Ghana, by leveraging the right mix of domestic and foreign investments in partnership with the people of Ghana”. Our vision is “To be a leading global oil and gas company whose operations have a profound impact on the quality of life of the people of Ghana”. As part of our core mandate to build capacity, GNPC provides industrial attachment for students across Ghana. Students from the various universities across Ghana are given the opportunity to have internships to have an experience of professional life. We also seek to train our National Service personnel to broaden their scope of the Oil and Gas industry. Our staff are continuously trained to meet our vision of becoming a leading oil and gas company. For submission of CVs, email careers@gnpcghana.com
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SILVER SPONSORS MILLWARD BROWN
We provide research-based consultancy to help marketers successfully manage their brands, optimize the return on their media and communications investments, and create value for their businesses. In short, WE HELP CLIENTS GROW GREAT BRANDS! At Millward Brown, we’re passionate about brands. As a leading global brand and market research agency specialising in advertising, marketing communications, media and brand equity research, we have been in the business of brands for more than 40 years. Our success as a business depends on our ability to attract, develop, motivate and retain fantastic people, who challenge and push the boundaries to ensure we remain the best at what we do. New faces are a vital part of this process, which is why we recruit graduates every year. Millward Brown Ghana can give you a career which challenges you, in an environment where people are encouraged to develop their own individual talents. We have a special culture, which really values client focus, teamwork and risk-taking.
GENKEY
GenKey is an international biometrics technology company with its headquarters in the Netherlands and offices in Ghana (Accra) and the USA (Chicago). We’re experts in biometrics. Together with partners, we help millions of people in Africa to identify who they are. GenKey’s biometric solutions are purpose built for large scale identity programs, including elections, healthcare, ID Cards and ePassports to name a few. Our biometric technology was used in the 2012 General Elections in Ghana, for elections in Cameroun, Mozambique and Tanzania. It is also being used for fraud detection in healthcare projects in Ghana (NHIA) and Kenya (NHIF).
DALEX FINANCE
Dalex is a wholly Ghanaian owned non-bank financial institution licenced and regulated by the Bank of Ghana. It was established in 2006. Dalex currently offers the following financial services: Investments (fixed deposit and micro investments - SWIFT), business loans and salary loans. Moving forward, Dalex has begun the morphing process to become a financial services group offering a diverse range of financial service solutions to its clients. New areas Dalex is looking to move into include Merchant banking, Private equity, Real estate finance and Consumer finance. To do this Dalex seeks to build an efficient and integrated world-class business with highly motivated employees who provide to our clients unparalleled customer service. We also seek to have the highest levels of employee
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CAMPUS productivity in the financial services sector. You should join us on this exciting journey as we create exciting opportunities for career advancement and self-development as well as developing your skill set. We have opportunities for internship and management trainee placements as well as full time employment in the following areas: Business loans and Investments.
SOCIETE GENERALE GHANA
Societe Generale Ghana is one of the leading banks in Ghana with 41 networked branches across the country. The Bank provides Retail, Corporate and SME clients with dedicated innovative products and services aimed at anticipating customers' needs. The Bank is listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange and is a member of the Ghana Club 100. The Bank is recognized for supporting individuals and businesses of various sizes and backgrounds to achieve their full potential. It is the foremost innovator in the banking industry, spearheading key reforms to meet its customers’ needs. Societe Generale Ghana is a subsidiary of the Societe Generale Group, one of the largest European financial services groups. Based on a diversified universal banking model, the Group combines financial solidity with a strategy of sustainable growth, and aims to be the reference for relationship banking, recognised on its markets, close to clients, chosen for the quality and commitment of its teams. It is our objective to continuously build a strong and formidable team that exhibits the Bank’s values of Team Spirit, Innovation, responsibility and Commitment. This means we are looking out for ambitious Professionals, Recent Graduates or Interns who demonstrate these attributes to join our Team.
BEIGE ACADEMY
The BEIGE Group (TBG) is a Private Equity firm with business interests in Banking & Finance, Hospitality, Trade, Real Estate and Logistics. BEIGE Academy (BA) is a human capacity building institute that organizes training and career development programs for employees of The BEIGE Group. The Academy also runs a series of entrepreneurship programs for emerging business owners and the general public.
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BRONZE SPONSORS VOTO Mobile
VOTO Mobile is a fast-growing social enterprise with offices in Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Zimbabwe, India, the United States and Canada. Our service integrates incoming and outgoing voice calls, two-way SMS, interactive USSD and analytics into one easy platform offering the most robust mobile engagement service in the industry and supporting work across all sectors in multiple countries. We have already set-up the international connections that allow us to call every phone on the planet. Further, through conducting a number of tests, we have developed a large number of best practices that help our partners to push the boundary of what's possible in terms of mobile engagement. Over 400 organisations have leveraged VOTO to engage more than 3 million people across 40 countries. Some of our most active users include: the World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP, Facebook, Ghana Health Services, Stanford University, McKinsey&Company,Esoko, MIT, IDEO.org, Camfed, the ONE Campaign, Innovations for Poverty Action, Vodafone Foundation, FHI360, and Equal Access. With 40 employees, the majority of which (our Operations and Technology teams) are based in Ghana. We have a near even gender split, and a wide diversity of backgrounds including alumni of Ashesi University and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology.
