The Importance of Beauty in the Ordinary (and the danger of things being bland) A short thread...

Nkrumah reacts upon recieving information that he had been overthrown. His plane was still in the sky over China When he was overthrown in a CIA backed coup. He therefore, knew nothing about it.

A hands-free telephone headset ad, 1993

🎉🎉 Speaker Alert Dela Kumahor (Dela A. Kumahor ) has close to two decades of experience practicing, learning, teaching and mentoring user-centred design processes in contexts as diverse as luxury furniture-making in Italy to smallholder farming in Ghana.

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Very proud of the team and this little project! Check out our full Kofa Kente website at kofa.co/kente! #wearekofa #kente #ghana

People, we're looking for devs, designers and UX people (including researchers). Please spread the word!! #wearekofa #jobs

Once again, we’re back with another agenda Koo bibinii is working Introducing Ghana's first Electric motorcycles with Swappable batteries Here’s a preview of Kofa #ghana #kwadwosheldon #wearekofa

So – looks like there was a modicum of interest in my experience with a residential solar power setup, so I've written up my experiences below & hopefully someone gets some use out of it. Diving in:

#OnThisDay in 1997: Rising star Lewis Hamilton (then aged 12) spoke about his ambition to become an F1 racing driver, on the BBC Two show Black Britain.

This is one of the 🤯🤯🤯 experiments we ran on the Duolingo Retention team :

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All conditions. Zero emissions. #wearekofa #electric

➡️ Communities to check: UXGH , UX Kitchen KE ,DearDesigner , Friends of Figma, Cotonou , UX Salon , LadiesthatUX ➡️ Interesting people: Ayanda Ndaba, Gathigia Njiiri, Mariama Ndiaye, Kate Manon Sio, Eric Puplampu, Dela Andy Kumahor

Kofa Is Working To Advance Urban Energy Access For Mobility & Backup Power Across Africa cleantechnica.com/2023/03/17/kof…

Kofa and our CEO Erik Nygard getting featured in CleanTechnica! cleantechnica.com/2023/03/17/kof…

“Kofa’s battery is energy going cableless, just like the mobile phone went wireless a few decades ago kicking off Africa's digital revolution.” Toffene Kama explains how Kofa is tackling energy challenges with a distributed, #climate-smart energy network medium.com/mercy-corps-so…

Energy access in Africa is often unreliable and/or inaccessible, and we think we can do better. The path to getting there isn't necessarily expensive grid infrastructure. It's based on having power in the form of on-demand, portable batteries; the same ones powering your EV's!

Walk like you have *4,000* ancestors behind you.

That feeling when people believe in your product.