The reveal ...
Welcome to the adjoainghana online community 🌍!
When was the last time you felt truly happy? Not only with your life but with yourself too? Now pause for a few moments …
What answer or answers come to mind?
I want you to seriously think about this. This is an important exercise. If you have a pen and paper handy, write your answer/s down.
My answer is when I was in Ghana for three months recently. Every single day there I felt truly happy. Whether I was by myself, or with friends or family. The reason is because I saw my life for what it truly is. A gift. An opportunity to live a life that is authentically my own.
Why Ghana?
I grew up in Australia, a country with a legacy of settler colonialism. As a person with Ghanaian heritage, I grew up physically but not spiritually far from my Ghanaian roots.
At 19, I visited Ghana for the first time. A homecoming after the arduous adolescent years of asking the common but important questions like:
who am I?
where do I belong?
Subsequent travel from this first trip to Ghana culminated in my most recent return which I began talking about at the beginning of this post. This time in Ghana, and 5 years on from my first trip, I found myself asking a different set of questions:
what life do I want to live?
how can I create this life?
Why the name adjoainghana?
I belong to the Akan ethnic group of Ghana which has a system of naming children based on the day they were born. Consequently, my given birth name is Adjoa, given to a female born on Monday.
And the “inghana” part? Well it was in Ghana that I was challenged to start living a more authentic life.
Why this platform?
I love the feeling of connecting with community around a shared purpose.
During my years as an undergrad, I did this through starting the first Africa-focused society at my university. Later, I did this through leading a mentoring program for diverse youth in schools within local communities in Western Sydney, Australia.
Then, in early 2023, I started my adjoainghana Instagram account to share my Ghana travel experiences with my friends. As much as I wanted to provide entertainment, I also wanted to send a deeper message. A message that said this is the life I’m choosing to live and I hope it inspires you to live a life that is true to you too.
I now feel called to spread this message wider, which is why I have decided to create this online community.
Why subscribe?
So going back to my original question …
When was the last time you felt truly happy? Not only with your life but with yourself too?
I hope you now have an answer or some ideas.
For you it could be a travel experience or a time in your life when you were doing an activity you particularly enjoyed. But perhaps for one or more reasons, you may find yourself in a difficult season, far from the life you dream of or in need of consistent reminders to pursue what it is that is important to you. Enter the adjoainghana online community.
Through the adjoainghana weekly newsletter and other engaging media content, I will encourage us to answer these questions:
what life do I want to live?
how can I create this life?
I believe the answers lie within each of us, and I offer this online community as a way for us to inspire each other to live a life that is authentically ours.
You may want to live a life that has more flexibility, start making more confident decisions, or completely reinvent yourself. It is up to you to decide.
Ghana did all these things for me.
I hope that through this online community, you will find positive accountability to make your dreams a reality.
“If a bird does not fly, it goes to bed hungry.”
Akan Proverb 🇬🇭
Free or paid membership?
Today, membership of the adjoainghana online community is completely free.
If you feel particularly called to the mission of building community around authentic living, you are more than welcome to support the time and thought that goes into adjoainghana and the growth of this community by becoming a paid member ($5.00 AUD per month).
Your generous donation is valued and appreciated and will plant the seeds for bigger content to come 🧡!
What do you get?
Free access to the weekly adjoainghana newsletter. *Released every Sunday*.
Free access to weekly community discussion thread, where we exchange stories & advice on living a life that is authentically ours.
Free access to exclusive bonus content.
Opportunities to feature in the weekly newsletter.
It means so much to me that you are here and supporting this community 🤎.
Keep in touch …
For more opportunities to connect with our like-minded community …
twitter: @adjoainghana
instagram: @adjoainghana (by request. kindly dm that you are coming from the adjoainghana newsletter.)
I genuinely value your feedback, drop me a line via email: adjoainghanacommunity@gmail.com