The Long Way Around with Chiaky

As a teenager, people would look at my height and ask if I played basketball. What they didn’t know was that I had tried and been told I was too girly. What seemed like a small moment at the time opened the door to a much bigger conversation about gender, identity, and the expectations we place on one another. In this episode of The Long Way Around, I explore how societal ideas about masculinity a...

Last year, on my birthday, there was a wedding. My ex-boyfriend was the groom, and my ex best friend was the bride. In this episode of The Long Way Around, I talk about intuition, heartbreak, betrayal, and what happens when the thing you feared quietly confirms itself. But more than that, this is a conversation about self-trust, healing, and unlearning the habit of convincing yourself that what yo...

I won a crown… and then they took it back. In this episode, I share the story behind that moment: what happened publicly, what was said, and what it felt like to be judged, questioned, and ultimately disqualified based on standards that were never clearly defined. After being crowned Miss Intercontinental Ghana, things shifted quickly. Conversations moved from the achievement to my appearance. Opi...