ASO ENGLISH PREVIEW

The beauty of
Africa Switched
On, or “ASO”
is embedded
in our editorial
focus: One that
contemplates our
sustainable futures
through creative
collaborations.
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Cover & coverstory photography by Dexter Livingstone of DextDee Photography
Akosua Busia

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Haute CANOE’s smart approach for an African renaissance
advocates the integration of human capacity in education
and business - en masse. We start enterprising discussions
to share and seek solutions, ultimately geared to advance
continental growth. Africa Switched On [or ASO] does not
succeed as a collective without professional input. We also
create a forum to optimize synergies. ASO solicits intelligence:
Urging a renascent informed reform that denounces any kind
of exclusion that arises from postcode, passport or religion.
ASO enables online peer interaction and trade relationships
based on individual capacity and team effort. Find peers
to advance, build, collaborate, develop and expand your
fortunes on www.africaswitchedon.com. If you doubt that
Africa switches on without you - this forum is not for you.
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Dear Reader,
I’m pleased to present your next Manual of Blackness - ASO,
acronym for Africa Switched On. ASO is an attempt to
woo Africa’s “business - educated” elite. I struggle finding
balance between creating a journal that spurs our educated
superiors into sound business conversation, relationships,
and practice; an entertaining Manual of sorts’ whose artistry
is ultimately bohemian African [also available in French, and
soon in Arabic]; and the ultimate inspirational ‘coffee table’
journal [although currently only available online]. I veer less
towards traditionally exciting editorial. The average magazine
‘reader’ is really a browser looking for one thing, some thing or
another. The brands that support generic content [especially
by way of advertising] are inclined to favourably influence
your consumption. In creating Haute CANOE, I sought nontrending
discourse and imagery to show a new aesthetic
essence. The people who helped achieve this vision also
share a belief in a conscientised African renaissance. You will
enjoy ASO, if you are interested in the science of engaging your
time profitably. I apologise for the shift toward advertorials,
the profiles remain meritocratic. You can contribute to Haute
CANOE and Africa Switched On through any of our portals.
If you are entrepreneurial, a tertiary or professional lecturer
or student, creative, millenial traveller, literary institution, and/
or working towards a better Africa [and world], you are our
primary target. Please enjoy, criticize and share ASO.
best regards, Nkwaye Ansah
Being Online, we are happy to correct opinions and errors if you let us know.

Page Title
1-2 AKOSUA BUSIA
3 SQUARE ONE
4 Editor’s Foreword
6-7 Contents Map [Our creative ecosystem]
8 Stargazers
9 Africa’s collaborative creative drive
10-11 A-Kinko
12-21 Akosua Busia Cover story, One more ride
20 Sandra Don-Artur
22-25 Vanessa Harrison
26-27 Juliet Yaa Asantewa Asante, BSIFF
28-31 Blank Canvas, Steve French Oduro
32-35 Blank Canvas, Samuel Oteng
36-39 Blank Canvas, Alexandra Tanowa Tomiyama
40-43 Blank Canvas, Sama Fletcher
44 Blank Canvas, Yvonne Ntiamoah
45-46 Maison Mimi
47-50 Edwina Kulego
52-63 Chef Ruby Paintsil, Lost in food
64-69 African Landscapes
70- NOMAD, Northern Ghana, The Lara Banger
71-77 Savannah, Zaina Lodge
74-75 Tama Shea production
78-79 Tamale Arts Centre
82-83 Intelligence [excerpts from The Initiated]
85 When called a monkey
86-87 After the fight [Ali, Nkrumah & Mandela]
88- Using Mathematics to solve daily problems
89-92 Decoded, Peter Amoako-Yirenkyi, Mathematics
93 E- Kiosk, TECH FIX
94-95 Shaping our fourth
96-99 Renewing energy
101 Sustenance
102 Interdependence
103 Teamwork, Intro- Democracy
104 When democracy succeeds . . .
105 The last slave
106- 7 KaySo Sound
108- 9 Uber fair fare
110-11 The fourth
112 Governance
113 Inglorious
115 Afro eco’systems
117 Who develops the African Marketplace?
119 Neem
120- 1 Distichs, Non-rhyming Couplets
122- 3 SLR Industrial Design Engineering & Technology
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Cont ent s Map
Africa Switched On, or ASO
certifies the emergence of light,
or a celebration. The name
and acronym allude to pooling
Africa’s academic-entrepreneurial
networth. ASO is designed
to advance education and
business; oozing bAfrican artistry.
Developing human capacity
starts from acquiring knowledge,
before channelling its use to seek
upwardly intelligent choices.
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We advocate simple greener cycles for growth
We have created a
forum that enables
many professionals
to share bohemian
African imagery that
inspire change.
Education is not a
complicated process
when like minds fish for
simple sustainable solutions
bAfro
. . . is our fashion aesthetic
intelligence is the ability to acquire and/or apply knowledge and skills

