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Friday, October 02, 2009 |
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I was debugging a heavyduty program when Kossi Gbade came in I havent seen him in a very long time and his abject appearance distressed me A time there was when we see quite a lot of one another it seems like ages ago now How could life have tumbled so badly for him Things are also very hard in the computer business today Every job not onl ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 |
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The jangle of the telephone brought me out of a deep very deep reverie A lazy hand reached out and grabbed the instrument Hello A weak voice said into the mouthpiece Whos there A lady voice shrieked into the earpiece Reflexively I moved the thing a little away from my ear A punctured eardrum is the last thing I wanted Whom ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 16, 2009 |
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Which man in Ghana hasnt experienced the frustration before You see a stunningly beautiful damsel plenty of good news in her body your heart fell and you fall in love Hi princess you say in a weak voice Whats your name She smiles shyly Florence Most ladies in Ghana have abandoned their indigenous names for foreign mostly ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
Like almost all opportunists Professor Koji Jubanga is a prostitute In his case an intellectual prostitute In the early s Koji Jubanga then a young scholar was a firebreathing Marxist sporting the appropriate Karl Marx beard Communist books and literature were cheap and sometimes free The pubescent Marxist crammed his head full with co ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
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Good listeners welcome back to Nigerian Television NewsFile I am Iyiola Oba your moderator today Todays programmme will be dominated by the upcoming visit of the President of the United States Brother Barack Obama to Africa The US State Department has released the information that he will be visiting Africa in the month of July in year of o ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
Very often the embalmers of Western history have tried to gloss over the sordid trade in African slaves by Europeans for over four century by putting up the argument that lot of Africans also made a fortune in the dealings From these mythorians we often hear the stories that slavery was rampant in Africa long before the Europeans came along ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 06, 2009 |
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Who asked Rita Tweneboah to sing To describe her first and hopefully last CD cum cassette as a musical disaster is to be guilty of inadequate vocabulary Nothing exists in the English language or in any language that I know to describe this incoherent clangorous nonsensical piece Ms Rita foisted on us as a high musical achievement Any primar ... Read more |
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Monday, June 01, 2009 |
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Femi AkomolafeMay dealt the world of PanAfricanism a cruel double blow The pitiless hands of death plucked two bright stars from the dwindling Africas constellation First came the news from Kenya that the indefatigable African warrior Tajudeen AbdulRaheem has died in a car crash Following in the footsteps of Garvey Nkrumah ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 |
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What would you do if you get home drunk and met madam cohabitating seriously with a stranger Before you hasten to make a declaration read my storyYours truly job makes him a virtual nomad Hardly a month passes without my attending one conference or the other You know about conferences dont you Meeting talking jibing jiving plenty m ... Read more |
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Friday, April 24, 2009 |
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Abena slapped meWilliam Shakespeare is generally credited with the quote Hell has no fury than a woman scorned But actually it was another satirist William Congreve who in the Mourning Bride wrote Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned The bard is seldom wrong but on ... Read more |
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
Kasoa Liberation Army what type of a crude joke is thatWhat do you mean crude joke Walahi we are seriousI think jokers like you ought to be locked up in a mental asylum and the key thrown into the darkest pit of hellAh me Na you be craze Dont you see that my people are marginalized What do you say to thatMarginalised An ... Read more |
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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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There is a saying that It is better to keep your mouth shut and let others think that you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubtReading Ato Dadzies letter imploring the British prime minister to convey to the English monarch a request to send officials back to come and recolonise Ghana sent my head reeling The article which I read ... Read more |
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
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A Reply to one Robert Cooper Femi AkomolafeThe people of the Third World are derided because they cant feed themselves The people of the industrialized countries have a far worse kind of hunger which they cant stay with their technological achievements the hunger for love security and community Mother Theresa Read this The c ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
Some events are so ineradicably epochal that nothing can erase them from the memory For my maternal granny the first sight of a vehicle a truck in her village was such an event Until granny died she could describe what she saw on that fateful day in her village with such vividness that one would imagine that she kept a photograph of it in her ... Read more |
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