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Friday, November 06, 2009 |
EssayGhanaAfrica Koku Anyidoho the director of communications at President John Atta Mills Osu Castle says he hates exPresident John Kufours face more than any other person in Ghana I dont like his face so I dont want to hear anything about him Thats disturbing from a high pr ... Read more |
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Friday, October 16, 2009 |
BOOK REVIEWTitle Reforming Leadership in AfricaAuthor J William AddaiPublisher Publishers Graphics Indiana USA Price US plus shippingReviewer Kofi AkosahSarpongIncreasingly leadership has emerged as a key factor in Africas progress Bewildered leadership schemes have seen a ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 |
DevelopmentAfrica Kofi AkosahSarpong continues his deliberations with Prof George Ayittey on his argument that US President Barack Obamas Accra public statement that Africas future is in Africans hands is an intellectual vindication for the Internalist School of African developmentQWhy was Barack Obama able to say so tod ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 |
Kofi AkosahSarpong continues his discussions with Prof George Ayittey on his argument that US President Barack Obamas Accra proclamation that Africas future is in Africans hands is an intellectual vindication for the Internalist School of African developmentQDid the Internalist School demonstrate that African intellectuals ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
DevelopmentAfrica Kofi AkosahSarpong continues his discussions with Prof George Ayittey on his argument that US President Barack Obamas Accra speech that Africas future is in Africans hands is an intellectual vindication for the Internalist School of African developmentQ How did the Internalist School came aboutA It ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 |
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DevelopmentGhanaAfrica Following US President Barack Obamas Accra visit on July and his famous statement that Africas future is in Africans hands the Ghanaianborn American University economist Prof George Ayittey argued that it is an intellectual vindication for the Internalist School of African development In the ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 12, 2009 |
EssayGhanaAfrica The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II admonition to bureaucrats and politicians to be chary of accountability is a bravely ambitions suggestion The unspoken wisdom through the Asantehene is that traditional Ghana has recovered its confidence its astutene ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 05, 2009 |
FeatureAfricaUSA US President Barack Obamas Ghana visit on July jolted Africas slumbering development process Obama and later his Secretary of State Mrs Hilary Clinton urged Africans to consolidate democracy grow the rule of law fight corruption integrate African traditional v ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 29, 2009 |
CommentGhanaAfricaEver since President John Atta Mills came to power some eight months ago the founder of his National Democratic Party NDC exPresident Jerry Rawlings has been undermining him more than the main opposition New Patriotic Party NPP This has come about because of the level of democratic civility of the two parties The ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 |
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EssayGhanaAfrica Despite being a small town Bongo in Ghanas Upper East Region is increasingly giving insight Ghana can count on into its skewed development process As an excolonial British creation the traditional indigenous values and institutions of Ghana have not been given equal l ... Read more |
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Monday, August 10, 2009 |
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Those who think Africans are dull and cannot think should quietly come to Ghana and view what is happening in the electrifying development scene The picture isnt anxiety about Ghanas new found oil or its return as number one cocoa producer in the world or its postBarack Obama mindset where Ghanaians think Yes we can The prospect is Ghan ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 09, 2009 |
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Syndrome has become a buzzword in Africas emerging progress world The most popular being the pull himher down syndrome where Africans destroy each other as they attempt to progress in the fashion of crabs pulling each other down as they attempt to get out of a trap Pull himher down syndrome is so cancerous that runs from the micro to the macr ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
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Fiftytwo years on the Kumasi workshop on culture and development planning for district planning officers reveal the shallowness of Ghana as a development ideal It also demonstrates lack of intellectual detail of project Ghana as it pride itself as the centre of higher thinking in Africas progress The Black Star of Africa as smallminded sho ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 02, 2009 |
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In July Liberia Africas oldest republic celebrated its years old existence And in July too Liberias Truth and Reconciliation Commission TRC setup in as a tranqualizer for a deeply troubled country released its report True to the nature of the civil war that was as a result of the complicated nature of Liberias existence th ... Read more |
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Monday, July 20, 2009 |
That Libyas leader Muamua Gaddafi is hotheaded is unassailable That Muamua Gaddafi isnt in line with current African development thoughts is unarguable And that Muamua Gaddafi doesnt understand Africa against the backdrop of his ficklemindedness is clear to anyone who has been following him for the past years If supermarket tabloid journ ... Read more |
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Friday, July 17, 2009 |
As various editorialists and commentators throughout Africa have analyzed the substance of US President Barack Obamas Accra policy statement on Africa on July wasnt new What was new was Obamas metaphysics the bold untoyourface manner the ambience the level of confidence the psychological import and the attempts to hit home a new minds ... Read more |
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Monday, July 06, 2009 |
As United States President Barrack Obama sideline Africas giant Nigeria and instead makes his first African visit to Ghana it has unmasked the long friction between the two countries But the deeper truth is that the two countries need each other The two countries admire each more than either realizes and in some ways their ties are stron ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
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One of the complicated issues facing Ghanas progress is how religion could be used for progress The current religious scenes activities of the recent spiritual churches are of much concern sometimes muddling progress against religiously hungry Ghanaians who are seeking religion to address their existential challenges Such apprehension is ca ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 27, 2009 |
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It is time to think said Prof Helen Lauer head of the Philosophy Department of the University of Ghana in singing the praises of Prof Kwame Gyekye a renowned Ghanaian philosopher While Lauer might have said that in relation to Gyekyes lectures the relevance today goes beyond the close confines of Legon and to the broader Ghanaian develop ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
As Ghanas development process increasingly firm up small towns are gradually paving the way for how to brighten the countrys progress against the backdrop of certain cultural values that have been inhibiting advancement First the obscure remote rural Tain in the Brong Ahafo region effectively decided the final outcome of the preside ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 |
There is ongoing debate about the need for Ghana as the Black Star of Africa to roll out a development philosophy driven by GhanasAfricas cultural values This is to prop up confidence since Africa is the only region in the world where its development process is dominated by foreign development paradigms to the disadvantage of its rich cult ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 07, 2009 |
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DemocracyGhanaAfrica There is ongoing debate about the need for Ghana as the Black Star of Africa to roll out a development philosophy driven by GhanasAfricas cultural values This is to prop up confidence since Africa is the only region in the world where its development process is dominated by foreign development paradigms to the di ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 21, 2009 |
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The significance of Asantehene King Otumfuo Osei Tutu IIs yearslong th anniversary festivity on his ascension to the Asanteman Golden Stool goes beyond the remarkable cultural displays the high sounding speeches the need to deepen the Ghanaian democracy and the bestowing of honours on persons deemed to have contributed to Ghana and human ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 |
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CommentGhanaBy Kofi AkosahSarpongIn the prelude to the general elections key political figures spoke of either consulting traditional rulers or establishing a Chieftaincy Institute as a sounding board on national affairs The game is to balance Ghanaian traditional values with the dominant neoliberal ones and create the necessary conf ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 18, 2009 |
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The microcosm of Ghanas ongoing attempts to grapple with the algebra of its progress could be seen at the humble Bongo district in the Upper East Region Bongo is thinking opening itself up and refining the rots in its ancient culture and in the process rolling its unique enlightenment process to drive its advancement Despite being very ... Read more |
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Friday, March 20, 2009 |