AFRICA LEAD
Africa Lead II builds on the success of the predecessor capacity building program (Africa Lead) and continues to provide targeted assistance to support and advance the African- led agricultural transformation as proposed by the African Union Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP). This program serves as USAID’s primary capacity building program in sub Saharan Africa and works to help realize Feed the Future (FTF) goal of reduced hunger and poverty by building the capacity of African agriculture professionals, institutions and stakeholders to develop, lead and manage the structures needed for the transformation process. The Africa Lead office in Ghana provides management oversight for the buy-in programs in Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, the DRC and Guinea in addition to a couple of regional programs funded by the West Africa Mission of USAID. The Ghana buy-in is a U.S. $3 million program which will be implemented for a period of five years. These programs envision working with the countries and region to develop long-term activities to strengthen African leaders a n d Page 10
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institutions at the forefront of increased agricultural productivity and food security.
DATABANK
Databank was founded to provide corporate and public finance advisory services to companies in Ghana. Through the years, we have successfully expanded our operations and our presence in the Ghanaian market and beyond, building key relationships with the private sector, government and public corporations and educating our clients on the benefits of corporate advisory services. Databank currently consists of Databank Brokerage Ltd, Databank Asset Management Services Ltd, Databank Corporate Finance Ltd, Databank Research, and Databank Securities Ltd in The Gambia. Databank has been influential in the development of the capital markets in Ghana, acting as advisor, placement agent and broker to private clients, government and corporations alike. Databank Brokerage Ltd has over the past ten years maintained a dominant market share of stock market activities on the Ghana Stock Exchange. Databank's vision is encapsulated in our BHAGS (Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals) in the coming five years and consistent with our “LEap HI” values of Leadership, Excellence, Humility and Integrity.
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SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT
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Our personality of the month is the very embodiment of the heroic characters in many of the movies we watch. With the smarts, wit and athleticism of the Maze Runner and a unique blend of all the traits found in the factions of Divergent. She is a unique and non conforming person and The Ink is pleased to present to you, Audrey Nelson. by:Carol Armah and Samuel Agyeman Prempeh
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SPOTLIGHT What makes you different, Audrey? So, I don’t wear trousers even though I do a lot of running. I drink hot lemon water every night and now all my roomies drink it. You can single me out, I don’t care. I mean, if I am down for something and I have to be the only one to stand for it, I will and oh I cannot forget that I am jazz lover who sings about everything. What do you believe in? Tick Tock. (I mean apart from God) Tick tock means when something ticks you, talk about it. I mean don’t just sit there and be shy about things that tick you. Bring it out. It is evident that you do a lot more than just academic work, so what else do you do? So yeah, I need to focus on my non-academic life to make my academics better. So most people do 5 courses but I do 6. In addition to my five courses, I jog. lol. Just like the teacher will punish you if do not come to class early, I cannot be late for my jog either. Tell me about your sports life? Well I do like sports a lot but I just do a few; football, basketball, table tennis and lawn tennis. What do you want to do after school? Hmm let me see, at first I wanted to be a pilot, then I wanted to be an architect. After, I just wanted to design. Now, I don’t have an idea but I think I will work with people who will make policies that will have a direct positive influence on the lives of other people. Now I am literally just realizing that I wouldn’t mind being a U.N Secretary General. What would you like for a Valentine gift? I would want a jog with him and after that I would just go record a song with him. And since its valentine, we will go a little conventional and record a love song. Yeah, that’s all I want.
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SPOTLIGHT What one thing would you like see change in Ashesi? Oh I mean Ashesi is an amazing school, so it’s sometimes hard to tell. But it just hurts me that everyone is just interested in their books. We sometimes live like no one has a support group system. Because everyone is just minding their own business, we just say hi and pass by and there is really no society growing. I want people to remember that it is not only about academics. oinSo if you want to play soccer before you study, go for it and let go of the stress. What rumors have you heard about yourself? Oh I have heard, “This girl, she is not godly”, which is so untrue. *giggles*. Oh and they once called me ‘too known’. But well, I don’t care oh. And it is just because I am a nonconformist. Most embarrassing experience so far Those hardly ever come to me. To remember one, I was asked to be an MC of an event. I was paired with a guy and I was all prepped up for it. Next thing I knew, he started saying what I was supposed to say, then I just looked at him and everyone wondered what was happening. But I don’t know if that was that embarrassing though. What do you hate the most? I hate lies, those ones that I already know the truth but you are still lying. Also I hate attitudes that are like self-obsessed, when you feel it is all about you. I think having that attitude is not that nice.
If I am down for something and I have to be the only one to stand for it, I will...
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SPOTLIGHT
NGOZI COLE
by Maame Yaa Afriyie Poku and Hiickmat Nasara Abdulai
With her, intelligence is a quality and ‘beautiful’ is an understatement. This month’s feature of The Ink is none other than Ngozi Cole.
She is the independent, strong and unapologetic faculty
intern whose story will steal your heart.
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SPOTLIGHT What is the one thing people would be surprised to know about you? Wow, one thing people would be surprised to know is that I was a refugee from the age of 5 to 10 during the Sierra Leone war. Five years of my childhood life were spent in the Gambia. What in your profession do you hate to do the most and why? Right now, I absolutely and completely hate grading (laughs). It is fun to read the ideas of students and to see their understanding of what is being taught. At least I get to know they are paying attention in class. But then again, the effort of grading is just tasking and takes the fun out of reading great ideas. How would you occupy your time if you did not have to work for a paycheck? :) (Smiles) If I didn’t have to work? I would probably be on an island or a beach just based, writing stories and poems and basically just enjoying the sights and my freedom. Why Ghana and most specifically why Ashesi? Well, I came to Ghana in 2013 for a short fellowship at the University of Ghana and I just fell in love with the place.. I completely fell in love with the people and the food, especially with banku (everyone laughs). Prior to my graduation, my university, the college of Wooster, developed a partnership with Ashesi and when I realised it was going to be in Ghana, I was really excited to spend a year with smart and talented students. That is how come I ended up here. (Smiles). What's your superpower? My superpower… well I like to think I am a good writer. Also, I am a very intuitive person and I guess that’s my other superpower.
