Breathwork with Dr Ela Manga on Kaya FM

Feb 18, 2019 | ,

A couple of months ago, I had Dr Ela Manga on my Kaya FM show, #LifeWithKojoBaffoeto chat about herself, her career, and the establishment of Breathwork Africa. Initially trained as a medical doctor, life experiences and the challenges of her patients led her to the world of integrative medicine, energy management and breathwork.  The reality is that, with the increasing demands on our time, our attention, our bodies and our minds, many of us are struggling to keep things together. And are not operating optimally, whether physically, spiritually or mentally. We are living in an ‘always on’...

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Life Soundtrack: Roots Manuva’s Colossal Insights

Dec 30, 2018 |

It was late November in 2006 when I 'discovered' Roots Manuva. MySpace was the dominant social platform, laying the foundation for everything else that followed. I had two pages - which I haven't been able to access for a decade because I have forgotten the passwords and don't have the email addresses I set them up with any longer. But, they are still out there: kojobaffoe and kojothepoet. I also had two blogs on Blogger.com: infinitepursuit and imperfectpoetry. The beauty of the Internet at that time was its ability to open up the world of poetry, which I was heavily involved in, in terms...

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Impact Farming – Crowdfunding and Accessible Investments

Dec 3, 2018 | ,

Since the term ‘crowdsourcing’ was coined by journalist and Wired contributing editor Jeff Howe in 1996 to describe “the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers” (Merriam-Webster), it has expanded and manifested in multiple ways. There is crowdfunding, crowdauditing, crowdjobbing, crowdwisdom, crowdcare and crowdcuration, amongst others. Within the crowdfunding space, there have also been various methods, with the explosion of...

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Kwesé Makes A Play For South Africa

Jul 30, 2018 | ,

Confession. I started writing this six months ago and kept on meaning to finish and post. So here it is. The evolution of video entertainment is a wonder to behold. Where once television ruled, the space has become highly competitive with everyone from the teenager in their bedroom to YouTube content producers to Netflix to media houses/practitioners reaching beyond their traditional mediums jumping into the fray. Multichoice (initially M-Net), which has had a monopoly on the satellite TV front, particularly in South Africa, has had to compete on multiple fronts, and has repositioned itself...

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Graduation Speech – Don’t Let Your Life Happen By Accident

Jun 27, 2018 | ,

This is a speech I gave at the Boston Media House Graduation Ceremony on June 26th, 2018. I am a little apprehensive about sharing this online but have had multiple requests to, so here goes. It is a long read. Giving this speech is a little awkward and strange for me because, to be honest, I still feel like my life is a work-in-progress and that I am still early in my journey. I must say that this is very different feeling for me today than it was six years ago, when I turned 40, and felt like time was running out because I was nowhere near where I wanted to be. One of the things that...

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For The Love Of A Good Cigar

Jun 3, 2018 |

Being a cigar enthusiast, I have been exploring the landscape more and more over the last couple of years. Towards end of 2017, I wrote an article for Afropolitan magazine on my favourite cigar lounge, Pedro Portia, and what I have been learning about cigars. I also broadcast my Kaya FM show, Life With Kojo Baffoe, at Pedro Portia. In the interests of sharing more of the content I create for magazines and other spaces, I am going to be posting my past articles and the like on here regularly. Cigar 101 The soundtrack to our lives can sound like the buzzing of a mosquito on a hot summer’s...

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