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Africas evil sceneThe eccentric atmosphere following the International Criminal Court ICC issuing an arrest warrant for Omar alBashir Sudans President on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity short of genocide in Darfur open the obscurities of evil in Africa for the past years In some sort of grim moment alBa ... Read more |
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Saturday, March 14, 2009 |
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The near simultaneous election and institution of members of the Council of Sate and the National House of Chiefs electing Prof John S Nabila Wulugu Naba as its new president brings into light the tensions that as Ghanas democracy evolves it has to attempts to integrate its traditional values and institutions into the dominant Westernstyle ... Read more |
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Monday, March 09, 2009 |
In African cosmology groups or families like individuals have soul some are dark some troubled some good some enlightened by birth as a metaphysical predestination By birth and by its existential conducts GuineaBissau is a troubled soul since its birth in from Portuguese colonialism The country is mired in some kind of never ... Read more |
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Sunday, February 22, 2009 |
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Why democratic tusslesDemocracy and freedoms are struggling in West Africa according to the USbased Freedom House a nonpartisan organization that monitors political rights and civilliberties worldwide Its survey of subSahara Africa in its Freedom in the World concludes that there were more democratic barricades than democrati ... Read more |
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Monday, February 09, 2009 |
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The withdrawal of the nomination of Moses Asaga as Minister of Water Resources Works and Housingdesignate by President John Evans Atta Mills once again raises the issue of whether the president can be easily ridden over or not Asaga had disobeyed presidential order not to make any payments after the January runoff presidential elect ... Read more |
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Friday, February 06, 2009 |
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Committee for Joint Action CJA a pressure group known for protesting on national and international issues during the years of exPresident John Kufour is fast evolving as nonpartisan objective and national conscience Over the years CJA has evolved into part of Ghanas growing democratic governance culture taking more or less a centris ... Read more |
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 |
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Wisdom and continuity as development buzzwords have become reality threshers in the new National Democratic Congress NDC administration of President John AttaMills The two terms in the AttaMills Osu Castle are ways of comparing past and present development thinking tools for sorting out progress at a moment of plummeting global eco ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 |
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As Ghanaians enter they agree that among its developmental challenges are certain aspects of their culture That bodes well for greater understanding of themselves to themselves But correspondingly some fear to discuss such cultural challenges rigoursly for varied reason ranging from fear to intellectual gutlessness to misunderstanding to ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 25, 2009 |
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Of all the contradictions boiling in Nana AkufoAddo presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party NPP in the general elections none is more intriguing than his continued enrichment of the democratic field through his ability to play with idealism and pragmatism That AkufoAddos ongoing broadside postElection thank you tour ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
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Apart from national struggles for comfortable life such as good drinking water proper sanitation practices adequate food shelter sound healthcare peace among others Ghanaians are increasingly coming to the conclusion that certain cultural practices pose challenges to their progress and need to be refined In the past years there have bee ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 18, 2009 |
Despite being a President on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress NDC John AttaMills may need more democratic security from democracy loving Ghanaians than may be some sections of his own NDC It is like coming from a family where because of the character of certain members of the family one has be a bit circumspect and rely a bit o ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
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The highly successful general elections in Ghana have revived its former clout as the centre of Pan Africanism where other African states came to drink from its ideals and hope Now instead of radical Pan Africanism with its leftists sloganeering Ghana is emerging as the centre of genuine democracy and freedoms in an African which democracy and fr ... Read more |
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Monday, January 12, 2009 |
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The suspension of Guinea by ECOWAS for the overthrow of a constitutional regime by its military signals the fact that the West African region takes democracy as development and stability vehicle seriously Ever since the military coup in Mauritania last August and the coup attempt in Guinea Bissau the issue of democratic consolidation in We ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 11, 2009 |
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For the good part of its corporate existence Ghana has seen the destructive practice of new regimes either discontinuing or destroy development programs of the previous regimes It doesnt matter whether civilian or military junta it has been the same old same old unconstructive thinking It emanates from certain dark aspects of the Ghanaian cul ... Read more |
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Monday, January 05, 2009 |
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Politically for long Ghanaians have been in some kind of indistinct bereavement for genuine democratic practices they sense they have lost somewhere what was authentically Ghanaian traditional value where consensus and participation drive politics a sacred Ghanaian stuff For almost years out of their years existence Ghanaians squand ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
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Tain is small unknown district created in June in Ghanas Brong Ahafo region Tain will determine who the President of Ghana is on January In the broader democratic power game Tain is a big deal despite its small size and humble self In Tain democracy can be weird and it has a strange way of throwing light on Tain as presidential t ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 28, 2008 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong argues that despite Guinea and Ghana being twin brothers years on Guinea came out defectively and is mired in longrunning insecurities and may need Ghanas help to secure itIt is pathetic for countrys President to die and within some few hours a military coup taking place It didnt happen in Gen Gnassingbe Eyadem ... Read more |
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Monday, December 22, 2008 |
Kofi AkosahSarpong ponders the main prize of the impending presidential runoff on December the newly presidential Golden Jubilee House and says it reflects Ghanaians democratic aspirations years on as a sovereign stateAs Nana AkufoAddo of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP or John AttaMills of the main opposition Natio ... Read more |
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Friday, December 19, 2008 |
Why would Nana AkufoAddo of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP or John AttaMills of the main opposition National Democratic Party NDC want to be President of the Republic of Ghana The question appears tacky but you ask such questions for a Ghana that has pressing developmental challenges and figure out who wants to be embroiled in solvi ... Read more |
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Friday, December 19, 2008 |
Despite praises all over the December general elections that produced a hanged system doesnt necessarily mean Ghanaians are grasping with democracy as motor for progress I hate to hear word like maturity as if Ghanaians or Africans arent matured as human beingsThe fact is Ghanaians by measure of the coalition of the ethnic groups ... Read more |
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Monday, December 15, 2008 |
Zimbabweans are dying of cholera in the face of dire poverty and primitive politics When the caring international community responsibly queries Harare says Zimbabwe has no cholera and by extension no existential crisis The two minds come from different universes one closed the other opened The relationship between health and politics n ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 07, 2008 |
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Despite being a Member of Parliament MP for years that should have taught him to project high rationality and knowledge as part of his legislative work Gershon Kofi Bediako Gbediame the National Democratic Congress NDC MP for Nkwanta South constituency in Ghanas Volta Region did not Gbediame has been involved in juju perhaps for ye ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 |
I am by inclination more of a centrist That means I can mentally wheel around and become a contrarian but still circle around as centrist It may sound complicated but you have to be a journalist who have seen a lot to have such a mind As a trained journalist with years of experience this has helped me as a professional balancer or as they th ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 |
