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Monday, November 16, 2009 |
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Indeed the greatest bottleneck to our collective crossethnic cohesion may be more the problem of deliberate and calculated ignorance geared towards the scoring of cheap political points than the fact of Ghanaian students at our various educational institutions congregating along ethnic and subethnic lines during their leisure hours For in th ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 15, 2009 |
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It is not clear to me what Prof Ali A Mazrui has to do with the ongoing debate or is it uproar over the intended balkanization of Ghanas Northern Region into at least two discrete administrative entities though writing in a piece presumptuously captioned A Humble Letter to Kwame OkoampaAhoofe a Mr Iddisah Sulemana had the ef ... Read more |
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Monday, November 09, 2009 |
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In this installment of my contribution to the discourse on the controversial question of partitioning Ghanas Northern Region into at least two discrete administrative units I intend to address the concerns of several of my critics both those with genuine concerns as well as those who have for the most part taken potshots at me merely becau ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 08, 2009 |
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Greedy parasitessit on the gray marginsof historytightfistedwith sullen facesbrazenlyfeasting onpublic dolewaging countlessand pointlesswarsin the nameof pea ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
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An October Ghana News Agency GNA report indicated that the AttaMills government of the National Democratic Congress NDC was intent on establishing a technical teamcommittee in order to facilitate the partitioning of the Northern Region into at least two administrative entities See Northern Region To Be Partitioned Ghanawebcom ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
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The National Service Scheme NSS which was originally hatched and implemented by the junta of thenCol Ignatius Kutu Acheampongs National Redemption Council NRC in was essentially geared towards the massive mobilization of welleducated Ghanaian youth for the rapid development of our country at all spheres of national endeavor Initially ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 |
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When Mr Rawlings chief of the prosecutorial death squad otherwise known as the Public Tribunal asserts that It is time for to turn away from the oldtime politics of personality cults and divisive tendencies and rather turn to a New Politics of consensus building and the creation of new ideas he shamelessly speaks with a forke ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 17, 2009 |
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It was only a matter of time before I came around to addressing the persistently backhanded attempts by some brazen hangerson of exPresident J A Kufuor to blasphemously relegating the phenomenal achievements of the Doyen of Gold Coast and modern Ghanaian politics to a mere and mildly colorful backdrop to the largely passable if also stunningly ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 |
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Ordinarily I would not be commenting on issues of a personal nature to the Nkrumah family and on the latter score I use family in the context of kinship or the clan system as Akans know it I wasnt going to comment on it because I tend to envisage Mr Kwame Nkrumah in terms of his remarkable impact for good or ill on postcolonial Ghanaian ... Read more |
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Friday, October 09, 2009 |
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Birthday Boy Many Happy ReturnsBlack isbeautiful inthe eyes ofthe blackbeholder whohas beenignored andspurned andmorphed into abrainless beastof burden andsexfiend inthe wild andwantonfantasiesof blueeyedblond menbored andcloyed withhaving hadtoo muchfun withbimboblondesOppositest ... Read more |
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Friday, October 09, 2009 |
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Gramps Stanleywas one darngood white manunderstandablyhis one bigfaultwas his earnestdesireto forgetthe pastto forgetthose dayswhen the saleof black folksto white folksby bothblack andwhite folkshad justgiven wayto the treatmentof black folksas nothing morethan trashthose dayswhen black ... Read more |
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Friday, October 09, 2009 |
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My Mothers Brothers SonTodayover crystal mugsof beeryou will broachAmericas greatesttabootodayover roast beefand potato chipstwo men anda serpentshall stirthe hornetsnestI wishthe main coursewere ripechili peppersand alligator soupfor it is an affairof our badlybatterednational soultho ... Read more |
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Friday, October 09, 2009 |
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The world was violent I was learning unpredictable and often cruelDreams from My FatherYesa mantakes onthe powersof whateverhe eats rotten foodthe sicknessit begetsdog meatthe loudand strangesnarlsheard throughthe thickbulletproof wallsof dreamsat nightthe crunchytangy tasteof ro ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
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Like many African countries crudely governed by strongmen Uganda is a country that retains its identity as a nation largely because of British colonial demarcation not because it has any semblance of political coherence or sociocultural organicity And this is painfully attested by the fact that during the more than two decades that Mr Yoweri M ... Read more |
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Monday, October 05, 2009 |
I have been slowly but studiously following the Mabey and Johnson contractual scam with no mean or small measure of amusement Of course the comical aspect of it all regards less the fact that those selfrighteous revolutionary executioners of yesteryear have been clinically unmasked for what most Ghanaians have always known them to be re ... Read more |
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Monday, October 05, 2009 |
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Ordinarily I would not be commenting on this patently pedestrian aspect of Ghanaian politics this is what New Yorkers call Monday Morning Quarterbacking The Quarterback is of course the most cardinal player in the American game of Football which is to be readily distinguished from Association Football or more appropriately Soccer The lat ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 |
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Time it has been said has a way of healing even the most painful and traumatic wounds In Ghanaian political circles however time seems to be more of a stupefying anodyne to the most fundamental truth of the wellexamined life as it were And so years after the demise of our countrys most notorious tyrant and years after his landmark o ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 |
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It is rather ironic that just about the same time that President John Evans AttaMills was calling on Ghanaians irrespective of ideological suasion to harmoniously rally around the nonbirth centenary celebration of former President Nkrumahs birthday a woefully misguided and perhaps fanatical traditional ruler in the BrongAhafo Region was fe ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 |
Last year when he won the Nkawkaw parliamentary seat as an Independent candidate I exploded with jubilation even while also wondering why he had not run on the ticket of the thenruling New Patriotic Party NPPOf course I am herein talking about my good friend and classmate Mr Seth AdjeiBaah I would shortly learn to my consternation ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 |
It is not clear to whom the New Patriotic Party presidential candidate sent his felicitations visàvis the nonbirth centenary birthday celebration of Mr Kwame Nkrumah Ghanas first president See Nana AkufoAddo Celebrates Nkrumahs Birthday Statesman What is clear however is that the dauphin of former President Edward Akuf ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 |
Tomorrow marks the nonbirth birthday of Ghanas first postcolonial prime minister and subsequently selfstyled lifepresident Mr Kwame Nkrumah Had he lived the putative African Show Boy would have been celebrating his th birthday anniversary Actually he would not have been celebrating his authentic birthday anniversary because ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 |
In the heated leadup to the general election one of the major presidential candidates was asked at a forum what he thought about the high spate of crime in Ghana in recent times The concerned New York Cityresident Ghanaian citizen suggested that a significant part of the problem may have to do with the opening up of the country and the Wes ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 |
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The Ghanaian Statesman has reported in an editorial that a flagbearer for the New Patriotic Party NPP will be elected come March See NPP to Choose Flagbearer in March Ghanawebcom The twoyear interval between the nomination of the NPP flagbearer and Election of course is to afford Ghanas main opposition party ample ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 19, 2009 |
I have not had the glorious occasion to write in celebration of Mr Reginald Reynolds Amponsah who died recently in the Ghanaian capital of Accra at the advanced age of if memory serves me right Ironically though I have been acutely aware of Mr Amponsahs enviable contributions to Ghanas struggle for liberation from British colonial rule ... Read more |
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Friday, September 18, 2009 |
In the aftermath of President Barack H Obamas whirlwind tour of Ghana this July Ghanas Information minister Ms Zita Okaikoi was reported to have caviled the staterun Ghana Television GTV for woefully failing to capture and beam qualitative pictures and sound to both the local and international media Some critics of GTV were also reported ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
During Ghanas First Republic Mr William Paa Willie OforiAtta was widely regarded as the conscience of the parliamentary opposition to the extant ruling Convention Peoples Party CPP Back then as this writers late father a staunch CPP member and sometime Action Trooper was fond of telling his younger son and namesake Mr William Ofori ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 13, 2009 |
In the main the decision by the AttaMills government to retrench the duration of Ghanas preuniversity educational system will not change much substantively curriculumwise For as this writer understands it or actually has been made to understand by someone more expert at it the current system makes the duration of Ghanas preuniversity edu ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 13, 2009 |
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As usual the Ghana News Agency GNA report was so sophomorically and amateurishly composed that at the end of it all the reader was left wondering whatever happened to the good old respectable art of hardnews reportage No wonder quite a while ago the overall head of the GNA I forget how she is designated these days was reported to not ... Read more |
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Friday, September 11, 2009 |
Ghanas president Dr John Evans AttaMills was recently reported to be contemplating declaring September as a national holiday in commemoration of the birth of deposed late President Kwame Nkrumah We have already written about this issue before and shall be writing about it once more in due courseThe one thing with which we are herei ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 |
Barely two days after President Barack H Obamas landmark tour of Ghana Americas whiteconservative talkradio pontiff Mr Rush Limbaugh was reported in an article published on Ghanawebcom to be calling the first AfricanAmerican president of the United States of America a shameless hypocriteNow it is significant to point out that this ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
Thankfully the partial rerun of the Akwatia parliamentary election redounded to the widely expected benefit of the New Patriotic Party NPP with the latter partys Dr Kofi Asare delightfully trouncing the notoriously violent Baba Jamal the deputy Eastern Regional minister by to Still in the grim context of what we know of the u ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
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The widely reported brutal assault on Ghanas ambassador to Guinea Mr Dominic Aboagye by three armed men claiming to be bona fide members of the Guinean national army comes just days before some youthful recruits of the ruling National Democratic Congress NDC savagely assaulted some leading members of the opposition New Patriotic Party NPP ... Read more |
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Monday, August 17, 2009 |
As is usual with most government reports pertaining to ministerial misconduct I did not halfexpect the latest report on Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak to be trenchant or unduly damning for the simple reason that the referendum as it were was as much about the gubernatorial competence or the lack thereof of the AttaMills administration as it was abo ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 15, 2009 |
Under the Kufuorled New Patriotic Party NPP administration we were constantly being reminded that the spate of crime was way out of control Ghanas longestruling dictator even used the apparently unacceptable highcrime rate as an electioneering campaign mantra to rocket his ward Comrade Oguaa Kofi into the praetors chairNow however ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
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I am not the least bit enthused by President AttaMills exuberant remark to the effect that negotiations were ongoing to ensure that the NDC campaign promise of supplying elementary school pupils with free uniforms was wholly and solely undertaken by local Ghanaian textile companiesTo begin with there is absolutely no convincing evidence t ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
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Gramps was a free spiritThe choiceof siresis not oursto makenevercould have beenanyhowour beingin spaceand timecould never beone of choiceour beingin spaceand timeis one ofsheerdestinyto whosetruckwe aretiedlovebeyondblack andwhite andyellow andbrown andreda critters ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
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A stiffupper lipthis lurid testof blackand whitelovein broaddaylightthis passingblight ofrawyouthfullustin another timeand same placeit would havebeen reckoneda scandalof utmostshameandto becertaina scandalof greatshameit wasa stiffupper lipdeepbated breatha hard gulpor tw ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
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The world was violent I was learning unpredictable and often cruelDreams from My FatherYesa mantakes onthe powersof whateverhe eats rotten foodthe sicknessit begetsdog meatthe loudand strangesnarlsheard throughthe thickbulletproof wallsof dreamsat nightthe crunchytangy taste ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
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The cultural savagery induced by some African governments and individuals in recent weeks is becoming too glaringly embarrassing to be allowed to persist without any remark And the fact that such untoward anomaly has violently reared its ugly head at the very moment that many African leaders and politicians are vehemently clamoring for the process ... Read more |
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Monday, August 03, 2009 |
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So far the one major American social critic and commentator who has constructively put the GatesCrowley Affair into perspective is Frank Rich the longtime theater reviewer for the New York Times In an article poetically titled Small Beer Big Hangover New York Times the renowned critic notes that the conservativeAmerican perspectiv ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 02, 2009 |
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Two weeks after the fact many quite prominent Americans writers and intellectuals continue to weigh in on the GatesCrowley Affair The latest of one such major contributor is Mr Bob Herbert columnist for the celebrated New York Times In an article captioned Anger Has Its Place Mr Herbert appears to firmly believe that due to their long ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 01, 2009 |
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A lot of thoughts run through my mind as I watched the key players in the July Cambridge Mass domestic arrest of the renowned Harvard University professor that was widely beamed around the globe sip at generous mugs of beer with their hosts at the White House namely the President of the United States and his vice on television What w ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
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Pitchblack anddark asthe nightthe unknownfather of yourdreamsthe fuzzy figureon the graymarginsof mythsbroad andbulgingforeheadpregnantwith placiddreams ofa unitedandprosperousAfricaPitchblackas taror hotsteamingcoffeeinto whicha maidenwhite andsilken assoy milkis pouredandch ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
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The nodthe knowing smileof anold manin a stoopit isthe leadenweight ofpiebald yearsthe leadenweight ofmemoriesrooted instygian depthsof timebetweenthe crookedcrotch ofEast andWestHarlema briar patchwhere lifein the Big Applebegana poodlespoopdroppedcarelesslyin walkwaysof those ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
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The Tragic MulattoWe do notchoose our siresnot consciouslythe way we chooseour friendsand spousesstillinextricablywe areimplicatedin the romanticflushes ofpleasuresdeeds andmisdeedsof those whowilled usthis wayplantedat crossroadsbetween twomutually exclusiveworldsone that isall ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 |
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When Sgt James Crowley says that Speaking about my mother just beyond words I perfectly understand exactly what the Cambridge Mass police officer is talking about For nearly two years now I havent been able to pick up the receiver of the phone in my office at Nassau Community College because in my pa ... Read more |
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Friday, July 24, 2009 |
I was not the least bit unamused when the legendary Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr was recently shown on television handcuffed by the Cambridge Massachusetts police It was actually the alleged crime for which the man was cuffed that made the resplendent spectacle all the more amusing Professor Gates had been espied by an e ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 |
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I was not the least bit unamused when the legendary Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr was recently shown on television handcuffed by the Cambridge Massachusetts police It was actually the alleged crime for which the man was cuffed that made the resplendent spectacle all the more amusing Professor Gates had been espied by an e ... Read more |
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Monday, July 20, 2009 |
I am neither a lawyer nor a constitutional lawyer for that matter but I have been compelled to write about the subject several times during the past year hardly to my liking particularly visàvis Ghanas parliamentary election The issue that has preoccupied me for the past year regards Ghanaianborn residents abroad who decided to heed earne ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 19, 2009 |
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In Kenyait has beenraining bloodraining bloodall over the landin Kenyaafter the latest bath of bloodour kinsfolkstill wrangleover the packageof blamein Kenyathey dourlypass the blamein Kenyablame isbeing passedaroundlike saltshakerat dinnerthe peoples repscan stillnot decideand so the ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 |
I dont quite know whom he intends to bamboozle with his flagrantly false presentation of modern Ghanaian history but anytime that I have had the misfortune of reading his patently false Nkrumaist approach to Ghanaian history I have also been very thankful that Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom had chosen to study economics and business management in college ... Read more |
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Monday, July 13, 2009 |
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Cape Coast Gold Coast On this date the British sailor Capt John Newton a recently selfproclaimed bornagain Christian wrote the following immortalized words for the nowfamous and classic hymn How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds while awaiting his consignment of slaves bound for the New WorldHow sweet the name of Jesu ... Read more |
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Monday, July 13, 2009 |
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the chief doesnt rushHe meets consults and then decidesOlara A Otunnu New York Times We atethe bananaswaited for waterate the bananaswaited for water ate the bananaswaited for waterate the bananasand waitedfor waterand made a mad dash for the wastelandwe atethe ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 12, 2009 |
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Noah and Sodom ReprisedWhat happenedto Sodomand Gomorrahis herewith usonce morethirty centuriesof temporal stasiswhich is whyit was hardlyany surpriseit happened againtodayit happenedas we awaitedthe secondcomingof AfricasAmericanfirst bornit beganin Noahs timethis chronic diseaseit exist ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 12, 2009 |
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Obama is Coming so WhatEvenin the bestof timesnot every kinsmanor womanmay be convincedto join incelebrationof that whichbrings gloryto all membersof the claneven asshared bloodis not the sameas sharedsoulsfor kinshipis a choiceof chanceeven asfriendshipis one ofspirit andsoulen ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 11, 2009 |
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Associated InsultsWhile Michelle Obamas greatgreat grandfather was a slave in South Carolina his African origins are not known Associated Press An insult to injuryan injury to insultrubbing salt and pepperinto my running souls sorethe saywherever the sonsand daughters andnephews and niecesand ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 11, 2009 |
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For Michelle and the Spirit of JoyI have just been wonderinghad you notbeen wrestedcallouslyfrom uswhere in Ghanayou might have beenbornand alsowhat nameyou would have beengiven by your parentsto proudly weara name whosevirtuous importyou would have hadto live bydayinand outbut I guess ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 11, 2009 |
Folkloric DrumScriptThis is GhanaListen to GhanaThis is GhanaListen to GhanaThis is GhanaThis is GhanaThis is GhanaGhanais the landwhere men first beganto build in stonethis is the landof AdansiPipimmasterbuilderunbested makerof war andpeacehere alsothe Akan art ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 11, 2009 |
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Our Kinsman Slept under Our RoofTonightis a great nightfor Ghanaand Africaand Americaand Asiaand Europeand Australiaand South Americaand all the world as welltonightAfricas firstAmerican sonis at homeand at peacewith himselfbeing alsoamonghis owna decade agothe Scottish onedeclinedto spendt ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 11, 2009 |
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Kotoka International AirportIt is not that Ghana has always had the best and brightestof the proverbial cream of the leadershipcropnot even that our leadershiphas largelyor even mostly beenof the democratic stockjust that some of ushave been braveand courageous enoughto be willingto spillour own bloodt ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 11, 2009 |
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Christiansborg AccraGhanaThe stenchof past epic misdeedsis rather too heavyin the airthe landmarksof our hostage pasttoo striking andpalpableto be forgottenanytime soon the gaping scarsare there for allto seewonder howit came aboutthat we now seemto have overcomeso muchin so shorta timeand ye ... Read more |
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Friday, July 10, 2009 |
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Cape Coast GhanaAt Cape Coastwe bowed our headsin sorrowand shamerecalling the agoniesof our forebearsthe wicked complicityof kinsmenand sometimeseven parentsAt Cape Coastthe ghoulish stenchof slaverystared usstiffly andmorbidlyin the faceflaring upour nostrilsto the wrenchingpoint ofhyp ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 04, 2009 |
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I fully appreciate the kind and level of ire I am apt to provoke among fanatics of the Nkrumaist circles and I am not the least bit perturbed to stir the proverbial hornets nest since the caption for this article was practically foisted on me by an article that I read on Ghanawebcom titled Controversy Unlimited BlayMiezahs Billions ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 04, 2009 |
In the wake of President Barack Hussein Obamas first official visit to the African continent actually subSaharan Africa since assuming his august and pioneering reins of governance of the United States of America reams of miniessays and articles have been written and published in anticipation of this momentous occasion But that President ... Read more |
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Friday, July 03, 2009 |
We intentionally decided not to comment on it when recently Mr Rawlings and his wife traveled to La Côte dIvoire reportedly at the official invitation of President Laurent Gbagbo on the occasion of the Golden anniversary celebration of the Ivorian National Bar Association It is also interesting to recall that just about the same time the G ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
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I have firmly maintained for quite sometime now that not only do Ghanaians observe too many statutory or statemandated public holidays but even more significantly that most of these holidays beyond a wellneeded occasional respite have absolutely no relevance for our cultural history as a progressloving people To be certain this slew of ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
When on June the Ghana News Agency GNA reported the departure of Prof John Evans AttaMills for Libya on the occasion of the th Summit of the African PeerReview Mechanism APRM I could not help but double up with laughter For Libya with its yearreigning dynastic strongman is the last place on Earth that any leaders worth t ... Read more |
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Monday, June 29, 2009 |
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I just finished reading the rejoinder of the ruling National Democratic Congress American branch to the opposition New Patriotic Partys United States branch with quite an amusement As usual I had to begin reading from the penultimate paragraph of the rejoinder which was signed by NDCUSA GeneralSecretary Mr Osborne K Sam At best the NDCUSA ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 27, 2009 |
