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On January 11, 2019, I  joined the  Success Drive  Whatsapp platform to be featured, share, answer questions, etc.   This was set up by Derrick Obeng of  Campus Radio Ghana . This was similar to the conversation I had with the  NUGS Volta Region Bloc Women's Platform  to share and discuss  volunteeringh , following after  Barcamp Ho  coordinator  Courage Christson Tetteh  had done something similar with them earlier.  Pamela Klutse  made that one happen and I blogged about it as well. 2 awesome people who all were part of the  Barcamp Ho 2018   organizing team. We discussed many things on the Success Drive  show , it was like a hot seat -  #KonnectKouch  ( watch this space ).  Edith Bannerman , the host, asked me: " So studying at  MIT  and Stanford ? How did that go? "  I picked up  #MightyAfrican  from my tertiary education in the US.  Let's dig int...

I was approached by Derrick Obeng of Campus Radio Ghana to join their Success Drive Whatsapp platform to be featured, share, answer questions, etc. This happened on January 11, 2019. I loved the conversation I had with the  NUGS Volta Region Bloc Women's Platform  to share and discuss volunteeringh , following after Barcamp Ho  coordinator  Courage Christson Tetteh  had done something similar with them earlier.  Pamela Klutse  made that one happen and I blogged about it as well. 2 awesome people who all were part of the  Barcamp Ho 2018   organizing team. We discussed many things on the Success Drive show , it was like a hot seat - #KonnectKouch ( watch this space ). Edith Bannerman , the host, asked me: " So studying at  MIT  and Stanford ? How did that go? "  I picked up  #MightyAfrican  from my tertiary education in the US.  Let's dig into that. I hope you find some oil you can use.  Studying at...

Earlier today, I received this email from one of my favorite people, Paa. He mentioned a study that the World Bank conducted about Ghanaian student migration abroad. I thought his thoughts were super and felt you all should know. Hence, we feature our first guest blog entry and who else to choose from than my favoritest buddy? Here's what Paa had to say. I find the results to be unrevealing since it merely concludes that Ghana doesn't lose much from having a large portion of its 'brightest' formally-trained bɔgas spend their productive years abroad. Note that the survey only asked 238 people for their opinions so take care in extrapolating the results. The data points themselves are more interesting: - 47% of all Ghana university grads live abroad. - there are nearly 3 times as many Ghanaians living in the US than the UK (the 2nd top destination) - on average each bɔga makes about $74k every year - on average each bɔga sends about $5k to Ghana every year - the value of ...