It seems only yesterday that John Kufour entered the Ghanaian political scene yet its legacy time Does Kufour have anything to fear from the judgment of history Well from the look of things and considering Ghanas political narration history will be kind to KufourLike most countries in West Africa Ghana is still grappling with issues of ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 30, 2008 |
On the th Ghanaian presidential and parliamentary elections on December Kofi AkosahSarpong looks at the future of Ghanaian democracyGhanas democratic journey started when Ghanaians fought various battles against British colonialism for freedom The most noteworthy was in Kumasi when the city was ransacked in In the s an ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
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After much acrimony that vital development priorities should take importance over a new seat of government by opposition political parties and some section of the media a new seat of government called the Golden House Jubilee has been built On the balance while the row over the Golden Jubilee House was understandable the need for a new se ... Read more |
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Monday, November 24, 2008 |
Ever since Jerry Rawlings left office as President of Ghana in he has been shrinking in value Only about years ago Rawlings rode on huge populism induced by national dissent that was stuck in moral sicknesses elites confused and national depressionBut out of office Rawlings failed the test of exPresidents if the Nelson Mandelas ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 23, 2008 |
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Opinion polls are everywhere in the runup to the December general elections And in the race to win voters there are competing claims as to which opinion poll is credible The mechanisms for the opinion polls may range from the scientific to the nearscientific and totally unscientific In the totally unscientific polls politicians poll spiri ... Read more |
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Monday, November 17, 2008 |
As the December general elections nears the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP has come under criticism as being elitist by opposition parties National Democratic Party NDC and Convention Peoples Party CPP The import is that the NPP isnt practical its public policy decisions not descriptively the result of the struggle of forces exerte ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 16, 2008 |
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By electing AkufoAddo Ghanaian voters can finally reconcile the countrys contending neoliberal and traditional valuesIts been years since Ghana was founded by the British colonialist by bringing together ethnic groups Britain ruled with its neoliberal values and structures with some very limited traditional values of the ethni ... Read more |
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Friday, November 14, 2008 |
Some of the fine points of the ongoing electioneering campaigns in the runup to the December general elections are that aspiring candidates are exuding all sorts of views and emotions and demonstrating whether they know and understand project Ghana Over the campaigns the impressions from politicians scheming to rule Ghana have been mixed bu ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
Nations the world over are measured by how they tackle grand schemes for progress This is done by individual and groups who normally share certain development vision From the European to the Japanese enlightenment projects this has been the case with thinkers toppling archaic beliefs strange practices and erroneous thinking and tinkling with ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 09, 2008 |
Nations the world over are measured by how they tackle grand schemes for progress This is done by individual and groups who normally share certain development vision From the European to the Japanese enlightenment projects this has been the case with thinkers toppling archaic beliefs strange practices and erroneous thinking and tinkling with ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 08, 2008 |
ExPresident Jerry Rawlings owner of the main opposition National Democratic Congress NDC on the campaign trails attacks the rich As much as Ghanaians know Rawlings background this is by extension attacks on businesses and investments In Rawlings view you got to be a cocaine dealer to be rich and he sees some of the rich who are asso ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 02, 2008 |
John AttaMills failure to attend a highly significant peace meeting organized in Accra by the Editors Forum for presidential candidates in the face of some political violence and the allegations making the rounds by his own party that the ruling NPP intends to rig the December general elections further fuel the political speculation whether he ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
Nana Konadu Agyeman the hawkish wife of exPresident Jerry Rawlings has written to the diplomatic community and some international organizations that the impending December general elections will descend into civil war Daily Guide October The Rawlingses appear not to have faith in the electoral system and other state instituti ... Read more |
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Monday, October 27, 2008 |
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Concerned by the increasing murky politics in the run up to the December general elections Ghanaian traditional rulers are increasingly drawing from the deepwell of their cultural values to guide the yearold democratic dispensation The traditional rulers concerns wisdom advice and counsels demonstrate the gradual mixing of Ghanas tradi ... Read more |
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Sunday, October 26, 2008 |
Politics can be a complicated matter It doesnt matter whether in the advanced democracies or emerging ones like Ghana How intricate it is is informed by the players peculiar environment more the unrefined dark aspects of the particular society This explains the fact that despite its universal architecture and the ideals driving it demo ... Read more |
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Sunday, October 19, 2008 |
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Like the wives United States presidential candidates the wives of Ghanaian presidential candidates are frontandcentre in the ongoing electoral campaigns for the December general elections They are giving interviews speeches appearing on newspaper covers television and Web sites This is in contrast to Canada where most of the wives of the ... Read more |
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Monday, October 13, 2008 |
You are a Ghanaian trying to figure out who to vote for in the December general elections In recent days there have been row between the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP and the main opposition National Democratic Congress NDC over their manifestoes as blue prints for developmentAs the campaigns go the economy is coming in the for ... Read more |
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Sunday, October 12, 2008 |
You dont have to be one of the growing pundits in Accra or among transnational Ghanaians in London New York Toronto or Berlin who are keenly influencing the democratic growth of their homeland to observe that democracy is flowering in Ghana In recent times you read varied political headlines that tell how Ghanas democracy is moving Offi ... Read more |
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Monday, October 06, 2008 |
For the first time the mounting of exPresident Jerry Rawlings presidential candidate Prof John Atta Mills and vice presidential candidate John Mahama on the same platform to sell the main opposition National Democratic Congress NDC social democratic program in its manifesto for the December general elections reveal a new chemistry among ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
The sudden death of Ghanas Finance and Economic Planning Minister Kwadwo BaahWiredu in a South African hospital has not only transformed political Ghana seeing almost all the political divide aggregating in shock but also highlighted the relationship between death and development In development terms in a world fast advancing in sc ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 |
The main opposition National Democratic Congress NDC has always been a one trick horse In its first eight years after emerging from its military roots the NDC run on befuddled socialism under its founder Jerry Rawlings who ruled Ghana for almost years Out of power for almost eight years in a new democratic dispensation it transformed itsel ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |
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On the campaign trail for the upcoming December general elections former President Jerry Rawlings accusation of the ruling National Patriotic Party NPP as the most corrupt regime Ghana has seen is an old Rawlingsian song most times without hard evidence but ridden with emotions and agitations But the politics of corruption perception ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 |
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For former President John Jerry Rawlings two time civilian president and two time coup maker the political violence mainly in a small town in the Northern Regional city of Tamale ahead of the upcoming December general elections is so bad that it might engulf the whole Ghana In Rawlings figment of imagination it is as if this is the fir ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 06, 2008 |
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Despite its limitations globally democracy as a system of governance is so far what has emerged globally as the best for humanity it makes practically all voices heard minimize dictatorship and as the Germans will tell you its byproduct of decentralization if properly instituted rapidly propel progress After years of confused onepar ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 31, 2008 |
The suggestion by Akanayo Konkronko director of Black Herbal Clinic a traditional medicine clinic that among other activities battle evil spirits for the establishment of National Spiritual Courts to try traditional spiritual cases may sound weird to some especially those who may think of it as irrational in an age of advances in science and re ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