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As is usual with most government reports pertaining to ministerial misconduct I did not halfexpect the latest report on Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak to be trenchant or unduly damning for the simple reason that the referendum as it were was as much about the gubernatorial competence or the lack thereof of the AttaMills administration as it was abo ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 |
When I first came across the news item captioned Tsikata Blesses Henrietta Abban May She Rise to the Top MyJoyOnlinecom I couldnt stop myself from sneering For indeed one had to be extremely daft to believe that the notorious convicted scamartist demonic mind behind the PNDC death squad otherwise known as the Peoples Court an ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 |
The New Patriotic Party NPP may be up to its pate in a stygian plume of coke smoke but there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that it is the ruling National Democratic Congress NDC that is experiencing all the proverbial high from such freebasingWell in case any of our readers are wondering precisely what the lede to this arti ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
While it may seem laudable the decision by President John Evans AttaMills to seriously consider the sticky question of public funding for political parties may be woefully premature And here it bears reminding ourselves that barely three days ago the president approved a humongous million package for the funding of personal automobiles for ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
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Following revelation by the Nigerian media website Pointblanknewscom that the founding patriarch of Ghanas ruling National Democratic Congress NDC served as a conduit for the illegal transfer of the whopping amount of million into the NDCs electioneering campaign chest an aide to Ghanas longestreigning dictator has been doing the roun ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 21, 2009 |
On June an interesting news feature appeared on a website called Ghanascopenet The news feature captioned How Nigeria Funded NDC in the Election detailed how the governor of Nigerias Rivers State Mr Rotimi Amaechi allegedly funneled an estimated amount of million into the electioneering campaign chest of Ghanas rulin ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 20, 2009 |
I have always firmly believed that even if it wields power for tenthousand years the government of the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC would never know what it means to wisely pursue a civilized democratic culture For as the ageold maxim goes Once a murderer always a murderer The Akan have an even more poignant dictum that obs ... Read more |
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Friday, June 19, 2009 |
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The decision by Ghanas Ministry of Education to assist actively engaged teachers as well as other educationalsector workers in owning their own homes is without a doubt a laudable idea and one that has been almost too long in coming See Housing Scheme for Teachers Sustainable TetteyEnyo MyJoyOnlinecom Still even as one thoug ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
There is a very embarrassing and downright shameful development raging in Ghana even as I write which seriously impugns that great albeit geographically modest countrys democratic culture and credentials as an enviable model for the emergent democracies on the African continent that I firmly believe you President Barack Hussein Obama ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
In the wake of his election as Member of Parliament for AkyemAbuakwa South I have been studiously following the meteoric rise of Mr AttaAkyea When we schooled together at the AkuapemAkropong Presbyterian Boys Boarding School SALEM in the s I knew him as Master Samuel Akyea and he was a year my junior as a I vividly recall His half ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
In the wake of his election as Member of Parliament for AkyemAbuakwa South I have been studiously following the meteoric rise of Mr AttaAkyea When we schooled together at the AkuapemAkropong Presbyterian Boys Boarding School SALEM in the s I knew him as Master Samuel Akyea and he was a year my junior as a I vividly recall His half ... Read more |
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Monday, June 15, 2009 |
In the leadup to its plenary national confab during which the New Patriotic Party NPP would strategically determine its agenda for Election a founding member of the party was quoted to be implying that unless the ideological scions of the DanquahBusia and some also add Dombo tradition select somebody from the South like a Ga Fante o ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 14, 2009 |
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Dont expect Ghanas Minister for Agriculture to be talking about the Acheampongminted Operation Feed Yourself OFY program anytime soon And for those of our readers who may be unaware of OFY it was perhaps the most successful agricultural program launched by any Ghanaian government during the past halfcentury of our countrys reassertion of ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 |
When he calls on media operators and practitioners to check their facts before going public with the same See Ahwoi Urges Media to Check Their Facts Ghanawebcom Ghanas agriculture minister could not be more agreeable But when he pontifically stakes the dubious claim that under the socalled AMSEC program agricultural mac ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 |
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At the thanniversary celebration of the founding of the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC that was recently held at the National Theater in Accra VicePresident John Dramani Mahama was reported to have assured party faithful and the rest of the country at large that the NDC will deliver on its campaign promisesa socially friendl ... Read more |
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Monday, June 08, 2009 |
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When the former Albert Bernard Bongo died of an unspecified form of cancer in the Spanish city of Barcelona yesterday at years old he left behind a fatherinlaw and another continental African strongman who at could easily be taken for the younger brother of the Gabonese leader or even his nephew I personally have several uncles who b ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 07, 2009 |
I read about Mr Kwesi Pratts most recent interview on Radio GoldFms Alhaji and Alhaji program and could literally not stop myself from falling off my chair Mr Pratts interview had to do with the sticky question of fuelprice hikes by the AttaMills administrationFor those members of our audience who may not already know this the r ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 |
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I dont in the least bit delight in making it seem almost as if I am desperately trying to carve an epic media niche for myself by incessantly picking on Ghanas minister for Women and Childrens Affairs but one thing is almost certain and it is that Ms Akua Sena Dansua is not making her teachers proud And I am not even sure whether her fa ... Read more |
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Monday, June 01, 2009 |
Ms Akua Sena Dansuas alleged lamentation over the year duration of Ghanas secondary educational system denying women the right to early marriage is to be certain far less rankling to me than her very call for the already woefully inadequate year highschool curriculum to be reviewed and possibly reduced by a year MyJoyOnlinecom ... Read more |
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Sunday, May 31, 2009 |
By Kwame OkoampaAhoofe Jr PhDThe president of Ghanas National Association of Graduate Teachers assertion that the quality of education in Ghana does not lie in merely extending the duration of courses has some inescapable truth and validity Nonetheless it is equally true that goodquality education is inevitably predicated ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 30, 2009 |
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By Kwame OkoampaAhoofe Jr PhDMs Akua Sena Dansuas alleged lamentation over the year duration of Ghanas secondary educational system denying women the right to early marriage is to be certain far less rankling to me than her very call for the already woefully inadequate year highschool curriculum to be reviewed and possibly reduced ... Read more |
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Monday, May 25, 2009 |
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In the United States the month of March has been widely observed to provoke rampant instances of lunacy among citizens disposed towards violence Oftentimes such lunacy comes in the form of shooting sprees in which innocent people lose their lives at the hands of clinical basket cases with an axe or two to grind In recent years such violent i ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 23, 2009 |
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By Kwame OkoampaAhoofe Jr PhDI have often been amused by Ghanaian critics of my articles on the various websites who cavalierly presume to deride the fact that I teach at a community college in the United States In the opinion of many of these critics I am only the lowerclass intellectual of a glorified high school The fact that I ... Read more |
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Monday, May 18, 2009 |
I read of President Barack Obamas proposed overnight stopover in Ghana in July this year and did not particularly feel any enthusiasm about it Then my good friend and adopted elder brother Mr Kwasi Ohene phoned me this Sunday to confirm the same news reportAs usual Opanyin Kwasi was poignantly analytical about the decidedly inc ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 02, 2009 |
By Kwame OkoampaAhoofe Jr PhDIn the wake of President John Evans AttaMills naming of his twinbrother to membership of a tenman Economic Advisory Council EAC ideological opposition tongues have reportedly begun wagging over what many of these critics perceive to be palpable evidence of nepotism being at the very heart of the pr ... Read more |
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Monday, April 27, 2009 |
By Kwame OkoampaAhoofe JrAtumpan News Agency When he hugged and kissed his wife Charlotte and daughter Allyson goodbye and they all departed for church that Sunday March none of the three including the man of the house knew that this would be the final parting of the ways between husband and wife as well as father and d ... Read more |
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Sunday, April 26, 2009 |
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By Kwame OkoampaAhoofe Jr PhDI read Mr Desmond AyimAboagyes article titled President of National House of Chiefs Why Asantehene Modernghanacom with more than a little amusement First of all the article contains the kind of ratiocinative hollowness that one readily associates with a teenager an intellect ... Read more |
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Sunday, April 19, 2009 |
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Not very long ago a colleague with whom I am no longer on speaking terms he it was who took the initiative and has even since dastardly resorted to leaving verbally pornographic messages on my official voicemail system nearly every other week for some two years now wore one of those fauxpropaganda cottonprints to campus His fadylooki ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
An April news report published on the website of leading privatelyowned media organization JoyFm had the communications director of President John Evans AttaMills claiming that it was the immutable policy of the ruling National Democratic Congress NDC to systematically effectively and permanently marginalize media organizations whi ... Read more |
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Monday, April 13, 2009 |
When President Barack Obama reportedly phoned Ghanas president John Evans AttaMills on Friday April many of us expected both the Ghanaian media and Prof AttaMills National Democratic Congress NDC to make quite a lot of capital out of such a call And of course such capital might not altogether have been misplaced although t ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
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We have tangentially and obliquely crossed paths and it was not an occasion during which I really wanted to have any trucking with the man Interestingly though we both have a mutual friend who actually happens to be a senior schoolmate and a distant relative whom in fact I quite admire The problem that I have with this Busanga guy who e ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 |
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I was cursorily surfing the news pages of Ghanawebcom when a quite sensational caption titled AkufoAddo Removed rudely and garishly flashed up my face For splitsecond I did not know what to make of such a caption and the latter did not particularly bother me the least bit knowing what those of us avid students of postcolonial Ghan ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 04, 2009 |
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I was a little bit taken aback when I read a brief news item captioned ANC Condemns Tutus Sacrilege Modernghanacom The article reported by Peter Biles appeared on the website of the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC and so it must have been deemed to be of great moment by the editors on the Africa Desk at Bush HouseSuc ... Read more |
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Sunday, March 29, 2009 |
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On Saturday November I published an article on Modernghanacom captioned Please Keep the Head and Lets Move on with Our Lives at the time I suggested that were the author in a position to determine whether or not to negotiate with the Dutch government for the return of the head of Otumfuo Badu Bonsu II to Ghana he would ensure that ... Read more |
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
I have been following the short and recent career of Mr Musiliu Obanikuro the Nigerian high commissioner to Ghana in the country and cannot vouch that the man has halfconducted himself as professionally as the Ghanaian media whose practitioners he has gone on record as having rather imperiously accused of exhibiting unprofessional behavior G ... Read more |
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Monday, March 23, 2009 |
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To paraphrase a Ghanaian Times editorial on the allegedly deplorable state of the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in about seven months the fake birthday of our ace KGB Africa Regional Director LENIN PRIZE laureate and first premier of neocolonialist Ghana would be celebrated by some regressive charlatans and troglodytes called NKRUMAISTSAlready ... Read more |
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
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In the wake of a mammoth welcoming rally organized by some members of the opposition New Patriotic Party NPP in honor of the partys presidential candidate for Election at the Kotoka International Airport KIA a Mr John Kuma also reported to be a registered member of the NPP was quoted to be suggesting that such rally was in gross cont ... Read more |
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 |
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A March news article published by Ghanawebcom reported the remanding of an elementary schoolteacher into police custody for having allegedly administered two lashes or strokes of a willowcane on a yearold pupil whose subsequent death several hours later was circumstantially attributed to her caning by Mr Kwabena Gyan an ondu ... Read more |
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Monday, March 02, 2009 |
I read Mr Kwabena Mprahs opinion piece titled Founders Day Greatest Honor in Nkrumahs Memory Myjoyonlinecom with utter contempt as I have invariably done with the media fare of many an Nkrumah fanatic To be certain the CiiPiiPiiites would have a far better chance in getting the hulking and patently otiose African Union AU ... Read more |
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Saturday, February 28, 2009 |
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The todo over our Fourth Republican constitutional requirement that half of the ministerial portfolios be allotted to parliamentarians of the ruling party must be deemed as salutary for the development of Ghanas fledgling democratic culture See Doe Adjaho Mike Hammah Kick Against Ministerial Picks Modernghanacom More significantly ... Read more |
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 |
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If Dr Tony Aidoo is smarter than you are then there is every cause for your funereal celebration and here of course I am referring to Mr Frank Agyekums widely reported justification of the inexcusably obscene endoftenure sendoff package for President John AgyekumKufuor on the immitigably idiotic grounds that parceling out such morally a ... Read more |
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Saturday, January 31, 2009 |
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I dont know the details of exactly what transpired recently between President John Evans AttaMills and a delegation led by Sheikh Nuhu Sharabutu of the National Muslims Council NMC but a news article appeared in the Ghanawebcom edition of January captioned Qualified Muslims Would Be Given AppointmentsFrom the look of things ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 |
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The decision by President John Evans AttaMills to reduce the number of key cabinet portfolios may well have a laudable aspect to it even if this is largely theoretical For there is no gainsaying the fact that such ministerial portfolio retrenchment is very much in synch with the raging global economic crunch Still it is equally significant to ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 |
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Just as I was beginning to recover from the blinding biff that many of us concerned Ghanaian citizens both at home and abroad sustained from the latest presidential looting package aka gratuity I came across an article captioned NDC Guru Slaps Driver Modernghanacom The article recounted the savage slapping of her chauffeur by ... Read more |
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Saturday, January 24, 2009 |
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On the face of it Nana AkufoAddos assertion that he conceded electoral defeat to the nowPresident John Evans AttaMills in order to avoid a bloody clash between supporters of the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress as happened in Kenya and Zimbabwe Modernghanacom seems quite laudable and even noble However ... Read more |
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Monday, January 19, 2009 |
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The evidently forced premature resignation of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia from his post as a deputy governor of Ghanas central bank must be greeted with wistful sadness This is because Dr Bawumia appears to have been forced out of his job primarily for exercising his democratic and citizenship right of making the quite noble and laudable decision to p ... Read more |
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Monday, January 19, 2009 |
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When the former National Democratic Congress NDC Member of Parliament MP for Keta Mr Dan Abodakpi decries what the exconvict terms as the New Patriotic Partys attempt at unnecessarily denting the image of the Volta Region he grossly understates the factual reality regarding the general attitude of the inhabitants of that region towards t ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 18, 2009 |
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I just finished reading an article published in the Ghanawebcom edition of Jan captioned The NPP Still Doesnt Get It The article is signed by an obviously dyedinthewool sympathizer or an aficionado of the Rawlingschaperoned National Democratic Congress NDC who also claims to have studiously followed the political activities ... Read more |
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Saturday, January 17, 2009 |
You see the New York Times is a global newspaper of record that can almost as easily make or break the fortunes of many a significant personality as well as hisher image And this largely explains why on June when the New York Times quoted me in an article on the managerial efficiency or lack thereof of Mayor Michael R Bloomberg I c ... Read more |
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Saturday, January 17, 2009 |
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As a parting shot to newlyelected premier John Evans AttaMills our nowformer president John AgyekumKufuor reportedly announced an increment in salary for various categories of public workers ranging between and percent It was a parting shot a pugilistic jab almost because we learn that the twoterm leader bypassed civilservice ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
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Last Saturday my wifes cousin Vice called to urge her to advise me to be careful with these reams of articles I keep hammering out onto the press titled The Volta Virus I have become quite fond of Sister Vice a lot and almost spend more time talking to her on the phone on the occasions that she calls maybe thrice or four times a ... Read more |
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Monday, January 12, 2009 |
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The new presidential spokesman for Prof John Evans AttaMills looks to be a quite interesting character though I am not holding my breath in anticipation of the dawn of a democratic dispensation as he enthusiastically claims There is a saying among the rural folks of the southern United States which runs as follows You may gussy up a pig with ... Read more |
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Monday, January 12, 2009 |
Quite predictably I read Ekow Nelsons Open Letter to Samia Nkrumah Ghanawebcom with a mixture of amusement and anger For starters the facile presumption on the part of the letter writer that the glorious and enviable niche carved by the DanquahBusialeaning New Patriotic Party NPP can be readily occupied by the rumpConvention ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 11, 2009 |
In a recent interview that he gave a local Ghanaian radio station Dr Kwadwo AfariGyan chairman of Ghanas Electoral Commission EC disclosed that he had been receiving death threats since he began conducting nationwide polls in So obviously such threats are nothing new in the Electoral Commissioners line of duty and life Ghanawebco ... Read more |
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Friday, January 09, 2009 |
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The mess created by the poor combination of abject lack of election scheduling foresight and OldSleepyEyes crass deviousness continues to reverberate across Ghanas political landscape and this chaotic political climate is likely to prevail for quite awhileHere in the United States for example there is ample period constitutionally al ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 |
For the most part I have absolutely no use for the socalled foreign electoral monitors who have these days made a religiously routine habit of sprinting into the Third World particularly African countries anytime that elections are scheduled to be held For the most part these observers and monitors station themselves where they feel safest ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 |
It appears that not having fully satisfied themselves with unleashing a vicious and traumatic defeat at the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party NPP for Election certain germinal strains of the politically lethal Volta Virus have decided to further drive their apparent archnemesis into total and permanent oblivion And going ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 |
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In all probability Election was the bestorganized event of its kind on the African continent Still such laudable feat ought not to be allowed to conveniently overshadow the grievous threat of the Volta Virus Indeed as a shootfromthehip NDC propagandist pointed out not quite awhile ago in delirious response to my clinical and allto ... Read more |
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Monday, January 05, 2009 |
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In the leadup to the presidential runoff when thenNDC flagbearer Prof John Evans AttaMills promised to make a drastic reduction in fuel prices the topmost priority of his first days in office we promptly knew intuitively that such campaign promise like coital sweetnothings had to be taken with the proverbial pinch of salt ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 04, 2009 |
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The concession of electoral defeat by the presidential candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP Nana Addo Dankwa AkufoAddo to the presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress NDC and now PresidentElect AttaMills has been widely reported in the global media And this is all well and good for the democratic ... Read more |
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Friday, January 02, 2009 |
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We are deeply amazed but hardly surprised that President J A Kufuor would issue a statement seeking to flagrantly interfere with justice and the rule of law under Ghanas fledgling democratic culture The lameduck president is indeed quite right that many of us Ghanaians resident both at home and abroad had our Yuletide and New Year festiv ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 01, 2009 |
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In the wake of massive electionrelated demonstrations by disgruntled New Patriotic Party NPP supporters and sympathizers in the Asante regional capital of Kumasi in which two television journalists were reportedly injured the foundingproprietor of the opposition National Democratic Congress NDC issued a thinly veiled warning to President Jo ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
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I read Mr Koku Anyidohos unpardonably arrogant and downright disingenuous and diabolical call for Nana AkufoAddo to prematurely withdraw from the ongoing presidential runoff against Prof AttaMills who clearly lost the first round on December with all the contempt that such mischievous call deservesIn fact I wish the NDC commu ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
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As of this writing and in the wake of Dr Kwadwo AfariGyans announcement that until the people of the Tain Constituency in the BrongAhafo Region have been allowed to vote in the grave bid to determining who gets to pilot the proverbial Ghanaian ship of state for the next four years the perennially imposed presidential candidate of ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
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The call by the Ghana National Media Commission NMC for Mr Raymond Archer to publish two consecutive apologies in the Enquirer newspaper edited by Mr Archer is dead on target The latter is reported to have personally disparaged Justice Henrietta Abban the Accra highcourt judge who sentenced Mr Tsatsu Tsikata to six years of imprisonment f ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 27, 2008 |
