“Black is beautiful. Love the skin you are in. If you have bad rashes, deal with them through a doctor and his/her medical prescriptions. But please SAY NO TO BLEACHING!

Many otherwise pretty women today have weak skins on burnt faces, bosoms, arms, thighs and legs caused by the bleaching they denied they were doing in their youth.

As global warming makes our part of the world even hotter, and skins in tropical climes get darker to better protect us from the harsh rays of the sun, daughters of a proud black nation that spearheaded the independence revolution south of the unforgiving Sahara desert are getting quizzically lighter. Hmmmm.

Whilst bleaching remains off the radar in many educated & well-to-do African and Caribbean homes, it is saddening that the poor, illiterates in dire need of any passing act to imitate may just photocopy this needless practice of bleaching to the point where their elbows and knees will be nearly opposite in complexion to their cheeks and bosoms. Men, women, boys and girls are equally gullible as evidenced by some performers and their herd of sheep.

BLACK COMES IN MANY BEAUTIFUL SHADES AND HUES; FROM THE DEEPEST EBONY AND MAHOGANY TO THE RICHEST CHOCOLATE AND THE SOFTEST CARAMEL. FROM THE BEAUTIFUL AND DIGNIFIED LUPITA NYONG’O, THE DARK AND LOVELY INI EDO AND EMELIA BROBBEY THROUGH THE SWEET AND SEXY JACKIE APPIAH AND MARTHA ANKOMAH, THE CLASSY MRS BEYONCE CARTER, MRS AFUA AMOAH AMOFAH AND HALLE BERRY TO THE HAPPY JULIET IBRAHIM AND TRACEE ELLIS ROSS AND MANY MANY MORE POPULAR AND UNKNOWN.

It is possible to be born this way and to LOVE THE BLACK YOU ARE IN.

As for the drunk who refuses to heed the barman’s caution about another one for the road, he still has a homeward journey and the whole of tomorrow to contend with. Skin, like hips, dont lie. Ask the blessed Michael Jackson. Time will tell.” 

-HRB KKD

A man and a woman who were having sex in a guest house in Sunyani were reported to have got stuck on Wednesday.

The Ghana News Agency (GNA) reported that the man could not remove his penis from the woman’s vagina and that it took the timely intervention of the police to whisk the inseparable lovers from the scene.

The incident was said to have happened at a guest house near the Nana Bosoma Market in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo region.

An attendant at the guest house told the GNA that the two lovers booked the room for 30 minutes but when their time elapsed, they failed to come out.

He said he knocked at the door but heard some unusual sound from the room and informed some traders in the market.

“When we forced the door open we saw the unexpected as the two lovers were lying on the floor in torment,” the attendant said.

When the GNA got to the scene at 2;30pm, activities at the market had halted and people had gathered at the guest house.

The police moved in, put the two inseparable lovers in a vehicle and drove them away.

Some of the market women said the woman was a trader from Berekum who sells soap every market day.

Some of them suspected that a curse might have been placed either on the man or the woman and said rituals had to be performed before they could be separated.

“I don’t know why when it comes to what the future holds for Big J and I, people think that there is no future. Maybe, they don’t have an idea how much we are in love and what we have been through together. We are serious This relationship is no child’s play. Please wish us well”

“I don’t think that I am bigger than the Praye brand and I know that I have not achieved anything close to what they have done with their career so I wonder why anybody would think that Selly will leave Praye Tiatia because I have also become a moidest celebrity.

“Yes, I admit that Big Brother gave me the exposure that no other platform has given me but that doesn’t make me feel special than Praye Tiatia. He has been my inspiration and source of strength when the going got tough. Big J is more like my personal manager and I have no intention to leave him now or ever.

“Others even think that I rode on his popularity to get this far and is likely I will leave him because I am also in the limelight now but the truth is that, I also had my talent and used it to my advantage to get this far. What sets us moving is love and not who wants to be popular or whose brand is better” she said.

“ I didn’t even know we could get this far. We have seen it all and know where we are heading to”.

“I will also do a lot of charity work. My African Child Vision 2020 Foundation did its first project last two weeks raising funds to provide basic education for some needy children. That is my way of giving back to society and I hope to do more this year” she stated.