Author: Koya Nkrumah
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Are older people always right?
The 2022 Global Citizen Festivals were held in NYC and Accra just last month – for the first time, I tuned in to watch as one of the locations was in my native Ghana. It was a well organised event that I enjoyed and quite an eye opener to many causes being championed by change…
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Dealing with an overbearing person!
First posted April 2022 When I was twenty years old, I lost my mother to cancer – through my teens, I had witnessed her battle the disease that would eventually steal her from our family. She was a kind person who made an impact on everyone she met and talking to a friend recently, I…
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Hey ladies, are you looking after yourself financially?
This month marks the second anniversary of this blog – it has been an incredible journey, one I never imagined I would go on. There’s been ups and downs and days when I truly felt I was not reaching anyone, but in those times, I would have a reader reach out – in some cases,…
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Thank you for your support!
In September 2020, I bared my sould to the world by writing my first blog on how I was feeling – I never expected the response I got back. Like me, many people were going through similar things and they were realising that they were not alone. The journey from that one post has been…
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Be good, but for whom?
I was on social media, again – yes, I need to make better use of my time! While aimlessly viewing the many feeds on my timeline, I came across a post that got me to stop, read the comments and add my voice. The quote said “Dudes will throw away a good girl who would…
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Is hitting children discipline?
In many cultures and some religions, physical punishment of children is encouraged – the society I come from encourages this and many people have used a famous Christian bible verse to justify this practice. Years ago, I was sat in a meeting and the speaker who claimed to be passionate about fatherhood, especially for black…
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Let’s refute some misconceptions about being a single woman!
Updated post from 20th September 2020. Growing up, I never thought much about getting married – this was not something I dreamt or wished for. In my mind I was always a career woman and though I would have someone in my life, I never thought about marriage. Coming from the society I grew up…
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Let’s talk about husband material, shall we!
Last week, while browsing social media, I came across a post on twitter I could not ignore, I had to comment. The writer of the post was narrating how he had lost the woman he intended to marry in a road accident. He had the compassion of most people in his comments, unfortunately, he did…
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Growth is uncomfortable – but it is necessary!
A word I am fast accepting will be a constant in my vocabulary is growth! When I was a young girl, I always attributed growth to physical changes and the natural transition from childhood to adulthood. As I grew older, I realised that growth was multifaceted and applied to many areas of ones life –…
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Help! I am in a relationship with someone who is not available!
Paraphrased email from reader. Q- Hello Koya, I have recently started dating a gentleman I met on a night out with my friends. He was very intense and into me from the very beginning – he told me what he wanted from our relationship from the word go and I threw caution to the wind…
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