Centerstage Africa

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...

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...

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...