So this week I decided to play the bias card a little.
I am sure you'll noticed I pick two or more countries to feature those beautiful tunes from thier various countries. This week I chose to go with just a single country. The country I chose for our reading and enjoyment pleasure for #MusicWeDeyfeel for this week's #Music monday is #CONGO.
This country is known for it's rich culture and diversity of lifestyle. Their music I believe needs no introduction since over the years, they've had some top ones.
My first choice for you is;
1. LOKUA KANZA - I BELIEVE IN YOU
Lokua Kanza is both a singer and songwriter known for his ballads mostly. His style is more mainstream compared to the others as he explores a more modern tradition of Congolese music that speaks to people worldwide.
My second artist to feature from Congo is no doubt one of the biggest acts to come out of that country and continent at large.
2. FALLY IPUPA - SWEET LIFE
Fally is also known through his self proclaimed nicknames such as ‘Fally Ipupa Dicaprio la Merveille Pibe de Oro Pitshishi Hustler’. "No Congolese party would now be complete without Fally Ipupa" one entertainment tabloid was quoted at stating that.
Till I come your way again with another exciting set of tunes, I wish you a Merry Christmas.
Season's Greetings !!!
Monday 21 December 2015
Saturday 12 December 2015
JAM TO THIS WEEK'S MUSICWEDEYFEEL PICKS
Great to be back here again. It's another Monday and as my quest to bring you the best of tunes from our continent, I will be introducing you to some great talents.
This week I chose my first act from Nigeria. Now let's get to it;
1. ADEKUNLE GOLD - ORENTE
Adekunle is one fast rising artist to come out of Nigeria. His sleek voice and traditional touch to his tunes makes his music unique and soothing to the ear. Indigenous and exclusively cultural piece from Adekunle Gold and it is titled, "Orente". A love song explained the Yoruba way about the faithfulness of a woman who adores a man despite all the odds against them. This video expresses love and I know you'll love this tune.
Now to the very next artist, we take a trip down south to the rainbow country South Africa and I bring you Berita.
2. BERITA - MWANA WA MAI FEAT OLIVER MTUKUDZI & HUGH MASEKELA
BERITA is an Award winning singer, a Gold selling songwriter and guitarist with a touch soul to her music. Enjoy this tune and tell me what you think if this doesn't make you love African music.
Music theysay is the food to the soul. This is ours. #MusicWeDeyfeel is on again next Monday.
Cheers for reading.
This week I chose my first act from Nigeria. Now let's get to it;
1. ADEKUNLE GOLD - ORENTE
Adekunle is one fast rising artist to come out of Nigeria. His sleek voice and traditional touch to his tunes makes his music unique and soothing to the ear. Indigenous and exclusively cultural piece from Adekunle Gold and it is titled, "Orente". A love song explained the Yoruba way about the faithfulness of a woman who adores a man despite all the odds against them. This video expresses love and I know you'll love this tune.
Now to the very next artist, we take a trip down south to the rainbow country South Africa and I bring you Berita.
2. BERITA - MWANA WA MAI FEAT OLIVER MTUKUDZI & HUGH MASEKELA
BERITA is an Award winning singer, a Gold selling songwriter and guitarist with a touch soul to her music. Enjoy this tune and tell me what you think if this doesn't make you love African music.
Music theysay is the food to the soul. This is ours. #MusicWeDeyfeel is on again next Monday.
Cheers for reading.
Monday 7 December 2015
Enjoy Another #MusicWeDeyFeel Music Monday
Over the few weeks, I have tried taking you round the continent with our beautiful music tunes. This week is no exception.
I know you'll love the countries I picked out for you for this week's #MusicWeDeyFeel post.
This week I am taking you down south to South Africa then we jump a little into Kenya on the East.
Enjoy my picks for this week folks.
1. BUCIE - GET OVER IT - SOUTH AFRICA
If you love house music, Bucie's - Get over It tune featured above should get you kicking your feet and nodding your head to the rhythm. A very simple and beautiful video to go with and that is my first pick for this week.
2. JOSE CHAMELEONE - WALE WALE - KENYA
I take you to Kenya this week and featuring is Jose Chameleone. I got introduced to this artist through a working colleague and since then, I have become a fan. A typical East African style of music and the video is a very sleek one.