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The Ghanaian Times made a big headline splash of it Mills Accepts Results And just exactly what sort of results are we talking about The deadlocked results of the most recent Ghanaian presidential election of courseWhat is rather fascinating about this turn of events is that until Election former VicePresident John Ev ... Read more |
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Friday, December 26, 2008 |
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Until I read about his justpublished book titled Rawlings Murder and Lies on Modernghanacom I faintly remembered the name of exCorporal Mathew Adabuga the author The latter who reportedly testified about having perpetrated untold atrocities against many an innocent Ghanaian citizen at the instigation of thenretired FltLt ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 25, 2008 |
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I fully appreciate the lifethreatening text messages received by Ms Philippa Baafi the quite popular Ghanaian gospel singer because early Monday morning some of the same cowards sent me three messages Myjoyonlinecom I only read the subjecttitles of the messages and promptly deleted them from my personal computer PC I did not o ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 |
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I strongly disagree with the Minister of Tourisms assertion to the Ghanaian electorate that the Dec presidential election runoff is no doordie affair Myjoyonlinecom Were the preceding in fact the case there would be absolutely no need for Ghanaians to go to the polls For it goes without saying that whichever of the t ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 |
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The story appeared in the Ghanaian Statesmans Dec edition and it was captioned Kwesi Pratt Prof Mills is every inch like Mr Rawlings Perhaps it would have been better titled Prof Mills is Every Bit like Mr Rawlings or Prof Mills is the Mirror Image of Dzelukope JatoIn the wake of the Dec presidential election dea ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 21, 2008 |
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It has been said that curiosity was that which killed the cat Still in the case of the latter since this feline has nine lives it presumably was readily able to recover and even learn a lesson or two And this may primarily explain why many cats continue to roam the rafters of many Ghanaian homesIn the case of the ruling New Patriotic Par ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 21, 2008 |
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As usual I read Mr Kwabena Sarfos rather desultory and piddling article presumptuously titled Hitlist Emanated from Danquah Institute Modernghanacom with decided contempt In his liner note as it were the writer facilely claims that his supposed expertise in Internet Technology IT enabled him to trace the IP address purpo ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
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Less than two weeks after we observed that Dracula has an incurable and pathological penchant for human blood a body guard of Your Monstership was caught with a hankycovered pistol at of all places the august Manhyia Palace of the regnant Asantehene Otumfuo OseiTutu II And although digitized pictures of the horrifying interception were w ... Read more |
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Monday, December 15, 2008 |
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About five years ago I met a middleaged AfricanAmerican woman who had adopted the township and people of the Nkwanta district of the Volta Region of Ghana as her kin We had met at the Schomburg Library for Research in Black Culture billed as housing the single largest collection of literature and artifacts on African people across the globe T ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 14, 2008 |
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In the wake of the deadlocked justended Ghanaian presidential election the flagbearer of the rumpConvention Peoples Party CPP was reported to be claiming that he could only throw his electoral support behind either major two political parties that amply demonstrates its willingness to buy hook line and sinker into the CPPs political ideolog ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 13, 2008 |
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Lets get this straight and right off the bat as it were I do not hate Mr Tsatsu Tsikata for there is absolutely nothing about the man that I either envy or admire One thing though is clear and incontrovertible I unreservedly have great and indescribable contempt for the man and what he has come to represent and symbolize on the contempora ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 |
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The recent raiding of the Arts Center Market in Accra by Interpol in search of illegal ivory merchandise reminded me of another widely publicized incident that occurred in and involved thenPresident Daniel arap Moi of Kenya see Police Interpol Raid Arts Center Market Ghanawebcom In the Kenyan incident globally televise ... Read more |
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Friday, December 05, 2008 |
There is something unsavoury about the rhetoric of the Convention Peoples Party flagbearer Paa Kwesi Nduom Something just doesnt sit rightThroughout the presidential campaign he has been outlining a socialist vision of state ownership and control of much of the economy paid for by taxing people Hes sketched an outline of this plan whic ... Read more |
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Friday, November 28, 2008 |
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When he first threw his hat into the presidential contest we quite accurately predicted that his apparently remarkable professional success and all Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom had absolutely no significant or constructive agenda for the development of our country On the eve of the December general election the former CPPMP for the KomendaEdinaEgua ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
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We have time and time again counseled this obstetriciangynecologist to stick to his muchindemand and venerable trade and stop pretending as if national politics is squarely about a sophomoric game of empty promises And so it hardly comes as any surprise at all that Dr Edward N Mahama presidential candidate of the Peoples National Conventi ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
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Last week a Londonbased organization calling itself Policy Strategy Associates Inc released polling figures indicating that the perennial and twicerejected thrice if one decides to count electoral runoffs as well presidential candidate of the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC was commandingly ahead of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 23, 2008 |
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Recently the ButcherofDzelukope was reported to have stormed the palace of His Majesty Otumfuo OseiTutu II the Asantehene with his usual arrogance and lack of good breeding on shameless display see that short man whats his name Rawlings on AkufoAddo Daily Guide Ironically the former halfGhanaian strongman also report ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 22, 2008 |
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A Daily Guide story bylined Halifax AnsahAddo reports of the longestreigning Ghanaian dictator telling a group of visiting Nigerian university students how the supposedly charismatic leader of the socalled Armed Forces Revolutionary Council AFRC got former Army Commander Neville Alexander OdarteyWellington summarily executed by some juniorra ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 16, 2008 |
I couldnt help feeling deeply insulted after reading the article pretentiously titled Policy Strategy Poll Atta Mills Leads AkufoAddo which appeared in the Ghanawebcom edition of Nov Not only is the article which pretends to be reporting the results of a scientific polling of some potential Ghanaian voters in the heated ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 15, 2008 |
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I dont know and I also dont see why some Ghanaians feel so abjectly selfrighteous as to demand that Ms Frances Awurabena Asiam march according to their stereotypical or conventional notion of what constitutes consistent ideological integrity In other words for her most mordant critics the former National Womens Organizer of the socalle ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 15, 2008 |
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Journalism in Ghana has sustained a lot of whacking in recent weeks so I do not intend to reprise the same in this piece Actually it is the schlocky quality of what passes for mainstream Ghanaian journalism that has come up for quite a lot of thrashing and also trashing recently And deservedly so were you to ask me Which brings us to an art ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
Just when I thought I was recovering somewhat for one never really or fully recovers from such inevitably traumatic events from the recent passing of Eskia Ezekiel Mphahlele the South African literary giant now comes the earthquaking passing of Mama Africa The title of Mama Africa is widely known to be the copyrighted property of two ... Read more |
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Monday, November 10, 2008 |
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The story of a beheaded Ghanaian king of the nineteenth century soaked in formaldehyde in a medical laboratory at the University of Leiden naturally set my teeth on edge see Ghana Wants Dutch to Return Chiefs Head Ghanawebcom The story also filled me with deep anger until I read further down that the decapitated king by the name ... Read more |
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Monday, November 10, 2008 |
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It takes a person of high moral stature and courage like Dr Archibald Letsa to enter Election on the ticket of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP in the capital of the Volta Region For since when a democratic dispensation was reintroduced into the country after a decade of immitigable tyranny and statesponsored terrorism by the so ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 08, 2008 |
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The story of a beheaded Ghanaian king of the nineteenth century soaked in formaldehyde in a medical laboratory at the University of Leiden naturally set my teeth on edge see Ghana Wants Dutch to Return Chiefs Head Ghanawebcom The story also filled me with deep anger until I read further down that the decapitated king by the name ... Read more |
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Friday, November 07, 2008 |
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Those misguided Ghanaians who still believe that he bequeathed our country with an enviable democratic culture ought to have heard the Chief Lizard tell the good people of Ghanas heartland of the Asante Region how he has painstakingly remained faithful to the tenets of our present democratic dispensation in the dubious name of national unity and ... Read more |
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Monday, November 03, 2008 |
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This unsavory practice has been known for quite a long time and it may aptly be called HouseHogging It is a practice that undoubtedly has cost the Ghanaian taxpayer millions of cedis both in old and new currency notes and is still bleeding our fragile economy The practice entails government officials mainly political appointees continui ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 02, 2008 |
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It took the Accra FastTrack High Court more than six months to hand down its verdict but the good news is that the court finally decided to truck on the side of common sense and reason Indeed when Mr Egbert Faibille Jr filed his idiotic and frivolous lawsuit against Dr Stephen Adei rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
I was inexpressibly elated when during its annual awards ceremony this year the panel of judges selected by the Ghana Journalists Association GJA flatly refused to name a recipient for the prestigious category of Journalist of the Year The panels quite laudable albeit predictable rationale was that the quality of submissions for the Journali ... Read more |
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Sunday, October 26, 2008 |
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For the most part I have carefully steered clear of the raging debate on the relevance or for that matter otioseness of the traditional Ghanaian institution of the monarchy The disdain of WesternEuropean colonizers for their African subjects or more aptly captives precipitated the linguistic degradation of this primal and civilized instit ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 25, 2008 |
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When the article reporting the alleged public support of Ms Samia Nkrumah for Nana AkufoAddo first appeared in the Ghanaian Statesmans edition of October I was a bit taken aback And it was not because the daughter of the founding LifeChairman of the original Convention Peoples Party CPP was alleged to have thrown her electi ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
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Last week when he trudged a meter alleyway in Abeka the wellknown suburb of Accra a Ghana News Agency GNA reporter commended him for defying the scorching sun almost as if to suggest that his presidential campaign competitors had been somehow inexplicably exempted from the tropical Ghanaian laws of Nature Barely hours later he sto ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 |
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Thirtysix years after his demise the first Prime Minister of Ghana later LifePresident continues to engage the imagination of many an African intellectual and scholar The tragic reality however is that such engagement has tended to heavily involve nonGhanaian Africans even as most astute Ghanaian intellectuals and scholars who had a first ... Read more |
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Friday, October 17, 2008 |
After two deafening failed attempts at clinching the presidency one would have thought that the Rawlingsappointed flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress NDC would have learned some edifying lessons by now Not that his gaping inability to retool his predatory mindset and crippling animosity towards hardworking and resourcefu ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
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The Okyenhenes call for the vigorous prosecution of any traditional ruler or authority who unconscionably promotes the criminally regressive practice of Female Genital Mutilation FGM could not be more opportune Such call also quite obviously gives even greater credibility and credence to the Osagyefos laudable and acclaimed campaign agains ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
An October article published in the Features section of Ghanawebcom and authored by a Mr Kofi Amenyo facilely presumes to explain off the quite pedestrian phenomenon of Volta Ewes routinely and heavily casting their ballots for Ewedescended presidential candidates According to the author this largely sentimental phenomenon of Ewes ... Read more |
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Monday, October 06, 2008 |
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I really dont know exactly why Ghanas VicePresident Alhaji Aliu Mahama felt it that necessary to personally respond to the invitation by Col Lansana Conte to partake of activities marking the th anniversary of Guineas declaration of sovereignty from French colonialism For other than its theoretical and ethical implications the independe ... Read more |
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Monday, October 06, 2008 |
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For two protracted decades the Rawlingsled tripartite governments of the socalled Armed Forces Revolutionary Council AFRC the Provisional National Defense Council PNDC and the National Democratic Congress NDC had absolute and hermetic control of Ghanas Daily Graphic newspaper even while also pretending as if such control had been assume ... Read more |
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Sunday, October 05, 2008 |
On October the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC published a brief news item in the General News section of its website titled UK Secret Doubt at Ghana Freedom In a gist the story carried the conflicting views of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on the viability of the Nkrumahled Ghanaian independence movement In t ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
It is increasingly becoming apparent that the single greatest bottleneck to both the judicial and socioeconomic development of Ghana squarely inheres in the abject lack of critical cognitive engagement with relevant and progressive national issues Thus in the wake of the forced resignation of the President of the Ghana Bar Association GBA for e ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
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On June a scuffle between the Ashaiman Tema police and some commercial motorists ended in the deaths of two people namely Mr Moses Ofori a motorist and Master Moses Kassim a fourthgrade pupil of the Ashaiman Government SchoolWhat inspired the composition of this article however is the fact of the mother of Master Kassi ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
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On a recent electioneering campaign tour of the BrongAhafo Region the wife of the vicepresidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress NDC bitterly complained about the acute shortage of Tshirts with the partys logo emblazoned on themI feel helpless in the face of such high demand for our partys Tshirts said M ... Read more |
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Monday, September 29, 2008 |
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Last week the wife of the presidential candidate of the rumpConvention Peoples Party CPP took the partys circus act to the AsanteRegional capital of Kumasi It was bad enough for a party which claims ideological descent from a neocolonialist premier who unconscionably attempted to destroy the civilized and august Asante Federation and even ... Read more |
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Friday, September 26, 2008 |
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I couldnt stop myself from laughing out loud and then laughing out my lungs I am of course talking about the abject hypocrisy of the socalled Asomdwoehene or PrinceofPeace On Wednesday the criminal accomplice of Dzelukope Jeremiah paid glowing tribute to Mr Kwadwo BaahWiredu until his recent passing Ghanas indomitable and resilient ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 |
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I read Mr Kufuor AppiahDanquah or is it Mr AppiahDanquah Kufuors article titled Mr President Pardon Tsatsu Tsikata with indescribable disgust and horror And I came away from the article fully convinced that the writer either has absolutely no sense of nationhood or he likely benefited greatly from the untold atrocities perpetrated by the s ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 |
During the twenty years that the tandem governments of the socalled Provisional National Defense Council PNDC and the National Democratic Congress NDC held political sway over Ghanaians the Rawlings Corporation or R C Unlimited showed no remarkable appreciation for the integration of Ghanaian Muslims into the topmost ranks of the party T ... Read more |
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Friday, September 19, 2008 |
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On September the Ghana News Agency GNA reported the immediate Government prohibition of several former senior members of the Ghana Armed Forces and the Police Service from either entering or venturing near any military and police installations and garrisons around the country Among the affected officers were LtGen Arnold Quainoo fo ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 |
During a recent electioneering campaign rally in the Anloga district of the Volta Region Mr Sekou Nkrumah son of former President Kwame Nkrumah was reported by the Ghana News Agency GNA to be claiming that the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP was woefully out of touch with the abjectly poor and destitute citizens of our country The younger M ... Read more |
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Monday, September 15, 2008 |
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Ordinarily I would have left this task for the Secretary or Public Relations Officer of the Asantehene to undertake Unfortunately when a clinical idiot going by the nondescript name of Anthony Kumah cavalierly presumes to reduce the status stature and the personality of His Imperial Majesty The Asantehene Otumfuo OseiTutu II to the troglody ... Read more |
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Monday, September 15, 2008 |
For weeks Nana AkufoAddo has been fervidly preaching against ethnocentric politics and the politics of violence and intimidation that is the hallmark of the Rawlings and AttaMillsled National Democratic Congress NDC The latter would comfortably deck the ironic mantle of an Asomdwoehene or PrinceofPeace even while vehemently swearing ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 14, 2008 |
The Ghana News Agency GNA on Friday Sept reported the runningmate of the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress NDC to be bitterly complaining of New Patriotic Party hostility towards the supporters of the NDC in Kyebi the traditional capital of AkyemAbuakwa and home turf of Nana AddoDankwa AkufoAddoWha ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 13, 2008 |
It was the perennial flagbearer of the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC who started it all and then all the other fanatical adherents of oneparty dictatorships followed suit The fact is that Mr Tsatsu Tsikatas sentencing to a year prison term is the most lenient of verdicts especially when one takes into consideration the convic ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 |
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To hear Mr Richmond Lamptey acknowledge the veritable shipwreck that is the rumpConvention Peoples Party CPP makes flagbearer Papa Kwesi Nduom seem like a mischievous lunatic in hot pursuit of a mirage And that mirage of course is the former NPP cabinet members dream of being catapulted into either the old slave Castle at Osu or the Flagst ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 |
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The decision by the Central Committee of the rumpConvention Peoples Party CPP to nullify the election of Mr Freddy Blay as CPP candidate for Election from the Ellembele constituency of the Western Region ought to provoke both the concern and anger of all democracyloving Ghanaians On a more significant note the decision eerily highlig ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 |
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If you cannot correctly spell the name of Barack Obama and instead you choose to spell the first name of the Presidential Candidate of the US Democratic Party with a double r as in Dodan Barracks then chances are that you definitely must be Mr Koku Anyidoho the semiliterate propaganda director of Prof John Evans AttaMills perennial ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 |
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Ever since some of his servile minions began accusing me of seeking to gratuitously demean one such minion actually used the commercial verb of devalue the Butcher of Dzelukope I have been searching the files all over cyberspace to see if peradventure I am indeed the proverbial odd one out Recently for instance a student who claimed t ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 06, 2008 |
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Sixty years after the physical departure of WesternEuropean colonialists from the shores of the African continent it has become crystal clear that rather than the twentieth century having marked massive African decolonization as widely documented in standard historytextbooks and routinely taught in our schools it is indeed the twentyfirst ... Read more |
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Monday, September 01, 2008 |
An interesting editorial appeared in the Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper edition of Friday August The editorial was limpidly titled The Assassination Plot against Obama and decried the allegedly uncovered plot to liquidate the AfricanAmerican presidential nominee of the US Democratic Party by four whites including a woman in Denver ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 30, 2008 |
Since the apocalyptic emergence of FltLt Jeremiah John Rawlings on the hitherto placid Ghanaian political landscape some three decades ago I have had my own doubts regarding the professionalism of the Ghana Armed Forces GAF as an institution On August retired Chief of Defense Staff CDS BrigGen NunooMensah confirmed my doubts ... Read more |
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Friday, August 29, 2008 |
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In the auspicious wake of the parliamentary ratification of the sale of the governments majority shares in Ghana Telecom GT to the Britishowned company Vodafone the National Democratic Congress representative for BawkuCentral Mr Mahama Ayariga was reported to have chided Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom the presidential candidate of the rumpConventi ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 23, 2008 |
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The cheapest purchase on credibility is often acquired by cynical pretense to familiarity with ones subject of obloquy This pretty much informs the thrust of an article titled The Metamorphosis and Wrath of Dr Ahoofe which appeared in the Ghanawebcom edition of August Likewise it has since long been observed that familiarity breed ... Read more |
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Friday, August 22, 2008 |
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So selfassured have the brazen operatives of the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC become of their putative alignment with the political culture of rank corruption and fascistic lack of accountability that these days they live an unconscionable culture of selfprojection This means in essence that in their desperate bid to regaining ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 16, 2008 |
The selection and confirmation of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia as the runningmate of the Presidential Candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP for Election could not be more opportune Needless to say in of itself the selection confirms two things about the NPPMP for AkyemAbuakwaSouth namely the fact of Nana AddoDankwa AkufoAddo be ... Read more |
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Friday, August 15, 2008 |
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At the time of this writing Mr Kofi Boateng Chairman of the USA branch of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP had issued an ElectronicMail bulletin informing members that Dr Samuel K Amoako winner of the NPP parliamentary primary in the AkyemAbuakwaNorth constituency had renounced his hardearned American citizenship thereby q ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
