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2nd April, 2013
IT is amazing that coincidence sometimes succeeds brilliantly in placing into conjunction, two or more events that should, in the normal course of events, not be connected at all.
The coincidence that has currently caught my attention is this: both Kenya and Ghana have been gripped in recent days by a mania that might be called “Supreme ...
26th March, 2013
Before Chinua Achebe came on the world literary scene in the late 1950s, African literature was treated by the rest of the world, and more sadly, by many educated Africans themselves, as a quixotic ...
21st March, 2013
Even the look of the word is 'mongrelic': dumso. On paper, it looks like one thing: something that grows on the 'odum' tree, but which, on being written down, has had the “o” in “odum” ...
12th March, 2013
Even the look of the word is 'mongrelic': dumso. On paper, it looks like one thing: something that grows on the 'odum' tree, but which, on being written down, has had the “o” in “odum” ...
6th March, 2013
Italian politics seems unfathomable. Okay, there is hardly a nation in the world whose politics makes sense to outsiders.
But something needs explaining when a man like the former prime minister, Mr ...
26th February, 2013
I wonder whether the politicians in West Africa who have “dutifully” (and I do not mean that sarcastically!) sent troops to Mali, through ECOWAS, after allowing themselves to be persuaded by the ...
19th February, 2013
I have diagnosed the disease affecting Ghanaian journalism before, and I do so again: it is the total commercialisation of the media in the country.
If someone sets up a newspaper or radio station ...
14th February, 2013
In managing organisations, it is not only the
managers and their staff who matter most even though the day-to-day running of the entity is in the hands of its full time employees, namely the Chief ...
11th February, 2013
This past weekend, a very sad funeral took place in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
It was the funeral of a 15-year-old girl, Hadiya Pendleton, who was shot to death on 29 January 2013. Police described ...
5th February, 2013
Did you know that the US “already operates” Predator drone aircraft, used for surveillance and bombing targets, in Burkina Faso? I didn't know either.
The secret became public only because the ...
29th January, 2013
As soon as I heard that the French army was close to capturing the city of Timbuktu, in its attempt to recapture Northern Mali in conjunction with the newly emboldened soldiers of the Bamako ...
29th January, 2013
As soon as I heard that the French army was close to capturing the city of Timbuktu, in its attempt to recapture Northern Mali in conjunction with the newly emboldened soldiers of the Bamako ...
22nd January, 2013
What is happening in Mali is one of those situations that make the intelligent African wish to go and put his head inside a gas oven and turn it on.
A country which, periodically, suffers from ...
15th January, 2013
Every organization - be it a church, a school, a manufacturing company, a hospital or a restaurant - consists of a group of people who come from different homes, towns and tribes. They therefore ...
8th January, 2013
IT is often acknowledged that democracy is not the best form of government in the world. Except when compared to the other systems of government in existence.
For instance, democracy is essentially ...
1st January, 2013
It was Kate, a brilliant Oxford graduate, who first led me to this quote: “In the long run, we're all dead.” (John Maynard Keynes).
And in the long run, I learnt that she was dead. Four years ...
25th December, 2012
I never properly understood it when people used to say, rather glibly I thought, that “a chain is as strong as its weakest link”.
But I now understand the saying perfectly well.
If you live ...
18th December, 2012
Waking up in the morning in the suburbs of Accra is an exhilarating experience. If one is not grateful to be alive, the birds quickly remind one that it is a unique gift to have been conceived and ...
14th December, 2012
People should not be surprised that the NPP is disputing the results of the 7 December 2012 elections in Ghana.
Anything that pits one group of people against another in a competitive setting is ...
11th December, 2012
The NPP is not in an enviable position at all, having been put in a situation where it has had to challenge the official results of the 7 December 2012 elections, announced by the Electoral ...
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