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Saturday, April 18, 2009 |
Africa and Africans needs more role models I am becoming increasingly convinced that the road to a successful and vibrant Africa is paved with magnanimous leaders and admirable role models With the right leadership and appropriate role models the message that Africans can achieve something worthwhile will resonate more effectively with th ... Read more |
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Friday, April 03, 2009 |
Being the spiritual creatures that we are our human emotions tend to drive much of our attitudes and behaviours Love joy anger disappointment and a host of other emotional states affect our demeanour and our actions in various ways In fact our capacity to achieve anything in life is often a function of how well we handle and manage our em ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 |
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Judging from our cultures symbolisms and historical artifacts African communities have always valued wisdom We tend to hold an entirely valid view that wisdom usually comes through the experience that having lived brings experience is after all the best teacher Consequently we have developed a culture of respect and reverence for our eld ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 |
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First printed in Graphic Business Ghana No Tuesday January and in Africa Week magazineI have always been a strong advocate of progress and development for Africa My greatest wish is to see Black Africa and my native Ghana in particular emerge as force on the world stage and be seen as a key contrib ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
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Many will know some of the tales of King Solomon biblically reputed to be among the wisest people ever to have lived His antics and achievements are the stuff of Jewish legend from winning historical battles to having wives and concubines My favourite story about Solomon is the one about the two mothers and their babies One mothe ... Read more |
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 |
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The US Presidentelect Barack Obama got together with the sitting President George W Bush and the three living former Presidents Bill Clinton George Bush snr and Jimmy Carter for dinner and an exchange of ideas This has got my friends and I exchanging ideas on the six people throughout history that we would most like to have dinner wi ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 01, 2009 |
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It is a natural human trait to want to copy or imitate things we admire or examples of good practice that we see around us this is among the highest forms of admiration All around the world ideas inspired by successful practices witnessed elsewhere have been implemented to good effect Why reinvent the wheel if a good one already exists Jap ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
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Like most Ghanaians around the world I have followed the recent general elections with keen interest The closefought elections had many of us on tenterhooks and the delay in announcing the results caused much anxiety In the aftermath many commentators have wasted no time in telling us about the giant strides our democracy has taken The ke ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |
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One worrying observation Ive made about us as Ghanaians is our apparent lack of objectivity I am not sure how this has come to be the case but like some of the other unfortunate ills in our society it has some destructive outcomes I have observed many situations where suspicions are seen as truth and assumptions are peddled as facts Prejud ... Read more |
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Monday, December 08, 2008 |
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For centuries across many communities around the world women have played second fiddle to men The notion that the female of our species is the weaker sex has meant that theyve been often belittled and sidelined for generations This was the case in even the socalled advanced communities where until relatively recently women didnt have ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 07, 2008 |
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In my previous article of the same subject Its not just the leaders I November I set out the beginnings of an argument about our leadership failings as Ghanaians and what I believe to be the rootcauses I outlined why our leaders alone arent the problem and why failure to recognise the true extent of the problem is a ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
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I am an avid follower of all that is Ghanaian hardly a day goes by without me reading some Ghanarelated online forum listening to Ghanaian radio or engaging in discussions about Ghana and her ongoing development with likeminded friends and associates Though I live and work in the UK I have been visiting Ghana at least once a year since my e ... Read more |
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