toli:  n 1. A juicy piece of news or gossip. 2. The latest word or gossip. 3. The talk of the town, typically a salacious or risque tale of intrigue, corruption or foolishness.

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Koranteng's Toli Blog

These days, I post mostly to the blog edition of Koranteng's Toli.

The Book of Toli

The Book of Toli is a good introduction to my ramblings on Africa, technology, literature, economics, small things, music and a touch of whimsy.

Alternately: Self Portrait in Verse

The Things Fall Apart Series

I'm currently in the middle of The Things Fall Apart Series, a cultural history of our times, which considers the eternal theme.

A few extracts:

• Bags and Stamps
• Voices Inside (Things Fall Apart)
• Heart of Darkness
• He of The Little Green Book
• Angola
• Huhudious (or Silly Season)
• The Books of Nima
• The Game of The Rough Beast
• Poetry as Cultural Memory
• June 4th
• The Mosquito Principle
• African Ceremonies
• Truth and Reconciliation
• The Laws of Grief

Observers Are Worried

The Observers Are Worried Series is another conversational outlet.

A sampler:

• Types and Faces
• Observers are worried
• A Debt Foretold
• The Ziploc Factor
• The Codes of Martial Music
• Drum Magazine Ghana 1969
• Hypertext Dreams
• The Skeptic's Credo
• A Taxonomy of Useful Idiots

In a Covidious Time

Pondering the new normalcy

• Touch
• After Tom Sawyer
• Another Zoom Funeral
• Herd Immunity
• In a Covidious Time
• The New Epicenter
• Dear Mr Surgeon General Re: Meatpacking Plants
• Top Public Health Interventions
• Coronavirus Superspreading Events - A Timeline
• The Closing Ceremony
• No One Is Coming
• For Want Of A Bolt

Soul Insurance

A covidious folktale, the first draft of history

Pandemic Playlists

Music as an antidote, a blanket of soul

The Toli Technology Series

Some extracts from the Toli Technology Series

• Cultural Sensitivity in Technology
• The Unloved HTML Button and Other Folktales
• Frisson de Folksonomie
• REST - The Web Style
• The REST Elevator Pitch
• The Low End Theory of Networks
• Minutiae
• Version Hell Revisited
• The Dining Philosophers Problem

The London Bombings

The London Bombings collection captured two trilogies on the place and the people.

• Catford Bridge
• Bullet from a Gun
• Kente, Lace and Champagne

• Identity Theft
• Of No Fixed Abode
• Ode to Betty Brown