The household that understands
‘sustainability’ does not only invest in
energy saver bulbs. They make use of
the sun in practical ways that brighten
their nights’ with ingenious brilliance.
We can think of the best long-term
sustainable solutions and applications
to address our problems. Of course
our choices may be proven to be
entirely inaccurate through intelligence,
and the maturity of time. The irony
embedded in the realization of how
little we know today, only suggests
what more we are yet to learn in time
due. No matter how significantly fat
our vaults of knowledge weigh today,
they are slimmer after new truths
emerge. It takes humbling awakening,
and enlightened sparks to cultivate
good growth. We limit error when we
commit intelligent thinking towards
sustainable solutions. Time intelligently
uses our lives [especially] when our
lives use time intelligently.
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When our waste become a
valuable [power generating]
commodity, littering becomes
an expensive habit to entertain.
Sustainability is when our foods
power mileage
Sustainabilities
used prudently, we can sustainably develop the african continent

kisk
smart
creative
paradigms;
advocating
a culture of
applying
intelligence
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Stargazers’ are dreamers who look beyond inconsequent visions, and their
unattainable starpower and light. At the same time trampling on the flowers
struggling at their feet. As we may not have potted our flowers in a worthy
vase, we prioritise a shift in developing Africa’s limitless resource, our minds.

Africa’s creative collaborative drive
Ever so often, a community advances in small incremental changes that are
in keeping with its extended eco-system. Some ‘developed’ communities
predict these progressive changes beforehand; and implement decisions
to chart the best path forward. Others wait for a collective of thinkers and
pacesetters, and simply jump on the winning bandwagon when it gains
traction. The ‘selective‘ that tunnel depths to course the best solutions
forward, often employ tangible creative initiatives with a high probability of
success. Without creativity, even the best solutions with a projected high
rate of success may not be effectively adapted. With the proliferation of
mechanical, technological and digital solutions from the developed world,
Africa needs to source and adapt suitable sustainable systems to enable
her optimize influence on the global scene; concertedly developing her
wealth. With good policies, direction, and prioritization for solution-driven
activity, Africans can collaboratively and creatively align their efforts- in a
bid to optimize their inherent skill-strengths. This generation requires fresh
orientation for a significant role on the global scene [All fields require a
continentally sound creative reawakening]. The choices we make in this
Fourth Industrial Revolution [see page 108] must align and integrate our
continental objectives. Africa’s aesthetics, branding, business models, value
chains, networks, intrinsic and extrinsic values in the new global community:
Education, intellectual property, digital and online policy, urban design, and
relationships must each and all undergo a creative overhaul. Our creative
drive in visual and performing arts, education, cultural progression, networks
and ecosystems, must all reflect this growth. It will be easier to inspire and
implement the right prospective changes: when we are able to appropriate
our creative responsibilitities through the best channels and personnel.
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ASO acknowledges the advantages engendered in boosting creativity, and
collaborations, without painting a dire or inaccurately optimistic picture. In
the advent of globalization, our border-to-border unity-in-vision is almost
as important as our tribal attunement. Just sticking to facts, Africa has vast
human and mineral resources, however we urgently need to recreate a
holistic agenda. Share your thoughts today on www.africaswitchedon.com

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A-KINKO is a Ghanaian company which specializes in unique,
handmade, Afro-centric fashion accessories as never seen
before. These unisex fashion accessories include shoes, bags
and jewellery - produced to high finishes and international
standards: And in line with A-KINKO’s belief that inter-African
trade holds the key to the continent`s development. A-KINKO
regularly uses skilled artisans from all over the continent to
produce these original designs. A-KINKO features the work
of African designers the calibre of Adele Dejak and Koko. In
the production of A-KINKO shoes and bags, and in its bid to
promote an African aesthetic, A-KINKO insists exclusively on
the use of natural materials, sourced almost entitrely from the
African continent. These include cowhide, goatskin, exotic
textured skins from fish, ostrich and rafia - for which it has
become well known for. In producing unique jewellery,
A-KINKO sources natural silver, brass, aluminium, semi-precious
stones and seashells, also almost entirely from the continent.
The brand`s handmade accesories are complemented by
a selection of clothing, also made from natural materials,
sourced from all over the continent. Visit A-KINKO, live.
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Email: akinkojewellery@yahoo.com | akinkoasneverseenb4@gmail.com
Instagram: lookbookakinko | Facebook :A-KINKO

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Photographs by Dexter Livingstone of DextDee Photography