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  The GhanaThink Foundation today celebrates the spirit and impact of National Volunteer Day (NVDay) 2025 , a nationwide volunteer mobilisation held on 21 September 2025 and supported by a broad coalition of youth groups, NGOs, schools and corporate partners. NVDay 2025 activities were widely shared across Facebook, Instagram and X under #NVDay2025 and coordinated through event listings on the GoGiveTime platform. This coincides with International Volunteer Day (IVD) under the theme "Every Contribution Matters". “The future of Ghana depends on the actions we take today. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Less talk, more action.” — Ato Ulzen-Appiah , Director, GhanaThink. National Volunteer Day is organised by the Ghana Volunteer Program (GVP), an initiative of GhanaThink Foundation. The Ghana Volunteer Program was born on 5 December 2013 , marking International Volunteer Day that year. GVP matches volunteers to volunteer opportunities. It continues to op...

One fine day in 2025, I was in a VIP bus traveling from Accra to Bolgatanga and I thought about music from the Northern sector/zone or Savannah Belt of Ghana. After Barcamp Bolga 2025, I asked some friends and then in #BolgaKonnect, #NavrongoKonnect, #NortheastKonnect, #TamaleKonnect, #SavannahKonnect and #WaKonnect about the top songs ever from these parts of Ghana. I was looking at artistes who were and are largely based in these areas, which means I did not consider the likes of Samini, Mugeez, Rocky Dawuni, and co. I Want To See You My Father - King Ayisoba (2006) The day this song was crowned the "Most Popular Song" in Ghana for 2006, that is when more ammunition was added to the #WeAreNotASeriousPeople hashtag. Someone should convince me this song's popularity was not tripled due to people making fun of it. Anyway, the song had to be doing something right. Apparently, King Ayisoba clarified that the correct lyric is "I want to sue you, my father". Did you ...

 I asked some friends to name their  top 5 songs  ever, from  Uganda . My Ugandan alter-ego,  Richard Nshuti Mayanja , also contributed, thanks to all he has learnt around  Museke . I also asked  Google  Gemini & other AI bots. You know AI is my friend these days right? I also contributed my top 5. My first time in  Uganda   was in 2011, thanks to my work at  Google . Prior to that, I knew some songs from my Museke days, and some East African friends from Rwanda, Uganda, etc. These days dovetailed with my time at  MIT  and then later at  Stanford . When I visited Kampala, I hanged out with a lot of top musicians there, thanks to Museke. A Caucasian Googler friend of mine had told me, Kampala is the party of capital of Africa. I attest. I have a lot of research and evidence to back this. I only went there twice and I bet this has not changed in a decade. I wanted to do a list of top 5, but there are too many songs....