Africa Have Your Say coming your way...
Hi Alex Jakana here. If you haven't heard, we are headed your way if you are in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, or Nigeria. We are going to be on board a BBC bus driving through these countries and presenting a series of special Africa Have Your Say programmes from there. I'll be joined by my Africa Have Your Say colleagues Miriam Quansah, Alice Muthengi and Fast Track's Peter Okwoche.
I'm really excited about this trip because it's the first time I'm going to Ivory Coast, Togo and Benin. I'm looking forward to the sights, sounds and above all the interesting people and stories we're going to come across.
This road trip is generally looking ahead to the world cup as we travel through the heartland of African football but we'll be discussing many other topics as well.
For example, while in Ghana we'll drop by Takoradi and talk about Oil: Is it worth all the trouble drilling it? What should be done to make it of benefit to all?
In Accra we'll be discussing Africa's electricity woes ... And i'd really like to hear some radical thinking on this one.
Look out for us in Ibadan as well - i'm looking forward to coming to the university there and debating Nigeria's place in the world with you.
We'd like to meet you too if we can ... So, If you've got any events happening that you'd like for us to come to please let us know. I'm talking weddings, festivals, birthdays ... You name it. Just drop us a line at africa@bbc.co.uk.
Gotta run now ... Need to head home to finish my packing ... see you soon.
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At 20:40 29th May 2010, miqmiq wrote:Really, you should be discussing the electricity problems in Cote d'Ivoire, not Ghana. While not tremendously apparent in Abidjan due to the government wanting to keep on the power where they live, they are quite bad throughout the rest of the country with cuts of half a day typical. It's destroying the local economies of a previously prosperous country all in the name of selling power to Burkina Faso, their "brothers"...
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At 13:23 31st May 2010, AfricaTalks wrote:you have to examine the emerging issue of racisim in takoradi. together with a guest who you are scheduled to interview, i experienced clear racism at the africa beach hotel. i understand racism is a big issue in the "oil city" today
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At 14:59 31st May 2010, evelyn wrote:You're always welcome to Ghana.It's my very first comment on your site and therefore I would like to stick to happy comments and not electricity problems in Accra even if they are way too frequent.
I am trying to talk my husband into getting us pay TV so we can watch all the football matches coming up in the FIFA world cup tournament. Pray for me, that I will have fewer power outages to watch the tournament and hoping my husband gets the TV people to come do the installation fast enough so I don't miss out on any of the matches.
Keeping my fingers crossed.
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At 18:04 31st May 2010, joemay41 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 13:00 7th Jun 2010, dadta wrote:Well done! It's none of my business ofcourse but what voodoo shrine has got to do with this your present outing for which you reported this morning you went to see in Benin. Are you folks voodoo practising pressmen? or you went to be initiated.I thought it bizarre when I heard you saying that.
To be balanced, should I think you went to visit a church or mosque also.
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