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It is rather risible for the Presidential Candidate of the rumpConvention Peoples Party CPP to be blaming the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP barely four months to Election for the woeful inability of Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom to make his desired impact on the Ghanaian electorate And the reason is simple a veritable product of the cultic Yo ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 09, 2008 |
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Celebrating the th anniversary of Emancipation Day the Omanhene or Paramount King of the Oguaa Traditional Area recently observed the deleterious effects of massive African enslavement in the Americas between the Fifteenth and Nineteenth centuries on the psyche of both Africans in the Diaspora and their kin on the Mother Continent in the ... Read more |
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Friday, August 08, 2008 |
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He describes himself as Professor Lungu but nobody needs to possess even a highschool diploma to aptly and plausibly conclude that he very likely is one of those hundreds of disappointed America Beentos recruited to teach gradeschool or elementary English to Japanese children For his literary skills are borderline or marginal a ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 |
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I read the news article titled JJ was a Messiah Ghanawebcom with quite an amused bewilderment In the article the quite renowned Ghanaian economist Mr Kwame Pianim also a former Chief Executive Officer CEO of the erstwhile CocoaMarketing Board CMB was reported to be claiming that in the early s he Mr Pianim was singularl ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 03, 2008 |
The appointment of former United Nations SecretaryGeneral Mr Kofi Atta Annan as Chancellor of the University of Ghana Legon would go down in history as perhaps the most significant decision on higher education made by the Kufuor Administration About the only plaint that could be made against the decision has to do with why it took so unbea ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 03, 2008 |
Having been condignly dispossessed of his Legon graduate degree for the quite serious academic infraction of plagiarism and now in retrospect it appears that he may as well have received a handsome consignment of the missing cocaine from Police Headquarters the National Democratic Congress Member of Parliament for Tamale South continues to b ... Read more |
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Friday, August 01, 2008 |
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I read the article titled School Feeding Program Is Too Expensive Ghanawebcom with wistfulness because as far as yours truly is concerned the SchoolFeeding Program comes almost years behind schedule It also irritates me quite a bit to realize that if the very first government of postcolonial Ghana the Convention Peoples Party ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
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A second National ViceChairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress NDC is not exactly yours trulys idea of a traditional big shot And he takes his cue from the foundingproprietor of the PNDC himself During the heady days of the socalled Provisional National Democratic Congress thenFltLt Jeremiah John Rawlings had occasion t ... Read more |
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Monday, July 28, 2008 |
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I read Mr Ekow Nelsons rather desultorily desperate article titled Feeble Defence of a Visionless Party and felt delightfully amused albeit on a tenor of thoroughgoing contempt very much so because the writer makes absolutely no cogent attempt to address the issue that he sought to rejoin And the issue has squarely to do with the rumpCPP s ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 |
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As a people FourthRepublican Ghanaians have become so preoccupied and obsessed with constitutionalism that we often forget that as citizens in the postcolonial sense of the term Ghanaians have only become Ghanaians for only about years Some even put the number of years that Ghanaians have constitutionally speaking become bona fide ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
On the stumps in Sunyani and some other selected townships in the BrongAhafo Region the VicePresidential Candidate on the ticket of the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC Mr John Dramani Mahama observed that while it is true that the motherparty to the NDC the Provisional National Defense Council PNDC was patently an unconstit ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
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Wellcoordinated CPP propaganda has misled most Ghanaians into believing that the freeeducation program was the original brainchild of President Nkrumah but in reality the agenda of providing tuitionfree education for postcolonial Ghanaians was integral to the original program of the DanquahGrantled United Gold Coast Convention UGCC And ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 |
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This article may yet be accurately seen to clearly contradict an earlier one that we wrote This is in no way intentional and we are not in the least bit rueful about the earlier article which sought to downplay the relative significance of the need for the Government and Parliament to pass a Freedom of Information Bill FOIB Earlier on our emp ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 19, 2008 |
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In their fervid bid to influencing the Presidential Candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP in the selection of his runningmate several special interest groups have been pitching their candidates for VicePresident and advancing reasons many of which defy practical historical reality and common sense Among the latest of such pitches i ... Read more |
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Friday, July 18, 2008 |
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There is a troublingly significant subplot to the ongoing Tsikata judicial circus that seems to have been lost on many Ghanaians And to be certain the Ghanaians in reference are those who have vehemently impugned the presidential ambitions of Nana AkufoAddo in the past and the subplot to the Tsikata circus is quite curious because it squarely ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
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On Sunday July Ghanawebcom carried an old and familiar photograph of Jato Dzelukope with the caption Rawlings Still Dominates Ghanaian Media I winced a little bit and chuckled to myself and tersely remarked largely to myself since I was alone home with my two little sons namely Nana Kwame III and Osofo Sintim Indeed this is th ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
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It used to be that the best way for a politician to win an election was to make a religious habit of paying courtesy calls on our chiefs and other traditional leaders Those were the days when chiefs wielded great influence over the destiny and mindset of the people Those days are of course largely behind us though watching the VicePreside ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
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As a prominent Ghanaian banker sarcastically told yours truly in the wake of his undemocratic ousting of Dr Limanns Peoples National Party PNP FltLt Jeremiah John Rawlings was privileged enough to attend Achimota School but the pistolpacking career coupplotter does not appear to have been smart enough to have gained admission into Ghana ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 |
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Maybe he missed his calling for it appears that rather than studiously pursue his occupational and professional disciplinary field of Economics Dr Nii Moi Thompson the rumpCPP spokesman on Finance and Economic Affairs has decided to illadvisedly add the subdiscipline of postcolonial Ghanaian political history onto his burden and in the pro ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 13, 2008 |
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A news item posted to the Ghanawebcom edition of July had some security guards at the Military Hospital punitively assigning some trafficbreaching passengertruck and bus drivers to work in the hospitals mortuary cleaning and mopping floors as well as being forced to play lurid theatrical games with human corpses No wonder this unp ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 12, 2008 |
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I read Mr Biakoyes article titled AkufoAddo Confesses I Have No Public Service Record with the kind of amusement that convulses one who encounters a certified clown presuming to play the cerebral role of a philosopher Other than the authors gratuitous insults against Ghanas presumptive next President Nana AddoDankwa AkufoAddo there ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
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You see you are often better off in not attempting to comment on the public rants of the man who turned Ghana into a veritable Police State for some twenty long years For strongman Jeremiah John Rawlings is invariably incoherent and at best simply annoying This time however he got almost everything right The Ghana News Agency GNA article wa ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 |
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I read Mr Konongo Fordjours article titled Congo Crisis Zimbabwe Crisis Ghana Again Ghanawebcom with great sadness outright nausea and utter embarrassment I was wracked with nausea because the writer had the temerity almost bordering on the abjectly unconscionable to reduce the raging Zimbabwean political tragedy to a mere ... Read more |
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Monday, July 07, 2008 |
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That DualCitizenship or the mere acquisition of passports from two countries is not necessarily synonymous with the holder of such passports owing dual loyalties may be anecdotally illustrated by the following narrative regarding the man widely presumed to have been the primary motive behind the drastically modified parentage requirements of ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 06, 2008 |
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On a whirlwind tour of the Western Region last Wednesday June the perennial flagbearer of the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC exposed himself for what he has always been known to be a brazen liar in the mask of a humble man Facing the citizens of Elubo the former University of Ghana Law School professor appeared to confu ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
Last Sunday June a quite quaintly interesting feature article was published on Ghanawebcom The article was titled Ghana Homepage Stumbles On and was authored by somebody calling himherself Wonyonsi Wonyonsi The article was quaintly interesting because it presumed to objectively portray the character and personality of yours t ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
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I hope this article unlike many earlier equally urgent ones gets published before July when President John AgyekumKufuor is scheduled to confer some nationalmerit ordersawards at the last count on some Ghanaians including Mr Kufuor himself and several foreign nationals This is quite oddly fascinating and outright unprece ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 |
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In the heydays of both the socalled Armed Forces Revolutionary Council AFRC and the Provisional National Defense Council PNDC a lot of Ghanaians stood in awe of him Hardly because of his purported legal genius for he was widely touted as perhaps the youngest Ghanaian to have graduated from the University of Ghana Law School at years o ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 28, 2008 |
About the time that he began flirting with the idea of gunning for the presidency on the ticket of the Convention Peoples Party CPP I politely admonished Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom that his neoliberal political temperament as well as his professional profile eloquently attested to the fact that he was a DanquahBusia Traditionalist or scion at he ... Read more |
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Friday, June 27, 2008 |
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I have always had this feeling that our quite impressive contemporary history and all Ghanaians as a people generally speaking are not as cognitively diligent and creative as we could be And the latter insidious traits continue to remarkably impede our collective intellectual and cultural development to speak much much less about our economi ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 |
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Many of us grudgingly accepted the drastically modified parentage requirements for the Presidency because of our own situation as Diaspora Ghanaians The massive migration of Ghanas best and the brightest implied the certain possibility of the Diasporans forging significant conjugal alliances and other forms of affinity across cultural ethnic and ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 |
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He started out on an auspicious note after a longsuffering Ghanaian electorate largely fedup with the extortionate maladministration of the socalled Provisional National Democratic Congress PNDC overwhelmingly voted the thenparliamentary opposition New Patriotic Party NPP into the august seat of governance The PNDC had by ridden ... Read more |
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Monday, June 23, 2008 |
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The Ghana News Agency GNA recently reported the GreaterAccra Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress NDC to have made the following remark during the course of an interview that Mr Danny Annan granted the Agency Prof Mills will remain the focus for the development of the country instead of wasting national resourc ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 |
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The inherent DualCitizenship nature of the FourthRepublican Constitution of Ghana stems from the fact that for the first time in years it became extremely easy for anybody possessing Ghanaian citizenship to qualify to run for the presidency Of course his putsch of June ensured that FltLt Jeremiah John Rawlings would breach ... Read more |
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Friday, June 20, 2008 |
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Long before the sticky question of DualCitizenship rose to the fore I had already commented on both the fundamentally and fatally flawed FourthRepublican Constitution of Ghana Back then in I was a graduate student at Temple University Philadelphia and freelancing for a weekly or biweekly I forget exactly which newspaper called the ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 |
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On June an article titled CPP Salutes True Big Six appeared in the Features column of Ghanawebcom I was naturally beside myself with uncontrollable laughter obviously because the writer had not been thoughtful enough to readily recognize the fact of such unimaginative caption giving his lurid game right away This did not surpri ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 14, 2008 |
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Our man in Abuja recently went at it again and in his latest selfjustifying confession to a forum of the News Agency of Nigeria NAN the June Fourth Apostle of Populism was reported to be claiming that the brutal execution of Ghanas most senior military officials in June was both regrettable and inevitableOf course it is ha ... Read more |
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Friday, June 13, 2008 |
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We knew it all along that the purported overbloating of the Voters Register in some constituencies in the Asante Region as wildly alleged by the perennial Presidential Candidate of the socalled Provisional National Democratic Congress PNDC and his cohorts was an immitigably depraved ploy aimed at derailing the countrys fledgling ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
Something morally bizarre and sickening appears to be fast taking an eerie shape on the Ghanaian political landscape these days Only days after being questionably granted a pardon by a lameduck President Kufuor the Anlo NDCMP was out of prison and back in Parliament House almost as if he had merely been on a prolonged vacation We are also tol ... Read more |
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Monday, June 09, 2008 |
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Ordinarily I would not be wasting my time commenting on this particular quite pedestrian issue but an ideologically insidious and unpardonably hypocritical article titled NPP House Still Dividing As Controversial Book Launch Threatens to Rake Old Wounds appeared in the Accra Daily Mail edition of June And for those of you who ar ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 07, 2008 |
Today has been a rather slow one for substantive news postings on the two leading Ghanaian websites viz Ghanawebcom and Modernghanacom Thus it was quite interesting to read an article titled The Enquirer Akufo Addo Busted in America on Ghanawebcom As usual the sensational caption pointed to the comic thrust of the article con ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
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The runningmate of the perennial flagbearer of the socalled National Democratic Congress PNDC continues to insult the intelligence of Ghanaians through the nostalgic and wistfully unguarded use of empty promises And in his latest assay at this tired political gimmickry Mr John Dramani Mahama is reported by the Ghana News Agency GNA to hav ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 01, 2008 |
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We have all been flabbergasted by President Kufuors recent and abrupt decision to confer the highest national honor on the perennial Presidential Candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress NDC Not that we dont believe that Prof John Evans AttaMills or any other Ghanaian citizen whom the President deems to be deserving of natio ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 31, 2008 |
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I have painfully watched President Kufuor creatively and courageously reconstruct the hitherto ramshackle Ghanaian economy as well as the countrys administrative culture only to have Wofa Kofi Diawuo inexplicably and almost gratuitously undermine the very structural and institutional features andor landmarks that stand the greatest chance of e ... Read more |
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Friday, May 30, 2008 |
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Talk is cheap as the saying goes and this is precisely the kind of otiose and regressive maelstrom that most of postcolonial Africa continues to suffer Cheap talk woefully unmatched by progressive and constructive deeds Thus in Zimbabwe for example we have yearold President Robert Mugabe luridly entrenched in the seat of power exactly t ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
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When I initially heard about the Peoples National Conventions evidently expedient electoral alliance with the rumpConvention Peoples Party I laughed so hard that I almost fell off my chair I however couldnt stop torrential tears of contempt from running waddies or gullies down my cheeks the way brooks and creeks or streams overrun the ... Read more |
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Monday, May 12, 2008 |
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I read the initial report of it on either Ghanawebcom or Modernghanacom I forget which Still what struck me as rather quaint if also unpardonably ludicrous is the fact that some lurid gimmick had been earlier on used by somebody by the name of Tony Lithur to glibly explain away what Mr Lithur supposed to be the sinister motive behind the ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
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Among the very few Ghanaian writers who have had quite a profound impact on my literary career particularly in the field of journalism is Mr Chris Asher firebrand and patriotic publisher of the Palaver newspapers The other equally seminal influences on my intellectual development and perspective visàvis Ghanaian political culture are Messrs ... Read more |
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Monday, May 05, 2008 |
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The victim of the alleged rape was years old her assailant was a yearold neighbor Obviously there is something psychologically wrong with a man who decides to have sexual intercourse with a teenage girl who is more than young enough to be his own daughter and not only his own daughter but also very likely younger than the assailants ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 03, 2008 |
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I have been perusing his desultory and fetid articles for sometime now but have resolutely concluded that the contents of his themes for they are largely too piddling to be considered as articles are hardly worth the computer screen on which they are scrawled before being posted on GhanawebcomFirst of all who ever heard of a veritabl ... Read more |
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 |
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If it turns out as Mr B J da Rocha maintains that the former NPP Trade Industry and PSI minister rushed to the press to intransigently announce that he had absolutely no intention of rescinding his letter and decision of resignation from the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP while hectic negotiations were ongoing to redress his grievances aga ... Read more |
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Friday, April 25, 2008 |
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Exactly one week after his shocking decision to resign his membership of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP the former Minister of Trade has at long last given the Ghanaian public ample concise and concrete details regarding Mr Alan K Kyerematens abrupt decision to effectively disengage his staunch support for and intimate association with ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
Last Thursdays April announcement in the global Ghanaian media regarding the resignation of Mr Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen came as quite a shock to me personally being that the Kyerematens are a distinguished family for whom I have great respect and admirationFirst of all I underwent my official grooming in Ghanaian culture in gen ... Read more |
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Monday, April 21, 2008 |
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I sincerely and solemnly promised Mr Ekow Nelson last week that I was going to promptly reduce this slobbering Nkrumah fanatic to his appropriate level of an intellectual elf Indeed sometime last year this urchin who heretically pretends to rub shoulders with Dr J B Danquah the Doyen of Gold Coast and Ghanaian politics merely because Mr ... Read more |
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 |
A recent rumpCPP position article published on Ghanawebcom had Ghanas most neocolonialist political party warning both the Kufuor government and the African Union against unwittingly permitting the unscrupulous use of the continent and its enormous resources for the industrial development of such middlelevel economies as China and Ind ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 |
Not quite awhile ago the presidential candidate of the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC embarked on what Prof John Evans AttaMills then described as A HousetoHouse Campaign The latter circus dramaturgy was also accorded the hypocritical motto I Care For YouNow Ghanaians are beginning to fully appreciate the utter and ab ... Read more |
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Monday, April 14, 2008 |
It is rather risible for the man who meticulously and systematically supervised the assassination of AkanGhanaian Supreme Court judges as well as hundreds of thousands of other innocents to be calling for thorough investigations into the Anlo chieftaincy hostilities that culminated in the deaths of five people including a police officer who h ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
It has been more than two years now since Professor John Evans AttaMills was appointed presidential candidate a la the infamous Swedru Declaration by exPresident Jeremiah John Rawlings And while the PNDC operatives have always cynically insisted contrary to truth and common sense that indeed the former University of Ghana law professor h ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 |
The last thing that anybody wants to be drawn into on the eve of ones birthday and in the middle of a handsome breakfast is a pointless debate regarding whether Dr Joseph Kwame Kyeretwie BoakyeDanquah the putative Doyen of Gold Coast and Ghanaian politics as well as the nominal Father of modern Ghana and founder of Ghanas flagship academy ... Read more |
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Monday, April 07, 2008 |
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Finally the AkufoAddo campaign is aptly beginning to sit up and holding the numbskulled and crudely hypocritical Provisional National Democratic Congress to condign account as the ruling New Patriotic Party ought to have conservatively done at least two years ago shortly after the raucous and violenceriddled PNDC congress held in the East ... Read more |
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 |
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It is quite amazing how the privilege and benefit of higher education appear to have no productive impact on some of our leaders The latest personality to exhibit such canker is the presidential candidate of the rumpConvention Peoples Party Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom I thought his approximately six years of executive service under the ruling New Patr ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 |
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This is about the third or fourth time that we are exhorting the members supporters and sympathizers of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP to be fully prepared to engage the belligerent thugs of the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC in a possible fullscale war in the certain event of the PNDC losing the general election slated for ... Read more |
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Sunday, March 30, 2008 |
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Lets not be stolidly and stupidly sesquipedalian about the meaning and significance of names or nomenclature as the process of naming is technically designated And talking about names perhaps I am the best qualified in this forum to speak to this topic in the context of culture having also earned not two but three undergraduate degrees f ... Read more |
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Saturday, March 29, 2008 |
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When I first came across the article titled Oh No AkufoAddo Its too early for this Ghanawebcom I was of the quite innocent opinion that it likely had something to do with the author presuming Nana AkufoAddos promulgation of his political campaign agenda to be far in advance of schedule Thus my gut riposte was to interject that ... Read more |
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Saturday, March 29, 2008 |