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SPOTLIGHT What inspired your current look? Oh this look? (Points to her hair and giggles). So this was actually an accident. It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. I tried texturizing my hair and it ended up getting totally permed and I didn’t like it so I just cut everything off. I was really nervous about cutting my hair because I didn’t know how it would turn out. It was a real gamble.. Is there a special someone in your life or are you waiting on the Lord? Relationship wise, not really. My current relationship is with my mum. So as of now, she is kind of the bae in my life. She is the special someone in my life (Smiles). And where is she now? Back in Sierra Leone. How are you dealing with the long distance? I miss my mum so much, but then again we are not letting this long distance get in the way of what we have. We have a WhatsApp group, me, my mum and my sister and we keep in touch every day. What type of music do you listen to? Well it depends on my mood. I listen to different genres on different days. On some days I like Nicki Minaj because she is raw and unapologetic. On other days, I listen to Ellie Goulding and Sia because they are kind of soft and sad. What is your perfect idea of a date? A perfect date would be me having a good conversation with him over wine. I’m not the wild and adventurous type so definitely a date in a nice chill environment with candlelight where we can have wine and talk about intellectual stuff. That is my perfect date. If we were sitting here a year from now celebrating what a great year it's been for you, what would it be? Hopefully celebrating getting into graduate school. That is my next big goal and hopefully it will all materialize. Fingers crossed. Page 20
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Hot Seat Ugly and live forever or attractive and die in a year? Definitely ugly and live forever because there is always a possibility of fixing myself. Worst excuse you have given for missing a date? Oh.. (thinking).. I locked myself in my room and told my date I was not around when he had clearly seen me enter my room. Do you prefer younger or older guys? I haven’t dated older men before, just people my age, so my choice will be older because I guess they are more mature and secure. Money, Fame or Love? I am torn between being idealistic and say love but at this point in my life, I would have to say money. Love conquers all but then again money conquers my current situation. Worst thing you did as a student? I would sit in front of the class because of my poor eyesight and sleep throughout the lecture. I just couldn’t bring myself to stay awake in class.
Right now, I absolutely and completely hate grading (laughs).
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Valentines Day Playlist
PIECE
By Daniel Bempah
2015 was some year chale. Personally, it was all over the place for me. I laughed, I almost cried (keyword ‘almost’, because of course, hard guys don’t cry, we simply keep it one hunnid), I danced, I indulged and I experimented a lot. Like the weird youth I am, last year marked another weird stage in my growth, and on the brink of its demise I had my first epiphany. Here I should say that as much as this and all the others that followed were realizations that came to me suddenly, they aren’t things, more so truths, that I did not already know. It is as Lao Tzu, father of Taoism, once said, “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” I did not discover anything new, I just came to a profound and intense personal understanding of truths that I had heard and seen every single day of my life. And per the theme of love that gloriously permeates this magnificent month of wind, laughter and her brown eyes, I see no better time to share these little gems of understanding than in this month’s issue. So here goes nothing. Lol. #1- Genuinely go out of your way to make people happy. Being the cause of a smile or a temporary reprieve of someone’s happiness is truly divine. Like God mode. #2- Practice a fast of silence. Don’t confuse aloneness with loneliness. #3- Listen more. Like truly listen to learn, not to reply. #4- Clean up your spirit. Create an aura of positivity. Unlearn the bitterness society teaches. Think clean positive thoughts, speak positivity into others. Let them feel it around you. Transform your atmosphere, your thinking, your being. #5- Find a hobby and let it free your soul. Contentment and true happiness is doing something you love. #6- Go somewhere you've never been before and sample a new experience. #7- Apologize anytime anyone is hurt by you, no matter what, even if you think you are right. Truly learn to say I’m sorry. #8- Don't stop believing in love. It's the only thing that would save you. I hope that in some way, I reminded you of things you always knew, things you continually strive to be. If you were wondering why I am talking about epiphanies in an article titled Valentine’s Day Playlist, don’t worry I am getting to it. Music is one of my surest escapes, it is peace in a raging storm, it is timeless wisdom, it is the language of love. So I’m done trying to write this article in English. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to call to the stage poets and philosophers ranging from Larry Graham and Kojo Antwi, all the way to Bryson Tiller and Mr. Eazi, to speak to you of this thing called love. Spread out below is a track playlist that doubles as an ode and descriptive of that infinitely confounding condition that is LOVE. I have tried to divide the flow of the playlist into four makeshift stages I believe characterize modern love. Feel free to disagree, I’m no expert, just a youngling having fun. Enjoy.
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STAGE 1- INFATUATION This is the butterflies in the stomach stage. The googly eyes, they can do no wrong stage. The you see them from across the room and catch your breath stage. At this stage, you painfully hope they feel the same way about you, that when they smile back at you they are thinking the same things you are thinking. This is the infatuation/crush stage, and it has in its own right inspired some of the mushiest corniest songs ever.
