Lydia's Weekly Lifestyle blog is for today's African girl, so no subject is taboo. My purpose is to share things that may interest today's African girl.

This week's contributors: Lydia, Pépé Pépinière, Titi. This week's subjects: From Makola to the Boardroom: How to Slay Corporate Chic in Accra, Accra Fashion Week25 from 15th till 21st December, He is bored, Headache, constipation and UTIs, and How to spell Bofrot

From Makola to the Boardroom: How to Slay Corporate Chic in Accra. Yesss! A playful, stylish, and proudly Accra-themed fashion — the kind that sparkles with personality, humor, and confidence while still sounding polished and fashion-savvy: Because you can buy fabric at dawn and close deals by noon. Accra women are a different kind of powerful. We know how to hustle at Makola, negotiate at Airport City, and still show up at work looking like a million cedis. Call it magic — or just good fashion sense. Here’s your guide to looking like you own the boardroom — with a little Makola flair on the side. The Fabric Hunt: Makola, But Make It Fashion Let’s be honest — Makola Market is not for the faint of heart, but it’s where style dreams are born. Between the buzzing stalls and endless rolls of Ankara, crepe, and linen, lies the beginning of every corporate slay. If you know your tailors and your fabrics, you can easily turn ₵100 worth of material into an outfit that screams executive presence. Pro tip: Stick with classic prints and neutral tones. Think deep blues, rich browns, and subtle golds — they say “promotion ready,” not “weekend wedding guest.” Tailor-made Confidence: In Accra, your tailor is practically your stylist. A well-cut suit or dress can change your whole aura. Forget the oversized blazers and stiff skirts — go for fit and flair. A cinched waist, structured shoulders, or a peplum hem can transform “office outfit” into “main character energy.” When your clothes fit well, you don’t just walk — you glide through the office corridors like it’s your runway (because it is).

Accra Fashion Week25 from 15th till 21st December. It's 10 years since they started and it's going to be a big do with designers from 15 countries and models from Ethiopia, Ghana, Togo, Sierra Leone and others. Better get your tickets now, the big shows are on Saturday and Sunday 20st and 21nd. Or try to get free tickets through one of the models or designers.

He is bored. Happy together with hubby? Takes care of your everything and is ever so friendly and helpful and polite. But seems not really interested in you in the bed anymore. He sees every girl his car (with you inside) passes, in fact he looks at every woman he sees, even whilst sitting or walking next to you. What happened? This is not stress in the office, this is you. You are not exiting him anymore, whilst his sex drive is there all right. Be honest, have you been giving him the attention he wants? The compliments he is looking for? The challenges that light his fire? Maybe rather you are stressed, office, kids, money. But you'll get a lot more stressed if you don’t take care of him. So take the lead. Book a table at that restaurant nearby and dress for the waiter's eyes to pop out. Or wait for him in the bedroom when he gets home and call “ Honey I'm here”, dressed as when you were born, or even with some decorations on you. To create a situation like that may not be as simple as I write it here. But, very simply said, either you do something, or trouble will come. He'll find what he wants, but it may not be with you.

Headache, constipation and UTIs. I wrote earlier that lots of people drink far too little water, resulting in a permanent dehydrated status, often leading to very frequent, sometimes permanent headaches. And more. Constipation also often results, the stool becomes so dry that it simply does not want to move. This gives a bloated feeling but is also unhealthy. The body has decided to reject certain things, but rather you keep them in you, so some of these rejected, maybe poisonous things can still get absorbed. And there is UTI ( urinary tract infection). If you don't urinate regularly any infection which tries to creep up there does not get washed out and gets a full chance to install itself. And because your bladder lining is already irritated by the too dark urine the potential infection gets an additional chance to install itself. So drink. How much? About 0.03-0,04 liter per kg body weight. So if you weigh 60 kg you should get about 60 x 0.03 to 0.04 = 1.8-2.4 liter of water per day, 4-5 sachets. Some of that will come through food. And the colour of your urine should be very light white/yellow, not yellow/orange/brown. Can't afford 4 sachets per day? (4 sachets per day is about 700 GHS per year!). Nothing wrong with our tap water, GWC adds plenty chloride so we don't get cholera. And that's where most of the sachet manufacturers get their water anyway.

How to spell Bofrot. This is a good one to keep the conversation going during a dinner, and if you ask AI it will give you a good demo on how stupid AI really is. And these days if you google something it even puts a notice “thinking, thinking”, whilst in fact the algorithm is only searching through trillions of data, in the case for bofrot in vain. And not thinking. I've heard many versions on Bofrot, personally I like the ball float, copying the dough coming up when done. And a women near me is selling ballfloats so nice that now every afternoon there is a traffic jam there, and a guy opposite has started selling towels and trousers, a market is being formed right there on that busy street. Baflute?

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