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Friday, November 20, 2009 |
Ive just become aware of a book which discusses one of the curses of our age our inability because of the Internet to prevent people from reading things written about us which are not trueThe book is entitled Delete The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital AgeIt is by a man called Viktor MayerSchönberger and is published by Princet ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 |
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A gentle smile has been wiped off the face of the earth Kofi Akumanyi a man of whom it could be said This is someone whom you never see without seeing a smile is no more Cruel death has snatched him away from us At a mere years of ageMy first meeting with Kofi was not under auspicious circumstances I had left my post as editor of t ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
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Ive just become aware of a book which discusses one of the curses of our age our inability because of the Internet to prevent people from reading things written about us which are not trueThe book is entitled Delete The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age It is by a man called Viktor MayerSchönberger and is published by Princeton ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 |
Ten Tall Men is the title of a film about the heroic deeds of ten men against severe odds The actors included the late Burt LancasterTo stand tall does not necessarily mean that one is physically tallIt only means that one has done something that should normally be done by a tall person in the sense that tall men es ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
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On my visit to Ghana in July and August I engaged in conversation with a young University undergraduate He was ambitious and bright so ambitious that he worked parttime and studied parttime I was pleased for he reminded me of the days when I was working fulltime and yet taking a correspondence course for my A LevelsWhen I asked ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
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Noone who knows how business is conducted in the world will be surprised to hear that a leading manufacturer of bridgebuilding equipment Mabey and Johnson Limited of the United Kingdom has pleaded guilty at the Southwark Crown Court in London to charges of bribing government officials in Ghana Jamaica Madagascar Angola and Mozambique in o ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 30, 2009 |
The former Ghanaian Minister of Information Mr Asamoah Boateng will go down in history as the Ghanaian Marie AntoinetteHe is reported to have said that people who claimed to be hungry in Ghana should eat konkonte to assuage their hungerLike Marie Antoinette Queen of the French King Louis The Sixteenth who is alleged to have said ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
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What adjective is now left with which to describe Usain BoltThe guy is phenomenal Yes but if you put phenomenal and Bolt together in the Google search engine it will return no less than five hundred and eleven entries Bolts speed is fantastic You wont believe this it returns entries All right there are also so ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 |
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Someone who read my article on President Barack Obamas speech to the Ghana National Assembly on July Ghanaian Times July expressed the view in so many words that I am living in cloud cuckoo land In his view there is no way Obama can even try to change the pattern of trade relations between the developed countries and developi ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 |
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Air Force One has carried President Barack Obama and his family out of the skies of Ghana back to Washington DC after a whirlwind visit to the first subSaharan country he has gone to since he became the first black President of the USA He received tremendous cheers from Ghanaians when in a speech to Ghanas Parliament in Accra he a ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 |
OBAMA ANAAAA By CAMERON DUODUWhen Ghanaians say anaaa after your name then to them you have taken off into outer spaceThe word is normally a rhetorical question meaning Not so But when they are conversing about an exciting football match and one of them says of a goalscorer Muntari anaaaa he is not asking any questio ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
Andrew Marrs programme on BBC is supposed to be one of the heavyweight offerings of the Beeb So Marr tries to prove to his viewers that he is indeed highminded by getting rid of the Michael Jackson story rather quickly is evident He brings on Paul Gambacini a pop historian and Amanda Platell of the priggish Daily Mail t ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
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The recent crisis in the British House of Commons regarding the manner in which Members of Parliament have abused their allowance system by which the state helps them to afford to live and work comfortably as the elected representatives of the people has led to a serious heartsearching about the way government works in the UKIt has bee ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
The British Labour Party was once counted among the most principled parties in the world Formed by intellectuals mainly grouped in the Fabian Society and trade unionists it fought for the welfare of the disadvantaged in society It helped to build a welfare state in which the unemployed were paid a benefit so that they wouldnt starve ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 |
OF course the shine has worn off Obama a bit Some of his own supporters in the US have begun to grumble about his unwillingness to cut himself free from some of the Bush administrations policies such as the trial of suspected terrorists by military tribunals and the suppression of some of the unpublished photographs of Americans torturing peop ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 |
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By Cameron Duodu Tuesday May Growing Yams In London is the title of the first novel by a young Ghanaian writer Sophia Acheampong whose first book was so well received that she has now gone on to produce a second novel Ipods in Accra Both books are published in London by Piccadilly Press and can be ordered online from www ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
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On Saturday April the London Guardian carried a piece by one of its columnists Polly Toynbee in which she described how a group of women at Mangoase in Akuapem Ghana are using microcredit to finance small businesses She had visited Mangoase in the company of the deputy leader of the British Labour Party Miss Harriet Harman ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 |
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To Ghanaians who were able to enjoy the dying days of the Gold Coast that is the years immediately preceding our achievement of independence on March life was generally speaking of a richness that is difficult for the younger generation to imagine The latter may accuse me of nostalgia They are welcome to do that Me Ill let ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 |
After deaths in yet another stampede its time to ensure African stadiums are built to the same standards as elsewhereThe people of Africa have been killed in football stadium disasters year after year The worst occurred in Ghana on May when people were killed after the police fired teargas into crowded stands and a stamp ... Read more |
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Monday, February 23, 2009 |
