June 5, 2014 – GhanaCelebrities.Com

Finding the ‘Right’ Person At The Wrong Time – To Let Go Or Make the Time Right?

06/5/2014 10:09 pm

A friend (reluctantly) walked out of a 2 year relationship due to ‘bad timing’. After a year of dating, she moved in with the guy. When the issue of ‘when are we getting married’ cropped up, the illegal husband (oh yeah, he’s an illegal husband) said the time is not right for him even though she is the sort of woman he would like to marry. So, if I am to believe his excuse, it was a matter of getting the right person at the wrong time!

Relationships are no doubt beautiful and enjoyable, but when it gets to the complex discussion of taking it to the altar – it suddenly becomes a mystery and a puzzle.

In a hasty conclusion, I would have said Mr Man is/was trying to run or is actually out already (oh yes, you can be with someone who has long left the relationship – except they are there only in flesh). But If I should put my ‘over-thinking’ and ‘over-analysing’ cap on, situations like these do happen; you find the right person you would love to spend your time with but either they came at the wrong time (where you’re not ready for any serious commitment due to certain factors and they are) or you find them when you’ve pledged allegiance to someone who doesn’t come anywhere close to what you seek in a partner but somehow ‘stuck’ yourself there.

When relationships break down, it is because one person wanted something different. Sometimes (most of the time) you cannot hold it against them. As I told my friend, either she waits for his time or starts all over again – you cannot force something to work or force someone to do something against their wish. They may do it to please or appease you, but few months down the line; you’re on your own!

With PLENTY Sugar Daddies & Mummies, Why Must Ghanaian University Students Work?

06/5/2014 8:27 pm

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

Dear Chris-Vincent,

I have taken time to read your recent article titled ‘The Work Culture of Ghanaian Students | Why Don’t Most Ghanaian University Students Work?’ and I’ve gone through the interesting but disagreeing comments as well…

Even though you make some great points and delve well into the subject of the non-existing ‘Work Culture’ among Ghanaian students, you failed to look at an obvious but shameful truth about the lifestyle of Ghanaian students, affecting their decisions to work or not to work.

I completed University of Ghana about 4 years ago and worked part time at a family friend’s pharmacy, especially weekends and contrary to arguments of time table issues made by certain people who commented, I did well with punctuality and turned up to work all the time as agreed. There were certain days I couldn’t make it but that had nothing to do with my studies or time table, I just had some other businesses to attend to…

So I am a living testimony of the fact that students who really want to work in Ghana can do so and despite the fact that jobs are difficulty to come by, with a vigorous push, you can find a place to work.

Another thing you and the other readers need to take note is the issue of remuneration. The pay for most jobs in Ghana are not good and therefore students are not attracted to working, measuring the time to be spent with the money to be earned. But of course as you rightly mentioned, working culture is not solely about the money, it is about developing other ethics needed for the bigger world.

When I used to work as a student, majority of my female colleagues and a greater number of female students I knew did not find work attractive because their off campus lifestyle paid far better than any part time job will pay them.

I know for sure this is not a unique phenomenon at University of Ghana but also at the various Universities across the country. Young female students pride themselves with what we call ‘Sugar Daddies’ who cater for most of their needs and these ‘Sugar Daddies’ ranges from Politicians to Doctors and from Businessmen to Investors. These men mostly with wives at home have the weekends of greater number of the female students fully booked, well in advance.

PHOTOS + Accra Floods Out Again…Slightest Rain & We Find Ourselves Living in a Big POND!

06/5/2014 5:41 pm

by GC Staff bG

It’s that time of the year again when floods and losses of lives are recorded in several parts of Ghana without fail. Year after year this happens and yet we have not developed beyond petty floods from the slightest rain, especially in the capital-Accra.

You would also think we have learned enough from previous years to protect ourselves from such a mess but again, NO.

We have a Mayor who is sitting in a good untouched spot waiting for this rain to end so he can come out and rant about how unfortunate it is that people have lost their lives and properties and how we need to stop building along water ways.