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The impending Ghana December is test for the West African region as it struggles for democratic consolidation Seen as the subregions democracy star the Ghana December election is a trial for a region which stability is still suspect as last months military coup in Mauritania and the coup attempt in Guinea Bissau reveal Despite the fully ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 24, 2008 |
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Maxwell Owusu a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan thinks Ghana is asleep as development project The issue borders on how Ghanaian elites understand their nationstate to the extent of how they exploit such understanding to the global prosperity level for progress For Owusu as the Accrabased Public Agenda reports Ghanas ... Read more |
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Friday, August 22, 2008 |
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With his vice president Mahamudu Bawumia selected and the ruling National Patriotic Party NPP set for the December general elections whats most important is what Nana AkufoAddo the December NPP presidential candidate need is get a bit mad and take on the increasingly growing opposition National Democratic Party NDC in order to win ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 |
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How do fathom the fact that despite advances in science and technology despite advances in human reasoning some people somewhere in Bibiani a town in Ghanas Ashanti Region credulously believe that a hunchbacks hump can be ritualistically cut off for rituals among reasons to make them successful Psychoanalytically while such fatal ritua ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 17, 2008 |
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As Ghanas progress unravels a deeper understanding of the nationstate from within its cultural values in relation to the global development process are emerging Nowhere are some aspects of the traditional values inhibiting Ghanas progress increasingly being opened up for scrutiny than the realm of prophets and other spiritualistsExploiting ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 16, 2008 |
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Situating Africas development plights in confidence and inferiority complex are increasingly gaining currency continentwide Nowhere is confidence and inferiority complex discussed openly than in Ghana which pride itself as the Black Star of Africa and home to all that you can think about of Pan Africanism such as the Africa ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 |
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As Mauritanias coup detat and coup attempt at Guinea Bissau indicate there are still heavy dose of military coup detat hangover dangling in the West African society a leading region of coups in Africa And that may explain why a longrunning Ghanaian politician thinks some of Ghanas ongoing voter registration challenges are recipe for coup det ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 |
Nii Moi Thompson the University of Ghana development economist stands sometimes with group of likeminded folks against the ruling National Patriotic Party regime attempts to sell to Vodafone Plc of the UK per cent stateowned Ghana Telecom GT attest to the increasing growth of Ghanas democracy For the past years Thompson has bei ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 |
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Two articles in the July issue of the London UKbased New African magazine about the need to think a new African development paradigm from within its cultural habits reminded me of President John Kufour at the recent BBC World Debate forum in Johannesburg South Africa Kufour envisage the coming of a new African development philosophy informed f ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
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The row that engulfed the award of national honours that was instituted to persons for their distinct services to Ghana reflects the countrys growing democracy and the growing philosophy of inclusiveness against the backdrop of the ethnic groups that form the Ghana nationstate Ghanas democracy is rocking and Ghanaians can debate thei ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 28, 2008 |
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The rejection of national honour for his contribution to the growth of Ghanas security by Kojo Tsikata fondly called KojoT a retired military captain and former National Security Adviser in both the military and civilian regimes of Jerry Rawlings Provisional National Defence Congress PNDC and National Democratic Congress NDC reveals the s ... Read more |
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Monday, June 23, 2008 |
Former UN Chief Mr Kofi Annans suggestion that Africa needs a Green Revolution reminds me of a recent encounter with a professor at the University of Ottawa who asked me So Kofi how are Africans coping with the global food soaring prices I answered that there is no simple answer and that what the food crisis teaches Africa is that Africa ... Read more |
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Friday, June 20, 2008 |
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The wisdom of observation is not difficult One must first observe others before putting in place what we have learned proverb of CameroonGhanas Health Minister Courage Quashigahs idea that Ghanas educational system need infusion of applied research and traditional knowledge for rapid development reminds me of Y K Amoako the former cha ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 |
Thomas N WardBrew is presidential candidate of the obscure Democratic Peoples Party DPP for the impending general elections Like most of the small parties the DPP is known to howl from the fringes most times shallow most times confusing without any credible understanding of Ghana as a development project or any alternative attempts ... Read more |
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Sunday, May 18, 2008 |
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In the West African region the Ghana Police Service has made a lot of strides despite still struggling with logistic and manpower challenges An offshoot of the longrunning British colonial regime the Ghana Police Service is some sort of a star in innovative policing in West Africa able to think from within Ghanas traditional values up to the ... Read more |
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Friday, May 09, 2008 |
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Starting from Sierra Leone since this year there has been campaigns West Africawide for attitude change as a progress measure Anybody who knows West Africa well as Kwasi GyanApeteng a former editor of the prestigious London UKbased West Africa magazine now defunct and currently member of Ghanas National Commission of Culture will tell ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |
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Part of the complications of Ghanas development is that its elites who are normally expected to know better from within Ghanas traditional values and use their knowledge to drive development appear wanting Normally it is when they are out of power as former President Jerry Rawlings will tell you that they release that they didnt either ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 |
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Since last year when Accra announced the discovery of offshore oil fields at its west coast after decades of exploration there have been balanced debates nationwide and among transnational Ghanaians The debate isnt only from the experts bureaucrats the media academics and the global oil industry but more broadly from ordinary Ghanaians fro ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
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The newly elected Vice Presidential candidate for the main opposition National Democratic Party NDC John Mahama is arguably no novice in the roughandtumble of the Ghanaian political scene Affable handsome eloquent cunning and compassionate from his response to the founder of his NDC former President Jerry Rawlings it appears political ... Read more |
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Monday, April 14, 2008 |
The traditional Ghanaian spirituality front is lousy It is a soup of almost all the main religions in the world dancing in the traditional spirituality pot without giving any credence to the mother of all spiritualities Sometimes it looks confusing sometimes clear Sometimes even the dreaded juju is found in churches reflecting the fearful spir ... Read more |
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 |
Either because of colonialism that suppressed Ghanaian traditional values or Ghanaian elites weak grasp of their nationstate from within the foundational traditional values or may be the European enlightenment project might not have reached Ghana or as the late Senegalese President Leopold Senghor observed that GhanaiansAfricans cannot think wel ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
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The eerie image of onemonthold baby called Mercy accused of being a witch and afterward abandoned to die in Ghanas Upper East Region reminds me of the beginning of the Book of Job where in the mysteries of evil God and Satan talk to each other about how much pain Job should go through before he gives in Baby Mercy is no Biblical Job She is t ... Read more |
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 |
Some African traditional spiritualists will tell you by swearing on such famed African spiritualists like Ghanas legendary Okomfo Anokye who conjured up a Golden Stool and used it to form one of the greatest empires in the world the Asante Kingdom that Christianity has disturbed the African and by implications his or her progress In most par ... Read more |
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Monday, March 10, 2008 |
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The banning of the use talismans charms and amulets by students in Tamales Business Senior High School reveals the battle between the rational and the irrational in Ghanas development process While schools are supposed to be centres for rationalization the irrational parts of the Ghanaian culture flow in creating confusion in the education sy ... Read more |
