Diagnosed and managed an 8 year old for Coeliac Disease and the boy and his mom are over the moon. Things I love to see 😍😍😍.

The Ring Nebula 💍

Any HCWs here? Let’s connect

Okie so I'll talk a little bit about my art.
I've been a performance poet for 9 years and for the past 3 I've been experimenting with blurring the lines between music and poetry and it all made sense to me when I began to do this through the lens of the traditions of my people.

The rest of the songs aren't exactly Hakpanya just me showing off that I could actually rap rap if I wanted to. The subject matter is still very serious stuff tho, more on the economic crisis, I touch on how the sea is swallowing my hometown and I talk about my spiritual journey

Song lyrics start with chants and incantations in both Ewe language and pidgin English and both my rap verses are dragging the Ghanaian government for their unbelievable corruption and thievery 💀💀💀

Agbadza is this energetic drum rhythmic pattern played by an ensemble of different drums and a bell, it is performed with an energetic dance that was historically performed right before wars to invoke a fighting spirit, now it is just a popular traditional dance we dance at any function

The beauty of this song to me is first in the production of the beat, we sampled an Agbadza performance and muted all the vocals and spun the percussions into hip-hop creating a sound that is uniquely both generes

https://ditto.fm/mva-do-becoming-agbenxevi

This is a link to an EP I made last year the title song Mevado was part of my Thesis for My MA theatre Arts degree I got at University of Ghana with a scholarship from Exter University's imagining Futures from Un/archived pasts program

So essentially all my sound is now is me creating hip-hop and alternative music by sampling from traditional Ewe poetry and music, beautiful stuff if you ask me

I'm Ghanaian from the Ewe Ethnic group, and our people spread across parts of Ghana into Togo and Benin. In our Language the word for poetry and song lyrics is one and that is Hakpanya, it translates to music making words.

The app is called BlueSky and we’re not calling posts “drops” like raindrops? Cmon

Starting my day with my furry babies always makes me happy 💓💓💓

These are the things I’m into and would love to talk about:

👩🏽‍💻: being a junior -> mid level dev
📚: studying Computer Science
🐕‍🦺: being a dog mom
✨: being neurodivergent
🎉: mental health and well-being
📖: books (nonfiction)
💓: building healthy friendships
✈️: travels
👩🏾‍🦰: feminism

Let’s connect🙈💓

Imma be a child of god today

It will happen even before you know it 😂

This app feels like the calm right before the shit hits the fan, loving it

This moment on Bluesky is what it must’ve felt like to be a peasant in in the 12th century when some jubilee took place and all debts got abolished and you got to moon the local priest for a day

This is very creative 😂