M.I.G = Made in Ghana!

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I just love the way African Prints can make people look so good.  To see more of Mina Evans( Ghanaian fashion designer) click here.

These shoes inspire me to create something too! Check Sepha's website here. Also, please do me a favour and check these african print sneakers! I'm currently obsessed with them.

Go ankara fabrics! Check ReneeQ on her website she is absolutely creative.

The intricacies of my love life

There has been a few developments in my young life these few months. Am sure you guys are guessing at this moment...drumroll. I think I have fallen in the big 'L'! (just kidding)  Ok, am serious here! I feel like I have put a few pounds because of this emotional state although Mr.G doesn't see any change. I didn't see it coming, thought I was living the life, being all tough, independent and content and now my life as I know it has taken a new dimension. Probably it is the cause of my lackadaisical effort in updating my posts hmm..
  Anyways, my closest friends can attest that I used to have crushes every week. I was never really decisive, thus I had an extensive list of crushes and it all began in the first grade!! I grew up pretty fast, which was inevitable with a big sister who used to leave her Mills&Boons books strewn around in her room. Also, I grew up during the time when telenovelas were being introduced I remember how my aunties used to be all dovey eyed and dreamy after watching episodes.Today I will try and summarise the list of my crushes.
  P.S this has nothing to do with my 'celebrity crush list' lol.
Grade 1-David (the son of my class 1 teacher,a Nigerian chap)
Grade 2- Atupele( A cute East African, now a facebook friend)
Grade 3- Gabriel(Ghanain boy who my sister used to tease me with)
Grade 4&5- I can't really remenber
Grade 6- Mr Kamara  (social studies teacher always got A's )
Grade 7- Ahmed & Karamba (I used to switch from one to another and they were best friends)
Grade 8- Allan ( had a huge crush on him, now we are close friends)
Grade 9- Marc& Alfred (they were the finest guys at the time in high school)
Grade 10- 12. I went on a sabbatical. LOL
University- Anthony& some anonymous guy I kept bumping into...
Now: I'm officially crazy about Mr. G and the amazing thing is that he feels the same way too!

BlacK hair Issues!

Any black woman has gone through hair issues before, it is one of those topics that girls can spend time talking about and sympatising with each other. I have been meaning to write about this for a loong time, and a statement from my Cuban caucasian professor really hit me. She said she didn't understand why Ghanaian women liked wearing fake hair(weave-on) and in Cuba most black women had long healthy hair. As usual, people just laughed and left it at that but I wasn't to pleased. First of all that statement is a generalisation which cannot be applied to all Ghanaian women. I was chatting with a girlfriend today and she told we she was allergic to extensions! I bet she isn't the only one. Secondly, we cannot be compared to cuban blacks because they have a different type of hair texture due to the intermarriages between blacks and whites. Thus their hair is longer and stronger due to the white genes they inherited.
I'm typing right now with extensions in my hair not because I am ashamed of my medium length hair but because of various reasons.
1. Our weather is hot and its frustrating having your hair wet and sticking to ur skin.
2. It is time and money consuming going to the hair salon.
3. Combing  and styling your hair every morning  before going to school or work is not an option.
 I love my hair! Right now, my hair is relaxed but I have been fantasysing of chopping it off and going natural. Read somewhere about the hair industry and how huge corporations are becoming rich by selling human hair( taken from Indian shrines) and relaxer cremes which contain harmful chemicals to our hair and scalp.Guess what?? Their biggest market is in Africa!! Yes, you heard right.
So why do we keep on conforming to what Western culture is portraying as beautiful? Wasn't Cleopatra one of the most beautiful women that ever lived? And, am sure there wasn't Dark& Lovely Relaxer creme then lol.
Anyways this subject has been generating controversy on the blogosphere particularly with African women in the diaspora. Check these blogs.
http://www.msafropolitan.com/2011/09/the-fashion-and-politics-of-natural-hair.html
http://nachalooman.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/nappy-hair-its-not-just-a-black-thang/
http://nachalooman.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/at-what-cost-unnatural-white-beauty-black-woman/
http://www.curlynikki.com/search/label/Transitioning%20Tips%20and%20Resources