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Friday, March 07, 2008 |
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Decentralization is moving in full swing in Ghana The practice as a development venture is to broaden the provision of public goods nationwide by involving the citizenry in their progress But as Ghanas development history reveals decentralization develops better in a democracy Ghana had had years military juntas and years of onep ... Read more |
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 |
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In George Hagan chair of Ghanas National Commission on Culture Ghana as a development project is not being nurtured well and may explain some of the challenges it find itself in The problem isnt that Ghana wasnt created by Ghanaians but the British rather the problem is that postindependent Ghana hasnt seen good dose of the policies run ... Read more |
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Friday, February 29, 2008 |
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For the past weeks inclusiveness as reality thresher in further bonding the ethnic groups that form the Ghana nationstate has become a buzzword in the Ghanaian presidency and among policy wonks By talking of inclusiveness the ruling elites are aware of exclusiveness among some of the ethnic groups The exclusiveness palaver hinges no ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
Former Vice President under President Jerry Rawlings second term Prof John AttaMills currently the presidential candidate of the main opposition the National Democratic Congress NDC health has become a public scrutiny in the run up to the December general elections Despite clear politicization of AttaMills health the fact goes be ... Read more |
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Monday, February 11, 2008 |
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We have met the enemy and he is us PogoThe December presidential elections troubles in Kenya that saw over people killed reveals the unresolved rage of Africas ethnicity as the Polishborn novelist Joseph Conrad will tell you in his famous suppressed rage phrase that fits some of Africas deadly ethnic conflicts Despite at ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 |
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Unlike most part of the world Africa is the only region where most of its development values arent balanced The thinking here is that Africas percolonial development values arent given the same prominence as the excolonial ones in the continents progress unlike countries in Southeast Asia While the problem was initially caused by coloniali ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
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If anybody in Ghana or Africa should ponder deeply and critically on the direction or how to grow a more sustainable democracy in Africa that reflects Africas histories experiences cultural traditions and norms that person perhaps should be former Ghanaian President Flt Lt rtd Jerry Rawlings At years old Rawlings was embroiled in ... Read more |
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 |
For some time Major rtd Boakye Djan has been on the media circuit on myriad nation issues As the former spokesperson for the erstwhile Armed Forces Revolutionary Council AFRC which ruled Ghana for almost six months Djan thinks he has the moral authority to give his piece of mind about some twisted Ghanaian affairs Either Djan is attempting ... Read more |
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Friday, January 18, 2008 |
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For sometime Ghana is gripped with morality issues There are strong perception that morality in all spheres of Ghanas life is declining to such an extent that a few months ago a drunk driver in one early morning nearly killed President John Kufour This situation has opened the floodgate of all sorts of moral merchants who want to correct Ghan ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 13, 2008 |
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The plea by Sampson Kwaku Boafo the key culturedevelopment pointman that traditional rulers and institutions cooperate with his Chieftaincy and Culture Ministry to identify tourist sites in their communities for development reveal attempts to weave traditional authority or the chieftaincy institution into the development process The impl ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 |
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Ever since Ghana was created out of the ethnic groups that form the nationstate years ago the issue of chieftaincy or traditional authority has been a thorny issue sometimes spilling into deadly conflicts The reasons are as ancient as they are contemporary From first President Kwame Nkrumah to incumbent President John Kufour Ghanaian le ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 |
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Unlike Botswanan elites which years ago could mount the wisdom the skills and humility to mix their traditional institutions with their excolonial and the global development ideals for prosperity years after freedom from colonial rule Ghanaian elites are still struggling with their developmental values both traditional and the excoloni ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008 |
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Capt Rtd Boakye Djan spokesperson for erstwhile Armed Forces Revolutionary Council AFRC which ruled Ghana for almost six months remarks that Ghanas political party democracy is irrational and needs a revolution of ideas to address the potential for instability that it could create for the country reveals a democracy waiting not only to g ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 29, 2007 |
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In Rebellion Revolution and Tradition Reinterpreting Coups in Ghana Maxwell Owusu of the University of Michigan describes how during the era of military coups and instabilities s to the s in Africa particularly Ghana that marked Africas era of political instabilities the overriding analytical viewpoints have been Marxist and n ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
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RejoinderDevelopmentGhana City University Of New Yorks Steve Panfords Searching for Transformational Elites in Ghanaian Development Ghanawebcom raises a lot of questions pertaining to Ghanas progress particularly the increasing understanding that Ghanaian traditional values should also inform the Ghana developme ... Read more |
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Monday, December 10, 2007 |
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One of the attributes of Ghanas emerging democracy is that it is allowing Ghanaians the fundamental right and the boldness to think and speak critically aloud about what is disturbing them about their progress This is unlike the years of military juntas and years of oneparty systems that was largely driven by longrunning culture of fear an ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
As the late President Kwame Nkrumah will tell you from scratch the Ghana nationstate as a development project has been a complicated venture with the elites making policies after policies that do not emanate from within the traditional Ghanaian environment hence Nkrumahs emotional exhortation to develop the African Personality as an intel ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
That Ghana was created by the British colonialist is a fact That because of the British colonial interest only natural resources and population density areas were developed is unarguable That this made the broadcast of public goods either Gold Coastwide or Ghanawide limited is indefensible And that in the face of all these the overall precolo ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
Ghana is experiencing social fractures the traditional communal empathy as the foundation of morality which glue the society together across the ethnic groups that form the nationstate is weakening It is as if some demons are eating Ghana away There is mounting indiscipline as President John Kufours neardeath accident in the early morni ... Read more |
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Monday, November 19, 2007 |
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To see how Ghanaians are increasingly comprehending their nationstate look no further than what Women and Children Affairs Minister Hajia Alima Mahama told the Parliament of Ghana that about Community Child Protection have been set up to ensure that laws relating to culturallyinfluenced forced or early marriages and other offences against ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 |
Day in day out Ghanaian traditional rulers reflecting frustrations within the development process are increasingly talking the development talk of course from their traditional values vintage point riding on the coattail of the developing democratic dispensation against the climate of military juntas and oneparty autocracy years ago It i ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 |
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II King Asantehene of Ghanas Asante ethnic group observation that Africas development is entangled in confidence challenges once again raises the continents progress as to how to psychologize selfconfidence into Africas progress The psychology is that the greater selfconfidence needed to further fuel Africas advancemen ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 04, 2007 |
The yearold American scientist Dr James Dewey Watsons statement that Africans were less intelligent than Europeans because all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours whereas all the testing says not really has created uproar Ghanawide Watsons view that he is inherently gloomy about the p ... Read more |
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Monday, October 29, 2007 |