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While indeed Ghana may be a multiethnic society and thus the imperative necessity for any winsome presidential candidate to court electoral support crossculturally nonetheless in the game of politics the endgame is winning and winning assuredly For while indeed there is the unavoidable moral aspect of the game winning is squarely predica ... Read more |
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Saturday, March 29, 2008 |
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For a fact Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom knows very little about the history of his home region Central Region and knows very little about the history of his KEEA constituency hence the mockery he is making of his ignorance Internal quotation marks addedI am not sure exactly how one makes a mockery of ones ignorance as oppose ... Read more |
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
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The article appeared in the Ghanawebcom edition of March It was titled Applaud Rawlings for Democracy Alhaji I wasnt in the least bit surprised that it was one of those Saudioriented NDC Alhajis who was leading the chant for such alienated selfrighteous souls constitute the bulk of the leadership linchpin of the socalled Pr ... Read more |
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
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I have never for a moment doubted the fact that legions of Ghanaians benefited from the tyrannical and extortionate rule of Dzelukope Jeremiah otherwise known as FltLt Jeremiah John Rawlings And this largely explains why many of my critics particularly the most vitriolic and irrational ones have been whining about my take on the sanguinary ... Read more |
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
On the st anniversary of Ghanas independence the presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress took his infamous circus act to the AsanteRegional metropolis of Kumasi His message was simple and it was that in the opinion of Prof John Evans AttaMills the average Ghanaian voter is a dupe one who is alltoosusceptib ... Read more |
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
On March JoyFm radio station quoted Mr Mustapha Hamid spokesman for Nana AkufoAddos campaign as claiming that the Presidential Candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP had privately expressed worry over some weird albeit appreciable decisions that had been taken by lameduck president Mr John Kofi Diawuo AgyekumKufuo ... Read more |
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
In a recent interview that he granted Ghanas JoyFm radio station the former NPP minister of Trade and Industry was cynically ridiculed for having reportedly stated that the country needed the purchase of a presidential aircraft in order to lift its image among the comity of nations Even worse Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku was also reviled for havin ... Read more |
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Monday, March 17, 2008 |
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I dont quite know which group of Ghanaians the impudent errand boys and girls of Monsieur Jeremiah John Rawlings presume to be fooling but recently one of them a fanatic of the clinical basket case sort had the temerity to describe the impenitent ButcherofDzelukope as Ghanas Founding Father of FourthRepublican Democracy conveni ... Read more |
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 |
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On Thursday March the Presidential Candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP inaugurated his presidential campaign team And as had been widely expected Nana AddoDankwa AkufoAddos team reflected a representative crosssection of the nation at large But what was even more remarkable was the NPP flagbearers demonstration of l ... Read more |
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Monday, March 10, 2008 |
On a presidential campaign tour of the BrongAhafo Region recently the Ghana News Agency GNA quoted Prof John Evans AttaMills as promising the chief and people of Sunyani the BrongAhafo capital that if voted into power the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC would establish an Energy and Renewable Resource University in the region ... Read more |
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Sunday, March 09, 2008 |
When the NDC minority leader in the Ghanaian parliament swears against the presidential candidacy of Nana AddoDankwa AkufoAddo he does so almost solely based on sheer envy and personal animosity For it goes without saying that Mr Alban S K Bagbin is no peer or equal of Nana AkufoAddos achievementwise After all which political party ... Read more |
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 |
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I almost toppled over my chair while reading a news item titled Overbloating of Voter Register to Dominate Discussions at IPAC Meeting Modernghanacom IPAC of course refers to the InterParty Advisory Committee that primarily deals with matters pertaining to electoral protocol What piqued my interest and wracked me with ... Read more |
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Monday, March 03, 2008 |
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Not quite long ago I literarily tackled this same antiAkyem tribalnationalist who seems to be so pathetically flummoxed between his clearly paidloyalty to the socalled Provisional National Democratic Congress PNDC and his subethnicity as a naturalized Asante On that occasion the subject was his evidently flagrant antiAkyem subethnic ... Read more |
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Monday, March 03, 2008 |
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You would have thought that having hogged Ghanas reins of governance for some twenty marathon years Mr Rawlings would by now have learned that embassies are established in countries to enable leaders of such great powers as the United States Russia Britain France and Japan for obvious examples to be educative about the goingson in other ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 |
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When Mr P V Obeng notes that the notion that Ghana is a peaceful country and cannot be plunged into a civil war may be misleading the former unofficial prime minister of the socalled Provisional National Defense Council PNDC junta is merely engaging in bromide or the commonplace Ghanaian Times To be certain in both June ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 |
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On Thursday February the socalled Socialist Forum went at it again And once again when it got to the turn of Mr Tsatsu Tsikata chiefarchitect of the kangaroo Peoples Court instituted by the Provisional National Democratic Congress PNDC the man indicted for grossly mismanaging the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation GNPC d ... Read more |
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 |
The National Democratic Congress presidential candidate for the general elections alleged remark that Ghana stands to witness infernal surreal and apocalyptic scenes akin to what is currently raging across Kenya if the PNDC loses the December elections must be roundly condemned Statesman Indeed his remark points to the sta ... Read more |
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 |
President Kufuors decision to reappoint Dr Richard W Anane to the post of Minister for Road Transport is rather questionable to put it modestly It may be recalled that the former Minister for both Road Transport and Health was pressured to resign his post following the findings of investigations conducted by the Commission for Human Rights and ... Read more |
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Monday, February 18, 2008 |
In the leadup to President George W Bushs fivenation African tourofduty the Director of Public Affairs at the United States Embassy in Accra was prompted to vehemently deny widespread rumors and allegations regarding Mr Bushs official visit to Ghana from February climaxing with the bilateral ratification of an agreement between th ... Read more |
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 |
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Ordinarily this announcement would have been greeted with glee Instead I felt nervous and almost horrified at the very thought of its imagination The its of course regards the hint to parliament that the possibility of the Ministry of Transportation MOT overseeing the construction of the longest bridge in Ghana may be on the table as it ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
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He has been variously described as a controversial politician businessman and a social commentator And yet he may really be none of the above except a noxious rumormonger And the politics of rumormongering it must be noted is nothing new to Ghanaian politicsIndeed legend has it that the politics of rumormongering was invented by Pr ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |
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Not quite awhile ago somebody authored an article titled Much Ado About Rawlings which was published in the Ghanawebcom edition of February The gist of the rather intemperate if also incoherent article by the writer was that some of us vehement critics of Mr Jeremiah John Rawlings had been so successful as to decisively threaten t ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
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I read Mr Kofi Amonus threeparagraph article on Ghanawebcom with great amusement Amusement because the writer deviously pretends to be aiming for what might implicitly be termed as the truth whereas in reality he decidedly is about the libelous business of character assassination And this is precisely why even though the writer acknowledge ... Read more |
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Saturday, February 09, 2008 |
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The former ruling party has been fairly successfully using infiltrators planted among the topechelons of the ruling New Patriotic Party for some time now The apogee of such internal collaboration occurred during the hectic runup to the NPPs National Delegates Congress of December Back then his main competitors had their brazen ca ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 |
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The case has garnered banner headlines for sometime now perhaps a year now We are of course talking about the case of the two British teenage girls who were reportedly caught with six kilograms of an illegal substance at Ghanas Kotoka International Airport KIA The illegal substance turned out to be cocaine a drug that has been wreaking unt ... Read more |
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Sunday, February 03, 2008 |
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The recent call by the former Speaker of Ghanas parliament for the transfer of some of the regulatory powers of the Electoral Commission EC over legitimately registered political parties to the High Court of Justice ought to be considered with great care This is because a significantly disempowered Electoral Commission runs the risk of being re ... Read more |
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Saturday, February 02, 2008 |
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The announcement regarding Ms Samia Nkrumahs intention to run for Dr Paa Kwesi Nduoms parliamentary seat would have come as quite refreshing were it also not rather politically tawdry cheap and downright cynical Daily Guide For starters the attempt to get Ms Nkrumah involved in Ghanaian politics is nothing new neither is it ... Read more |
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Friday, February 01, 2008 |
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When the Media Trust Limited of Nigeria recently invited him as a keynoter I thought the infamous ButcherofDzelukope would be decent and savvy enough to balk at this transparent bait Actually I did not in any way expect him to ponder for any remarkable length of time before snatching this quite heady opportunity to see the former neocolonial ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
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While the nearreligious fervor with which continental Africans relish sports particularly soccer or Association Football cannot be gainsaid nevertheless the appropriation of sporting events as a rallying pivot for the unification of Africans as was recently suggested by a wellknown Americanbased Ghanaian academic is rather tenuous to spe ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 |
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Much ado has been made out of the construction of Ghanas Akosombo Dam or the Volta River Project VRP by staunch lackeys and sympathizers of former Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah and his Convention Peoples Party In the following two segments of our study we intend to highlight the significance of the Volta River Project or Akosombo bot ... Read more |
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Saturday, January 26, 2008 |
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Indeed the editorial and reportorial staff of the Ghana News Agency GNA may be fraught with mediocre and outright amateurish professionals although until now it never quite occurred to yours truly that there may also well be quite a remarkable phalanx of imbecilic editors among their ranksI am also quite certain that no charlatan presum ... Read more |
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Friday, January 25, 2008 |
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When Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom speaks of it being time to remove the politics of bitterness and anger in the country since it is not clear whether the former New Patriotic Party NPP cabinet member understands precisely what he is talking aboutFirst of all it amounts to the very height of contradiction and downright hypocrisy for the pres ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 |
past Christmas and New Year the perennial presidential candidate of the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC took his circus act to the Childrens Ward at the KorleBu Teaching HospitalWhat is interesting was Professor John Evans AttaMills lying through the canyonlike gab of his teeth by gushing to hospital administrators thusly I ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
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Wellmeaning Ghanaians both at home and abroad could not have received a better windfall this new Leap Year than the announcement of Mr Francis Nyonyo Agboada otherwise known as Togbui Sri III that after conducting a solemn and careful soulsearching the former regent or Awoamefia of the Anlo paramount stool has voluntarily decided to ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 13, 2008 |
I first lost respect for the Ghana News Agency GNA as a major national institution of information production and dissemination in the summer of when after an AsanteRegional delegates congress roundly rejected the first budgetary policy of the Rawlingsled Provisional National Defense Council PNDC the GNA inexplicably and untenably re ... Read more |
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Friday, January 11, 2008 |
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When we allow them to win these elections we would continue to suffer and our children will also suffer the ButcherofDzelukope otherwise known as FltLt Jeremiah John Rawlings was recently reported to be telling a faction of a deeply divided branch of his socalled National Democratic Congress NDC at AkyemAkwatia right in the traditio ... Read more |
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Friday, January 11, 2008 |
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Mr Koku Anyidohos rejoining article to another written by Mr Yaw Boadu Ayeboafo editor of the Daily Graphic I believe is rather amusing if also because it is buttinskycally or perhaps more aptly buttinskically desperate I have already responded to a similar officious NDC expression of unctuous democratic concern and so I shall ne ... Read more |
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Friday, January 11, 2008 |
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Personally while his name is quite familiar I dont know much about Mr Bugri Naabu who is described as a founding member of the New Patriotic Party NPP Still I firmly believe that the Tamalebased NPP members cautionary note to Nana AkufoAddo must be taken with the utmost seriousness that it deserves In a gist Mr Naabu would like the N ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 |
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In the wake of the stillraging postelection mayhem across East Africas economic and cultural giant of Kenya the perennial presidential candidate of Ghanas main parliamentary opposition Professor John Evans AttaMills issued a press statement at a press conference purporting to commiserate with the victims of the Kenyan crisis Predictably ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 |
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It is customary for Ghanaians who register nationally momentous and monumental achievements to share such achievements with the people in general and our traditional rulers in particular And this is exactly what prompted the newlyelected Presidential Candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP Nana AddoDankwa AkufoAddo to embark on a ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 06, 2008 |
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Once again I read the NDC gripe regarding the alleged use of national security resources in the protection of the New Patriotic Partys presidential candidate for Election with amused contempt In another respect I guess fury is the most apt terminology with which to characterize the blatantly mischievous attempt by the executive membershi ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 06, 2008 |
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A curiously interesting article pretentiously and sensationally titled Unraveling Akuffo Addos Tribal and Polarizing Politics appeared in the Ghanawebcom edition of January We shall not mention the name of the author of the aforereferenced article primarily because the contents of the article are indescribably despicable and ... Read more |
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Friday, January 04, 2008 |
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The call by the New Patriotic Partys chairman for the KumasiBantama constituency for party members to end their celebration of Nana AkufoAddos election as the NPP presidential candidate for Election could not have come at a more opportune moment For the very nature of presidential campaigns indicates that while indeed Nana AkufoAddo ha ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 |
Some time ago I earnestly and kindly advised another ideological fellow traveler of Dr Edward Nasigri Mahama of the socalled Peoples National Convention PNC by the name of Dr Edmund Delle to concentrate his energy on his professional practice of dermatology and leave the epic business of national politics for those with flair and proven s ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008 |
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In the wake of the December New Patriotic Partys congress during which former Foreign Minister Nana AddoDankwa AkufoAddo was elected NPP Presidential Candidate for Election some prominent members of the socalled Provisional National Democratic Congress PNDC are threatening to initiate legal action against the NPP on the qu ... Read more |
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Friday, December 28, 2007 |
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Exactly what Professor John Evans AttaMills means by asserting that the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC intends to put up a tough fight come Election is not clear see Modernghanacom Does the preceding for instance mean that during the two previous presidential elections in which the Rawlings secondbananas con ... Read more |
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Friday, December 28, 2007 |
When during the firsthalf of his very first term in office some of his disappointed supporters and sympathizers began calling him Medofo Adaadaa Me loosely translated as My love has woefully disappointed me we called these critics to task for facilely presuming that any politician or even a statesman could be expected to undo the year ... Read more |
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Friday, December 28, 2007 |
Had he checked the history of the original Convention Peoples Party before presuming to pay his courtesy call on the Omanhene or paramountking of the Oguaa Traditional Area Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom would have remarkably toned down his political rhetoric and sophistry Then again whoever expected a desperate and fairly wellheeled businessman ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 27, 2007 |
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As I continue to recover from a trauma contracted from SleepyEyes shocking but not altogether surprising treatment of the ruling New Patriotic Partys Presidential Candidate for Election I also continue to surf the Net as it were in search of either some exciting or meaningful therapeutic material to ponder and digest before the real ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 23, 2007 |
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One Saturday morning one of our classmates I forget who reported of having espied one of PERSCOs three carpenters making what looked like a toddlers coffin Naturally many of us became curious and wondered just whose tots casket this could be just whose beloved little child had met with such raw and untimely death And so after breakfast I ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
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That stupid headmaster of yours he thinks he is a smart man But I outsmarted him He thought I am a fool by paying me only half of what it costs to sculpt a real statue I intentionally sculpted that wretched statue of St Peter in proportion to how much Josef Glatzel paid meThat was Mr Kofi Agbenu bragging apologetically to us FormO ... Read more |
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Monday, December 17, 2007 |
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Between the hockey field and the redbrick cylindrical chapel lay the softball and basketball courts The softball court was rarely used and to be certain one had to actually troll around looking for it in order to find it Ensconced almost imperceptibly between the hockey field and the basketball court the softball court or rather pitch loo ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 15, 2007 |
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In the heated leadup to the December New Patriotic Party NPP Delegates Convention during which the ruling party would elect its presidential candidate for Election a remarkable number of desperate attempts frontally and obliquely have been made by jaundiced operatives of some of the NPP presidential aspirants to discredit ar ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 15, 2007 |
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The approaches to the school were quite breathtaking As one entered the main gate the visitor was met with an impeccably whitewashed sentry box The latter was never devoid of a neatly uniformed watchman any day of the week and time There was also a side entrance to the left of the wroughtiron doublegate through which pedestrians passed in ... Read more |
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Monday, December 10, 2007 |
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Bismarck Kpuli stood over me with a machete screaming at the top of his hightenor voice Wakeup PERSCOVITES we are at warHis eyes looked almost as if they were about to pop out of their sockets They were visibly bloodshot which does not amount to saying much since at St Peters the mainstream culture was literally keeping a virtu ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
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I have been watching the AmoakoTuffour Circus desperately attempt to sanitize the Mahama lackeys vacuous misappropriation of ethnicity as a campaign cudgel to strongarm the AkanGhanaian majority into unimaginatively going against its own sacred and inviolable democratic interests in the dubious name of ethnic and regional balance in NPP and Gha ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
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I am writing in a great rush with the fervent hope that this article does get published before December when the National Executive Committee NEC of the New Patriotic Party NPP confers to hand down its peremptory verdict on the eligibility of Capt Nkrabeah EffahDartey rtd to put forth his candidacy for the presidential nominatio ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
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I had originally intended this personal narrative of the historical culture of St Peters Secondary School KwahuNkwatia to also amply encompass at least the basic temporal contours of its foundation and brief annotations on some of the key players who made PERSCO the great and nonesuch junior academy that it has become even today Unfortunatel ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
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The Oshogolo Drama Troupe was engaged in a hectic rehearsal session when I arrived at the old PERSCO bookstore It was in the same building as the new one next to the music room The location of the old bookstore had just been moved from one end of the old science building to the other more spacious end The student population had increased by nea ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
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Much of what constitutes this series is purely anecdotal in the sense that it is wholly made up of the experiential recollections of one alumnuswriter of PERSCO upon whom the latter legendary institution registered a profound impact In that sense therefore my portrayal of St Peters as perhaps the best junior academy in Ghana at least whil ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
As the epic battle for the New Patriotic Partys nominee for the presidential election heats up to boiling point even some aspirants who had hitherto been considered to be levelheaded and winsome have quite predictably began showing signs of cognitive or mental fatigue They have began making the sort of public statements that ought to ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
The former chairman of the socalled Provisional National Democratic Congress PNDC has been desperately stumping for his breakaway party around the country and around the clock And recently during a stopover at the Ho Polytechnic Institute and the latters School of Hygiene Dr Obed Yao Asamoah once again reiterated his staunch support fo ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
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This is the second time within a month that I am being forced to issue a riposte to dastardly attempts by P Y Tsikata to gratuitously inflame passions over the Anlo chieftaincy crisis The gender of the writer todate remains a mystery to yours truly I can only presume from the querulous and intemperate tone of the writers articles that P Y ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
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I was pleasantly surprised to read on the website of the Ghanaian Statesman the halfcentury or Golden Jubilee anniversary of St Peters Secondary School affectionately called PERSCO Pleasantly surprised because for the most part PERSCO offered me the profoundest educational experience that I could ever have received growing up in Ghana ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
