For The Love Of A Good Cigar

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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Finding Your Moments of Quiet Amidst The Cacophony

Last year, I was asked by Glenfiddich whiskey to speak at a series of events they were holding with their consumers. The brief was to speak about ‘charisma’. The Cambridge dictionary defines charisma as “a special power that some people have naturally that makes them able to influence other people and attract their attention and admiration.” This was difficult. How do I speak on something that I find indefinable, especially when positioned as an ‘expert’ on this? Instead, having, at the time, recently read Susan Cain’s book, Quiet – The Power Of Introverts In A World That...

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