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As Ghanaians come to grip with their development process there are increasing dialogues among themselves with their culture for long suppressed by colonialism and their elites From governmental to nongovernmental organizations from President John Kufour to policymakers and bureaucrats there are increasing discussions of the culture in relati ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 |
Mr Charles Kofi Wayo something is fondly called Chuck in Ghanaian political social and media circles Cigarpuffing and American cowboy hat wearing maverick Chuck is described variously as one of Ghanas most entertaining politicians irascible political whiner and impertinent saberrattler Flamboyant Chuck is known to associate ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
For some time Ghanaians have been in state of misunderstanding as to what values drive their development process At the national level they have known only the excolonial neoliberal values At the village level their indigenous values Hooked into world historical stage by colonialism Ghanaians progress was anchored in Western development par ... Read more |
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 |
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The ongoing public hearings at the Parliament of Ghanas Public Accounts Committee of how state institutions have been spending Ghanaian tax payers money in the past fiscal year give the legislative body a fresh and new face in view of the that there have been some wrongly held view that Parliament is easily manipulable by the Executive arm of go ... Read more |
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Friday, October 19, 2007 |
Whether rhetoric or not Mr Joseph Henry Mensah President John Kufours National Development Planning Commission czar and one of Ghanas leading thinkers asked Is failure in our genes He asks in the context of Ghanas progress Despite Mr Mensahs question opening troubling historical memories of the colonialists wrongly holding the view t ... Read more |
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Monday, October 08, 2007 |
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The impending general elections has unearthed on its path vision as one of its political marketing buzzwords Its excessive use reveals its emanation from Ghanaian cosmology and its corresponding JudeoChristian climate Almost all the politicians talk as if they have vision while their opponents have not but the vision game rolls on f ... Read more |
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Monday, October 01, 2007 |
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Over fifteen years into its nascent democratic dispensation the Ghanaian democracy is increasingly becoming sophisticated as it globalize and employs fully tenets of information technology and scientific opinion polls Against this backdrop is politics of insults receding gradually as political party transnational Ghanaians and civil society c ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
The planned debate of the ruling National Patriotic Party NPP presidential candidates as the major mark of the NPPUSA Congress on October in Dallas Texas USA raises the increasing influence of transnational Ghanaians on their homeland more than before In the last couple of years prominent Ghanaian politicians businessmen and w ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
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As a heavily patriarchic society pretty much of the cultural inhibitions slowing down Ghanas progress impinge on its women Colonialism did not help either With its patriarchic development paradigms Ghanaian women were also suppressed by colonialism and its neoliberal appendages This makes Ghanaian women suffer from two suppressions from th ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 |
My candid advice to you is to stay away from this kind of sensationalism It does not do us any good God willing our prayers will be answered Go Nana writes Victor A Attah of Syracuse New York USA to the Accrabased The Statesman following reports that a juju paraphernalia containing horse tail on which a horse tongue was ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 16, 2007 |
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Emefa Mohammed writing at wwwghanawebcom in response to the commencement of Ghanas National Sanitation Week on September said that sanitation should be a daily affair not some one week photo opspolitical point scoring agenda That exposed faults in national sanitation policies and captures the lack of holistic policy that informs the des ... Read more |
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Friday, September 14, 2007 |
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For a good part of its year existence Ghana hasnt understood and known itself as the Greek thinker Plato would have said the confusion pretty much emanating from its contact with the colonialists and its elites inability to undo the confusion Ghanas national development policies have been heavily informed by its excolonial paradigms than ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
The process to develop Ghana could be complex sometimes daunting sometimes dreadful sometimes incomprehensible sometimes confusing sometimes helpless sometimes in disarray sometimes shallow and sometimes refreshing Once a playground of military juntas autocrats and confused oneparty apparatchiks Ghana appears to have seen it all in its ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 09, 2007 |
Before the coalition of the ethnic groups that were forced by the British colonialist to form the Ghana nationstate their societies was formed and ruled around Godfearing values or the sacred or Godfearing people or around their respective cosmology From Okomfo Anokye Asante to Kwame Gyateh Ayirebe Gyan Effutu to Na Gbewa Dagomba it ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 |
Ever since the first cases of HIVAIDS was documented in Ghana in the cure public education and coordination of the pandemic has been played more or less around the template of neoliberal Ghana without corresponding input from traditional Ghana The sense is that while orthodox medicine has been in the forefront of finding cure for the ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 |
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Nation building is a complicated project And like all projects you need to get the Work Breakdown Structure as project management literature teaches as detailed and coherent as possible with all the inputs functioning smoothly constantly reviewing the project in order to produce durable deliverables In the creation of the Ghana nationstate ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 02, 2007 |
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After years of struggle to mint education curriculum content that actually reflects its environment its African appendage and its sensibilities in relation to its colonial legacies and with an eye for global progress a new education curriculum is to be implemented this September by Ghana Mrs Angelina BaidenAmissah the Deputy Minister of Ed ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 |
After years of gossips in development circles that part of northern Ghanas development backwardness may be due to certain cultural practices some its elites such as Mr George Hikah Benson the Upper West Regional Minister has boldly come out clean and openly that certain cultural practices impede the development of the Northern regions There ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 26, 2007 |
Why will Ghanas Health Minister Mr Courage Quashigah ask Has God left Africa Despite its complexity and its implications in divinity theology and African cosmology the question practically borders on the historical and the material If we accept that God is a referee in humans endeavours having given humankind the intelligence to use to ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 |
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Is there a correlation between trustfaith and progress Ghanas Vice President Aliu Mahama thinks so and if midwifed skillfully can propel Ghana to greater prosperity This will correct many an historical and material errors of yesteryears and cruise Ghanas progress fueled by its traditional norms and values More attuned to the ongoing thoug ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 |
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Fellow Ghanaians the Black Star shall rise and shine again forever for there are still enough Patriotic Ghanaian Remnants in Diaspora and at home who are constantly transfusing blood into her arteries and pumping oxygen into her nostrils to keep her alive in spite of those Ghanaians including some of our socalled leaders past and present who a ... Read more |
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Monday, August 20, 2007 |
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Once a playground of military juntas autocrats and oneparty apparatchiks Ghana has experienced its share of Africas roughandtumble politics including executions of some military politicians But for the past years since multiparty democracy was instituted more flowing from Ghanaians innate traditions and convictions the democratic fiel ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 18, 2007 |
Unknown to a lot of Ghanaians the duality between their traditional and modern Ghana is gradually being resolved more from the daily activities of Ghanaians themselves their traditional institutions their neoliberal structures and the ongoing global progress The needs of the Ghanaian development soul are clear policymakers and bureaucrats ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 16, 2007 |
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Both as a medical doctor a bureaucrat a policymaker a globalist and as an international health expert Prof Agyemang BaduAkosah is known as a serious high achiever without any theatrics in Ghanaian developmental circles For long time he had been helping develop the British medical system Then for his traditional royal calling he is a prin ... Read more |
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Monday, August 13, 2007 |
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Prof Aridu Sabo Azeez who says he specializes in eradicating witchcraft and traditional healing told the Accrabased The Statesman that he treats people who have been cursed by a disease or bad luck by witches and those who have acquired the powers of witchcraft themselves using it for deviancies or crime More remarkably Aze ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 12, 2007 |