I hope you digg the picks also. Until then, till I come your way next week with another from the continent, have the best of this week.
Link to Bucie's artist profile.
Link to Jose Chameleone's artist profile.
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I know you'll love the countries I picked out for you for this week's #MusicWeDeyFeel post.
This week I am taking you down south to South Africa then we jump a little into Kenya on the East.
Enjoy my picks for this week folks.
1. BUCIE - GET OVER IT - SOUTH AFRICA
If you love house music, Bucie's - Get over It tune featured above should get you kicking your feet and nodding your head to the rhythm. A very simple and beautiful video to go with and that is my first pick for this week.
2. JOSE CHAMELEONE - WALE WALE - KENYA
I take you to Kenya this week and featuring is Jose Chameleone. I got introduced to this artist through a working colleague and since then, I have become a fan. A typical East African style of music and the video is a very sleek one.
I hope you digg the picks also. Until then, till I come your way next week with another from the continent, have the best of this week.
Link to Bucie's artist profile.
Link to Jose Chameleone's artist profile.
Follow @Qwophicedi
Friday 4 December 2015
2015 Goodreads Best Book Choice Awards
Good reads announced the winners of the 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards for best books. Over the year there have been some good books coming through and I am sure if you are a follower of Good reads, some of these books might have caught your sight.
Luckily, I read a few of them but those I read unfortunately didn't make the winners list. Maybe yours made the list but might not know so I bring you the complete list of all the winners categorized by the various genres.
Here we go;
Luckily, I read a few of them but those I read unfortunately didn't make the winners list. Maybe yours made the list but might not know so I bring you the complete list of all the winners categorized by the various genres.
Here we go;
FOOD & COOKBOOKS -- THE PIONEER WOMAN COOKS: DINNERTIME: COMFORT CLASSICS, FREEZER FOOD, 16-MINUTE MEALS, AND OTHER DELICIOUS WAYS TO SOLVE SUPPER
BY: REE DRUMMOND
POETRY THE DOGS I HAVE KISSED
BY: TRISTA MATEER
GRAPHIC NOVELS SAGA VOLUME 4
& COMICS BY: BRIAN K. VAUGHAN (Writer), FIONA STAPLES (Artist)
HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY DEAD WAKE: THE LAST CROSSING OF THE LUSITANIA
BY: ERIC LARSON
NONFICTION MODERN ROMANCE
BY: AZIZ ANSARI, ERIK KLINENBERG
HORROR SAINT ODD
BY: DEAN KOONTZ
MEMOIR & A WORK IN PROGRESS
AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY: CONNOR FRANTA
ROMANCE CONFESS
BY: COLLEN HOOVER
FICTION GO SET A WATCHMAN
BY: HARPER LEE
FANTASY TRIGGER WARNING
BY: NEIL GAIMAN
MYSTERY & THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
THRILLER BY: PAULA HAWKINS
SCIENCE FICTION GOLDEN SON
BY: PIERCE BROWN
HUMOUR WHY NOT ME?
BY: MINDY KALING
YOUNG ADULT ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
FICTION BY: JENNIFER NIVEN
MIDDLE GRADE & THE SWORD OF SUMMER
CHILDREN BY: RICK RIORDAN
PICTURE BOOKS THE DAY THE CRAYONS CAME HOME
BY: DREW DAYWALT, OLIVER JEFFERS
SCINECE & BENEATH THE SURFACE: KILLER WHALES, SEA WORLD, AND THE TRUTH BEYOND BLACKFISH
TECHNOLOGY BY: JOHN HARGROVE, HOWARD CHUA-EOAN
HISTORICAL FICTION THE NIGHTINGALE
BY: KRISTIN HANNAH
YOUNG ADULT FANTASY QUEEN OF SHADOWS
BY: SARAH J. MAAS
DEBUT GOOD READS RED QUEEN
AUTHOR BY: VICTORIA AVEYARD
Did any of the books you read during the year feature in the list? Well I had just one book that I read all year making the list and it is that of KRISTIN HANNAH’S; THE NIGHTINGALE.