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Those of you who have been avidly reading my journalistic fare either on the Internet or in any of the Ghanaian newspapers at home are fully aware of the fact that yours truly is no fan of former Defense Minister Dr Kwame AddoKufuor Still significantly if I may add my unflattering take on the younger brother of President J A Kufuor is har ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 |
Supporters and Special Advisors of VicePresident Aliu Mahama continue to make a mockery of Ghanaian democracy by insisting contrary to the established principles of majority rule that the Akan electoral majority gratuitously sell their conscience in the dubious name of unconstitutional validation of purportedly accomplished political apprentic ... Read more |
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Monday, November 19, 2007 |
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He served under the New Patriotic Party NPP government for two terms as a cabinet member but last Saturday Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom had the chutzpah to flatly lie to the good people of the Northern Region and all Ghanaians of northern extraction in general that the FourthRepublican Constitution of Ghana equates the personality and offi ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 18, 2007 |
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While on a campaign tour of the Central Regional town of Komenda recently Professor John Evans AttaMills was reported to have boasted that he was more than healthy enough to jog or trot like a fox from Axim to Paga two of the farthermost reaches of the countrys estimated settlementsIf the remark was purely in jest then it was ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 18, 2007 |
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When he died very recently most major Ghanaian newspapers sparingly described him as having served as a treasurer of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP But for any Ghanaian of my generation the Africanization Generation gauging by the period of our births that is Mr Kwesi Brew ranked high on the list of the first generation of postcolonial ... Read more |
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Monday, November 12, 2007 |
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In the leadup to Election and the desperately stentorian vow among the leading membership of the socalled National Democratic Congress to rain hell and brimstone on Ghana in the certain likelihood of the partys resounding defeat I have been combing my newsfiles hoping to clinically appreciate the massmadness of the only political part ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 |
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This divisive gimmick worked in when a group of upstarts and political charlatans finessed Kwame Nkrumah into forming his socalled Convention Peoples Party CPP And to be certain to this day it still surprises many a wellmeaning Ghanaian such as yours truly how a nonparty ragtag posse of virtual gangsters tautologically and amateur ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
The recent critical observation by the Asantehene Otumfuo OseiTutu II at the GermanAfrica confabulation in Wiesbaden Germany that perhaps the single greatest bottleneck to postcolonial African development is one of blistering crisis of confidence could not have come at a more opportune moment The Asantehene it is significant to observe al ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 |
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The bloody clashes surrounding the Anloga chieftaincy dispute must offer prime grist to all peaceloving Ghanaians on the imperative need to hold accountable the certified nationwreckers whose lawless conduct of yesteryear engendered the untold mayhem and absolutely unnecessary loss of human livesAs usual the obvious detractors of the rulin ... Read more |
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Monday, November 05, 2007 |
Mr Kwamena Bartels announcement in Parliament that approximately million about American Dollars will be spent on each prisoner during the current fiscal year is quite heartening relatively speaking of course see Million Cedis to Be Spent on Each Prisoner Ghanawebcom This constitutes a ... Read more |
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Friday, November 02, 2007 |
It is rather sorrowfully amusing to hear Mr Sekou Nkrumah vacuously touting the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC as the greatest and most experienced political party in today see NDC Is The Best Sekou Nkrumah Ghanawebcom Generally speaking yours truly is absolutely no fan of Juju or Voodoo Still I would no ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
Yesterday my sisterinlaw called from London to complain about a prominent American scientist who had made the claim that verifiable scientific evidence pointed to the fact of European peoples being significantly intellectually superior to continental AfricansActually the reference had been in connection with global Africans i ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
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I read the news report on Mr George Aggudeys most recent emotional outburst against some Ghanaian journalists who had gone to the headquarters of the rump Convention Peoples Party CPP to cover the presidential aspirants filing of his nomination papers with a mixture of uncontrollable amusement and outright disgust see Ghanawebcom ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
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I read Mr Yirenky Apaus article titled The Man AkufoAddo Ghanawebcom with the amused contempt that it rightly deserves Under the specious guise of delineating the qualities of whom the writer deems to be the most apt or ideal presidential material were there ever one in postcolonial Ghana particularly the Fourth Republican era ... Read more |
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Monday, October 22, 2007 |
About two years ago I had the routine misfortune to hotly challenge a whiteAmerican State University of New York SUNY sociology professor who had insisted during a guestlecture at my school that the lifeexpectancy rate of continental Africans without any exceptions whatsoever was years I guess by his book I ought to have expired so ... Read more |
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Friday, October 19, 2007 |
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In recent times much political capital has been made of the perceived underdevelopment of the northern sector of the country And whenever the issue has been duly raised the facile tendency has been for the most vociferous critics to point to the supposedly depressing figure of the KayaYo the woman porter almost as if to suggest that honestl ... Read more |
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Monday, October 15, 2007 |
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I dont know much about the Ghanaian publication called Public Agenda but whatever the nature and general contents of its journalistic fare may be its most recent editorial titled Another AshantiAkyem Rivalry did not impress me in the least Ghanawebcom And I am also quite certain that most Ghanaians who read Public Agendas afor ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 |
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I have written about the New Patriotic Party NPP Club House before visàvis the apparently expedient timing of its donation by Mr Hackman OwusuAgyeman an aspiring NPP presidential candidate However in terms of its functional significance I have unreservedly lauded Mr OwusuAgyemans quite noble decision to create an auspicious venue for ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 |
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At a recent campaign rally in the AwutuEfutuSenya District of the Central Region the former chairman of Ghanas main opposition party the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC appeared to write the obituary of the Rawlingsled political machine by predicting that the twenty extortionate and protracted years of NDC rule were unlikely to ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 06, 2007 |
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At another time all he would have done would have been to simply cry to his boss and fingered his tormentors in order to get his critics and assailants dumped in the slammer No questions asked or answered And so one can readily fathom the burning frustration that must be gnawing at the entrails of the unopposed flagbearer of the socalled Natio ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
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The famous Nigerian novelist and distinguished professor of English and Literature Chinua Achebe has often remarked that he Professor Achebe does not suffer fools gladly He probably anticipates the scabrous likes of the Ghanaian Internet critic who had the temerity to impugn the linguistic integrity of yours truly by writing an article imperious ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 23, 2007 |
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The announcement by Ghanas Minister of Manpower Employment and Youth Development that billion has been earmarked for the protection of the extremely poor and destitute among the countrys general population could not have come at a more opportune time For it has the potentiality of remarkably raising the quality and standard of living of Gha ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 22, 2007 |
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I have been reading about the alleged discovery of JujuVoodoo paraphernalia with the name of the leading New Patriotic Party NPP presidential aspirant Nana AddoDankwa AkufoAddo tied to it And to be certain whoever concocted this most bizarre albeit not altogether puzzling doodah as one newspaper reporter characterized it most definitely ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
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I have been mulling Mr Daniel Kwaku Botwes recent interview with the Ghana News Agency GNA during which the aspiring New Patriotic Party NPP presidential candidate was reported to have remarked as follows The post of a Chief Executive Officer of Ghana the Presidency should not be considered as a retirement package The job is fou ... Read more |
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Friday, September 14, 2007 |
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Barely a week after whirlwindtouring some urban Ghanaian communities here in the United States with a beggars bowl in hand the perennial presidential candidate of the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC stood in Ghanas Central Regional town of BremanAsikuma spitting hellfire and swearing to ensure that the NDC would flatly reject an ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
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An August feature article that appeared in the Ghanaian Statesman titled Why I Will Give My Vote to Aliu Mahama attempted to slander me as well as insult my intelligence by the writer obliquely implying that a previous article which I had written titled The Mahama Loyalists Have No Sense of History was squarely predicated on a g ... Read more |
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Monday, August 27, 2007 |
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During his most recent campaign tour of the Kumasi metropolis renowned Ghanaian political scientist and former Minister of Communications Professor Mike Oquaye was reported to be touting his intention of selecting a woman as his runningmate should he win the upcoming New Patriotic Party presidential candidacy contestWhile indeed his is a ... Read more |
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Monday, August 27, 2007 |
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On Friday August President John AgyekumKufuor and his New Patriotic Party NPP government cut the sod to commence work on Ghanas most significant hydroelectric power project since the construction of the Akosombo Dam otherwise known as the Volta River Project or Scheme by President Kwame Nkrumah and his Convention Peoples Party C ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 |
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Even as the debate on Female Genital Mutilation FGM heats up in Ghana elsewhere around the globe women continue to make history Here in the United States the smart money as it were is being bet on Mrs Hilary Rodham Clinton to carry the national electoral mandate and with the latter of course the White House come Election A year ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 |
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There is a basic syllogism that I walk my students through nearly every semester when I teach them the most effective approaches to composing an argumentative essay It goes like this I have no respect for pathological liars Dr Arthur Kennedy is a pathological liar therefore I have no respect for Dr Arthur Kennedy Of course a pathologic ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 |
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There is a nasty unsigned article that is making the rounds in cyberspace On August the same article surfaced on Ghanawebcom the premiere privatelyowned national website if one may aptly say so in view of the fact of Ghanaweb being arguably the most comprehensive and readily accessible source of information on GhanaThe nasty ... Read more |
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Monday, August 20, 2007 |
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A recent unscientific survey conducted for Ghanawebcom by an unidentified agency reported that of some Ghanaian adults questioned between April and June percent or respondents indicated their willingness to leave the country in search of the proverbial greener pasturesWhile indeed the survey may have multiple imp ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 18, 2007 |
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You may not like the man but there is one thing that you cannot fairly begrudge him The fact is that John Henry Mensah may arguably be the smartest Ghanaian statesman alive Like the proverbial duiker or antelope of that classic song by Mr Jerry Hansen and his Ramblers International band Mr Mensahs lambent wit on almost any critical is ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 |
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During his latest campaign tour of the Central Region aspiring New Patriotic Party NPP presidential candidate Dr Arthur Kobina Kennedy was quoted by the Ghanaian Statesman as claiming that now everybody is convinced there are no frontrunners in the race Interestingly the same campaigner was also quoted as saying that he ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 11, 2007 |
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A Ghana News Agency GNA news article titled SelfStyled Pastor Subjects Lady to a Sex Ordeal was published by Ghanawebcom on August The very brief story detailed the gruesome rape of a female minor by the pastor of a village called Kasseh in the Ada district The case itself is before a circuit court in Sogakope in the Volta R ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 11, 2007 |
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There is this apparently quite popular Ghanaian lawyer by the name of Tony Lithur I do not know much about him which ought to give nobody any grief For I have been out of the country some twentytwo years And I dont remember hearing much about this evidently loudmouthed and insufferably arrogant guy while I was back there And neither doe ... Read more |
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Monday, August 06, 2007 |
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In the wake of the glaring and likely criminal prosecution of some principal revolutionary players of the socalled Provisional National Democratic Congress PNDC in the nottoodistant future we hope some notorious Janusfaced bedfellows of the latter group of felonious scamartists have taken to the Ghanaian airwaves in hopes of deftly di ... Read more |
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Friday, August 03, 2007 |
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I had intended not to involve myself in personality politics at least not just yet until after the Delegates Convention of the New Patriotic Party in December Unfortunately I find this pledge to be turning out to be too dear or expensive to keep particularly for a writer whose singleminded focus at least for now is to ensure that the ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
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Until the advent of the socalled Armed Forces Revolutionary Council AFRC on the Ghanaian political landscape on June Ghana was largely a staid and peaceful country with the level of nonmilitaryoriented gun violence statistically insignificant And while the AFRC was not the first military junta to occupy the Ghanaian political landsc ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
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A little over a decadeandhalf ago this writer had a bitter confrontation with an older AfricanAmerican graduateschool classmate This acquaintance who had briefly sojourned in Nigeria having also earned a first graduate degree in African Art at a major university in that country had the temerity to presume that Female Genital Mutilation FG ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
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I have adequately commented on the raging SCANCEMGHACEM payola scandal particularly the judicially incidental Ghanaian side of it so I will not belabor the earlier points or questions that I raised in this writeup The reference here however is equally significant being that one of the alleged principal Ghanaian players or are they scam ... Read more |
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Friday, July 27, 2007 |
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It is getting to be ever more ridiculous in Ghanas National Assembly these days Then again hasnt it always been ridiculous What with indefinitely boycotting opposition parliamentarians being guaranteed their fat paychecks even as they deliberately sabotaged daily proceedings verging on critical issues of national development In essence and ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007 |
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At long last the cat is out of the bag And on the preceding score the allusion is to the ongoing highcourt trial in Oslo Norway in which the Norwegian cement company SCANCEM which also owns GHACEM or Ghana Cement Company has been brought up on charges of using payola or bribery to run subsidiary monopolies in a host of African countrie ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
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Make no mistake nobody is pleased with the high spate of ganglandstyle murders taking place in Ghana Still the classification or designation by which prominent nonlawenforcement Ghanaians particularly politicians label such heinous acts may unnecessarily prejudice and indeed actually hinder the crucial and legitimate detective work of law ... Read more |
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Friday, July 20, 2007 |
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The dilemma over whether the New Patriotic Party NPP should or should not contest the three parliamentary seats presently held by the Nkrumah Corporation otherwise known as the Convention Peoples Party CPP is one that must be critically reexamined within the practical context of both political reality and the zerosumgame that is the ve ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 |
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Mr Stanley Nii AdjiriBlanksons recent call on Ghanaian private commercial motorists to maintain desirable personal hygiene standards sent this writer rummaging for his old telephone and address book For as momentous as such call was it reminded me of one particular taxicab driver who memorably contradicted Mayor AdjiriBlanksons exhortation ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
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I have studiously followed his shameless scheming for some sixandhalf years now and so yours truly is not surprised that Dr Kwame AddoKufuor the younger brother of the substantive and beloved Ghanaian president Mr John AgyekumKufuor would be ineffectually attempting to poison the credibility of Ghanas fledgling democratic culture agains ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
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Several months ago I told the editorpublisher of a major privatelyowned Ghanaian newspaper that in the runup to the presidential election the New Patriotic Party NPP stood the considerable risk of becoming its own worst enemy Back then I had also suggested moving up the NPPs delegates congress in order to healthily ensure that there ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
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When I was growing up during the s and s in Ghana nobody graphically pronounced the scientific name of pudenda or the female genitalia in polite society And being raised by a Presbyterian clergyman my maternal grandfather I learned soon enough made me a part and parcel of polite Ghanaian society On the governmentowned radio and tele ... Read more |
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Monday, July 09, 2007 |
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I read Dr Nii Moi Thompsons article titled Thompson on Ghanas Oil Find A Rejoinder Ghanawebcom and found it to be quite fascinating if only because it treads familiar grounds visàvis the treacherous terrain of media reportage And since we have yet to hear from the Ghanaian Chronicle reporter who originally related his intervie ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 07, 2007 |
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It has often been alleged that the violent culture of the opposition Provisional National Democratic Congress PNDC is largely due to the fact of its founder and patriarch having acquired power through the brutal application of violence And it cannot be gainsaid that the preceding allegation is laden with validity and evidential proof Even so ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 |
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If the justconcluded African summit taught Africans any significant lesson it is the timetrodden fact that the wretched and the miserable eagerly crave to share and compound their wretchedness and misery with one another Among the Akan there is a saying that A thousand corpses do not smell Of course even a toddler well appreciates the fac ... Read more |
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Monday, July 02, 2007 |
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There is an old popular saying that Whenever death is mentioned old bones begin to shake Actually I prefer to substitute jitter for shake since the former more picturesquely encapsulates the high electrical charge involved in the pitiful reaction of our for this particular discourse Or perhaps even quaver which has a more musical ... Read more |
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Friday, June 29, 2007 |
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On June a Ghanawebcom reprinted article from the Daily Dispatch newspaper attributed the following statement to the General Secretary of the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC Power is slipping from the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP It cannot win the Presidential and Parliamentary elections Majority of Ghanaians ar ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
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A lot of calls have gone out to Ghanaians largely members supporters and sympathizers of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP to desist from politicizing the ongoing national currency redenomination exercise Needless to say it would be politically unsound and outright suicidal for the NPP to flatly refuse to capitalize on this momentous exe ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 |
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When Prof AgyemanBadu Akosa asserts that Nkrumahs socalled Preventive Detention Act PDA a copycat from India was legitimate and necessary considering the scale of the destructive nature of the opposition who were at that time bent on assassinating him Daily Guide some far more knowledgeable and levelheaded Ghanaian student o ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
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I read Professor Gordon Newlove Asamoahs article titled Ghanaians Are Too ProForeign with a lot of amusement The article desperately sought to highlight the quite wellobserved and proven fact that by and large Ghanaians particularly those who have acquired some level of Western education tend to gravitate towards things Western and Euro ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 24, 2007 |
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It has remained posted on the Internet for some time now except that while its title seemed interesting if only because of its quaintness the hectic schedule of yours truly rendered it quite unappealing for him to promptly get to it Pontifically and rather presumptuously titled Restore Nkrumahs Dignity Prof Akosa Daily Guide th ... Read more |
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Friday, June 22, 2007 |
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By the time this article is published several keycabinet appointees of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP would have tendered their resignation to President John AgyekumKufuor While such flurry of resignations has been expected for some time at least as stipulated by the NPP Constitution the motive and rationale for demanding that these key ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 |
I have never minced words in being immitigably frank in my discussion of the mixed legacy bequeathed his country by Ghanas first president I however unlike his servile and fanatical disciples flatly refuse to corrupt and distort history by acknowledging him as the founder of Ghana And neither do I envisage him as the greatest African or ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 |
Those who remember the heady days of Dr Hilla Limanns People National Party PNP and Agripetco or some such company and the whole business of Black Goldprospecting are not likely to be too ecstatic about the recent announcement by an AngloAmerican and Ghanaian petroleum consortium that the latter has discovered huge quantities of oil offsho ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |
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After slavishly following Jato June th to disturb the public peace of Somanya in the otherwise quiescent KroboHills ToySoldier is at it again He seems to think that he can fool his countrymen and women just about anytime and anyhow he wants to and so this time he either invited himself to or was invited to a peacefest reportedly hosted ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 17, 2007 |
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A June Ghana News Agency GNA report had some leading parliamentary members of the socalled Provisional National Democratic Congress PNDC hotly disputing with some of their counterparts from the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP over the operational modalities of the newlyproposed Bui Hydroelectric Power ProjectIn the main the d ... Read more |
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Friday, June 15, 2007 |
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I dont know what Dr Kwaku A Danso is trying to achieve with his article titled On Fathia and Nkrumah Distorting Facts or Disgracing Our Past Is that All Helpful Some brownie points perhaps Ghanawebcom except to shamelessly bring yours trulys attention to the fact that the critic has written a book titled Leadership and the ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 |