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Adorn Miguel Miguel promises so much love in this song. He promises his heart, soul and body in Adorn. If you are ever short of lines to woo that girl who is being particularly difficult, just refer to this track. Believe me it has bars for days. #word
Thinking about you Frank Ocean Fraud boy Frank. Tsk tsk tsk, you know that guy that confidently hypes a party to you until he manages to convince you it’s a Project X type party, then when the D-day finally comes his phone is switched off, yeah that’s Frank Ocean. After not releasing anything since 2012, he comes out last year to tease the world with promise of a marvelous album, an album we are waiting for till today. Leaving us with music blue balls. Fraud guy! That aside, this song, thinking about you, from the channel orange album is a sad song about loving someone who refuses to love you back even though you know in their heart they want to. If you can relate you know it’s a sad place to find yourself.
IfAliciaI Keys Ain't Got You This song is a beautiful classic. Alicia Keys doing what Alicia Keys does best. It’s a magnificent serenade to a type of love people claim is lost in this decade.
Something About You Majid Jordan If you don’t know Majid Jordan, find them ASAP. This Canadian duo signed to Drake’s OVO Sound record label have mastered the Canadian urban sound that is PARTYNEXTDOOR, Roy Woods, Amir Obe, the Weeknd, and the king himself, Drake. There’s just something about two light-skin Canadians crooning softly into your ears.
Can’t Feel My Face The Weeknd Aye see I chose this song because of Carollann Buckle. Caro, you remember when he couldn’t feel his face when he was with you? Yeah, me too. Good times. Anybody who listens to the Weeknd knows he’s one of this decade’s sex symbols, with a baby lotion soft voice, he really can do no wrong. This song is a testimony to that.
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STAGE 2- ROMANCE/KNACKING This is the “ugh, they can’t stay away from each other” stage. The “they seem so in love; I want that” stage. The you start to lose friends because your whole life is the other person stage. Like, could you please stop doing cute shit all over the place? Pleeeeaassseee? Ugh, I taya you people. Mtsww. Oh I added knacking to this stage eh, lol. Yeah, knacking aka coitus, is the spice every relationship needs, or so I’m told.
Skin Tight Mr Eazi ft. Efya
This song is so smooth mehn, Julz has a style that sounds like water running over pebbles, combine that with Mr. Eazi’s hoarse voice and Efya’s divine vocals, you get the slow-grinding club banger that is Skin Tight. Oh, the chicks dig this one too, play it.
One in a million you Larry Graham
I must confess, I found this song because of Kanye. He sampled it on No More Parties in L.A. off The Life of Pablo album (I’m really fighting hard here not to digress into a narrative of the magnificence of Kanye’s latest album). Anyways, I’ve fallen in love with this song. Its such a pretty little thing, it makes you all warm in your chest, you’re lucky if anyone thinks of you the way Larry Graham, king of the bass guitar, sings on this song.
Step in the name of love R Kelly
“Now, now, now, see you got to understand stepping is not just a dance its a culture - its the way we live, it's what we eat, think and breathe you understand me— See you out there on that dance floor and you with your partner and all, y’all holding hands and y’all swinging and swaying and you turning them and twisting them and dipping them and it's such an exciting feeling you know what I mean?” – R-Kelly
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Me Nya Ntaban Kojo Antwi Nobody does it quite like Kojo Antwi. I personally think he’s the soul of 90’s Ghanaian highlife. He and Daddy Lumba of course. Anyway, this song literally translates as “if I had wings, I’ll fly to where my love is, I’m so cold”. Beautiful right? I feel like it’s particularly relatable if you are in a long distance relationship on this cold hill. Don’t worry we have you covered. Ashesi branded hoodies and sweatshirts coming soon.
Or Nah Ty Dollar Sign Ft. Weekend and Wiz Khalifa Just listen to the song. PLEASE.
Romantic Koredo Bello Ft. Tiwa Savage That pre-adolescence faced boy with the jerry curls gets it right sometimes. This song, Romantic, is a win for him. Featuring Tiwa Savage, Africa’s Beyoncé, doesn’t hurt at all.
Coffee Miguel This song is a feat of lyricism. Miguel actually does really really good music. One of my 2015 favorites to be honest.
Sexual Healing Marvin Gaye I told you they say knacking is important. Especially the “I can feel it in my braim” type knacking. It can heal sicknesses; some people have been known to receive instant healing of all their ills after a good knacking. If you don’t believe ask Marvin Gaye, he says it best. I dare you to not like this song.
Aaliyah At your best So I was reading through the comments under this song on YouTube and I came upon a war between Beyoncé and Aaliyah stans. If you don’t know what stan means, don’t worry, I didn’t know too till a few days ago. According to social media, stan is the short form of super fan. I’ll leave commenting on the absurdity of this situation for another day. So yeah, I was in the middle of stan war I, and this all started because someone dared to say if Aaliyah was still alive, Bey would be irrelevant, and we all know you don’t slander Bey in 2016. All I’m trying to say here is that this song is that good. And by the way, my dawg R-Kelly, aka Smooth Groove Kellz was on there dropping them ad-libs, so you know it's fire.
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STAGE 3 FIGHTING / FALLOUT / HEARTBREAK This is where all ‘romantic’ love comes to die. You’re wondering if you ever knew him, you hear stories of exploits you don’t want to believe. You spend about 80% of your time together fighting. In your mind you are single already, but you stay hoping, because this shit sucks. You know what I’m talking about, I have music for that stage too.
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Melanin Girls Okuntakinte Now to someone we all know. King Kunta has been making waves this 2016. He has won over Ghana twitter and Ghana Instagram. If you are into photography, or just like really artsy pictures, check out his VSCO too, it's lit. He’s a good vocalist with a lot of potential, if you don’t believe me check out his cover of Rihanna’s Work, he does some wonderful things on there. Melanin Girls, his most acclaimed track is a lamentation of how a dark skin girl broke his heart, after all we dark skins can be as savage. If you have been a victim of infidelity before (especially by a dark skin) this song is for you.
