All over the world billboards are used to transmit messages en masse, most often to advertise goods and services like fan ice or a freezer to put said fan ice in. Ghana is no different and billboards serve this purpose here too. You can sometimes see large vertically arranged billboards…

I perhaps sometimes go on a bit too much about the benefits of capoeira. That although it looks difficult, many people, young and old with a variety of abilities can actually make something out of this martial art if they only apply themselves. This is the truth but the truth…

In Switzerland, you can probably expect to find mountains, chocolate and cheese. You wouldn’t be wrong but how about sun, palm trees, pasta and pizza? That’s what you will see in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Located south of the country, very close to the border with Italy, Ticino is…

A lot of us know the frustration of buying a gym membership, going a few times and trying some things and then never showing up again. In fact, so many people become members of gyms and rarely go that gyms actually rely on this for their business models. Of course…

I’m not actually sure what first compelled me to try the Brazillian martial art, capoeira. Before 25, anything remotely athletic was revolting to me but despite this, I have now managed to progress to my third belt. …

“Hell of a book” by Jason Mott is, quite simply, what it says on the tin. Yes, it is literally a hell of a book. Published in 2021 by Trapeze, this novel tells the story of an author on a book tour after publishing a book called “Hell of a…

What we need to see in each other. I started a week trial on Apple TV+ to watch the recently launched series The me you don’t see where Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry along with other individuals discuss their struggles with mental health who share their stories of what they…

As you walk down the street you see a crowd has gathered. A roda is about to begin. The capoeiristas are dressed in uniforms. White trousers which gleam in the summer sun and dark green t-shirts with a special design to celebrate this specific event, that has culminated in this…

We are tired. It’s exhausting to have to repeatedly tell others that your life is not worth any less just because of the colour of your skin. It’s exhausting to realise you commonly see videos of people who look like you brutalised and rarely those of another race and know…