Kojo Baffoe, Author at KOJO BAFFOE

Book Extract: Photographs

Nov 3, 2021 | Words

This is the first in a series of extracts from my book Listen To Your Footsteps, a collection of reflections and essays on fatherhood, identity, loss, creativity, etc IN SOME quarters, as photography spreads across the world, photographs were feared because it was believed that they captured the spirit of the subject. We went from that to documenting our lives incessantly with photographs. If you want to see how far we have come, try explaining what photography looked like in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s to a child who has grown up with cameras on just about any device....

Twinkl + Heritage

Sep 23, 2021 | Commentary, Social

As with many other parents, the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, that continue to this day, brought with it serious concerns about my children’s education. Schools scrambled to find the best way to continue educating while parents tried to figure out how to both manage their children’s schooling and navigate work, or as has been the sad case for many of us, a lack of work. Amidst all of the home and digital schooling facilities and resources came to the fore. In my search to find a way to support my children, I came across the site Twinkl, which provides educational resources for...

Step back back and return to basics

Apr 29, 2021 | Articles, Commentary

First published on I Am An Entrepreneur in 2020. I have been looking back over some of the things I wrote during lockdown to see if it is still relevant. It is now two months since the South African government instituted a lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and two weeks since the country was shifted to Level 4 lockdown, with Level 3 on the near horizon. The painful reality is that, in this time, businesses have downsized, laid off staff or shutdown completely. For the entrepreneur, it has been even more drastic considering that so many of us...

Making money off newsletters and other content

Feb 23, 2021 | Commentary, Random

While I am still trying to make sense of Clubhouse, I did end up in a room the other day where the topic of discussion was on how to monetise newsletters. What drew me to the room was Dan Runcie, whose work with his platform Trapital I have been following for a couple of years – including interviewing him when I had a radio show in 2018/19. Having worked across the media and in content for the last fifteen or so years, I try to stay relatively up to date with the evolution of the sector overall. I no longer separate so-called traditional from digital media. The ecosystem consists of all...

Sylvester Chauke: The reluctant entrepreneur

Feb 12, 2021 | Articles

This was to have been published in Destiny Man magazine January/February 2019 issue. It was never published. A part of me wanted to rewrite it. Below is exactly how I wrote it then before final sub-editing. The plan is to share more of what I wrote in other spaces, on here. If, ten years ago, you had asked Sylvester Chauke where he thought he would be in 2019, he would have probably said “an incredible Chief Marketing Officer at one of the big telecommunications companies. I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur because I didn’t think I had the risk appetite or the emotional capability...

Riding the BMW Motorrad R 18

Oct 29, 2020 | On The Road

For the eventual reveal of BMW Motorrad’s new cruiser, the R18, BMW created “A Bavarian Soulstory” video series with a guy called Tommy Kerns as the guide through the journey of the bike, from inspiration and heritage to design and engineering. I watched the final online reveal, which took place in Cape Town, and, throughout the process, have been hankering for the opportunity to ride the bike. So you can imagine my excitement when I received the invite to attend the media ride in the Western Cape....