Red Red Wine UB - 40
This is a song about a guy who can’t seem to move on after his girlfriend leaves him. The only way he copes is by guzzling bottle upon bottle of red wine. Mawuli Adjei, that semi-tall boy who you aren’t sure if he’s fat or not, the Editor-in-Chief of the Ink Magazine, requested this song. I don’t know if he can relate, but if yes, please remember him in your prayers, it's an awful situation to be in.
Is It a Crime Sade
This song is sad. It hurts the melancholic in me. How can you love someone so much that even after they hurt you so many times you still beg for their love? Life can be so messed up, man. This song is about wanting someone not good for you. You love them, you hate that you love them, but you can’t help it. Sade’s voice matches the sentiment so much; the sadness is palpable.
Don’t Bryson Tiller
Bryson Tiller, patron saint of side niggas and girlfriend snatchers, had a wonderful year last year. His debut album, TRAPSOUL combined hood and emotional like no other. We all thought this was just Drake’s forte, but Bryson seems to have captured the girls’ hearts too with his music and piercing eyes. If you are thinking of skipping this song that entreats all maltreated females to rediscover their self-worth and move on to a better guy who’ll appreciate them more, don’t.
Cause I Love You Lenny Williams
THIS IS THE GREATEST LOVE SONG EVER. Hands down. Seriously, I’m not even hyping. Such magnificence, such raw emotion, such beauty. If you caught your boyfriend with your best friend, heavily knacking, and he got Lenny Williams to perform this song for you, you will forgive him. Period. Don’t even try to prove hard, it won’t work. The monologue alone is A1.
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STAGE 4 - A NEW KRAMAIN IS BORN Kramain, pronounced kra-mine is Twi for dog. Its synonyms are savage, fuckboy, heartbreaker, to name a few. It’s a place a lot of people find themselves after their hearts have been broken, so they also go forth into the world and break a few of their own, thereby perpetuating the vicious cycle of kramainess. Don’t be a kramain, it's not good. If you disregard my advice and do it too, I have a few songs for you.
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What's love got to do with this Tina Turner Tina Turner’s What’s Love Got to Do with This is the universal anthem for kramains all over the world. After all, who needs a heart when a heart can be broken. I hope you enjoy it, you evil spawn of Satan. Wicked child.
Diamonds Dancing Drake and Future This song goes out to a lot of people who won’t read this article unless I force it down their throats, even then, I have to verbally read it out to them. Foolish boys, mtsw. But yeah, I chose this song because Drake is one vindictive, manipulative motherfucker, gosh. He spent over 2 minutes of this song telling his ex she’s ungrateful and not good enough. What at all did she do? Aside that, this song pairs well with any type of turn-up. So thrill.
Loyal Chris Brown
The jam of 2014. Funny story, after this song was released I started hearing so many stories about disloyal girlfriends, it was so lit. Lmao. The final consensus was that nobody is faithful so buy yourself a bottle of lube.
Nobody Ha Fi Know Kranium This is that lowkey, we don’t know each other in public type knacking. And really, nobody has to know.
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My World
by: Ezekiel Sebastine Mardillu
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ost children acquire the same eye colour or a similarly shaped nose as their parents’, but I got much more: I got an insatiable curiosity and a passion to learn which have both complimented me well throughout my life. My father, a farmer, taught me to reconnoitre the world with a prying mind, continuously seeking to know more, to understand more. As a kid, I studied him often while he was busy on our family farm at home. I wondered how he had got so much determination to do as much work as he did and especially, how much help his hoe was to him. This, I will say, was the basis and the beginning of my passion for technology. At a tender age, I got fascinated by the little “technology” my village could boast of. By technology, I mean the hoes, cutlasses, torchlights, and the few transistor radios that some members of my village could afford to buy. Yes, my village is very, very underdeveloped. I wanted to know how and why these things worked the way they did. I wanted to know how the hoe helped to dig the ground, how the cutlass cut, in fact, how they were crafted in the first place. Years later, I was privileged to be adopted by a caring guardian who lived in the city, Lagos, through a group of missionaries who came to my village to intervene. In this new world, to me, there were also very new things. I did not see lanterns. I saw things that were not lanterns lighting up everywhere. I even saw some on the streets. I saw TV, I saw the toaster, I saw the washing machine, I saw the gas cooker and above all, I saw the computer. My curiosity as to how all these things worked went up exponentially. How does this toaster work, I wondered. What’s inside this video player, I asked. I was never fulfilled with the layman’s answers that m Page 36
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guardian would sometimes give to my questions. So I decided to find real answers myself by exploring and experimenting. A portion of my room was dedicated to a jumble of old scraps such as circuit boards, spare electric wire, and all kinds of broken appliances. I spent all the time disassembling, reassembling and tampering with the incredible findings I had discovered for myself. Often times, when a concept is taught in class, I discovered I had already done something like that. I became interested in science books. Books like “How things work” became my favourite. I quickly learned to use the desktop computer we had at that time, which was running windows 98. With the new development, I became interested in operating systems, graphics, software and application. Since then, I have been competent and flexible with technology. I now strive to be more technologically oriented so d I can go back to my village and see it develop technology not made of e hoes and cutlasses but rather with regards to advanced systems in - operation. g I have learnt to be very independent and self-motivated through learno ing by trial and error and from everything I do. Someday, I want to save o and change my village, my town, my state, Nigeria and Africa as I seek s to improve my life as well as the lives of those around me. As I get set e to drop my pen, I leave with a word from my role model; Albert Einstein I himself “...education is that which remains after all that is learnt in p school has been forgotten.” I think this can only be achieved through s curiosity and personal exploration. Therefore, we should never wait, my expecting to be taught everything. Page 37
