Last Saturday was a good day for football/soccer and D-Black's Live Wire events hosted Celebrity Soccer Weekend with stars such as Davido, Samini, R2bees, Tinny, Castro, D-Black as captains of their respective teams.

Supporting Y FM, despite being down with the flu, +Ameyaw Debrah  captured YFM's social media guru +KumiCumz Nkansah & I at the Lizzy Sports stadium. #MoreVim

photo credit: Ameyaw Debrah

There were many members of Y FM staff and friends at the event.

Mary Anna - Head of Marketing

Esse - Red FM

Asantewaa Asante - Y Sports Presenter

HTW's Fred Deegbe

Sefa: Y Marketing; Eddie Micuh Jr: Y Sports; Quarps: Ryze & Shyne & Y Sports Producer; Flexxy: Afropolitan Mix

Blogger Extraordinaire: Ameyaw Debrah

DeLong - Events Y FM & Happy FM

Eddie Blay Jr - Steppin' to the AM

J.O.E.L Orleans - Y Campus Xpress

Foster, Eddie Micuh Jr & the new bossu: Giovanni - Caleb Adjomah

So I pulled out my iPhone just in time to catch Samini & goal celebration in front of D-Black and BAM.

Thanks to +Amma Aboagye's timely email last year on Google Africa Connected competition, I was fortunate to share as one of the 20 success stories of young Africans powered by the web. +Funmbi ogunbanwo  & +Dan McCain  flew into Accra to record my story. I shared the video Mama Esi and my sisters they couldn't be more proud :



Google Africa Connected was an opportunity for the camera and crew to meet some amazing entrepreneurs in Accra: illustrators, coding geniuses, marketing gurus, broadcast & film makers. Through strategic collaboration, we get to use the +Mpwr  show as a springboard for #CollaborativeSuccess #AfricaRenaissance

It's amazing that it's 2014 and more importantly Season 2 for the Mpwr show on YFM already. Besides being excited to come on radio and share even more excited stories with our audience, it is an opportunity for the team E. A. Double A and DJ Jay Dee to hang out, welcome you into our cockpit and take flight!
Goals for Season 2 are to take the platform we've been blessed with and foster positive collaborations with already existing organizations/initiatives for more impact. If more hands are at the plough our impact is increased exponentially, if more like-minded young people tackle a challenge together, the solution grows from a movement to a revolution and we are excited to tell these stories.



We have new features and segments to the show: Fastest Fingerz segments where we share FREE (yes, FREE no strings attached) phone credits every episode from MTN, Vodafone, Airtel, Tigo & GLO! We also have an opportunity for Blog-To-Win blog submissions (no more than 250 words reactions to each episode) to win movie tickets as well as!



   

If that isn't exciting enough we are extremely psyched to bring you the Real Rap news update segments, the Pump it or Dump It (new/user submitted songs), Would You Rather (WWR) Question of the Day and the Power Mix of uninterrupted DJ Jay Dee Mixology at its finest with even more insightful and wonderful resource persons for this season's episodes.

The Monthly themes for Season 2:

January - DoingBetter'14

February - Partnering for Success

March - 1 GHS 1 Pocket

April - I Am What I do

Finally blogging about the Mpwr Radio Show, my 2013 labor of love.  It's almost too easy to start with: Well we started a radio show on Y FM with the 'S Means Hope' campaign from the Man of Steel (Superman 2013) movie. And yet, Ecclesiastes 7:8 admonishes that the end of a thing/matter is better than the beginning... it isn't the end of the show, but we've successfully completed Season 1 of the weekly radio conversations I co-host with Amma Aboagye , DJ Jay Dee and audio support from Kofi Taylor-Hayford.

The trials have been numerous, and despite them, I'm proud to say that my dream of inspiring and informing on Ghana/Africa's oft considered 'empty rhetoric' local  radio airwaves was realized this year. There is so so much more yet to do. We are aspiring to engage young entrepreneurs, African leaders and Creatives on off-air in shaping a better world through collaboration.

Before season 2 kicks off in 2014 though, here's to small wins!

I've posted images from guests in-studio on the show and the recent 1st Mpwr Networking Soiree (photo credit +Fiifi Baidoo ) we held to introduce the show's guests to listeners in promoting collaboration.

www.mpwrshow.com +Mpwr  @mpwrshow

Mpwr Show Networking Soiree 1

Past guests on the weekly show on Y 107.9 FM 

The world-renowned Accra International Marathon happened the end of last month (Saturday September 29th, to be precise) and my co-host Double A and I got to interview the founder and organizer Ekua Bannerman-Richter of the annual Accra International Marathon on our MPwr radio show.

I participated in ETV/Japan Motors corporate run days earlier, so I opted to  support friends and loved-ones who participated in this marathon, and yes, get a few pictures of what ensued. Everyone who participated, from corporate teams, individual runners in the women & youth sections, was a winner. Shout out to Ekua Bannerman-Richter & her team for a superb job well done, with participants coming from across the world to participate. More pictures here: AIM pictures

It has been an uber busy past few weeks. There have been events that I wanted to blog about, which I still will...posts that I need to catch you all up very soon. From the growth of the Mpwr Show, to Team 1000 words and the wonderful new and engaging website and attending proactive events such as the Accra International Marathon ....well and to random moments of bliss such as this... there is so much to share. Be prepared for a blitz of posts soon.

Burna Boy, for those who aren't on his music yet (check out: Burna Boy official site), we feature his music weekly on our PWR Mix segment of the radio show, came by Y FM's studio fresh from Nigeria for an interview. I had one of my cameras in the back of the trunk, whipped it out to get some celeb pictures in. I'm a fan for good afro fusion music and when it has reggae and jazzy nuances that pleasantly surprise, sign me up!

Burna Boy on the Dryve of Your Lyfe with Nana Kwame

Signed copy of Burna Boy's "Life" CD with DJ Champagne

In-studio session for Y 107.9 FM drops

Burna Boy & E. A. Gamor

One of the things I enjoy about my new job as a Business Development Executive is the ability to help steer the month's programing to spotlight issues that have meaning to our young audience. Y FM's Health Month in July was the perfect opportunity to drive awareness a critical issue in the country - healthy living and making proactive life decisions. By offering daily health tips, engaging discussions with professionals on-air about healthy living, it was an opportunity to make a difference on Ghana's radio airwaves.

In partnering with the Rotary club of Accra-Ridge, the Rotaract club of Adentan & the National Blood Service, we  were able to encourage our listeners to participate in the monthly blood drive at the Accra Mall. Akwasi Agyeman, one of the bosses at Global Media Alliance participated in the drive.

After the month's event/activation, I sent a message to the Y FM team and shared what the month's programing meant to me.

"This Health Month was personal, I recently lost my father to treatable, manageable diseases that involved making healthier lifestyle/food choices. I pray someone staff/listener is positively affected by information shared this month/blood donated. Thank you."

More pictures with other Y FM staff and +Mpwr (www.mpwrshow.com) show listeners who participated in the drive below: