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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Jul 163 min read
Jurassic Grass
“Babe, you ever noticed the grass round here?” I asked my date. “The grass?” He said, tilting his head towards me. "Yeah, by the river.”...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Mar 305 min read
In The Shadow of the Adze
The night the Adze took my sister, my childhood ended. Not because I wasn’t shielded from the terrors of it. Quite the opposite. And it...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Jan 254 min read
Ships
Some drink wine on bad days. I choose music. Shimmy my shoulders, wiggle my waist and feel problems fade away, for 3 minutes and 40...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Jan 204 min read
10 Tips for Hosting Fun Kids Parties With Minimal Stress
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, meaning I get a tiny commission if you decide to make a purchase through my links, at...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Jan 18 min read
Trick Me Twice
I’d expected his visit to my lab to be unpleasant, but it was the only way to stop him. “Mrs Saidu, how are you?” He pushed open my...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Dec 9, 20236 min read
Why Anansi Dwells In The Corners
Famines are exhausting. Not because of the hunger, that’s something you get used to. Famines are exhausting because of the social...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Sep 18, 20237 min read
How Anasi Learnt All The Stories
It was a warm summer's night when my dream caught flame. Lion stood proudly at the edge of the watering hole, basking in the glow of the...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Jul 8, 20232 min read
Why Beatrix Potter told Brer Rabbit to shh
I hate the conversation around cultural appropriation. It’s usually simplistic, polarised and needlessly controversial in a way that...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Jul 1, 20232 min read
The Day A Stranger Visited Adanko
I was minding my business when I met him. A stranger outside my den door, on my field, breathing my air. But I’m a polite fellow so I...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
May 27, 202310 min read
From Silver Coins to $BTC (7 Major Stages in the Story of Money) Part 3
There was absolutely no reason for this to take as long as it did to publish. Sure I've had a car accident, twin babies and several life...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Jan 29, 20225 min read
From Silver Coins to $BTC (7 Major Stages in the Story of Money) PART 2
This has been sitting in my drafts for almost a year. I remembered I still needed to publish this when I got caught up in a conversation...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Feb 16, 20214 min read
Shadows on A Facebook Wall: When Social Media Obscures Truth (Part 2)
As discussed is part one, truth-games require power and the desire to play with truth. So how does social media impact on their existence...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Feb 13, 20217 min read
From Silver Coins to $BTC (7 Major Stages in the Story of Money) PART 1
When I was 2, my grandfather gave me a £50 note and I ripped it in half. I was recently reminded of this incident (or rather, the years...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Jan 7, 20216 min read
Shadows on A Facebook Wall: When Social Media Obscures Truth (Part 1)
The nature of knowledge, truth and power constantly shift in our online world. Twitter is rife with trolls, Facebook with fake news and...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Jan 1, 20215 min read
How I Recovered from my Lockdown Phone Addiction
Lockdown found me addicted to social media. I’m sure I’m not the only one. Whilst I’m usually self controlled with my phone use (for...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Aug 1, 20205 min read
From Octavia Butler to Beyoncé - why Afrofuturism is the next big thing
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” ―Chinua Achebe "Who controls the...
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Jun 11, 20206 min read
Do Black Lives Matter to God? Thoughts on Breonna Taylor, George Floyd & Christian Cooper
I became a disciple of Jesus 9 years ago. Before that I was anti religion and anti establishment. In many ways, I still am. When I studied t
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Rachael Twumasi-Corson
Jun 9, 20201 min read
Building a story bot
So I'm playing around with scripting and building a chat bot for Afrocenchix. I realised so much of bot building is story telling. So I...
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