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I am one of the biggest proponents of wearing Ghanaian and African wear on Fridays. During Traveler John's time, the idea was pushed a lot and we see a lot of Ghanaians wear traditional fabric attires of Friday. They wear Ghana . For me, I wear Ghanaian and African wear 80% of the time to work. I wear Ghana everyday pretty much. I told  +Maame Efua Tandoh  earlier this week, everything I wear has to say something. On Fridays, I normally say " Think Ghana, it's Friday! TGIF! " Remixing what TGIF is. Today was the launch of Wear Ghana . A new fashion line called Wear Ghana was launched. Intriguing, yes. I wore the shirt that is more "Wear Ghana" than most shirts you will find. See the shirts in action here . Red, gold, grin :-) So I started the day by retweeting some @ GhanaThink tweets  ... #TGIF ! Wear Ghana, it's that day. #WearGhana #Standout http://t.co/S6gBhaBkPQ — GhanaThink (@Ghanathink) November 15, 2013 Think #Ghana , it's Fr...

I was quite late to the Fashionista GH party. It must be because I am not so much into the fashion space. I do remember that when I asked some of my Global Shaper friends that night in Cape Town about choosing "one word" to describe me, one person called me a Fashionista. Because I always wore African shirt <- Fashion. Well, FashionistaGH is pushing African shirts and dresses and etc, and fashion. And they are leveraging the power of the internet. Last month, Ghana's  Ministry of Trade and Industry  and Google Ghana launched a new initiative called Innovation Ghana. Innovation Ghana is meant "to celebrate our homegrown innovators and discuss what is needed to bring Ghana to the fore of innovation and entrepreneurship." Fashionista GH was  one of Innovation Heros awarded . Let's learn more about FashionistaGH . I've met OB Abenser and Guud Kelly a number of times since that Google+ Hub, a lot of fashion events or events that have brought out th...

I've known Naa Oyoo Quartey for more than a year now. She's phenomenal. I remember one time, we organized a session at her church (ICGC) in Osu on social media use. We pretty much winged it but it was also a lot of fun sharing and learning about how to use social media in more productive ways. We didn't have to look far for case studies. @Ganyobinaa , as she's known on Twitter, had a good chunk of them. Last month, Ghana's  Ministry of Trade and Industry  and Google Ghana launched a new initiative called Innovation Ghana. Innovation Ghana is meant "to celebrate our homegrown innovators and discuss what is needed to bring Ghana to the fore of innovation and entrepreneurship." A number of Ghanaian-made businesses (and their founders) were awarded as Innovation Heroes. Naa's Roots By Naa was an awardee . See this great video that was made to tell her story. Naa is a favorite of Google Ghana. She embraced the "Africa, Get Your Business Online...