Ghanaians are yet to experience the ‘hottest’ musical concert ever on the Ghanaian event calendar as telecommunications giant – tiGO – brings to us ‘tiGO Music Unplugged’.
On the 31st day of October 2014, all roads will be heading to the Accra Sports Stadium where the ‘tiGO Music Unplugged’ concert is scheduled to take place.
It will interest you to be in the know that Ghana’s fastest rapper – Sarkodie – is billed for the concert. As if that’s not enough, the reigning artiste of the year and ‘Dancehall King’, Shatta Wale, Davido, Guru, 4X4, MzVee, etc. have also been added to the list.
There are rich men, and then there are RICH MEN. There can be no doubt which category Kanye West belongs to.
The Hip Hop mogul received an offer to perform in Las Vegas for a total of three nights a week for three weeks, in return for which he would earn $4.5million.
He turned it down.
It would be good to one day have so much money I can turn down such an offer without batting an eye. Its not really surprising though, Mr West had always been an eccentric genius.
Rihanna is back in Los Angeles. The ‘Diamond’ songstress was in Atlanta on Saturday for the launch of ‘Rogue Man’ fragrance at Macy’s Lenox Square.
Last night, the 26-year-old Bajan superstar was spotted leaving her favourite restaurant, Giorgio Baldi after dinning. Riri was photographed wearing an Adidas dress while holding a bottle of wine.
Is there a body that regulates churches in Ghana? Make that Africa. Is there a body that regulates churches in Africa? Because the rot is deep!
It’s only in Africa you find out that the black man knows more about God and the bible than the Europeans who brought it to us. Sometimes I look upon the state of religion in Africa and I cannot help but congratulate the white man. He knew exactly how to keep us in chains no matter how much independence we have.
I once wrote an article here in lamentation of our worship of pastors. Yuups, we do not worship God anymore in Africa. We worship pastors because we are so devoted to pastors that we cannot question them. If you do, you go straight to the brainwashed firing squad of millions of people. Pastors can stand up in church with the nerve to do anything because you know what? They themselves know they are untouchable.
So often you will find the ‘sheeple’ gather and obediently listen to, defend and obey the ‘man of God’
Which of you ever watched the recorded South African pastors who made their congregation drink petrol because they claimed the pastor had turned it into apple juice? (Jesus mpo nfanihu). Sagaa!
Anyway, to the hot topic of today that has set me out on this rant, Duncan Williams said, women must realise that when a man proposes to them, it is a privilege. Because no matter how beautiful or intelligent you are, you will ‘’Rot’’ with it.
Where are my beautiful, intelligent women? Are you listening? You are nothing until a man does you this huge marriage favour.
Way before I became what I am today—on a good day an atheist and on a bad an agnostic, I stopped going to the usual Sunday church while holding my belief in the existence of God intact. Therefore, it’s possible not to feed into the regularly church going inconvenience and still hold a good relationship with faith or God.
I’ve always not been interested in being part of the every day or night church service—but saw the need to be part of the regular Sunday visits. I saw going to church everyday as a total waste of my existence—unproductive way to use my time, far worse than watching some 1980 Kung-fu movie with poor English subtitles. So I usually did the latter when the family attended the many all-night and evening services.
Before telling you why I stopped going to the house of the Lord—saying so based on the Christian assertion, I think I should point it out that I admire the sense of community-ship the church offers.
I would love for religion to disappear or give way to reason and critical evaluation, but I wouldn’t want the many magnificent church buildings that hold a lot of history or the various religious texts that hold excellent literature relevance to be burnt into ashes. Perhaps, this is one of the many contradictions in wants; befitting the concept of killing the King while seeking to maintain the Kingdom.
Even until my days of enlightenment brought me to understand the hidden pillars of the God hypothesis and the strong relationship that have existed between the church and the masses right from the Palaeolithic age to present—I was very much aware we were not just put on this earth to spend every evening singing praises to a God. If that was the case, He would have kept us in heaven to do that. I was also taught the angels were already doing that and I was against duplication of functions; God must be too.
Now that I’ve established my honest appreciation of the church—to some extent, despite my total religious contempt, let’s look at why I stopped going to church and why you should consider doing that too, writes CHRIS-VINCENT on BrutallyUncensored.Com.
1. Church Services Have No Real Religious Benefits
The Abrahamic God is everywhere and nowhere; and His eyes or ears catches everything. You do not have to be within any particular geographical proximity to worship him or for him to hear you. You can pray to him right from your toilet seat and He will gladly hear you—but whether he will answer you is at His own discretion. Your location of worship, prayers or demand cannot persuade Him in anyway to attend to your needs.
