The Vim Views & Versions - Blogs of a MIghTy African

Before I returned to Ghana on August 17, 2011 , I had never been to any other African country. By 2014, I had been to Nigeria several times but never to Abuja. SHAPE Africa 2014 took me to Nigeria’s capital for the first time. I knew Abuja was a planned and built capital for Africa’s most populous nation, and I was really curious to experience what that looked like, and meant. I didn’t descend on this Federal Capital Territory just for this conference, but also discover it, chill, network, build great memories, etc. The small, chaotic, beautiful moments that still make me smile years later, now. Like I do for most trips to places I have never been, I hit up my friends who are based there or from there. In my email I added, “I am coming to Abuja o! …. We for meet and yarn plenty o!” I stayed with my friend in Wuse 2 Central . Crazily, some bombings had happened in Abuja which had us “at attention!”. But we were put “at ease!”. We marched on to Nigeria’s capital through an Arik Air f...

As long as I have had Liberian friends aside my family members who are half- Liberian , I have been hearing about #Lib4Lyfe . I saw this as being tied to music and entertainment, and not just patriotism. It took me travelling to Liberia for the first time in December 2025 for me to know that Liberians like to chill!!!!! Chilling and partying goes hand in hand with music. For a music aficionado like me, I was noticing the soundtrack of the town while in and around Monrovia . For a party soul like me, you can trust that I partied seriously in Liberia . We were balling baaaaway! Arrival Anthems: Thursday, December 11 I flew from Accra on a Kenya Airways flight which I spent watching a Kenyan movie - “ It’s A Free Country ” and paying attention to the songs played in it. It was a great movie to watch, travelling into a country that is very free, in more than 4 ways. Liberia gets its name from the word “liberty”, formed by indigenes and freed slaves from the West. My sister Stacey ,...