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In 2012, I co-founded an NGO called Bak2Afrika (officially registered as "Bak2Afrika Organization") with a friend named Kwabena Yeboah.  I lost contact with Kwabena shortly after, but he did his best to keep the brand alive . Recently, circa mid-2025, I unexpectedly crossed paths with him in Accra.  We both saw that chance meeting as a sign to get back on the grind with B2A.  And to kick off this new, we're embarking on what has been dubbed the Apetewusu Water Project . ABOUT APETEWUSU Apetewusu is a remote village in the Eastern Region.  I've been around Ghana, and in this case I'm not using the word "remote" loosely.  Apetewusu is really out of the way, about 15 minutes, through the bush on motorcycle, from the nearest paved road. In a country like Ghana, these kinds of places lack access to amenities.  The Gateway to Africa has modernized in recent years, but there are still forgotten communities out here. The residents of farming villages located dee...

I always find it funny - for lack of a better word - how historically the American media has depicted Africans as being primitive or intellectually inferior, yet now, in the information age, some Americans      are so intimidated by African fraudsters that some don’t trust any netizen from the Motherland.   I’ll admit that the fraud situation is a lot worse in Ghana than it was a generation ago.   But to help put things in perspective, look at it like this.   In the U.S., disenfranchised and disillusioned youth tend to get into drug dealing in the name of generating income.   But in this part of the world, those same type of people take up fraud, most often via the internet. I was inspired to write this post by a Ghanaian friend who recently told me he came across a video whereas an African-American couple, apparently with their children, decided to move to Ghana, got beat in the head by fraudsters and responded by damning the entire country.   ...