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Google With the Access Strategy and Operations team, you’ll work to define an access project and oversee how it is implemented. You’ll help us bring the transformative power of cloud computing, fiber-based and other technologies to markets and communities around the globe. As part of this team you fully immerse yourself in data collection, draw insight from analysis, and then zoom out to develop and implement compelling, synthesized recommendations. With the Google Access team, you’ll work on initiatives spanning across products, teams, cultures and regions, collaborating closely with cross-functional team members to refine and evolve our projects, as well as deploy fiber-based and other technologies to markets and communities around the globe. You like being precise in the details, on the ground and in-the-know as you drive and coordinate with large cross-functional teams that are executing highly-complex projects that bring internet access to people. The Googl...

Without having ever stepped a foot in any acting classroom or haven’t even dreamt of ever becoming an actor, Attah Abraham who was picked from the streets of Ghana during the shooting of Netflix’s soon to be released movie “Beasts of No Nation“, has won the prestigious Marcello Mastroianni’s Best Young Actor award at the 2015 Venice Film Festival, the world’s oldest film festival. Stonebwoy Burniton BET Best International Act writes;  ANOTHER "ASHAIMAN BOY"GONE GLOBAL This Young Boy is A Testimony Of Gods Mysterious Acts... My little Friend Will Rush To The Car Every Single Time To Collect And Pay My Toll.. Keeps The Change And Gives A PK in Return.. Words Cannot Explain My Joy I'm Overwhelmed.. Because God is Just Too Much His Goodness And Mercies Endureth Forever From Generation To Generation... Selah!! When I saw the Trailer,Tears Run Down My eyes.. Men Will Look At Degrees/Masters/Background checks/ status / body stature/ GOD OVER LOOKS IT ALL.. Go On...

14-year old Ghanaian street vendor, Attah Abraham has won the Marcello Mastroianni’s Best Young Actor Award at the 2015 Venice Film Festival. He won the award for his lead performance in a movie alongside Idris Elba. Attah Abraham who is said to be without any acting background was picked from the streets of Ghana during the shooting of Netflix’s soon to be released movie “Beasts of No Nation.” According the Director of the movie, Cary Fukunaga, Atta Abraham was randomly selected on the streets. Cary Fukunaga according to the Business Insider said: “the lead in ‘Beasts of No Nation’ was essentially a street vendor before we shot the film. [He had] zero film experience, little education…but he became a somewhat professional actor, which was astounding to watch. ” Fukunaga added that, “his unlikely star’s name is Abraham Attah, and he is a 14-year-old who plays an 11-year-old child soldier in the film. " Abraham’s character joins a militant group from an unnamed West African co...

By KelvinFNK And Joseph Archibald Whadji Kumawood screen-diva Cecilia Gyase Konamah also known as Abena Ghana has said the message in her latest series "Abena Ghana" is an advice to the Youth and the general public. It talks about appciating and treasuring what ever we have as individuals. "Abena Ghana" is an entertaining short video series, the type that has made the likes of Ahuofe Patri and Kalybos the toast of Ghanaian comedy enthusiasts. In an interview with www.swaggofafrica.com   and www.centerstageafrica.blogspot.com ,Cecilia  said "Abena Ghana "is not a comedy series but the sexy, sassy Bragg acts of a young lady. She said " i wanted to do something different, something that is currently going on in our lives to address the issues of bragging ladies with nothing living a lie", she added. Abena Ghana from the stables of Konamahs Entertainment  was written and produced by cecilia. The kumawood screen diva who has been in the industry ...

Newaccra Magazine released the 2015 edition of the Newaccra Achievers Report, in celebration of unsung Ghanaians making impact and showing promise in diverse fields.   Team lead of Newaccra.com, Eric Kumah commenting on the report stated that, “there are so many unsung people out there doing amazing things. This is our service to such people, and we are happy about the early excitement that our report is generating in the entreprenueral community. It has a deeper meaning for us because we are on a mission to become Africa’s most trusted name in success and personal development”. He ended by appealing to media teams to follow up on the achievers and help promote their work. This year’s report was titled ‘The Newaccra Achievers Report 2015; 30 Ghanaian About To Shake The World’. A total of thirty individuals who are making impact and showing future promise in diverse fields were profiled in the report. This season we at Centerstage Africa also wish to add our voice to the c...

The recent power outage in most part of Ghana which is described by many as ‘Dumsor’ has been the major problem affecting Ghanaians. Over the past couple of months the recent on and off of power supply in the capital Accra by the Electricity Company of Ghana ECG has affected lots of businesses negatively and left some people jobless. Ghana which is seen as a good example to other countries, due to its regular and stable power supply until the past couple of months is gradually losing its good image in terms of power supply. Many Ghanaians including well known Celebrities have took to the social media to express their disappointment in the National Democratic Congress Administration lead by President John Dramani Mahama due to its inability to stabilize the power supply. Now it seems all is set for the mega #DumsorMustStop Demo after a pertition to the police was leaked on social media in the early hours of Tuesday, 5th May. Our news desk chanced on a beautiful art by ‘The Black N...

Source: Mobile Web Ghana We had an interview with a budding female game developer in Ghana by name Diana Senakey. She is a graduate of the Ghana Technology University College, where she pursued a degree program in Information Technology. Diana as a child found learning rather stressful hence she wasn’t one of the brightest students in class. Her education in the university now gives her the opportunity to ease the burden of children who have the same problem as she, when she was their age. Therefore she has developed a game, which can be of tremendous help to any child who is struggling academically. Children learn best when they are having fun. That is the philosophy behind this video game; that while they play they end up sharpening their skills and learning something new which will benefit them greatly. Excerpts from the interview: Kindly tell us briefly about your games. The brain game has been categorized into three main cognitive areas thus memory, attention and spe...