When I think about how docile Ghanaians are that we are taken for a ride by literally everyone in public office gets me angry beyond words. Look at these pictures below and tell me if these places are all along waterways.

PHOTOS OF THE DAY: John Dumelo, Emmanuel Adebayor, Michael Essien, Dede Ayew, Naa Ashorkor Mensah-Doku, Beverly Afaglo, Kafui Danku & Others…

06/5/2014 5:22 pm

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

The last time I met Beverly Afaglo in Accra, which was immediately after her maternity break from acting—she was looking well trimmed, as if she had successfully gotten rid of the post baby weight.

But the above picture of Beverly seems to suggest that, she has put on the weight again. It could be that she has ‘cut slack’ on the exercising—maybe she is eating large (the Ghanaian way).

All the same, she still looks good though!

Michael Essien, Dede Ayew, John Dumelo, Deborah Vanessa and others have all shared some interesting photos…

Check them out below!

Dear GC Readers, She Cheated With My Friend…And She Wants a THIRD Chance | What Should I Do?

06/5/2014 4:57 pm

by GC Staff bG

Dear GC Readers,

I hope to get some good advice from my fellow readers of this website as I am totally a confused man and if I dare mention any of this to my friends, I will become a laughing stock. I have learnt my lesson the hard way so with this opportunity of being anonymous, I want to tell my story and wait for the advice I can obtain from other generous readers.

I am 29 year old Ghanaian living in NJ, USA and my girlfriend is 25. I think it is better to refer to her as EX since I’ve not decided on what to do yet.

I caught my girlfriend 2 years ago cheating with her Ex boyfriend who used to beat her and even broke her nose when they were together. It broke my heart then but she pleaded and pleader. Her mother called me from Ghana and all her sisters called to beg. She said it was her first and last so since I loved her, I decided to give her another chance.

Just a year after coming back together and doing everything I can to support her, I pay her phone bills and help with her rent since she does not have a regular job, I found out she has been sleeping with my friend.

99% Of Ghanaian Written Literacy Books Are Rotting in Libraries – Yet Ghanaian Filmmakers Steal Hollywood And Bollywood Stories

06/5/2014 3:31 pm

by GC Staff bG

If you don’t know or care to know, Ghana is one of the few countries in Africa blessed with fecund literary writers who have written thousands of books over the years – with some dead whilst others still alive.

Below is a list of some local and internationally acclaimed Ghanaian literary writers and their respective works: Ama Ata Aidoo – Anowa, Changes, Our Sister Killjoy, No Sweetness here, Dilemma of a Ghost; Efua T. Sutherland – Marriage of Anansewa, Edufa, Voice in the Forest; Ama Darko – The Housemaid; Asare Konadu – The Wizard of Asamang, Woman in her Prime; Francis Selormey – Narrow Path.

The list goes on: Sekyi Kobina – The Blinkards; Ayi Kwei Armah – The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Fragments, The Healers, Kmt: In the house of life; Benjamin Kwakye – The Clothes of Nakedness, The Sun by Night; Kwei J Quartey – Wife of the gods, Children of the Street; Yaba Badoe – True Murder; Glover Boakyewaa – Circles; Ekow Eshun – Black Gold of the Sun; Bediako Asare – Rebels; Kwame Kwei-Armah – Statement of Regret, Fix Up, and others.

For instance, Marriage of Anansewa by Efua T. Sutherland, if adapted for a movie, will be a blockbuster movie produced from Ghana to the world! The story is intriguing! Most Ghanaians who studied literature in Sixth Form or Secondary School and read Marriage of Anansewa will attest to that. I hear our folkloric tale – Anansesem is being used by Disney World for Animation series or sequel.

Yet, instead of Ghanaian filmmakers adapting some of these literacy books or folkloric tales, screen play them and shoot as movies, they rather take delight in stealing (technically called plagiarize) Hollywood and Bollywood movie stories and retell them as Ghanaian movies.

FIPAG to Organise Ghana Movie Awards | You Can Organise Whatever You Want But Cut Your CRAP!

