Visual Artist | Afro-ancestral Spiritualism
Accra, Ghana
Joined May 2011
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Ahmedpartey🇬🇭 retweeted
The first time I came to Ghana was in 1995. I was 5 years old and I stayed at a hotel in Dzorwulu that no longer exists called Secaps Hotel.
It's been 31 years in and out of Ghana since then and I now even have a Ghanaian passport. In all this time, "Ghanaians hate Nigerians" has been such a popular internet phenomenon, but I have never seen it in real life. I don waka this country from Elubo to Takoradi. I've been to more places in Ghana than most Ghanaians, and the fact that I am Nigerian has never at any point put me in danger or ruined anything for me.
The closest thing to discrimination that has ever happened to me was one time in 2023 when I was in Accra for a few weeks and I needed to rent a car, but the rental agency I found on Jiji wouldn't rent to me because the identity document I submitted was Nigerian. And even then, I simply moved on to the next agency and I rented a car immediately 🤷🏿♂️
Some people are spending a lot of energy trying to force one weird beef that does not exist in real life. The other day I went to Madina market to fix my phone screen and I literally could not distinguish between "Nigerian" and "Ghanaian" because those guys all speak this mix of Igbo and Twi and you legit cannot tell who is who until they speak English and you hear their accent.
"Nigeria vs Ghana" is a very interesting internet phenomenon, and I'd like to witness it in real life one day. It's been 3 decades and I'm still looking for it 🤷🏿♂️
And another thing, @DavidHundeyin has made me (us) aware of the West's plan to divide Africans and turns us against each other. Because this sudden noise about Ghanians hating Nigerians and Nigerians hating Ghanians is news to me.
Ahmedpartey🇬🇭 retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Ahmedpartey🇬🇭 retweeted
In 1987 a Fulani herdsman while digging a well found a canoe, 8.4 metres long, which was carved from a single tree. Radiocarbon dating put it at roughly 8,000–8,500 years old which makes it the oldest boat ever found in Africa, and the second oldest in the world (only a Dutch canoe is older).
It proved that People were already navigating waterways in what is now northeastern Nigeria, thousands of years before the pyramids. Humans in what now became the Northeastern Nigeria were building boats while much of the world was still in the Stone Age.