Despite the apparent incursion of JudeoChristian tradition into Ghanaians spiritual life since they came into contact with the Europeans some years ago broadly some aspects of traditional Ghanaian cultural cosmology see God as battling major evil personified in fearlessly diabolical figures The diabolical figures can come in all sorts of ... Read more |
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Friday, August 10, 2007 |
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For sometime and this is nothing new in Ghanaian political life the word God has been on the lips of some politicians either when they face acute challenges or are short of words or reach the limit of their comprehension of Ghanas development process Generally they like to hear themselves mention God sometimes for nothing so important or i ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 |
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Ghanas Health Minister Mr Courage Quashigah part of the emerging Ghanaian thinkers who are convinced beyond all reasonable doubt like all progressive thinkers worldwide that GhanaianAfrican norms values and traditions should be hugely factored in Ghanas development process Not just factoring in the culture in the development process ju ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 |
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As Ghanas general elections closes in what type of leadership Ghana needs has become a recurring subject sometimes even unsettling despite figures like Prof John Atta Nana Akuffo Addo Mr Aliu Mahama and Edward Mahama hovering on the scene The broader views are that Ghana needs a visionary leader to replace the incumbent John Kufour in ... Read more |
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Monday, August 06, 2007 |
Kofi AkosahSarpong discusses Liberias dilemma with human sacrifice and cannibalistic practices in its development process drawing cases from Ghana and other Africa statesAs Africas debate about tackling its inhibiting cultural practices in its development process gather steam nowhere is this seen more than in Liberia Africa oldest Republic ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 05, 2007 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong examines Mozambiques attempts to eradicate flourishing witchcraft and human sacrifice in its development process drawing cases from Ghana and other Africa statesBlessed with some good elites unlike other African states Mozambique battled cyclical droughts and civil war Overtime Mozambique overturned the label the poo ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 05, 2007 |
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Why is Ghana troubled by confidence in its development process Kofi AkosahSarpong explores the issueOf late the word confidence has become a reality thresher among some Ghanaian elites trying to revamp Ghanas progress Some nonGhanaian too think GhanaiansAfricans need a jolt of confidence in their progress From Mr J H Mensah Pres ... Read more |
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Friday, August 03, 2007 |
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Compared to other African states the ongoing debate about oil find in Ghana has been more balanced and indicative of the emerging developmental wisdom The reasons may vary but what tie the arguments together are Ghanas growing democracy and the vibrant growing media The practicalities will be seen from how Accra develop an oil and gas policy ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
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Mr J H Mensah is Ghanaian President John Kufours economic development czar He is simultaneously a nationalist an Africanist and a globalist Added to these are his attributes as top policymaker bureaucrat politician economist and consultant across the Ghanaian African and global development scene Over the years Mr Mensahs inna ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 29, 2007 |
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Mrs Mary ChineryHesse is Chief Advisor to Ghanaian President John Kufour That means we read President Kufour through her in terms of the thoughts nuances and the level of reasoning within the presidency In spite of her statement on July GhanadotcomGhana News Agency that Ghanaian intellectuals urged not to shy away from discourse ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 |
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How do you fathom a highly rational man and one of his countrys leading intellectuals who have used pretty much of his lifetime fighting the irrational from the dark periods of military dictatorships to crass human rights violations the subject of immense prophetic interpretations The curiosity borders on the fact that his formidable campa ... Read more |
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Monday, July 23, 2007 |
The much trumpeted African Renaissance process which seeks an open awakening of the African culture for progress will come in multifaceted ways Nowhere is it seen more than the opening of African traditional laws within the structures of the dominant neoliberal penal legal codes Recently as we were about depart Ghana to Canada after a sixmon ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 |
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Cultural festivals have become a development issue in Ghana From the private to the public sector there are increasing debates and attempts to appropriate cultural festivals for progress The talks are Ghanawide and indicate the importance of strategizing these aspects of the Ghanaian culture for progress From the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Cu ... Read more |
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Monday, July 16, 2007 |
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Following the dispensation of multiparty democratic rule in Ghana some fifteen years ago Ghanas Vice President Aliu Mahama a Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologytrained building technologist unlike other vicepresidents has been able to turn the vicepresidency from a shadowy place under the clutches of the presidency into a ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 14, 2007 |
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Leading American international development guru Dr Francis Fukuyamas Trust The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity reminds me of the shocking killing of Mr Roko Frimpong the late deputy managing director of the Ghana Commercial Bank last week allegedly by gunmen hired by some members of his family over family property issues A ... Read more |
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Monday, July 09, 2007 |
Health Minister Courage Quashigah is increasingly emerging as one of people thinking through the countrys culture in terms of its prosperity Quashigah has been among those illuminating this path for some time arguing for the need to refine certain aspects of the Ghanaian culture for progress That Quashigah has thorough grasp of Ghana is unass ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 08, 2007 |
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Chieftaincy and Culture Minister Sampson K Boafos recurring discussions for the need for the longsuppressed traditional institutions to be opened and appropriated in the progress of Ghana runs like traditional Kente cloth through the tapestry of recent thinking of Ghanaian progress and development philosophy Numerous thinkers Courage Quashig ... Read more |
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Friday, July 06, 2007 |
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Orientation has become a buzzword in emerging democratic Ghana The word used variously by policymakers politicians media practitioners religious leadersspiritualists moralists the mass media traditionalists and ordinary people has become reality thresher in the face of growing disciplinary and moral challenges in Ghanas development pro ... Read more |
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Friday, July 06, 2007 |
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Of recent times the idea of Ghanaian heroes and heroines in the nations progress has been in the forefront of Ghanas development process Kusi Appiah Adomako writing in ghanawebcom argued that If there is a nation in the world that has not honoured well its heroes and heroines then it is Ghana Why I am saying so Go to France America and ... Read more |
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Friday, June 29, 2007 |
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Ghanas new Chief Justice Georgina Woods confirmation by the Parliament of Ghana was a first for a woman in Ghanaian legal history It indicates the increasing attempts to free Ghanaian women from the longrunning clutches of traditional patriarchy which pretty much run through the values of the ethnic groups that make up the Ghana nationsta ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
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Ghanas Chieftaincy and Culture Minister Sampson Kwaku Boafo has enormous burden he wants to address the negative practices within the Ghanaian culture Faintly unknown to him Ghanaians are coming to terms that certain aspects of their culture have been entangling them for fuller progress They are emboldened by the forces of globalization whic ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |
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The criminalization of Female Genital Mutilation part of some of the cultural inhibitions stifling Ghanas progress by the Parliament of Ghana indicates attempts to rediscover the state from its roots It raises the fact that unlike years ago the elected representatives are expanding their thinking in relation to Ghanaian norms values and tra ... Read more |
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Monday, June 11, 2007 |
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Ghanaian Health Minister Mr Courage Quashigah for long in the forefront of the African Renaissance process has been attempting to awaken Africans to their superb values in their development process And nowhere is this notable than being healthy through eating healthy traditional food in the broader development process The sense here is tout ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 |
