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COMMODIFICATION OF WASTE IN GHAN A   By Dulcie Delali Attipoe    Over the years, waste management in Ghana has raised a lot of concerns with some waste management companies facing difficulties in discarding collected waste from the various homes. The normal trend in Ghana is, people will actually put together all kinds of waste into one trash can unlike other countries where wastes are separated and can be recycled.  It is also normal to walk on the streets and see waste being dumped in gutters, on the streets and even at the market places where we buy our foods. How does a country fight malaria if they do not look at their environment first? One can blame this problem on the waste management companies in Ghana for their failure to do their work properly. But the question is how do they help us if we do not help ourselves by changing our attitude towards the way we treat our waste in the country. What we fail to realize is that, dumpsites are thi...

LIVING THE INFORMATION AGE IN AFRICA! By Dulcie Delali Attipoe The world they say is a global village, when one part of the world changes it gradually affects the other part as well. Gone are the stone, bronze and Iron ages where people usually do things manually. Our fore-fathers worked in hard labor without any technology; however they lived happily without complaining. In this information age, things are done much easier; thanks to the introduction of new technologies. In Africa, technology plays a very vital role in our everyday life changing our way of life. Some will refer to this as modernization or better still, civilization.  There is no doubt that the introduction of technology has improved creative skills, and many Africans are so engrossed in creativity in recent times. Now what do we see on our various social media platforms. Most people have become creative to the extent that they make fun of anything they come in contact with by creating funny pi...

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a woman selling smoke fish infront of the 37 hospital   Hygiene has become so much an issue for the country due to the numerous outbreak of diseases like malaria and cholera. yet, lot of people seem to be giving death ear to the issue. here is a woman selling smoked fish uncovered right infront of the 37 military hospital, how ironically. can you imagine the number of flies that have visited the fish on her head and those yet to?   your views are welcome.   

  people hanging on a moving train from Accra to Nsawam   people hanging on a moving train from Accra to Nsawam  Gone are the days where there were enough trains in the country for everyone who wish to travel by train due to its affordability. now it is very rare to see a train in Ghana but if that happens, you see many people risking their life, hanging on the edges of the train just for a free transportation. these people forget how risky it is for them and how this unconscious act of theirs can cause them.   please add your critique. thank you.