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ALTHOUGH a lot of people regard the result of the December January election in Ghana which swept the ruling National Patriotic Party NPP of exPresident John Kufuor out power and gave the reins of administration to the opposition National Democratic Party NDC of President John Atta Mills as a changeover that is unique in African ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 |
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Your Excellency President John Atta MillsIt having pleased Our Lord Almighty to reveal unto thee in a dream the true meaning of Separate unto me Barnabas but thy intentions having been entwined in the different strands of wires that encompass thy administration I do hereby now of mine own volition dispatch unto thee this epistle whic ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 |
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Theres nothing that gets internet discussion forums as excited as the appointment of people into positions in government and moneys that are paid to office holders past and present from government coffers You can always expect discussion of appointments and money and the fruits they bring free houses free cars and girl ... Read more |
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Friday, January 30, 2009 |
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One of the weirdest radio programmes on the air at the moment is broadcast on Saturday mornings on Radio It is called Saturday LivehttpwwwbbccoukradiosaturdaylivesaturdayliveshtmlLast Saturday January the item that caught my ear was a laconicallyrelated account of life in Damascus under blackout duri ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009 |
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When Barack Obama is inaugurated today January as the first black President of the United States I would have seen everything that should matter to a black man of my generationI saw Kwame Nkrumah declare that Ghana our beloved country is free for ever on March He added that The independence of Ghana is meaningless u ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
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The Second Word War ended years agoSo it is no wonder that the funeral on December of Major Seth Anthony who died on November at the age of appears to have escaped the attention of many of his fellow citizens especially those in the media Fortunately the Ghana military turned out on their best form first at th ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 |
When Ghana swears in a new president on Wednesday it will be installing an opposition candidate who has defeated the candidate of the incumbent government in a free and fair electionPeople in other African countries will marvel at this especially those in Kenya who elected a new leader in but are still encumbered with the old ... Read more |
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Saturday, January 03, 2009 |
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There is one thing which noone can deny about Professor John Atta Mills who according to the election result just declared by the Electoral Commissioner Dr Kwadwo AfariDjan has just become the Presidentelect of Ghana It is that he has enormous fortitudeWhen he became VicePresident of Ghana under President J J Rawlings he couldnt ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 |
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It is not usual for ViceChancellors of Universities to be addressed as Comrade At least not in the Western traditionDr Conor Cruise OBrien who was ViceChancellor of the University of Ghana Legon from to and whose sad death at the age of has just occurred in Dublin won that accolade It was at a boozy lunch in ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 21, 2008 |
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When Dr Conor Cruise OBrienwho has just died in Dublin aged arrived in Ghana to become ViceChancellor of the University of Ghana few people knew who he wasHowever as editor of Drum magazine and Ghana stringer of The Observer his confrontation with the Western powers over Katangas secession in the Congo was known to me So I did a ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
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Bill Shankly the extremely successful former manager of Liverpool football club was once misquoted to have saidFootball isnt a matter of life and death its much more important than that So if I liken the December runoff of the presidential election to a football Cup Final do not think I am being frivolous Cup Fina ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 |
The thing about democracy is that you never really know its worth until you have lost itI remember the euphoria we felt as growing lads when the political crisis that nearly derailed our independence was settled by two hardfought general elections one in June and the other in July Waiting for the results was one ... Read more |
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Friday, October 10, 2008 |
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Cameron Duodu concludes his series on Prof Adu Boahens demolition of English historical authorities on the history of Ghana A son of the soil had spoken No one who wanted to study Ghanas past seriously relied upon the British historians after that It will be recalled from my earlier articles that I told the story of how a young Adu Boah ... Read more |
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Friday, October 10, 2008 |
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Perhaps in the future there will be some African history to teach But at present there is none There is only the history of Europeans in Africa The rest is darkness When the British don Hugh TrevorRoper wrote this little did he know that an African colossus Albert Adu Boahen would one day rise and make him look quite foolish Cameron D ... Read more |
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Friday, October 10, 2008 |
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When the British historian W F Ward wrote in his book History of the Gold Coast that the main ethnic groups of the Gold Coast among them the Akan the Akwamu the Ga and the Ewe were relative newcomers to the country and that there is no nation now dwelling in the Gold Coast which has been in the country longer than the European ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 |
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AN AUDIENCE WITH OSAGYEFUO AMOATIA OFORI PANIN By CAMERON DUODU an edited version of an article in The Ghanaian Times October The association of Akyem Abuakwa nationals in London to which I belong is called Susu Biribi Think About Something That Is Positive Unfortunately many Ghanaians remember Susu Biribi through a ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
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An edited version of an article that appeared in New African October The success which Barack Obama has achieved in the US by winning the nomination of the Democratic Party has already astonished the world If he wins the presidency and it is very likely that he will do this given the fierce struggle he had to endure and overcom ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
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The AuthorWhen I was growing up education was made so difficult to acquire that in many cases to undergo a course of formal education was an invitation to embrace lifelong illiteracy For education is not merely to learn how to read and write as is often assumed but to be acquainted with and to retain an interest in or curiosity abou ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 25, 2003 |
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THE way the President Mr J A Kufuor told it he was in a way tricked by his very competent High Commissioner in London Mr Isaac Osei into appearing at Broadwater Farm in Tottenham North London on Saturday the nd of February to address a Forum of Ghanaians resident in the UK Mr Kufuor said the High Commissioner told him the Ghanaian ... Read more |
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