Monday 30 November 2015
#MusicWeDeyFeel, My Playlist
Good to be back once again. As promised, another Monday is here and today isn't any exception than to bring you my picks of wonderful tunes from the motherland.
This week I take you all the way to two beautiful countries with great talent. They are Angola and Uganda. Here we go;
1. Bruna Tatiana - Eu Falhei (ANGOLA)
If you love Kizomba, then this artist's tunes shouldn't escape your African music playlist. The song title trams;ated in to English means " I FAILED". She sings very well and the rhythm is always on point even if the language seems to be a barrier.
2. Bebe Cool - Loving You Everyday (UGANDA)
Personally one of my favorite from this artist. Great video, this song has a reggae vibe to it and message is straight forward on what his intentions are.
Still waiting for your playlist so I share with my readers. Till I come your way again, next week, Enjoy these tunes.
Credits:
Videos : www.youtube.com
Link to Bruna Tatiana artist profile.
Link to Bebe Cool artist profile.
This week I take you all the way to two beautiful countries with great talent. They are Angola and Uganda. Here we go;
1. Bruna Tatiana - Eu Falhei (ANGOLA)
If you love Kizomba, then this artist's tunes shouldn't escape your African music playlist. The song title trams;ated in to English means " I FAILED". She sings very well and the rhythm is always on point even if the language seems to be a barrier.
2. Bebe Cool - Loving You Everyday (UGANDA)
Personally one of my favorite from this artist. Great video, this song has a reggae vibe to it and message is straight forward on what his intentions are.
Still waiting for your playlist so I share with my readers. Till I come your way again, next week, Enjoy these tunes.
Credits:
Videos : www.youtube.com
Link to Bruna Tatiana artist profile.
Link to Bebe Cool artist profile.
Monday 23 November 2015
#MusicWeDeyFeel For Another #MusicMonday
It's another Monday and I am sure you had a great weekend.
As promised, another #MusicMonday post comes your way for you to enjoy another #MusicWeDeyFeel moment.
Going straight into the list for today are;
1. DARK SUBURB feat NOELLA WIYAALA - MAMA
2. MZVEE featuring EFYA - ABOFRA (Child)
For this week I decided to go somehow bias a little. These two tunes making up the list for this week are artists all from Ghana even the ones that featured. These are great tunes and I believe if you check them out, you'll love the beauty of Ghanaian music.
I will be checking out more tunes from the continent and as usual share with you next Monday.
CHEERS !!!
Credits:
Videos: www.youtube.com
Link to Dark Suburb artist profile.
Link to MzVee artist profile
As promised, another #MusicMonday post comes your way for you to enjoy another #MusicWeDeyFeel moment.
Going straight into the list for today are;
1. DARK SUBURB feat NOELLA WIYAALA - MAMA
2. MZVEE featuring EFYA - ABOFRA (Child)
For this week I decided to go somehow bias a little. These two tunes making up the list for this week are artists all from Ghana even the ones that featured. These are great tunes and I believe if you check them out, you'll love the beauty of Ghanaian music.
I will be checking out more tunes from the continent and as usual share with you next Monday.
CHEERS !!!
Credits:
Videos: www.youtube.com
Link to Dark Suburb artist profile.
Link to MzVee artist profile
Monday 16 November 2015
Another Music Monday- #MusicWedeyFeel
African music in its entirety
is one to revere. Its rich drums especially, create wonderful sound for which
people being entertained by it can dance to the rhythm it produces.
Some few years back I started
to even appreciate it the more when it earned its new face. African music nowadays,
for which some call it Afro Pop as well as genres like Kwaito, House, Hip Life
and the likes, really tickles my fancy and I am sure it does to you also.
A few years on social media,
I found a running hashtag on Mondays which sounded interesting. Want to know?
#MusicMondays it is –it highlights the various songs people are grooving to,
downloading or enjoying at that moment.
So the little African in
me decided to check out f there were any African tunes being shared. That led
me to the hashtag #MusicWeDeyFeel. Following it keenly especially in twitter, I
realized it was targeted towards tunes from our continent. I later found out
that it was spear-headed by Museke. Over the period I had
contributed to the trend of sharing my favorite African music.
