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25th April, 2011
Although the expulsion of Mr Nathaniel Azarko Welbeck as Ghana’s Charge d’Affaires in the Congo was a great setback for Dr Kwame Nkrumah, he did not withdraw Ghana’s troops from the Congo, but kept ...
5th April, 2011
As I was writing this column, I received a jolting report from Accra.
A young friend of mine phoned to tell me: “ I have left the hostel where I used to stay. There are too many refugees hanging ...
22nd March, 2011
“They are rats and drug users. They are Al Qaeda!” said Col. Muammar Gaddafi, speaking of the fighters who were giving his troops a bloody nose all over Libya.
When the fighters took over ...
15th March, 2011
There are few countries I admire more than Japan.
Any country that was devastated by getting itself nuked, and yet rose from the ashes to become an industrial giant within a mere three decades, ...
1st March, 2011
Right now, Gaddafi is a big danger to Africa. Any black person found in Libya is likely to be given very short shrift by the white-skinned section of the Arab population, which believes that Gaddafi ...
28th January, 2011
Speaking for himself and the CPP, the 2008 Presidential candidate, Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom called for the abolition of the BECE.
This columnist took part in a CITI FM discussion programme on the ...
25th January, 2011
The one thing the WikiLeaks cables has made stunningly clear is that we live in two worlds at the same time.
In the one, in which most of us live, our governments tell us what they think is ...
21st December, 2010
The exchanges between high Ghana government officials -- including President John Mills himself -- and the US embassy on the drugs problem are very revealing.
The cables lay bare the weaknesses of ...
14th December, 2010
In one of those great flashes of insight for which your humble columnist is well noted (even if he says so himself!) it has become clear to him that the much-discussed leakage of US embassy cables ...
7th December, 2010
To many Ghanaians, Cote d’Ivoire is a second natural home. I am one of them, for it is the only country in the world I know where I can step into a taxi and be able right away to speak to the driver ...
23rd November, 2010
Yesterday it was the mighty USA. Then Great Britain.
Financial institutions in these countries, which everyone had assumed were as solid as the oaken doors that keep intruders out of their ...
16th November, 2010
It would be naïve to imagine that the deportation of Bankole Timothy of the Daily Graphic from Ghana did not have a profound effect on the rest of the staff.
As I reported in my article on 9 ...
9th November, 2010
An acrimonious debate is raging in South Africa right now over what the relationship between the media and the Government should be.
Some members of the ANC government are clearly fed up with ...
6th November, 2010
IT is population census time in Ghana now, being scheduled to cover a couple of weeks. It follows the last exercise which was carried out in 2000, that is exactly ten years ago, giving enough period ...
2nd November, 2010
I read “British Constitution” for my A Level University of London general Certificate of Education. I studied part-time, because I was in full-time employment at the Ghana Broadcasting System (as it ...
26th October, 2010
There is no political event more dangerous than a general election. Even in what are called the ‘mature democracies’, elections bring out hidden weaknesses in a nation’s structure that can be ...
22nd October, 2010
FOR, NONE IS SAFE
Now that the froth has settled, the glare of the media has faded, the heavy machinery has rolled down the mountain, and, the president has capped the shaft of Plan B, let us pause ...
12th October, 2010
One day, I was coming out of the studios of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, having delivered one of the news commentaries for which I was well known, when a gentleman who was also going to do a ...
5th October, 2010
The Nigerian capital, Abuja is slowly growing into one of the more beautiful cities in Africa. Since a serious effort was made in the late 1980’s to actualise a decision -- taken in 1976 -- to make it ...
21st September, 2010
In the five years since the Guardian first visited the Klutsey family, Hannah has grown into a beautiful five-year-old. Neighbours say she is a lively girl.
However, the family\\\'s living ...
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