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In the wake of Mrs HelenaRitz FathiaNkrumahs passing in Cairo Egypt on May and the according of a State Burial to the first former Ghanaian First Lady by the Kufuorled New Patriotic Party government of Ghana an opinion piece which was originally published in the East African Standard newspaper based in the Kenyan capital of Nair ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
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I was not going to respond to Nana Amma Obenewaas socalled call for dialogue for as yours truly noted quite recently all her writings are about anything and everything except dialogue And for one who coined the term AKANOCRACY and AKANOCENTRIC and all the other ISMS that she associates with the ethnicity of the majority of the Ghanaia ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 |
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At the st Congregation or Commencement Exercises of Ghanas University of Science and Technology Kumasi ViceChancellor Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwah lamented what the latter termed as the low patronage of postgraduate programs in the country at large New Ghanaian Professor Adarkwah also reportedly added that such low enrollment into gra ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 10, 2007 |
I have briefly followed the ruckus surrounding the socalled InOutOutOut student residential policy regimen introduced by the administrators of the University of Ghana I have even written an article aptly attributing the current residential mess to the ignoble and outright boorish nonchalance of past Ghanaian leaders particularly the largely a ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 09, 2007 |
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Following the publication of my article titled MeritBased Succession An Unimpeachable Tradition Accra Daily Mail Ghanawebcom Dr Arthur Kennedy a contender for presidential nomination on the ticket of Ghanas ruling New Patriotic Party wrote back hotly challenging my factual assertion that since actually when o ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 |
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Among the interesting and revelatory issues that emerged out of Mr Rawlings and his socalled National Democratic Congress celebration of their June assassination of Mr Rawlings predecessors was a crude public statement regarding the intention of the NDC to plunge Ghana into a sanguinary state of civil strife And to be certain this i ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 |
Could have fooled me goes the popular American saying and it must just as well have been composed to describe the flighty mental state of the twicedefeated presidential candidate of the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC these days On Monday June Professor John Evans Atta Mills was reported to have been with his boss and ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 |
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The passing of Mrs HelenaRitz FathiaNkrumah on May occasioned a great outpouring of expressions of condolences and sympathies And it goes without saying that some of these expressions were genuine and indubitably heartfelt while as had been expected all along the bulk of them were purely cynical to the utmost degree of the patently ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 03, 2007 |
As President John Agyekum Kufuor prepares to hand over the reins of Ghanas governance come vigorous and also desperate attempts continue to be made by either staunch supporters or sympathizers of the various declared presidential aspirants and candidates in a bid to having their favorite candidate replace the outgoing incumbent This is a ... Read more |
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Friday, June 01, 2007 |
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Although the political culture of democracy appears to be taking a firm hold on Ghana hardly the same could be said about the imperative rule of law On May for instance a special report appeared in the Accra Daily Mail in which narrative a man who allegedly killed another in the presence of witnesses was allowed to go scotfree as i ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
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On May two brief Ghana News Agencygenerated articles appeared on the website of Ghanawebcom respectively titled UEW Libyan University Signed MOU and Libyans to Help Establish Arabic Dept at UEW Of course the initials UEW stand for Ghanas University of Education which is located in the Central Regional nodal town of Win ... Read more |
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Monday, May 28, 2007 |
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I was not going to respond to an article by a Nana Amma Obenewaa titled Examining the Nations Energy Crisis which appeared in the Features column of Ghanawebcoms May edition I was not going to respond because the tired hallmark of Nana Ammas writings is abject selfrighteousness and sheepish linguistic acrobatics or brazen and re ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 26, 2007 |
The sophistic attempt by the leaders of the socalled st December Womens Movement DWM to dissociate and distance the dubious activities of the AgyemanRawlingsled pseudonongovernmental organization from the sanguinary Provisional National Democratic Congress PNDC will not work Indeed this very attempt seems so farcical and clinically ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 |
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At a recent confabulation in the Eastern Regional Capital of Koforidua some Ghanaian media professionals largely print journalists and editors were reported to be calling for constitutionally democratic measures in order to ensure that the masscommunication trade becomes more proactive and responsive the felt needs of the people Ghana N ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
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I have generally stayed clear of the sticky topic of Gay and Lesbian lifestyles even when I have bitterly complained or remonstrated over the virtual linguistic proscription and cannibalization of otherwise semantically genial words like gay and faggot It is almost as if a Language Imperialist suddenly appeared on our cultural landscape a ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 19, 2007 |
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At a socalled Asante Regional Delegates Conference of the pseudonongovernmental st December Womens Movement a veritable PNDC façade the wife of Ghanas bloodiest dictatorcumpseudocivilian former premier Mr Jeremiah John Rawlings was reported by the Ghana News Agency GNA to be appealing to Ghanaians to be vigilant and guard agains ... Read more |
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Friday, May 11, 2007 |
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Reading the story titled Calls for Early Activation of Aveyime Rice Project Ghanawebcom reminded me of another quite anecdotal narrative that was carried by the ABCTelevision network here in the United States a little under two decades ago The latter story regarded the opaque economic ignorance attendant to the life of a ghet ... Read more |
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Friday, May 04, 2007 |
It is a crying shame and darn pity that Mr Kwesi Pratt Jr should be named Publicity Chairman of the rump Convention Peoples Party CPP Then again isnt this fossilized party just exactly what its name implies the rump of a pseudosocialist party that never learned or knew any form of civilized substantive mode of governance besides fatuo ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
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As fanatical Nkrumaists begin to feel the righteous heat of historical truth and accuracy it is only natural that they would become agitated and desperate Having enjoyed the undeserved honeymoon of tepid and outright diffident Ghanaian scholarship actually pseudoscholarship for some sixty years these Nkrumacrats were beginning to feel self ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 |
He has already been immortalized with a lifesized statue on a giant pedestal erected on the foregrounds of Ghanas sole international airport which is also named after him And so when we came across an article recently posted on the website of Modernghanacom titled Anlos to Immortalize the Memory of Kotoka it was quite puzzling as ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
At Ghanas flagship academy the University of Ghana Legon students have been engaged in vehement protest marches for the past several weeks These street demonstrations are an expression of student disapproval with a new residential policy which stipulates that only firstyear students or freshmen and women can be accommodated in oncampus do ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 21, 2007 |
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The month of April has not been a very pleasant or auspicious one for me This is a quite ironic observation for me to make being that this month also marked my fortysomething birthday Dont as yours truly exactly how old he is because he is not in a lighthearted moodBut that April has been a miserable season for me stems ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
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The decision by the Nigerian Supreme Court to return VicePresident Atiku Abubakar to the ballot is one that ought to be applauded by all democraticallyminded and democracyloving people around the globe particularly those of us from the WestAfrican subregion For it sends a loud and clear message that no individual regardless of sociopolitica ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
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As a rule I rarely bother to visit the chatroom of Ghanawebcom because the bulk of what passes for unfettered debate in that forum is almost invariably about personal invectives and abject obscenities of the kind that one may ordinarily not associate with a civilized and an enlightened culturePerhaps most of the discussants recognize t ... Read more |
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Monday, April 09, 2007 |
Our attention has been drawn to a reference made to Mr Kwaku Baako in an article titled Professor Aidoo Mr Baako Speak for Yourselves which was posted to the Ghanawebcom edition of April The same article was also published on the website of ModernghanacomIn the main the allusion was to an earlier article published in The Gh ... Read more |
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Sunday, April 08, 2007 |
While feigning neutrality as many a relatively sophisticated Nkrumaist sympathizer or even an outandout Nkrumacrat is wont to doing the late Professor P A V Ansah deliberately ignored the centrality of Dr J B Danquah to the development and utilization of the Ghanaian Press in furtherance of his political objectives by rather pathetically ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 |
A Ghana News Agency GNA posting on the website of the Accra Daily Mail had a lecturer at the University of Science and Technology warning families against the skyrocketing costs of funerary rites in recent years That Mr Anthony Aidoo reportedly spoke passionately to the preceding issue was quite in sync with the newsmakers professio ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 |
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As Ghana swiftly moves away from the rhetorical prolix of the anticolonial era into the constructive phase of the postcolonial era circa a number of monographs purporting to objectively apportion credit and deficit one is also naturally inclined to believe to the prime movers and shakers of the postcolonial era have bee ... Read more |
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Saturday, March 24, 2007 |
In the wake of the recent brutal murder of a wellknown Ghanaian journalist February the role of the Press in the development of a secure democratic culture could not be overemphasized And to fully appreciate the centrality of this subject that is the Press we have decided to examine the critical questions raised by Professor K A B J ... Read more |
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
It is with indescribable shock sadness and sorrow that I express my condolences to the family relatives and friends of Ms Hawa Yakubu former member of the Ghana National Assembly and Minister of Tourism in the Government of the New Patriotic PartyI hope that Ghanaians could take solace and pride in Mama Hawas sterling courage in speaking tr ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
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Much vitriol and illwill have been routinely heaped on the organized political opposition led by Drs Danquah and Busia for supposedly retarding the forward and steady march towards Ghanas salutary attainment of sovereignty Interestingly however just like the selfengineered Kulungugu episode some eight years later Dennis Austin imputes t ... Read more |
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Saturday, February 24, 2007 |
I was a toddler in the first grade wait a minute not quite because I had been ferried into first grade on the strength of the fact that I was fast friends with my maternal first cousin Master Vincent Assiseh Jr who was a few months older than I was and still is a few months older than I am and who could not be torn away from me and vicev ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 |
Halfway around the world from each other I feel the softwarmth of your breath about my neck run my fingers through your hair as a lion out of his lair on the prowl ready for the kill I am thoroughly enjoying the chase though so I am in no rush to reach the peak the truth is not that a prophet is not respected in his native land it is th ... Read more |
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Sunday, February 11, 2007 |
It was with amused contempt that I read an editorial titled Poor Osageyfo I suppose this is Kwesi Pratts Nzema version of Osagyefo and sourced to the Insight newspaper in the Ghanawebcom edition of February And here we significantly note that The Insight newspaper is published by Mr Kwesi Pratt a perennial loudmouth and ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 08, 2007 |
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In much the same manner that President Kwame Nkrumah has been putatively regarded and designated as The Father and Founder of modern Ghana Dr J B Danquah putatively designated The Doyen of Gold Coast Politics could also be legitimately accoladed or monikered The Father and Founder of the modern Ghanaian academy An ... Read more |
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Sunday, February 04, 2007 |
In his comprehensive narrative of modern Ghanaian history titled Politics in Ghana Oxford UP prolific and authoritative British scholar Dennis Austin eloquently and definitively debunks the widespread postcolonial myth of Kwame Nkrumah having been a singularly seminal influence on the modern Ghanaian political landscape True ... Read more |
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Friday, January 19, 2007 |
In the preface to his quite literate narrative of the landmark coup détat that ousted Ghanaian premier Kwame Nkrumah titled A Myth Is Broken An Account Of The Ghana Coup DÉtat Of February Longmans MajorGeneral A K Ocran eloquently limns the surrealistically dismal Ghanaian political milieu in which the coup occurred Amongst t ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 |
It has been forty years since his auspicious and landmark overthrow yet many a fanatical Nkrumacrat shows no signs of let or psychological maturity and discretionary growth Thus in the Acknowledgment pages to his book The Ghana Young Pioneer Movement Accra Optimum M N Tetteh makes the following patently and blasphemously hyperbolica ... Read more |
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Monday, January 15, 2007 |
When I began writing this piece I had to struggle with several captions which kept popping out of my skull like AkyemApedwa mushrooms on a rotting log or perhaps a rotting palmtree just after the final dregs of Odoka wine has been drained out of it And talking of the palmtree and Ghanaian politics reminds me of the Limannled Peoples Nat ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006 |
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There has predictably developed an interesting dimension to Nigerias fledgling democratic culture in a manner that should make all democracyloving Ghanaians for example feel very proud The gracefully tactical ability of party and cabinet members to stoutly stand up to and against the creeping pathological tendency of elected premiers toward ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
By the time this article gets posted or published a rejoinder to a previous analytical piece that I did on National Democratic Congress presidential aspirants Dr Ekwow SpioGarbrah and Professor John Evans Atta Mills Accra Daily Mail may already have been published The rejoinder titled Re Situation Vacant ConArtists and Jokers ... Read more |
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Monday, December 18, 2006 |
A December news article which appeared on the website of the Ghanaian Statesman had the Provisional National Democratic Congress pointman on energy issues in the Ghanaian Parliament accusing the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP of hiding revenue from oil mining activities in the Saltpond area of the Central Region of the countryIt ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 16, 2006 |
In the leadup to their congress in the Northern Regional Capital of Tamale National Democratic Congress presidential aspirant Dr Ekwow SpioGarbrah was reported to be claiming that the Party founded by the bloodiest dictator in postcolonial Ghanaian history in order to clinch the presidency come needed a charismatic candidate who has v ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
Coming in the stupefying wake of the Haruna Iddrisu plagiarism debacle the decision of the management of Ghanas Daily Graphic the oldest governmentowned newspaper to sue one of the papers former editors for copyright infringement adds an intriguing meaning to the legal and academic concept of plagiarism in ways that may yet redound to the ... Read more |
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Monday, December 11, 2006 |
In his rejoining article titled Rejoinder Kufuor on Scramble for His Seat Ghanawebcom the abovereferenced author makes the erroneous assumption of presuming that Dr J B Danquah the foremost Ghanaian statesman of the twentieth century was defeated several times at the polls merely because the putative Doyen of Gold Coast and Gha ... Read more |
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Friday, December 08, 2006 |
As CommanderinChief of the Ghana Armed Forces Nkrumah we learn quite prosaically was capriciously divisive and vindictive against Generals Ankrah and Otu the two seniormost Ghanaian military officers whom the notorious African Show Boy deftly and routinely played against one another and also against the relatively less senior MajorGeneral ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006 |
In the wake of the recent motoraccident involving a convoy carrying Ghanas VicePresident Alhaji Aliu Mahama the Accra Daily Mail ADM posted a news article to its website in which a traditional priest was reported to be claiming that the prevalence of road accidents were supposedly being caused by the spirit of former President Kwame Nkruma ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
As Ghana prepares to celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary of its declaration of sovereignty from British colonial rule in March it has become imperative to recall the countrys chequered checkered political culture during the period under discussion This has become even more imperative because of the brazen and intemperate efforts of ardent ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
Shortly after the former Ministry of Information was redesignated as the Ministry of Information and National Orientation MINO this writer soberly questioned the posting of the everblundering albeit wellmeaning Mr Kwamena Bartels to the headship of that most vital administrative institution For other than obviously the presidency itself ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 19, 2006 |
I dont know who ever introduced the rather bizarre verbal expression of rubbish as in to rubbish the dignity of another into our mainstream Ghanaian lexicon though one can readily guess with nearcertainty that this crude expression is a bona fide importation from Ghanas Anglophone giant neighbor to the EastAnd here the reader may do ... Read more |
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Friday, November 17, 2006 |
A November editorial which appeared in the Ghanaian Statesman titled More Policy Less Politics Please wisely cautions the presidential aspirants of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP to privilege the commonwealth or collective destiny of Ghanaians over the primarily private and personal ambitions of the presidential aspirants ... Read more |
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Friday, November 10, 2006 |
It is rather amusing that the leaders of the socalled Provisional National Democratic Congress PNDC should be accusing the topbrass of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP of plotting to systematically eliminate Mr Rawlings and his Dzelukope School of AntiAkan Butchers Statesman Of course we also take signal cognizance of ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 04, 2006 |
The stiff sentencing of an Ethiopian man resident in the American state of Georgia this week to ten years imprisonment ought to serve as a strong warning signal to impenitent and sadistic practitioners of the odious procedure of Female Genital Mutilation FGMThe man Khalid Adem whose age was not given was charged with using a pair of ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 |
Much venom has been spewed at the great revolutionaries who laid down their lives to ensure that an ideal political climate of Freedom and Justice the national motto would prevail in postcolonial Ghana Especially singled out for gratuitous vitriol largely by some Ewe micronationalist Nkrumacrats is LtGen E K Kotoka the man who led the ... Read more |
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Friday, October 06, 2006 |
The name of the Accrabased Ga Shifimo Kpee or the Ga Standfast Organization has been indiscriminately bandied about by ardent Nkrumacrats who either have no respect for meticulous and systematic scholarship on postcolonial Ghanaian historiography or woefully underestimate the criticalthinking faculties of their fellow Ghanaian readers and even ... Read more |
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Monday, October 02, 2006 |
At this midpoint of our series we intend to tie up the loose ends of our discourse on T Peter Omaris Kwame Nkrumah The Anatomy of an African Dictatorship and Bob Fitch and Mary Oppenheimers Ghana End of an Illusion unarguably two of the most significant studies of the history and politics of Ghanas immediate postcolonial era ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 24, 2006 |
While one cannot wholly gainsay the fact that Temple Universitys AfricanAmerican Studies Department has produced quite a remarkable bevy of doctoraldegree holders since the programs inception in or thereabouts an equally remarkable number of intellectual pedestrians have also been awarded doctoral degrees And to be certain shortly ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 |
Ghanaians on the whole appear to be a very forgetful people and this is largely why it has been quite easy for calculating and opportunistic politicians like Kwame Nkrumah and Jerry John Rawlings to shamelessly pretend with virtual impunity that they are indeed respectively founding father of our nation and inventor of modern Ghanaian democ ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 |
If we agree for the sake of argumentation that the United Gold Coast Convention UGCC the first modern political party to be founded in Ghana could aptly be redesignated the United Gold Coast Conservatives then it perfectly stands to reason to redesignate the Convention Peoples Party CPP the first of its kind to form a government ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 10, 2006 |
There is a joke that I regularly share with friends and family It goes like this Verandah Boy gets a Ph D What do you think he studiedOftentimes they would be scratching their heads trying to come up with something And almost invariably they would end up with such outlandish guesses as Engineering Law or Medicine Then I would pl ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 07, 2006 |
The call by Ghanas Minister of Education Science and Sports for all model Senior Secondary Schools currently under construction to be sciencebiased must be taken with a lot of caution Modernghanacom This is because what the Minister omitted from his pronouncement is just as important as that which he emphasized And by the latter ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 03, 2006 |
The serious need to taking care of the weak and vulnerable in our society was brought home to Ghanaians both at home and abroad recently when Health Minister Courage Quashigah paid a working visit to the Weija Leprosarium in the GreaterAccra Region Ghana News Agency But what was even more intriguing in a quite disturbing manner how ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
No authoritative or intellectually enriching study of postcolonial Ghanaian politics would be complete without a critical examination of T Peter Omaris Kwame Nkrumah The Anatomy of an African Dictatorship New York Africana Publishing Corporation And so it is to the preceding treatise that we now turn The two epigraphs to this bo ... Read more |
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Monday, August 28, 2006 |
Much negative capital has been made by many a fanatical Nkrumacrat of Ali Mazruis famous miniessay titled Nkrumah The Leninist Czar Transition which was published in the wake of the landmark overthrow of the Convention Peoples Party CPP And until I began to assert my own ideological and cognitive independence visàvis t ... Read more |
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Friday, August 25, 2006 |
Contrary to received postcolonial African historiography Kwame Nkrumah was a nondemocratic or partial revolutionary as opposed to a total and democratic revolutionary the version counseled by Karl Marx On this score alone Nkrumah and his CPP machinery were fundamentally not different from the managerial operatives of the United Gold Co ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
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The recent chasing of former Ghanaian strongman FltLt Jerry John Rawlings out of a Chicago Illinois church ought to serve as a good lesson for all unconstitutional African leaders with tainted and bloody political records who may presume to lecture the rest of us on exactly the kinds of discursive subjects on which they have absolutely no mora ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
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In the failure of Nkrumah lies a Ghanaian tragedy In the failure of Africans to learn the true lessons from his downfall will lie an African tragedy Kweku Folson Ghanaian patriot and panAfricanistRecently in the wake of the publication of a heretically insolent and pathetically incoherent article titled The Fallacies of J B Danquah ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
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It goes without saying that Kotokas poignantly accurate characterization of the Nkrumahled C P P regime is amply reflected by the formers maiden radio announcement to an unmistakably euphoric Ghanaian populace regarding its salutary liberation from the abominable tentacles of indigenous neocolonialism cynically disguised as unfettered sover ... Read more |
