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GH Developers, Programmers and coders? Where you dey? Come show the world what you fit build. Hello Ghanaian developers! After the successful Hackathons in South Africa and Kenya which saw some amazing applications built, we want to continue spreading the love! A hackathon is an event when programmers meet to do collaborative computer programming. Hackathons focus on either a technology tool/product or a topic to collaboratively build programs and applications. Hackathons are typically between a few hours and multiple days. There will be a one full day Google+ API Hackathon with the support of the Google Technology User Group (GTUGs) in Accra (Ghana). If you are ready to wow us with your application, please apply for the event using this form: Accra for the event on the March 21 from 9 to 6 pm at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST). The deadline to sign-up is March 3! Remember to start today on getting those creative juices flowing! Familiarize yourself w...

" Chop my money! Cos I don't care... cos I get am plenty ". " Amanda, Amanda! Sɔkɔdɛ! dɛ, dɛ! Sɔkɔdɛ! " These are the two songs dominating 'inside my head' recently. What is Sɔkɔdɛ? I hear it is about 4play. No, not for play but foreplay. Foreplay is not always about sex, it could be a forbearing of what might happen next. And what happens next might not necessarily outdo what just happened. But anyway, you can judge if these songs are relevant to this blog post after you read to the end. Cos I'll try hook you so you do. If you skip a bunch of lines, leave a comment so I do better next time. " Pushaaaa !". So some context. At my age, I live with my aunt and I don't have my own place. If you went to Accra and asked for rental rates & agreements in and around where the 'action' is, you might understand why. So let's not delve into that. I love my family. I get to support them and be useful by being near and available....

This happened at Barcamp Takoradi 2010. Help us make Barcamp Takoradi 2012 a success. More info below BarCamp Takoradi 2012 is a FREE networking event to bring people together for a day of discussion, demos and dialogue about Takoradi, Ghana and beyond. It hopes to assemble Western Regional stakeholders to network, build a supportive entreprising community and partner. BarCamp Takoradi 2012 will take place on March 3, 2012 at the Takoradi Polytechnic. The theme is “ Empowering the emerging middle class in a budding economy: efficient use of technology in entrepreneurship ”. The BarCamp Ghana team has successfully organized 11 BarCamps in Ghana - in Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi, Cape Coast, Tamale and Ho. Barcamp Ghana is a project being run by the GhanaThink Foundation, an NGO based both in Ghana and the USA. The events have brought together over 1500 leaders and change makers. Barcamp Takoradi 2012 builds upon Barcamp Takoradi 2010 which was held at the Takoradi Technical Institute...

After Uganda took the title of "first ever African country I would spend a night in", Kenya followed suit shortly in September 2011. I was going to show off the Swahili I had learnt from my East African friends and been taught by my Kenyan KiSwahili teacher at Stanford. I was in Kenya for more than a week, up till date the most amount of time I have spent in any other African country. I had a lot of friends in Nairobi too. A Kenyan friend commented on an "African returnee" conversation we were having saying, "As for we Kenyans, we move back". Kweli kabisa. I had asked my Kenya based friends et al on Facebook & Twitter what I should do before I left Kenya and I tried to go through with some of their suggestions. I had every intention of getting stories to tell so let's recount the Mighty African experiences. I arrived in Nairobi on a Saturday and was welcomed by traffic from the Jomo Kenyatta airport on our way to Hotel Sankara. I recognised Nya...