Now I want to bring it
to my platform here. So every Monday hopefully, I should bring you my pick of
tunes from the continent so you also check it out.
So for this week, I start
with these two tunes, I am sure you’ll love. And for your enjoyment pleasure,
watch it right here;
1. Seyi Shay
featuring Iyanya and Banky W – Right Now (Remix) – Nigeria
2. Mi Casa featuring Sauti Sol – Tuale Fofofo – South Africa/Kenya
Stay tuned till I come
your way next week Monday for another set of enjoyable African music. If no one
will celebrate us, we will celebrate ourselves.
Credits:
Video – www.youtube.com
Saturday 3 October 2015
GHANA NEEDS $22.6 BILLION TO IMPLEMENT CLIMATE ACTIONS
Ghana needs $22.6 billion in investments from domestic and
international public and private sources to finance its climate mitigation and
adaptation actions.
The country's 31 programme of actions will drive the strategic focus of a “10-year post-2020 enhanced climate action plan” that would be developed after the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris.
This is contained in Ghana’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) submitted on September 23, 2015 to the UNFCCC, ahead of the deadline.
An INDC is a government's proposed 'contribution' to the UNFCCC as to what it will do about climate change.
The Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC invited parties to communicate to the secretariat their INDCs well in advance of the Paris climate summit in December 2015 “in a manner that facilitates the clarity, transparency and understanding of the INDCs.
As at October 1, there were 108 submitted INDCs on the UNFCCC website, including that of Ghana.
Ghana's INDC is anchored on the medium-term development agenda (Ghana Shared Growth Development Agenda II – GSGDA 2), National Climate Change Policy and the Low Carbon Development Strategy, as well as the anticipated 40-year long-term development and the universal sustainable development goals.
According to the document,“the proposed measures to achieve the INDC goal will build on existing measures and strategies”.
In all, 20 mitigation and 11 adaptation programme of actions in 7 priority economic sectors are being proposed for implementation in the 10-year period (2020-2030).
The implementation of the actions are expected to help attain low carbon climate resilience through effective adaptation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction in the priority sectors: Sustainable land use including food security; Climate proof infrastructure; Equitable social development; Sustainable mass transportation; Sustainable energy security; Sustainable forest management; and Alternative urban waste management.
Ghana's emission reduction goal is to unconditionally lower its GHG emissions by 15% relative to a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario emission of 73.95 MtCO2e by 2030.
An additional 30 percent emission reduction is attainable on condition that external support is made available to Ghana to cover the full cost of implementing the mitigation action (finance, technology transfer, capacity building).
With this external support, a total emission reduction of 45% below the BUA emission levels can be achieved by 2030.
The total investment cost for implementing the 20 transformational mitigation actions is $9.81 billion – representing 45% of the total investment. Out of this, Ghana will mobilize $2.02 billion (21% of the total investment cost) to finance the two unconditional INDCs. An additional $7.79 billion will be needed to finance the remaining 18 mitigation actions in order to achieve more ambitious emission reductions in the 10 year period.
The long-term goal of Ghana’s adaptation is to increase climate resilience and decrease vulnerability for enhanced sustainable development.
Ghana will require $12.79 billion for adaptation – $4.21 billion (34%) will be mobilized at the national level, whilst the remaining $8.29 billion is the international contribution Ghana is looking for in order to meet the cost of implementing its adaptation actions.
Adaptation under Ghana’s INDC is informed by: good governance and inter-sectoral coordination; capacity-building, the role of science, technology and innovation; adequate finance from both domestic sources and international cooperation; promoting outreach by informing, communicating and educating the citizenry; and adhering to accountable monitoring and reporting.
Ambitious climate resilient economy
Africa and other developing countries remain vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
In Ghana, the agricultural and food economy are already under threat as local farmers reel under the severity of the weather.
Achieving a 2oC global temperature target is ambitious but means for adaptation and mitigation remain critical to the vulnerable.
In preparing and submitting its INDC, Ghana is mindful of its international obligations as a Party to the UNFCCC while simultaneously pursuing a national development agenda that seeks to achieve the long-standing objective of becoming a fully-fledged middle-income economy.
