My name is Kajsa Hallberg Adu. I was born in the early 1980s in northern Sweden. I grew up with my three siblings in a culturally rich (and sometimes a bit crazy) family on an island in southern Sweden, Gotland.
After leaving high school and my family, I volunteered at the World Expo 2ooo in Hannover, Germany and my interest in international life blossomed. I studied in Georgia, U.S.A. before coming back to Sweden for my Bachelor’s in Political Science at Uppsala University. During studying, I met an interesting young man from Ghana. For the subsequent Master’s degree, I had the opportunity of interning for the Swedish foreign ministry in Paris.
In 2007, I moved to Ghana. I live in the harbor city, Tema, about 40 minutes from Ghana’s capital Accra. I work as a lecturer at Ashesi University in Accra, but also as a Freelance Writer and Communications Consultant.
Although I am now out of school, I call myself an eternal student. Except for politics, I’m interested in Inter-cultural Communications, African Studies, Languages and Art. A wonderful way of studying life is being a blogger.
I started my first blog in 2006, when I was moving to Paris. It was a natural step after having kept a diary since kindergarten. In 2008, I co-founded the network Ghanablogging.com. Now blogging and other social medias are a big part of my life, especially as a means of keeping in touch with friends all over the globe, not to mention making new ones.
I dream of making a living off of writing. In a way it is already true, I write for some publications and hope to start a PhD this year. have started on a PhD (in African Studies with University of Ghana), which means even more writing! Likewise, teaching and consulting revolves around writing and I do love the social aspect of these jobs.
In July 2011, I became a mother to a baby girl. It has so far been an overwhelming and grand experience and I guess it will affect both my blogging content and frequency.
This blog is personal, political and sometimes positive.
Thanks for reading it!
Hej Kajsa!
Tack för dina uppmuntrande ord.
Ett av mina samarbeten är med Hanne Ödin (Lummelundagrottan). När jag satt och pratade med henne började vi av någon anledning att prata om dej. Jag skulle hälsa till dej från henne.
Vänligen Nina
Tack, hälsa gärna tillbaka! Its a small world. Jag kommer till Gotland i sommar, vore superkul att träffas (och förståss se ert fina hus) IRL. Vi hörs!
I reli love that u took the time & effort to give this apt and intriguing narrative of yourself. i dont stay longer than 5 mins on blogs where i cant know a bit about who’s behind it, so this automatically becomes a to-be-revisited blog. I pray your heart’s desires come to pass
o plus, i’m digging the multilinguality!
Thanks, the only thing I like more than writing is writing about myself…I agree with you that blogs with a clear “face” behind them are more interesting. See you soon again!
Hi Kajsa,
Greetings from Sintra. The workshop is quite exciting. We even had our first rain today. I’ll mmake time to write longer in a few days. But for now, just for you to know that I kept my promise to keep in touch….Bernard.
Kasja,
Thanks for getting in touch via my blog. It is good to see what you are doing and musing about. I hope we can catch up on person later this year.
Zoe (aka Springgirl)
Zoe,
I am glad we have connected! Thanks for checking out my blog and yes, it would be good to catch up IRL
Hi Kajsa!
I feel blessed to have found you..
we share a lot together… I have started “writing” for a weekly just recently..
My area of interest is Social Media Management…
and what a co-incidence ti share that I am going to take my PhD in Social Media maybe from a NORDIC University and I am interesting to research on Use of Social media for Opinion Building and Reputation Management by the NORDIC governments
What do you say about it?
Lets connect and share more as friends..
Ehsan
ehsanes19@gmail.com
Hello Kajsa,
My name is Gunadiish. Im a ghanaian and in the process of creating blog communities on in universities across the nation who will blog on the telecom industry/companies/products and services. I will love you to be part of this. Please give me your response as Ashesi is one of my earliest schools to visit.
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