Chronicles of Wofa Ampong Kwesi

I wanted to name this piece, What is Ghanaian Hospitality If We Cannot Help Each Other or Believe In Your Inner Instincts,  but when I shared the story during a meeting as part of a safety share moment, Seth reminded me that the story depicts the Good Samaritan Jesus spoke about in the gospels. I still choose to go with the original title I intended to use for better impact. After reading my true story, I will leave you to pick any of the titles above based on which one suits you. In the morning I planned to visit the Volta region to do a recce for my organized trip scheduled for later this year, I went outside to start packing my things into my car boot. I realized that one of Uncle Nana’s car tyres was “down flat”. I called out to him to inform him about it. He came out and said asked whether I had a jack in my car. I was not sure I heard him well because I was in the bedroom and he was outside. When I came back outside he was already by his car jacking it up with N’Adom givi...

  Weddings are one of the most important milestones in the lives of couples seeking to get married. The day signifies a seal of their relationship as man and wife and comes with all the fashion and grandeur one can imagine. Most people who attend a wedding ceremony/event see all the colorful kinds of stuff and go home with the impression that all went well. Some even go to the extent of comparing it with previous weddings they have attended to pass judgment on which one was better attended, more colorful, better organized, and of course, which one the bride and groom kiss better. I dare say that some couples even plan to outdo their friends who had their wedding days/weeks/months before them. The whole process of the wedding i.e. planning and execution of the ceremony itself including the honeymoon comes with so many challenges. There are known unknowns and some unknown unknowns. I aim to bring you true stories of issues and challenges that occurred to friends of mine with the so...

  Between the time I published “Wedding Wahala 18+” and now, a lot has happened. I was supposed to pin three or four blogs but for personal reasons, I had to shelve them. Someone felt one of the blogs I was intended to publish as I announced the title was about her so she “corned” me backstage to sweet talk me out of releasing it. Well, I have suspended it for now but be sure to read about it before the end of the year. Something happened in April, I am not permitted to say what it was but the event of that month triggered this piece. Not a pleasant thing to happen to this close friend of mine but I will pray for strength and hope God sees this person through life. When I was preparing for my wedding 5 years ago, Elorm, Ben, Sammy and my wife-to-be drew the wedding budget. The template I used came from my one and only Low Down Pop Corn (Freda Safo-Nyame). Auntie Free as we affectionately call her even gave me a standard engagement list which I must say was spot on comparing her...