Ghana’s response to the threats posed to this objective by the impacts of climate change has been to pursue coordinated domestic policy actions that in effect seek to develop a policy framework that integrates adaptation, mitigation and other climate related policies within broader development policies and planning.
This is in order to safeguard developmental gains from the impacts of climate change and build a climate resilient economy.
Ghana holds the view that the INDCs should cover mitigation, adaptation, finance technology, capacity building and transparency and agrees with the common position of Africa.
The country's 31 programme of actions will drive the strategic focus of a “10-year post-2020 enhanced climate action plan” that would be developed after the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris.
This is contained in Ghana’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) submitted on September 23, 2015 to the UNFCCC, ahead of the deadline.
An INDC is a government's proposed 'contribution' to the UNFCCC as to what it will do about climate change.
 |
| COP 21 CLIMATE CHANGE |
The Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC invited parties to communicate to the secretariat their INDCs well in advance of the Paris climate summit in December 2015 “in a manner that facilitates the clarity, transparency and understanding of the INDCs.
As at October 1, there were 108 submitted INDCs on the UNFCCC website, including that of Ghana.
Ghana's INDC is anchored on the medium-term development agenda (Ghana Shared Growth Development Agenda II – GSGDA 2), National Climate Change Policy and the Low Carbon Development Strategy, as well as the anticipated 40-year long-term development and the universal sustainable development goals.
According to the document,“the proposed measures to achieve the INDC goal will build on existing measures and strategies”.
In all, 20 mitigation and 11 adaptation programme of actions in 7 priority economic sectors are being proposed for implementation in the 10-year period (2020-2030).
The implementation of the actions are expected to help attain low carbon climate resilience through effective adaptation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction in the priority sectors: Sustainable land use including food security; Climate proof infrastructure; Equitable social development; Sustainable mass transportation; Sustainable energy security; Sustainable forest management; and Alternative urban waste management.
Ghana's emission reduction goal is to unconditionally lower its GHG emissions by 15% relative to a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario emission of 73.95 MtCO2e by 2030.
An additional 30 percent emission reduction is attainable on condition that external support is made available to Ghana to cover the full cost of implementing the mitigation action (finance, technology transfer, capacity building).
With this external support, a total emission reduction of 45% below the BUA emission levels can be achieved by 2030.
The total investment cost for implementing the 20 transformational mitigation actions is $9.81 billion – representing 45% of the total investment. Out of this, Ghana will mobilize $2.02 billion (21% of the total investment cost) to finance the two unconditional INDCs. An additional $7.79 billion will be needed to finance the remaining 18 mitigation actions in order to achieve more ambitious emission reductions in the 10 year period.
The long-term goal of Ghana’s adaptation is to increase climate resilience and decrease vulnerability for enhanced sustainable development.
Ghana will require $12.79 billion for adaptation – $4.21 billion (34%) will be mobilized at the national level, whilst the remaining $8.29 billion is the international contribution Ghana is looking for in order to meet the cost of implementing its adaptation actions.
Adaptation under Ghana’s INDC is informed by: good governance and inter-sectoral coordination; capacity-building, the role of science, technology and innovation; adequate finance from both domestic sources and international cooperation; promoting outreach by informing, communicating and educating the citizenry; and adhering to accountable monitoring and reporting.
Ambitious climate resilient economy
Africa and other developing countries remain vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
In Ghana, the agricultural and food economy are already under threat as local farmers reel under the severity of the weather.
Achieving a 2oC global temperature target is ambitious but means for adaptation and mitigation remain critical to the vulnerable.
In preparing and submitting its INDC, Ghana is mindful of its international obligations as a Party to the UNFCCC while simultaneously pursuing a national development agenda that seeks to achieve the long-standing objective of becoming a fully-fledged middle-income economy.
Ghana’s response to the threats posed to this objective by the impacts of climate change has been to pursue coordinated domestic policy actions that in effect seek to develop a policy framework that integrates adaptation, mitigation and other climate related policies within broader development policies and planning.
This is in order to safeguard developmental gains from the impacts of climate change and build a climate resilient economy.
Ghana holds the view that the INDCs should cover mitigation, adaptation, finance technology, capacity building and transparency and agrees with the common position of Africa.
Original story: ghanaweb.com
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