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Monday, August 21, 2006 |
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In this segment of our discourse on the DanquahNkrumah debate which has been continuously running at least since Dr Danquahs summary imprisonment and brutal assassination in by President Nkrumahs Convention Peoples Party CPP regime it has become necessary to engage in what might be disciplinarily termed as the sociology or historical ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 19, 2006 |
SOME MEN ARE AS GUILTY OF SKINBLEACHING AS WOMEN That most Ghanaians at home continue to think along stereotypical and sexist lines is at once quite amusing and disturbing An August news article posted on Modernghanacom and sourced to the Ghana News Agency GNA had a beauty therapist exhorting the countrys men ... Read more |
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Friday, August 18, 2006 |
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To fully appreciate the gravity of the farreaching implications of the neocolonialist tenor which the Convention Peoples Party CPP chaperoned by President Nkrumah represented both on the Ghanaian political landscape and the African continent in general it is worthwhile to examine the inimitably eloquent tribute paid Dr Danquah by thenNige ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 |
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In the main many a fanatical Nkrumaist predicates the purportedly unmatched political genius of the proverbial African Show Boy on the latters admittedly remarkable transformation of the Ghanaian architectural landscape Such structures came in the form and shape of roadways schools hospitals townships and other aspects of Ghanaian culture ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 13, 2006 |
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Several years ago the renowned Ghanaian professor of Philosophy and the dauphin of an equally distinguished Ghanaian lawyer Dr Anthony Kwame Appiah critically questioned the virtual absence of the seminal works of Dr J B Danquah in the discursive writings or corpus of the leaders of the socalled Afrocentric School also rather pretentiou ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 12, 2006 |
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August was quite a momentous day in my life In fact it was a momentous day in the life of my entire family Five years after his painful passing my father Professor Kwame OkoampaAhoofe Sr was honored with an award named for him at New York Citys Technical Career Institutes where the Old Man taught Technical Writing Language Arts ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 12, 2006 |
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Not long ago an obituary that was published in the New York Times on the life of the famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal who had died in Los Angeles California noted that the deceased was fond of the dictum Some of us have a right to be stupid but for me being stupid is a luxury that I can illafford The preceding was in riposte to thos ... Read more |
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Sunday, October 30, 2005 |
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A recent Ghanaian News Agency GNA article had the ViceChancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology KNUST lambasting Fante immigrants in other parts of Ghana who had achieved remarkable modicum of successes for allegedly neglecting their geoethnic moorings The article also had Dr Wilhelmina Donkor a senior lecturer ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 |
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The recent appearances of exPresident MacBeth on South Africas national television make for a very interesting study of the pathologically contradictory profile of the man On September and the longest reigning former dictator of Ghana vehemently denied charges that during his execrably protracted tenure tens of hundreds of unsuspec ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 05, 2005 |
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In this segment we shall address two nagging issues of critical interest to Ghanaians both at home and abroad as well as global and continental Africans in general The first regards the insistent albeit baneful prevalence of some primitive and outright barbaric ethnic rituals in the country while the second issue regards the controversial qu ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 24, 2005 |
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An unsigned July news article reported the disappearance of Ghanaian musicians in Zurich Switzerland after the group had been invited to participate in a World Youth Music Festival which ran from July Ghanawebcom Actually the report continued the Ghanaian musicians had not disappeared as such they had simply faile ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 17, 2005 |
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Recently the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association CJMA held a conference in the Ghanaian capital of Accra during which the delegates of the association expressed their commonality of interests duties and responsibilities with the Ghanaian institution of chieftaincy Needless to say such salutary affirmation of mutual interests was ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
Believe me I have been religiously trying to wax philosophical regarding my ongoing series on His Tyrannical Eminence HTE but unfortunately there is only so much that even the bestintentioned analyst could cognitively bring to bear on the rather plodding and bizarre subject of a frozen cartoon character And so here again sad to say we are ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 08, 2005 |
These days it appears that PresidentManqué John Evans AttaMills makes a living out of studiously following the speeches and press conferences of substantive president John AgyekumKufuor to see if the former could pick up any charitable crumbs that are wont to boosting his chances of clinching the presidency threeandhalf years hence And this ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 04, 2005 |
In the immutably democratic spirit of the Doyen of Gold Coast and Ghanaian politics AduBoahen concludes his J B Danquah Memorial Lectures by unreservedly castigating the hitherto chronic and pathological political subculture of stratocracy or military dictatorship as the especial bane of postcolonial Ghanaian political history Qu ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 03, 2005 |
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For Danquah the primal revolutionary act is the massive and effective eradication of illiteracy as an indispensable means to ensuring national development Thus in Friendship And Empire the putative Doyen of Gold Coast and Ghanaian politics lauds the extant British Secretary of State for the Colonies Sir Creech Jones for outlining an il ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 28, 2005 |
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Much has been made by his disciples and staunch ideological sympathizers of the fact that President Kwame Nkrumah attended and actively participated in the Manchester England conference of the PanAfricanists Movement Curiously enough what is not as quite well known is the fact that in September Dr J B Danquah attended and ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 27, 2005 |
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In the next three segments of our series we shall highlight Professor A AduBoahens J B Danquah Memorial Lectures sponsored by the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences We shall then conclude this series with a cursory survey of the philosophy of our subject for the putative Doyen of Ghanaian Politics was first and foremost a global thi ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 21, 2005 |
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In the wake of recent revelations indicating at least here in the United States that cheating is fast becoming an integral part of professional sports not that it is in the least acceptable a brief news report was posted on the unofficial but putatively recognized global Ghanaian website Ghanawebcom regarding the worry of some Ghanaian spo ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 20, 2005 |
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The recent report published by The Ghanaian Chronicle alleging through one former Engineering lecturer of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology KNUST that His Tyrannical Eminence FltLt Jeremiah John Rawlings sought to stagemanage the Ghanaian Constitution in order to perpetuate his tyranny may be aptly characterized ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 14, 2005 |
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A news summary dated Monday July and posted on Ghanas PeaceFM radios website reported the quite fascinating story of Belgian prison inmates who are reportedly granted a single twohour conjugal visit from their spouses and partners every month by the systems administrators What is fascinating about this story is not the simple fact ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 06, 2005 |
In July this year Ghanas Center for Media Analysis CMA released a study suggesting the extreme negative image of President John AgyekumKufuor and the Presidency as a whole Titled Media Not to Blame a report on the study which was posted on Ghanawebcom quoted the Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Me ... Read more |
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Monday, August 01, 2005 |
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On July Ghanawebcom posted an interesting story titled MP Proposes Public Servants Mandatory Health Check The article was interesting more for its bizarre semiotic thrust than having anything meaningful to contribute to the running discourse on the development future of the country But that it came from a bona fide parliamentarian m ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 |
It would be grossly understating the fact to say that I was quite elated to recently read about the launching of a book titled Government in West Africa by the eminent Ghanaian historian Dr Francis K Buah Likewise it may also aptly be deemed as an understatement to observe as Professor Ivan AddaeMensah former vicechancellor of the Univers ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 23, 2005 |
In the wake of the G Summit in Gleneagles Scotland his Tyrannical Eminence FltLt Jeremiah John Rawlings had the impudent temerity to subject the economic agenda of the worlds wealthiest and most powerful leaders to scrutiny In a largely desultory oneandhalfpage article Ghanas longtime tyrant and mass murderer alluded to the recent s ... Read more |
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Friday, July 15, 2005 |
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On the solemn occasion of the th anniversary of Ghanas reassertion of her political sovereignty from Britain President John AgyekumKufuor called for a critical examination of the lyrics to the countrys national anthem The leader of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP noted that Ghanas national anthem emphasized the imperative need for the ... Read more |
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Monday, July 11, 2005 |
The recent call by the Panel of Eminent Persons of the African PeerReview Mechanism APRM for the Ghanaian government to put a ceiling on the number of jurists appointable to the Supreme Court is a quite intriguing recommendation And indeed we hold the preceding to be quite intriguing because the recommendation appears to presuppose that ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 10, 2005 |
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On December the Convention Peoples Party government issued a White Paper in which among other things the government purported to justify its arrest and incarceration of Dr Danquah and other leading members of the oppositional United Party without the rudimentary benefit of a judicial trial two months previously Under the pretext ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 09, 2005 |
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The origins of the Preventive Detention Act PDA revolves around what became known as The Awhaitey Case or The Awhaitey Affair The latter began with the arrest of Mr Reginald Reynolds Amponsah popularly known as R R Amponsah Member of Parliament and General Secretary of the leading opposition United Party a political progeny of the er ... Read more |
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Friday, July 01, 2005 |
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And so the clinical and cognitive basketcase was in Bamako the Malian capital of all places the other day whining puerilely to the effect that the government of the ruling New Patriotic Party had not been treating the career coupplotter and mass murderer with royal dignity Some reports even claimed that the postcolonial Ghanaian political a ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 23, 2005 |
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If the tenure of the socalled National Democratic Congress NDC of Ghana spearheaded by the notorious FltLt Jerry John Rawlings could be aptly said to have been characterized by incessant shuttering of higher educational institutions the present ruling government of the New Patriotic Party NPP chaplained by Mr John AgyekumKufuor may be ... Read more |
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Monday, June 20, 2005 |
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On June an article lamenting the abject failure of some official Ghanaian sporting organizations to attend the funeral of a former national soccer goalie appeared in the prestigious Accra Daily Mail The deceased goalie Mr Salifu Ansah had played with such notable football or soccer clubs as Sekondi Eleven Wise Kumasi Asante Kotoko ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 18, 2005 |
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On October the German chapter of the National Democratic Congress NDC the main Ghanaian opposition party held a daylong economic symposium in Frankfurt The main agenda of the aforementioned event was supposedly to reach out to the African Diaspora in Germany to discuss issues of relevance to Ghana and Africa in general ... Read more |
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Friday, June 17, 2005 |
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In this segment of our discourse on the polymathic life and times of Dr J B Danquah we also highlight the fact that our subjects tragic political fate at the hands of his former ideological minion and subsequent archnemesis Dr Kwame Nkrumah also sharply defined the dismal human rights record of the breakaway Convention Peoples Party CPP ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 12, 2005 |
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Recently the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP of Ghana erected a monument to immortalize three of the countrys high court judges who were brutally murdered in by top members of the extant Provisional National Defense Council PNDC The latter it may be recalled was a military junta spearheaded by thenFltLt Jerry Jeremiah John Rawlin ... Read more |
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Friday, June 10, 2005 |
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Originally published in The New York Beacon A day after my late father would have marked his th birthday anniversary Ghanas FltLt Jerry John Rawlings appeared before the countrys National Reconciliation Commission NRC I make this allusion to my fathers birthday specifically to highlight the fact that I did not expect the former ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 09, 2005 |
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Several generations of remarkable and sheroic struggles later women continue to suffer gender discrimination worldwide In May this year for instance a pregnant AfricanAmerican high school graduate was advised against attending graduation ceremonies by her parochial school authorities The reason was indicated as one bordering on publi ... Read more |
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Monday, June 06, 2005 |
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In the latest development regarding perhaps the most deadly intellectual assault on the University of Ghana Legon the yearold son of the flagship academys recently dismissed ViceChancellor has appealed for the forgiveness of his disgraced father Unfortunately the veritable moral and psychological reprobate and toddler who did not appear ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 05, 2005 |
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In the first volume of his book titled The Makers of Modern Ghana Anowuo Educational Publications Magnus Sampson quotes Dr Danquah in a quite interesting epigraph which reads as follows It is only in the study of the lives of our great men that we can approach a general or universal history of Ghana Needless to say the pr ... Read more |
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Monday, May 30, 2005 |
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The recent report carried by Ghanas PeaceFM radio and posted on Ghanawebcom alleging a romantic liaison between the countrys controversial Iron Lady and the publisher of the Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper has no place whatsoever in the political arena Ghanawebcom At the worst it is a private matter and it goes without saying tha ... Read more |
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Sunday, May 29, 2005 |
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The dismal failure of the countrys pioneering premier Dr Kwame Nkrumah to fully recognize the imperative need for the modernization development and integration of chieftaincy into the constitutional apparatus of postcolonial Ghanaian society continues to reverberate with ominous implications for the future of the country And this patently un ... Read more |
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Monday, May 23, 2005 |
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I recently read an interesting note which one Mr Eric Alike an apparently concerned and wellmeaning reader sent to Mr Harruna Atta the editorpublisher of the Accra Daily Mail In the note posted the writer expresses his visceral fear regarding the grim possibility of a National Democratic Congress NDC comeback If the NDC come ... Read more |
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Sunday, May 22, 2005 |
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In the wake of what became known as the Disturbances thenMr Kwame Nkrumah LifeChairman of the newlyformed Convention Peoples Party CPP gave the British colonial government a twoweek ultimatum to come out with a definitive agenda aimed at handing back power to indigenous Ghanaians or face the jarring radical revolutionary music of ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 14, 2005 |
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Some selfproclaimed Nkrumah fanatics and here we hasten to distinguish this group from genuine Nkrumahists recently Emailed this writer expressing insufferable scorn over Dr Danquahs honorific epithet of Doyen of Gold Coast and Ghanaian Politics And here also we make a critical distinction between these fanatics and genuine Nkrumahis ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 12, 2005 |
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The canonization of the pioneering leaders of any country is globally recognized as a matter of course And so recently when Dr Edward Mahama of the Peoples National Convention PNC announced his intention to exhort the Ghanaian parliament to set aside a commemorative day in honor of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah many of us were quite elated N ... Read more |
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Sunday, May 08, 2005 |
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This segment of our ongoing discourse is perhaps also the most heartrending and difficult if also because it is ineluctably the most intimate and personal For good or ill the protean and unpredictable circumstances of history have determined that I rake over the familial wounds of a moment in Ghanaian political history that indisputably transce ... Read more |
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Sunday, May 01, 2005 |
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That the deleterious impact of British colonialism equally predetermined the tragic fortunes of both the putative Doyen of Gold Coast and Ghanaian politics as well as those of the founding premier of Ghana cannot be gainsaid And any study which attempts to comprehensively examine the achievements and drawbacks of either patriot cannot afford to ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 30, 2005 |
At the time of this writing April Ghanas Daily Graphic had reported the dragging inability of Mr Aryee Ayeetey alias Ataa Ayi the countrys most notorious and elusive armed robber during the course of the last six years to secure the basic services of a defense or trial attorney The story piqued my interest if only because it h ... Read more |
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Monday, April 25, 2005 |
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The extracurricular relationship between male heterosexual teachers and their female students has always been problematic And this problem is not confined to Ghana it is a global problem that has to be contextualized as such And here one might also aptly add that it is a global problem primarily because it is a human problem and wherever huma ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 23, 2005 |
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In his review of the activities of the Gold Coast Youth Conference Dr Danquah rather disconsolately albeit eloquently demonstrates that morally crippling cynicism is as Ghanaian as foofoo fufu and palmnut soup For most of its ardent critics perhaps the sole significance of the Gold Coast Youth Conference if any at all inhered primarily ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 21, 2005 |
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On April an interesting article titled TRIBALISM The Skeleton In Our Closet appeared on Ghanawebcom Bylined B K ObengDiawuoh the fairly wellargued article mordantly carped the GaDangmeDangbe Council which had apparently capriciously protested the recent appointment of Bishop George Charles PalmerBuckle formerly of Koforidua ... Read more |
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Sunday, April 17, 2005 |
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In his memorandum to Ghanas National Reconciliation Commission NRC dated October Maj Boakye Djan claims that among the sterling feats of the socalled Armed Forces Revolutionary Council AFRC was the stabilization of market prices which had skyrocketed beyond the reach of the proverbial average Ghanaian In reality however as the ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 16, 2005 |
Indeed the execution of Gen I K Acheampong by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council AFRC entails far more than the pat explanation offered by Maj Boakye Djan to Dr Kenneth Attafuah of Ghanas National Reconciliation Commission NRC In his landmark tome Challenge of the Congo New York International Publishers President Nkru ... Read more |
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Sunday, April 10, 2005 |
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Just this past month November the former deputy chairman of the bloodiest military junta that Ghana has ever suffered in the postcolonial era appeared before the countrys National Reconciliation Commission The latter organ is a rough coordinate of South Africas Truth and Reconciliation Commission And like the latter the former has no ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 09, 2005 |
The subject of braindrain has been hotly debated since the late s and early s and well into the present It is a term that is routinely used to characterize the perceivedly massive efflux or exodus of highly trained academics and professionals on the African continent in our case but the socalled Third World in general To limpidly appr ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 07, 2005 |
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This series has arisen in part because of the painful recognition of the fact that many youthful Ghanaians particularly among those born after the countrys independence who have for various reasons not availed themselves of the large corpus of literary and other documents regarding the stupendous achievements of the Doyen of Gold Coast and G ... Read more |
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Sunday, April 03, 2005 |
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And so Nii Ataa Ayi Rawlings was up at it again recently The perpetual teenager actually had the temerity to drum major the recent protest against price hikes by the placid and staid Kufuor administration And on March the media outlet Lens had an article posted on Ghanawebcom titled rather quaintly Kufuor Has Touched Me Rawlings ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 02, 2005 |
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The wide acclamation of Dr Danquah as The Doyen of Gold Coast and Ghanaian Politics and by logical extension The Father of Modern Ghanaian Politics stems largely from our subjects valiant attempt at according functional relevance to chieftaincy in an increasingly Westernizing as well as modernizing Ghanaian multination For the advent of ... Read more |
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Monday, March 28, 2005 |
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Originally published in New York Beacon Recently I had a telephone conversation with my daughters maternal grandmother in which I expressed my opinion regarding Nigerias wartime headofstate Gen Yakubu Gowon as perhaps the most constructive postcolonial premier to have emerged out of Africas most populous country Such as ... Read more |
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Saturday, March 26, 2005 |
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In much the same manner that President Kwame Nkrumah has been putatively regarded and designated as The Father and Founder of modern Ghana Dr J B Danquah putatively designated The Doyen of Gold Coast Politics could also be legitimately accoladed or monikered The Father and Founder of the modern Ghanaian academy And ... Read more |
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Monday, March 21, 2005 |
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I have been reading and listening with avid interest to the raging debate regarding the abrupt annulment of the proposed conferral of an honorary doctorate on former president Jeremiah Jerry John Rawlings The citation as reported by Ghanawebcom and other media outlets did not specify the exact purpose of such conferral that is whether it w ... Read more |
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 |
That the question of comparative or relative greatness should crop up anytime the personalities of Dr J B Danquah and President Kwame Nkrumah are invoked is quite interesting Quite interesting because such comparisons are almost invariably made out of sheer vanity by people who either feel personally inadequate for any number of reasons best ... Read more |
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 |
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In February this year just about the same time that many AfricanAmericans as well as other wellmeaning Americans were feverishly preparing to mark the th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X another commemoration of equal significance was taking place throughout the Republic of Ghana It was the th anniversary of the death in a ... Read more |
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