So what is the real religious benefit of going to Church every evening or Sunday? Why bother with the restaurant when the takeaway is equally fast, cheap and convenient, I wryly asked myself…
2. I Noticed the Huge Disparity Between the Leaders and the Masses
I hate to be introduced to injustice, especially when I cannot do anything to change the situation—and more so when those being held in the pit are tirelessly sweating to enrich those at the top. This is the appalling chain of relationship that exists in all churches and each Sunday that I attended, I went back home more upset with the church, especially God who has for many years been taking part in the con of robbing the members to feed the leaders—or let’s say, He has permitted this injustice.
There is no way that God is graciously blessing the leaders of the church to the overwhelming detriment of the masses, who bring their little coins each day to Him. I spotted the monkey business very quick but it took me time to find those who deserve to be blamed.
The Church perpetuates injustice, taking from the poor to feed its leaders—and I stopped going as an early sign of protest, against this injustice, the leaders and God.
3. Women Are Oppressed at Church
The religious bigotry of modern era is very much manifested at the church and right from childhood, I could not understand why women could not become pastors in the Church of Pentecost I attended. This is way before I developed interest in Law, a discipline that has introduced me to Gender Equality, Tolerance, Equality before the Law and other remarkable human principles.
Today, I am proud that I am not part of an institution which continues to treat women with gross contempt—hold women back from deserving positions for the mere fact that they are women.
There are a lot of positions in church that women cannot occupy and it’s not principled on merits. By virtue of the fact that they are women, they are seen as inferior and cannot occupy such seats. It is hard to accept this but the smart ones among the many have already figured it out. The institution called Church is patriarchal, has been and will forever be.
Why should I support such an institution to continue in its disrespect of women when equally is even being fought for at various non-Godly places like work and schools?
Venus Films has attempted to pull an all-star movie once again—something like what the production house did with 4Play and Reloaded. And this time, they’ve brought Joselyn Dumas into the game, starring alongside heavy weights-Jackie Appiah and Yvonne Nelson.
For the men, John Dumelo leads the cast, shaping the way for Omar Sherif Captan, Eddie Watson and others. As usual, the diction is a little adult as you would expect from Venus Films and surprisingly, there is no ‘seks’ scene cut into the trailer. If I missed it, let me know…LOL
One of the greatest honours any human being can be afforded is being studied by other humans, mostly after they’ve been dead for a long time and their ideas have had a big impact on the world in one way or another.
Millions of students have to go through this every year, sometimes resenting these long dead crones making their lives difficult from beyond the grave. But looking at the two personalities involved in these new courses in Texas it’s a guarantee no one would be bummed out; in fact enrolment would probably shoot through the roof.
Global pop icons Rihanna and Beyonce are set to become subjects of new courses being pioneered by the University of Texas. Dubbed “Beyonce Feminism” and “Rihanna Womanism”, the courses are designed to examine these two iconic ladies and their roles in modern day feminism.
The insanity level of many of these Big Brother Africa participants is beyond measure—and last Friday, things went off the roof with alcohol having mixed with the individual madness.
Tanzanian housemate-Laveda has become the talk of the continent this weekend owning to the fact that after having a lot to drink, she treated the whole Africa and her housemates to some sort of free adult moment—openly pleasuring herself while groaning and moaning.
If this is not the definition of contemporary insanity—then I might have to re-evaluate my head.
Some of the housemates who were in the room where she was touching herself ran downstairs to tell Idris, follow Tanzanian housemate—on whose bed Laveda was openly unleashing her craziness.
Nigerian billionare- Folorunsho Alakija is one of the Big London Properties Investor
Africans must really have good hearts and manners, free from envy to co-exist in the face of the extreme poverty that lies close to the few people enjoying stinking rich lifestyles—-as the continent of abundant resources seems to carter for only a few as the masses live in abject poverty.
In West Africa, the situation is no different, yet some of the few wealthy West Africans such as the Nigerian billionare- Folorunsho Alakija are reported to be spending almost £4 million a week on expensive London properties.
According to MailOnline, ‘while African buyers only account for 1.5 per of transactions in the ‘ultra prime’ London market, they make up five per cent of sales by value – up from two per cent. This is by typically spending between £15million and £25million on each home’.
Though we are not hearing of any of these rich Africans donating to help fight Ebola which is sweeping off people on the Africa continent as though they were insects, the website says ‘the recent Ebola epidemic and continued terrorism from groups such as Boko Haram has resulted in an increase in buyers in recent months’.