06/5/2014 1:51 pm

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

Few weeks ago, it emerged that the Film Producers Association of Ghana (FIPAG) has somewhat come to a decision that, the organizers of the existing Ghana Movie Awards, led by Mr. Fred Nuamah have not given them the necessary recognition and have failed to accord them the needed respect—over the years.

The above together with the obvious weakness of the Ghana Movie Awards scheme have made it necessary for them to organize their own award scheme, to reward excellence within the Ghanaian Movie Industry.

Even though I doubt the competence of FIPAG and I cannot foresee any reason why I should think they will be good award organisers or planners, I still believe they have the right to organise an award scheme—more like a constitutional right to do certain things which are not prohibited by law.

Therefore, FIPAG can decide to organize 50 awards in a year to award their members and non-members who are interested. They can even decide to organize an award for just themselves or organize some for their unborn children—no one can really stop them from doing so.

However, they need to cut the CRAP—and by this, I mean, they do not have any standing authority or right to ask, compel, request, direct, bully or put under coercion anybody (be it their members or non-members) not to participate in other award schemes.

Do those championing this absurd directive or whatever they call it think we are under some celestial dictatorial rule, with them being the supreme leaders or what? You cannot even make such illegitimate call in North Korea, and you want to do so in Ghana—where people have freedom of association and have a right to submit their intellectual properties to whoever they consider fit.

The unpardonable attitude of monopoly and fear of competition entrenched in the minds of certain Ghanaians need to evaporate—because we live in a perfect competition market. If already there is a Ghana Movie Award scheme and for whatever reason FIPGA wants to organise their own, they can go ahead and freely do so.

But this gross act of sabotage being peddled on unjustified threats to the members of FIPAG by its leaders, backed by some dark cult of production and distribution ‘mafia-rism’ should not be tolerated.

For Christ sake, if Fred Nuamah is pushing his award scheme down the drain and you do find any existing prestige left in the award scheme, organise yours and let him do whatever he wants (that is if he wants to continue down the drain or fix things). You cannot employ some illegal Soviet Union tactics to tear down his award scheme, simply because you want to erect your own.

The Ghanaian Celebrity Lifestyle: First Class Travel, Expensive Bags, Exotic Holidays, Designer Wears—WHO IS PAYING FOR ALL THIS?

06/5/2014 8:08 am

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

I’ve always ‘envied’ western celebrities for one reason and that is, despite the huge amount of cash they have, they never really pay for anything—mostly, people offer them certain luxuries like free hotel accommodation, flights, designer wears and even exotic holidays.

My envy springs from the fact that, they never really have to pay for anything even though they are stinking rich. However, ordinary Kojos and Arabas like me with not much sitting in our bank accounts have to pay for everything. Who actually needs freebies? The broke individuals or the millionaires…? But that is the world we live in!

Interestingly and probably unknown to many of our Ghanaian Celebrities that most of their western counterparts do not pay for their ‘exorbitant lifestyles’, our celebrities have plunged themselves into this sort of class race—sitting in Accra and wanting to live like Kim Kardashian or Jay-Z.

Prior to Lupita Nyongo’s recent Oscar appearance, it emerged that several of the world’s expensive gown designers flooded her with their dresses for free—hoping she will just choose to wear their brands to the prestigious awards. At the end of the day, she rocked a stunning sky blue Prada dress and I will not be shocked if on top of it being a freebie, Prada even paid her to wear the dress.

Meanwhile, back home in Ghana, upon seeing Lupita’s freely acquired beautiful dress, some of our celebrities will be scheming through different means and tunnels, so to wear Prada or repeat the Oscar de la Renta that Halle Berry recently wore for one of our red carpet events.

I’ve come across Kim Kardashian and some western celebrities occasionally showing off a watch, a hotel they stayed in, a gym and sometimes even a drink. The hidden truth behind most of these social media exhibitions is that, Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rihanna and the rest who engage in these activities are mostly PAID to do so—subtle advertisement for these brands. Though such conducts are regarded as unethical with UK advertising regulators recently requesting that celebrities who engage in these promotions should let their fans understand they’ve received some sort of compensation for their tweets, Instagram or facebook posts, some of the celebrities continue to ignore this requirement.

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