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You Got Splashed! by Victor Eghan
Walking on the dusty Berekuso road on a Saturday morning, I tried to imagine how this Love Splash event would be like. I had mixed feelings about it. I was excited about the prospects of expressing myself through art. I wasn’t really worried about how well my art would look like—whether it would be nice, or it would defeat the purpose of beautifying the school. All I cared about was having fun with paint. I thought I’d be among the early birds to arrive at the Berekuso Basic School, but there were many people there already when I got there—both students and members of faculty. Some people had already begun scraping walls, and they were wearing nose masks like the dust could give them Ebola. Along with some of the Charlotte residents, we went to “present ourselves” before Miss Akita, the Outreach Chairperson, who assigned us to Class 4, the classroom block we were supposed to beautify. Now we had to start scraping. When I imagined how Love Splash would be, scraping never crossed my mind! I thought painting was all about swishing the brush gently and caressing the wall with a dreamy artistic look, not scratching off old paint and getting dust in your face! But hey, we had no choice. If we wanted Charlotte to turn up first, we had to do this. Yeah, it was a competition among the hostels to create the most beautifully painted classroom block. And we were bent on winning the trophy for our beloved Charlotte, whatever it was. This meant war. We grabbed the scrapers, along with sandpapers, and set to work. Thankfully, we got two professional painters to assist us in the process. Well, one of them was a professional, and the other claimed to be, though his painting skills said otherwise. We finally finished scraping, and some of the guys and ladies eagerly grabbed brushes to start painting. The brushes weren’t many, so we had to take turns in painting. My friends and I sat around waiting for our turn. I got tired of sitting and watching the little ‘Da Vinci’s’ having fun, so I stepped out of the classroom to take a look at what our rivals (all the other hostels) were up to. Some ladies had taken a rather early retirement from their painting career and had resided under a tree, taking selfies. Other people too had a different approach to whiling away the time. They stayed in the classrooms and watched others paint, but would quickly pick up a brush and pretend to paint when someone with a camera came around, with the hopes that their picture would end up on the school website. But hey, they all had an excuse—the paintbrushes weren’t enough, and they were waiting for their turn. Page 38
CAMPUS Since there were few paintbrushes, it took about two hours before I got a chance to hold a roller. When I began painting with the roller, I finally understood why the people with the paintbrushes and rollers were so reluctant to end their painting shift. Man, it felt like….I dunno! I don’t know how Da Vinci felt when he was painting the Mona Lisa, but I think I felt way better than he did. It felt like that was what I had been waiting for my whole life. The DJ’s constant replay of Shatta Wale’s “Kakai” however interfered with my painting ‘flow’. I think it’s really unfair that as the song interfered with my creative flow, it rather sparked up the creative juices in painters from other hostels, leading to Charlotte’s loss in the competition. Despite the joyous moments, we had a few complications during the painting. We did not scrape the outer walls of the classroom block well before we began painting it. The professional painter (not the one who claimed to be) drew our attention to it, so we had to scrape the freshly painted wall and repaint it. It was heart-breaking as we killed our darlings. After repainting the walls, they were more beautiful than they had ever been. As I stood admiring our creation, someone made an announcement over the microphone, saying something about the arrival of snacks or something. Honestly, I didn’t hear what the person said clearly, but the crowd that had suddenly gathered under a tree with hungry faces as well as plastic cups communicated the message quite clearly. We were each served a piece of pie with a cupful of some drink that I had no idea of its name or origin. A hungry man doesn’t bother himself with such details. Within minutes, I had freed my hands of both drink and pie. When I tried to re-join the queue to refill my cup, the drinks were already finished. After the snacks, we huddled together for a group picture. I was so disappointed about not getting a second drink that I didn’t even bother to climb a desk so my face would show in the picture, unlike some ladies beside me were doing. Right after the paparazzi session and a vote of thanks speech by Jude, I went back to our classroom block to congratulate my other comrades for a “battle well fought.” We were so sure that we were going to win. Well, we were so sure that we weren’t going to lose. I left the battlegrounds before the final scores were announced. Most of the time, we never get what we wish for. But it’s really bad luck when you get exactly the opposite of what you wished for. We wished for Charlotte to be first, but we turned out………(I’m not going say it!). Despite that little disappointment, Love Splash was a wonderful event. It helped some people discover their hidden talents in painting, it also got other people’s faces on the website. But most importantly, our actions there created smiles on the faces of the kids who would be learning in those classrooms. Page 39
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One of the most asked questions when it comes to styling natural hair is what styles are appropriate for special occasions. Styling can be difficult, seeing that most women try to “tame� their natural hair for special occasions by wearing more modest dos or just straightening their tresses. But as natural women, the beauty of our natural curl patterns and textures can get lost by trying to tone down. Here are three elegant hairstyles you can show off at your next internship, class or black tie dinner.
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FDE Bu by Victor Eghan
After Nine Effect
The After Nine Effect brings to you delicious meals from your favourite food joints. With just an order, you could be enjoying foods from outside of Ashesi from 9pm. The team brings to your doorstep affordable and convenient food when you need it the most.
Compressibowl
Destres
To reduce the number of plastic bowls we throw away because we do not want to wash them, Compressibowl brings you something new. With nicer bowls than what you are used to, you can trash out the biodegradable liners and keep using the bowl so you do not have to wash them when you use them!
