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BRAND GHANA -- MUCH ADO ABOUT WHAT?
Tuesday September 07, 2010
I was interested to read recently that a “National Identity Summit” had been held in Accra “to create and promote a unified brand image for the country”. Organised under the auspices of “Brand Ghana Office,” the Summit brought together “about 300 participants from government, business, civil society and promotional agencies, to examine the...read more
HOW ROTTEN IT IS TO CHEAT AT SPORT!
Tuesday August 31, 2010
Modern sport has become almost a religion to many people. This is because politics is often crooked and dull. Education reaches a saturation point after which new information is not as welcome as when we were young. Sex ditto. But sport is for ever exciting. When you are young, you go into it with gusto and try your best to excel in it....read more
WE MUST REVISIT OUR TRADITIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION PROCESSES
Tuesday August 24, 2010
Disputes between the executive and the judiciary are nothing new. But they should be mediated within the confines of orderly, rational discourse and not be allowed to descend into emotional name-calling, threats or ignorant boasts to show where power lies. When the Chairman of the NDC boasted that his party would deal with the judiciary...read more
A LOOK BACK INTO HISTORY (2)
Tuesday August 17, 2010
In a book published in 2001, The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba, (Verso, ISBN: 1850846181) the Belgian writer, Ludo De Witte, gives chapter and course of the true nature of the opposition that Ghana’s Charge D’affaires in the Congo, Mr N.A. Welbeck faced from the Belgians and the Americans. “Belgian military chiefs”, DeWitte wrote, “made...read more
A LOOK BACK INTO HISTORY (1)
Tuesday August 10, 2010
The news item that landed on my desk at the news division of Radio Ghana one day in mid-November 1960 -- brought by our monitoring service -- that the Congolese government had declared the Ghana charge d’affaires in Leopoldville, Mr Nathaniel Azarko Welbeck, persona non grata, was dynamite. For Dr Kwame Nkrumah had maintained good relations...read more
IS PETROLEUM A BLESSING OR A CURSE?
Tuesday August 03, 2010
I see that a deluge of flak is falling over Ghana’s infant petroleum industry. This is as it should be: petroleum is a national asset that can transform our country’s coffers from being nearly empty to being almost full. And because the asset belongs to all of us, we are all interested in how the income from the asset will be distributed....read more
IS THE ICC BECOMING AN IRRELEVANCE?
Tuesday July 27, 2010
The International Criminal Court, although set up by international treaty in Rome, will only be as effective as African countries desire it to be. For the ICC isn’t dreaming of going after big international criminals like George W Bush and Tony Blair, who lied to their own people that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction” and who bombed Iraq...read more
BASIL DAVIDSON GAVE AFRICANS BACK OUR DIGNITY
Tuesday July 20, 2010
Basil Davidson has died in England aged 95. Why should that concern us? Well, soon after Ghana gained its independence, things that we had never been taught in our missionary and government schools, began to sneak into our consciousness. One black American historian/artist called Earl Sweeting, arrived in Accra and tried to interest...read more
WHY OH WHY, URUGUAY?
Tuesday July 06, 2010
To cry is the lot of all mankind And the eyes that shine in joyous delight today Are doomed ere long to brim over, As the welling tears overflow And we moan: “Woe is today! Woe is today! Woe is today! I wonder what R M Ballantyne would make of that. I first heard his “To part is the lot of all mankind”...read more
COMMUNAL EUPHORIA TASTES GOOD!
Tuesday June 29, 2010
QUOTE: “Uruguay are a good team. But we are good too. We are capable of beating Uruguay. We are ready to live the ultimate dream." UNQUOTE -- Samuel Inkoom That is the spirit, Sam. The victory over the US has come and gone. Now, our eyes must be on Uruguay. They are not exactly second-class material. They beat South Korea 2-1, beat Mexico...read more
