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7th February, 2012
DURING Sunday's match against Tunisia, I was so scared that I spent most of the time arguing back and forth with members of an Internet forum that contains a lot of football fans.
In the course of the argumentation, we discovered that one of our most trusted football experts, who is so good that we call him “The Coach”, had suddenly vanished ...
4th February, 2012
Messengers have been shot for carrying ‘less bad’ news! The news in question is the links between fizzy drinks and diabetes. By chance, as I surfed the net, I came across a feature with the ...
31st January, 2012
I have a friend who lives in Texas. He calls himself “Obosomfuor” (Fetish Priest) which in itself shows you how advanced his mind is.
For we “educated” people make fun of these priests, ...
24th January, 2012
A statement from the President's Office is not a joke. It is issued in the name of every citizen of Ghana, though it may be drafted and signed by 'the President's Chief of Staff' or someone to whom he ...
16th January, 2012
The Internet is sometimes like a palm tree. Sometimes, it produces pure gems – like the nuts that give us palm soup; and cooking oil(s); leaves that produce thatch for homes and brooms for floors; ...
27th December, 2011
IN CHINA, YEARS ARE DESIGNATED BY ANIMALS: 2008 WAS 'THE YEAR OF THE RAT'.....
In rural Ghana, both the rat and the hare are edible animals. The rat lives largely underground in holes that it ...
23rd December, 2011
It never stops. The killing machine is at it again.
On May 9, 2011, Hagar Ammah and Joyce Fosu reported in The Ghanaian Times. “16,000 Ghanaians will die of AIDS this year.”
That means 44 ...
20th December, 2011
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: I am sorry I stopped you from telling us about a great number of historical characters last week. Did you actually meet Abacha?
ME: No. But I breathed the same air as him ...
13th December, 2011
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: You promised to talk about Mr Alex Ibru, publisher of the The Guardian newspaper of Nigeria, who passed away on 20 November 2011.
ME: Yes. I once visited the Guardian ...
5th December, 2011
When I heard that General Odumegwu Ojukwu, who led Biafra into secession from Nigeria, had died at the age of 78, my stream of consciousness moved from Gear One into Overdrive.
STREAM OF ...
29th November, 2011
This past weekend has forced me to burrow deep into the stream of consciousness buried deep within my psyche.
First, I was greatly interested to read this article, entitled "From Effah Dartey To ...
26th November, 2011
Take heart, all of you aficionados of Star-Kist tuna; from housewives who swear that to make a pot of mouth watering, inexpensive jolloff rice the product is unrivalled to students who say that it is ...
26th November, 2011
Yellow fever is in town. The health authorities are on the top of it. The outbreak is miniscule. It’s confined. All measures have been taken.
Vaccination...Mosquito-nets...Mosquito ...
22nd November, 2011
Fanon's relations with the independent African states were always problematic. He had to deal with them on behalf of the Algerian Government in exile, which was formed in Cairo in September 1958. But ...
22nd November, 2011
Readers are aware that whenever it becomes needful for us to administer stiff dose of book-long stuff, we do not hesitate to do so. Today, we’ll sum up an article from NEJM, New England Journal of ...
19th November, 2011
There is nothing more boring than yesterday’s news! This is especially so for readers of columns such as this. And, by most accounts, “World Diabetes Day” [WDD] is old news! Mind you, it was ...
18th November, 2011
Would you have believed that at this very moment, when both the Arab world and Pakistan, are trying to come to terms with the news that the US has used “drones” – or pilotless planes -- to kill ...
17th November, 2011
In my report on the unveiling of a plaque on 28 June 2011 at No 22 Cranleigh Street, Camden, North London, to commemorate the years that the premises were the residence of the Trinidad-born writer, ...
16th November, 2011
A whole half a century has passed, but I remember it like yesterday.
I had just been promoted as a news editor at the Ghana Broadcasting
Corporation, and was fully in charge of the news that was ...
12th November, 2011
Olive oil – If the acquisition of knowledge does no one any harm then by all means let us add more to what we have in store.
As cooking oils go, this one pressed from the fruit of the olive ...
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