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After the never ending news the rest of the student body heard about the newly introduced course, FDE, last semester, our minds were blown when students of the class of 2019 set out to create actual businesses this spring. For about two weeks, we witnessed the launches of a total of 15 businesses on the Ashesi campus, ranging from issues of sanitation and health to education and arts. We present to you a recap of what the newly introduced businesses on the campus have to offer you.
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This is a waste management business that is focusing on the Abom town. With an aim to massively curb the issue of improper waste management in the town, they aim to provide free bins to its inhabitants and subsequently serve as the link between a waste and recycling company, Flowplast, and the town. The business thrives on the payment from the recycling company while managing the waste of Abom for free. According to Verissa, the CEO, they hope to promote sanitation with their efforts in the town and are open to donations from the Ashesi community.
Through online and offline conversations, the Emojie team provides an avenue for individuals to express their feelings freely. They propagate their message through customised t-shirts that go for GHS40 so individuals can, without voicing out their feelings, give the whole world a message. They leave the community with their hashtag on twitter, #EXMRTF, where the online conversation about emotions and feelings are ongoing.
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Ignite
Instalight
To all the ladies and the guys who need to dry their hairs within the shortest time possible, Haipadry provides an answer to your need. The team presents to you, Hairpadry, an affordable and time-effective mobile hair dryer that can be used without electricity.
Ignite serves as a platform for all creative students in academic institutions to get connected to an audience to showcase their talent. With an exhibition of paintings, beaded accessories and bags at their launch, Ignite guaranteed student artists that they could provide them with ready market after they have been managed and trained to ignite their passion without compromising their academics.
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Mollia-Dormir
The Mobile Trolley team, as its name suggests, provides delivery services from the school’s tuck shop, Essentials, to students who for one reason or another, can’t get products from the shop. They function as a door-to-door delivery service that ensure that even without walking, Essentials can be brought to the doorstep of students.
Realising that stress is one thing experienced by every Ashesi student, the Mollia Dormir team has decided to provide stress relieving services in the form of massages and facials to the Ashesi community. With as little as GHS35 and GHS30, a subscription can be made for a month for a massage by professionals with and without oil respectively. Mollia Dormir assures you that you can look forward to those two times in a month where all the stress you go through will be reduced to nothing.
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As a solution to the ‘long’ distances that students have to walk and sometimes drive to get food from Big Ben and Charlotte’s Court, Ripple provides food delivery services to the various hostels. At a fee of GHS1.50 and GHS2.50 for on and off campus residents respectively, students can log on to the Ripple website and order their meals at specific times to get them delivered to them. What are you waiting for? Make your order now from their website, www.rippleashesi.wix.com/ ripple-ashesi
With a focus on the preservation of the environment, SafeZone introduces you to Citrosect, a non-toxic insect repellent. This can be used in open space cafeterias and homes and promises an insect-free atmosphere using environmentally-safe measures.
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TLS Food Preservation Systems With as little as GHS12.00, you can get for yourself, Ordel, the product designed to take away all smells from refrigerators. This product was made by the team members using carbon technology to absorb all unwanted smells and can last up to 3 months. With their exciting packages that come in colours of pink and green, this business has ready market both in and outside of Ashesi.
Yaro Foundation With the story of ‘Once upon a Yaro‌,’ the foundation introduces all to the world of autism, precisely that of an autistic child. With a belief that no autistic child is less of a human, they create awareness and aim to facilitate autistic treatment in order that the stigmatisation that these humans face is substantially reduced.
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The One True Sportsman By Gilbert Tackie
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n today’s world, the definition of a sportsman is often assigned to the man or woman who has the greatest physical assets and attributes. Our next profile is a true sportsman. However, he bears none of the aforementioned qualities. No, he is not a part of the Black Stars and he definitely holds no national records in sports. But this young man can be called a true sportsman because he has contributed immensely to the growth of sports in the nation even from his own small corner. He has been influential in harnessing sports writing and maintaining the level of appreciation for this branch of artistry and skill. If at this point, Page 54
SPOTLIGHT you are wondering why he is not so popular if he does bring so much to the table, it must be said that one of his virtues is that he has a joy for being the driving force in the background. This man, who has been put in the Ashesi Alumni spotlight, is none other than Benjamin Epton Owusu; a pioneer and change maker, who has expended himself, pushing forth the agenda of sports writing in the Ghanaian space. As an “Ashesian”, as he calls himself, Benjamin recounts his time in Ashesi as fun. He commends the school for driving his entrepreneurial spirit and stirring up in him, the principles of societal change and positive contribution. I find it quite astounding that a Business Administration (BA) major could have ended up as a sports correspondent. However, Epton assures me that being able to practice both corporate finance and sports reporting was not so farfetched. Yes, it was a challenge but he was strongly motivated by his passion. In his own words, “sports is my everything”. His viewpoint is simple; use sports the right way and it would be a channel that can be used to improve and impact the lives of the masses. With this in mind, he did not sit down to wait for some miracle avenue to pop up and adhere to his convictions. Rather, he set out and, together with a small team, started a sports blog called GhanaFans. “It was challenging working in an investment bank and managing a sports blog. However, GhanaFans is an avenue we feel can aid more journalists inclined to sports writing to get the opportunity to express their thoughts. I know for a fact that it’s not easy to break through to mainstream media.” And the blog has been true to its mission, with writers mostly being tertiary students across the nation. This platform has truly been exclusively youthful and vibrant. It continues to grow and though still not top notch, the boundaries are endless for this project. Now with more than 33,000 followers over social media, any young writer would be honored to receive such an audience for their pieces. For some people (including me) who would never see themselves strapped in boots and playing on fields or running in tracks, sports writing could very well be their means of contributing to the sporting world of sweat, perseverance, discipline and mental focus. Although print media might suffocate and die out, Benjamin Epton believes that writing does not die out with it. Like the Bleacher Reports and the Goal.com’s, Benjamin wants GhanaFans to impact the entire world; to tell an African success story with fellow African people using the African game. He engaged in Ghana fans not for the money or fame. He rather did it for the satisfaction of seeing others who love sports but do not have the pace to break records or the strength to win tackles, use the might of a pen to craft sporting history. Epton is a true follower of passion. Inasmuch as he has put work in helping the development of sports writing in Ghana, he has set off on a new path in his own personal growth by pursuing law. Nonetheless, when you are behind your TV set watching that EPL game or the upcoming olympics, know that there is someone whose joy has been to help build a platform that reports the dynamics of the sporting events to you. To all others who have passions they feel cannot translate into careers, rethink that for a moment. The world is an infinite loop of space, time and opportunities, so don’t be fooled into believing that something is impossible. If you will not take my word for it, why don’t you ask Benjamin Owusu Epton?
