It was a pleasant mid-summer afternoon and I was walking through the city centre with a colleague when I asked whether our co-worker Tom - fashionable, stick thin, skinny jeans-wearing, long fringe-flipping, gay and proud Tom - was still with the firm. He replied “I don’t know, but I hope he isn’t. Every time I speak to him I’m scared for my arsehole, innit.” *crickets* Now let’s look past the abomination that is ending a ...  [Read more]

So, I was hanging out at Aylos Bay, Akosombo, Ghana yesterday and saw this "art" outside the men's room...I did hunt around in vain for one for the women but to no avail... Isn't the depiction of the African man "hang like a horse" a myth with almost, if not explicit, racist connotations? Your ...  [Read more]

Are there double standards around men and women's sexualities? How true is this in Ghana and Africa? Why do men cheat? Why do women cheat? How does society respond when a man cheats? How is this response different when a woman cheats? Just a few of the questions I have posed on my fellow blogger's Ms Cleland's site at http://maameous.blogspot.com/Let me know your ...  [Read more]