Nana Baidoo

We’re approaching the Christmas. For as much joy that’s in the air, this time of the year also carries a heavy sadness and angst for many. If you’re in this boat, it can feel like the holidays aren’t for you, but rather for those happy, jolly people over there singing their carols and taking those perfect selfies with shopping bags stuffed to the brim. And you may be right. ‘The holidays’ might be for ‘them’. But Christmas — at least, in the tradition I follow — is for you. Not the secular, consumerist Western brand of Christmas (not to hate on it — there’s a big place in my heart for the good ole’ commercialized American Christmas), but the one that emerges from the life of a king who was born in a rickety old barn and who died a failure as far as Western (or even Near Eastern) measurables go. He wasn’t big on SMART goals. His success rate was sorely lacking. He didn’t ‘crush it’ in the success department. This was a God who slipped into skin and entered the experience of the lowly, n...

GOD GIVEN PURPOSE I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born. God doesn't play dice. Albert Einstein. You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it. Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing at this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you! The Bible says, "The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me. "God prescribed every single detail of your body. He deliberately chose your race, the color of your skin, your hair, and every other feature. He custom-made your body just the way he wanted it. He also determined the natural talents you would possess and the uniqueness of your personality. The Bible says, "You k...

My Love.... Is not Your Love. Do you speak love? So it started a with conversation That turned into a thought process Which turned into a tweet, then became two tweets Then into a whole thread, which I decided to share here. Miscommunication in a relationship happens when someone expects you to express your love The same way they express theirs. This is an assumption that can lead to us misinterpreting The other persons intentions, motives, or even genuinely how they feel about things. I think it is important to first of all disregard all the standard generic gestures of love-like roses and all that shit (to be honest most of that is just running game) and really learn to interpret a person's language in love! Sometimes someone remembering you have a full week schedule and topping up your oyster In advance is love. Sometimes a person remembering you have a job interview the next morning And calling you the next day to make sure you woke up on time for it, is l...

THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION This one’s for my 80/90s babies and millennials. Welcome to our generations, the Millennial Manifesto.My religion is faith because only promised, the only land we ever knew starting with letter H, is called Hollywood, the first and only royalty we ever acknowledged was the Fresh Prince and Queen B. The only place voting makes sense to me is on the Voice, American Idol and X factor. we hash tags everything and "X" collaborations use abbreviation and forget about punctuation. So, what because, we migrated from the idea of ‘we have to" to "We want to" rather than know a lot about a little, we decided it was better to know a little about a lot. That's how we create business without having to leave our house and yet we have apps to order pizza. You critising my generation, forgetting who raised it, you brought us up in this world, well guess who’s going...

HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF I TOLD YOU THAT CRAZY  PEOPLE WOULD ONE DAY RULE THE WORLD? (I mean) What did Instagram see that Kodak didn’t Coz Kodak at it’s peak at about 140,0000 employees When Instagram with only 13 Recently sold for about a billion You know what’s funny? The scientist Kodak actually helped develop the digital camera that wou

CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD I was stripped of my childhood, at the age of 16 I walked naked in manhood. My parents were Rolling Stones. No they were never in a rock band or on the cover of a magazine It's just that they never hung around enough to gather any moss trips back and forth to Africa, in search of better life for us always made me feel like the one we had wasn't good enough so me and my sisters harvested ourselves trying to see the fruits of my labour hanging from my family tree but you see it's hard to grow trees in London City My the age of 17, I knew that walking a certain way would have consequences If my pants hang too high around my waist, and my trainers were slyly out of date I might as well have been walking with a target painted on my back. You learn to do adult shit real quick like you learn add base in your voice when asked provocative questions. You learn to hold a man's gaze just long enough to prevent him from calling you a "pus...