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Calculus At Ashesi
By Charles Dzokoto
The first calculus class was on limits but when I looked around,
Eric, my FI, told me there is no limit to my life in Ashesi. Before I asked, Joe pulled me by a parabola and said, if my left limit is
unequal to my right limit, then my limit does not exist and my continuity is dependent on the existence of my limit and functional value at a point in life.
When I went to my room, I was discontinued but I defined my discontinuity as removable because it cannot be a jump nor an
infinity, but before then, Eric said in our discussion class that if my life is a function, its continuity does not guarantee the
existence of my derivative. Upon all this, my life is partially based
on the Intermediate Value Theorem but others depend on Math Resource Centre where Newton’s method of differentiation is not appreciated.
My dear friend Jesse asked after mid-sem, have I checked FOCUS? She
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Hmmmm, I recited my calculus hymn and anthem, “when a vertical tangent can be drawn at a point, then its derivative does not exist and by the power rule, all polynomials can be differentiated”.
Still yet, Eric reiterated, if you can’t use the first principle of calculus in life, it is better you apply the product or quotient rule
to help you get your local and global extrema. But three weeks after mid-sem, my FOCUS was neither increasing nor decreasing,
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by Daniel Kwaku Bempah
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THE WEEK
By Gilbert Tackie
Early Monday morning and I wake up to weather more confused than I am. So dry, cold and warm all at once. I remember planning my day last night (by night I meant dawn), but I guess that is all being thrown out of the window now. It’s already 8:20 am my first class starts at 8:30am, I literally can’t control my eyelids. Feels like they are not a part of me anymore. Times like this I wish I was on campus, that walk from Dufie seems so close but yet so far. Shabbily I get ready and make it to class just 3 minutes late. I do have a break from 10:00am but my Quants homework is only half done. Implication, no food until 6:30pm which is when my three back to back classes come to an end. Night time is a blessed time for me, I don’t know what exactly I do but I get to relax every evening that is if I don’t have any extracurricular activities (turns out I always do). Online Soccer Manager results comes on at 9:00pm, one of the few moments I look forward to in my new found college life. I was just reminded we have social theory readings and a probable Intro to Finance quiz. Again implication, I have to stay up till dawn again. Luckily my first class is at 11:50am tomorrow. I sleep with a smile, I mean not so bad for a first day. When I see sunlight I already assume I have overslept (i.e. late for class). That way my reaction time when I wake up is already set to “Flash” mode so I get ready real quick. Well aside my academic duties I have decided to be a sports writer. But in this school soon your hobby starts to become a chore as the days go by. I mean to think I used to dance almost all the time. The main issue here is I’ve not had time to really do so many things outside academic work so my co-writer is quite upset and we just got off the phone. Implication, must write article this week. It’s already 11am so now I can clearly scrub eating off my to-do-list for now. 11:30am and I’m plying the “bush road/path” to campus. I don’t realize I left my cell phone until I get to the car park. I can’t be bothered because the journey back would drain me even more than that of Israel’s pilgrimage to Canaan (I’m not even playing). Fast forward to 3:00pm, my day ended with me being assigned readings and a set of trial questions (ideally optional but “if you like don’t do”). I decided to start my readings by six but I
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ended up starting at nine. I can bet all of you blaming me for poor time management do not play FIFA. In the end though, I got it all done and was in bed by 2:00am, I did sleep 2 hours later (need I say Creed is a really good movie). As you get 1:30pm first class dier you be almost invincible. You are totally invincible when it is your only class for the day. So yeah I’m almost invincible. Wednesday is some ‘lowkey’ lazy day, but more importantly it’s on this day that weekend plans begin to emerge. I just got a message in a group chat, ibe like boys dey want move this weekend. I’m not so eager yet I won’t even lie, this hill gives me homesickness. Whenever I leave, I feel very vibrant but once I get back up, my mood and spirit just dampens. I guess it’s just my inner being hoping for the worst. So back to my day, by 12:00 noon I’m out of the shower and I use about 15 minutes to get ready for school. Now bear in mind my readings came with a CPA (which I finished earlier this morning) and I had to submit a hard copy. En route to the library from Big Ben, I met a couple of classmates who walked right past me and went to the lab. It is interesting how I get to the library and find out the printer is not working…. Those classmates were from the library…Such communal spirits. Chale I tire, the week really long. So yeah, if I’m allowed I will continue in the next edition. Ridee I for go read some Conservatism things for Social Theory.
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