In 2014, Nigeria’s Muazu Adamu, a 21 year-old-student won $20,000 towards implementing his dream of lighting up Africa by boosting power produced from power generators courtesy , the Nescafé Get Started Tour. The tour returns this year bigger and better with a whopping $30,000 at stake. The 2015 Nescafé Get Started Tour has been restyled to help African youth turn their dreams for a better Africa into a reality. From 21 April to 9 June 2015, the Nescafé Get Started Tour truck will travel across Ivory Coast, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Cameroon to collect the dreams of young people: dreams of starting their own success stories and of making a positive impact on their community and on the continent as a whole. Other countries that would not see the truck of dreams can submit applications online at www.GetStartedAfrica.com.  This year, Nescafé is amplifying the Get Started Tour with digital support and a mobile campaign to exceed the impressive figure of more than 10,000 ...

President John Mahama has stated that the economy is in good shape despite the power crisis facing the country. Speaking at the 2015 National May Day parade held at the Independence Square in Accra, President Mahama said the economy was still creating jobs. Amid reports that some companies had laid off workers due to the power crisis, the President said smart businesses were not laying off workers, but were rather investing to improve their production capacities. This, he said, was because those companies had faith in the ability of the government to end the power crisis and end the country’s generation shortfalls. He made reference to Accra Brewery Limited (ABL), which recently procured a new production plant worth $100 million to double the company’s production capacity. The President acknowledged, however, that the power crisis was adversely affecting businesses in the country. He said small businesses, especially, need adequate and reliable power to thrive and grow. ...

We have been informed by our Mission in South Africa that the meeting scheduled to take place this morning with the South African Minister for the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), the Minister for Home Affairs, the Minister for State Security and other Senior Government officials has ended. Prior to the meeting with the South African Senior Government officials, the African Ambassadors had met to come to a common position on the issues to be raised with the Representatives of the South African Government. At the meeting the South African Ministers expressed their sadness and regret for the attacks that had taken place against African immigrants, and condemned the actions as criminal acts that would not be tolerated. They stated that these attacks went totally against their values, and everything they stood for and further had the potential to destroy the relationships that they had built with African states since the period after the end of apartheid....

OccupyGhana has received formal communication from one of its founding leaders, Nenyi George Andah, of his decision to contest parliamentary primaries, and hopefully, the parliamentary elections. This comes at a time when Ghanaians have to grapple with extreme discomfort, lowered productivity, the ever-rising rate of inflation, absolutely inexplicable power cuts, a continuous loss of their purchasing power, limited access to essential services such as quality education and healthcare, and poor quality of service provided by utility companies among others, and with many companies and entrepreneurs being driven out of business. OccupyGhana has, since its inception, been fighting for good governance, good leadership direction and proper economic management to ensure that Ghana develops to its true social and economic potentials. OccupyGhana firmly believes a lack of good leadership is Ghana's biggest problem. Good institutions are important, but we need strong leaders to build ...

Let us pause and consider this: Positive Signs for the future Entrepreneurship Development Continuous ICT Growth Younger CEOs & Business Owners Demand for Quality Education Mobile Telephone Penetration Massive infrastructural development That is how the future is envisioned by some budding young entrepreneurs here in Ghana. It is a truism that with focused vision and effective planning, the above will be realized. One such young change makers is Solomon Elorm Allavi, an IT-savvy entrepreneur with passion for agribusiness and youth entrepreneurship. He established and manages a startup company under the trade name Syecomp Business Services in Accra, Ghana. The company which is almost two years in operation strives to implement market-driven information and communication technology (ICT) solutions to address the limited access to marketing outlets for smallholder farmers and other stakeholders in the agricultural value chain from the farm-gate to the market. With over 60% ...

My name is Raindolf Owusu and I was born in the capital city of Accra in Ghana. I come from a family of eight and I am the fourth born out of six siblings. One special Sunday in the year 2001 after an exhausting day at church we arrived home and to our surprise, our father brought home a computer. The bad news was that it was bought solely for my elder siblings and we the younger ones were not allowed to utilize it. We were only allowed to touch it but with adult supervision. I spent most of my time observing how the computer worked, mostly when my elder siblings were playing games like Prince of Persia or where using Power DVD to watch a movie. The computer was a Compaq Pentium one desktop with one gigabyte hard disk space. I was eleven years old then and I was fascinated by it. We were warned not to use it, but I wasn’t a fan of rules and regulations. So at night when everyone was asleep, I go to the hall to play around with the PC. After a few months I got fascinated with game...

Côte d’Ivoire’s victory against Ghana during the 2015 African Cup of Nations final was widely unexpected and regarded as a historic victory. The Elephants, the Ivorian national football team, were certainly not the favourite team, but they surprised most observers with a repeat of their victory against Ghana 23 years ago, a match again won on penalty kicks. As an economist and a football fan, I cannot resist drawing a certainly non-linear correlation between soccer and economic growth, and revisiting a compelling comparison between the different economic trajectories the two countries have taken in the last decade, and their performance in the most popular sport in the world. The relationship between soccer performance and economic performance has never been confirmed, although Goldman Sachs found an interesting relationship between World Cup victories and equity markets. According to their study, the victory outperforms the global market by 3.5% in the first month, yet such enthu...