Recently I had the privilege of having a long broad and incisive conversation with Dr William Cowie a respected international development consultant and an Adjunct Professor of International Development and Globalization at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University respectively about Africas development process Though the subjects ran ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong discusses a Gabonese teachers campaign against human sacrifice and its widespread implications Africas progressEither because of the extremely longrunning colonial rule which pretty much suppressed African values for developmental metamorphosis or postindependence African elites weak grasp of Africas values in its pr ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
Kofi AkosahSarpong looks at the newly installed Ga Mantse Nii Tackie Tawiah III king of Ghanas Ga ethnic group attempts to work with the overburdened Accra Metropolitan Assembly to tackle developmental problemsFor sometime as its population grew and ruralurban migration soared the City of Accra Ghanas capital city is experiencing risi ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong examines the implications of the jujumarabout row between Nigerias President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy Atiku Abubaka in the larger development process of AfricaIn Africas cultural and development context it is not strange that Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo accuses his deputy Mr Atiku Abubakar of craving ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
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Developmentally despite its years of corporate existence indigenous Ghana and neoliberal Ghana are worlds apart It will take more than the late President Kwame Nkrumahs acclaimed visions for Ghanaian elites to bring them together Nkrumah didnt make any remarkable attempts to bring the two worlds together Unarguably Nkrumah ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong on the remaking of the Ghana nationstate following the fact that most Ghanaians appropriate GhanaianAfrican traditional values for their survivalMr Bernard Guri is the executive director of the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development in Ghana The name smack of an obscure outfit with big heart The ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
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Since the beginning of the year there have been sporadic strikes by health workers across Ghana Pretty much of the reasons rest on pay issues but at deeper level it reveals schism between Ghanaian traditional medicine and the formal orthodox medicine This has been a recurring matter in most part of Ghanas year existence especially as econom ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 28, 2007 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong argues that the rumour of Washington setting up military base in Ghana is part of the broader bases Washington is building in Africa for its energy security in a heated scramble for Africas growing oil findsDespite Ghanaian Defence Ministry officials debunking the claim that Washington is not building military base in Ghana ... Read more |
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Sunday, April 15, 2007 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong examines JH Mensah President John Kufours development planning czar new MadeinGhana development planning visionThe suggestion by Mr Joseph Henry Mensah chair of Ghanas National Development Planning Commission that Ghana reject World Bank crafted policies by making development policies that have MadeinGhana ... Read more |
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Monday, April 09, 2007 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong on why the talks for science education in Ghana should be driven by Ghanaian and African norms values and traditions as Nigerian traditional rulers are sayingFor sometime Ghanas Minister of Education Science and Sports Paapa Owusu Ankomah has been talking about education reforms The talks such as grounding Ghanas fut ... Read more |
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Monday, April 09, 2007 |
Kofi AkosahSarpong argues that a shadow floats over Jerry Rawlings life and recent Ghanaian history as well That dark presence affects more than just Rawlings private lifeFormer Ghanaian President John Jerry Rawlings statement carried by Accra Daily Mail April that You think you can get power from the NPP like that You go g ... Read more |
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 |
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Despite its good intensions a new Canadian Senate report on development aid to Africa says for the past years Ottawas foreign aid to Africa has not been effective in alleviating poverty and calls for a new roadmap to overcome years of failure The failure is suggestive of other international development agencies working in Africa and th ... Read more |
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Monday, March 26, 2007 |
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The press release carried by the Sierra Leoneanowned Vancouver British Columbiabased wwwthepatrioticvanguardcom from the Freetownbased National Communications Strategy Project NCSP that it is to launch a weekly radio talk show dubbed Development Dialogue on the Freetownbased United Nations Radio FM that will discuss accountability am ... Read more |
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Sunday, March 18, 2007 |
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The European Union Commissioner on Trade Mr Peter Mandelsons statement carried by the Accra Ghanabased The Ghanaian Chronicle and the Washingtonbased AllAfricacom March that the muchtouted Economic Partnership Agreements EPA for African and Caribbean Pacific ACP countries will help protect ACP producers markets and hel ... Read more |
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Monday, March 05, 2007 |
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The German Ambassador to Ghana Peter Linder statement carried by The Accra Daily Mail and AllAfricaCom March that other West African states should copy the increasing integration of traditional chieftaincy institution or more appropriately cultural values into the Ghanaian development process further raises the increasing understan ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 |
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The idea of the Ghanaian Minister of Education Papa Owusu Ankomah introducing a new education bill that will make the Ghanas education system more communityoriented further demonstrates the fact that since independence from British colonial rule the formal education system is yet to relate to the GhanaianAfrican the environment properly and d ... Read more |
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Monday, February 19, 2007 |
The row of former President Jerry Rawlings playing down the celebration of Ghanas th anniversary as a sovereign country from British colonial raises disturbing questions about Ghanas progress As a development project Rawlings has ruled Ghana more than any Ghanaian dead or alive This makes his dim view of years of Ghanas corporate existen ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
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The issue of further reforming Ghanas education system raises interesting questions in the context of the ongoing debate about integrating GhanaianAfrican values and experiences in Ghanas development process The interest come from the fact that a countrys education system should be the core deciding motor of its progress And this should be o ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong on how taxing Ghanaian jujumen is part of the opening of the cultural values in the countrys development process The directive from the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to the metropolitan municipal and district assemblies to tax fetish priests in their respective areas may seem ordinary but reveals t ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong on how open appropriation of traditional healers in Ghanas Upper West Region will help correct some of the inadequacies in the Millennium Development Goals MDGsThe act of the World Bank funding the Northern Savannah Biodiversity Conservation Project so as to empower traditional healers to come out with more potent and we ... Read more |
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Monday, January 15, 2007 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong in Ottawa Canada responds to Gamal Nkrumahs in Cairo Egypt depiction of the illusory picture of PanAfricanism today by arguing that by failing to appropriate African values and experiences critically in the PanAfrican project Kwame Nkrumah as rallying cry of the PanAfrican project committed a fatal developmental error ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 |
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To advocates of opening refining and appropriating Ghanaian cultural values for development there are gradually emerging talks in Ghana by some elites in this direction From Health Minister Courage Quashigah to former President Jerry Rawlings to Dr Moses Adibo former Director of Ghana Medical Services to Chieftaincy Affairs and Culture Mini ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
There is gradually emerging the thinking that African values should drive the continents progress informed by her colonial legacies and as Washington Universitys John W Meyer and associates would say enabling aspects of World Development Model via cultural and associational processes Of recent times millions of words have poured into these d ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong in Ottawa Canada says Ghanaian youth can accelerate Ghanas pace of development as Vice President Aliu Mahama urges if they are oriented heavily in GhanaianAfrican values first in a country which youth have appear directionless and weaker grasp of the countrys development processGhanas Vice President Alhaji Aliu Maha ... Read more |
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Friday, August 18, 2006 |
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EDITORS ENLIGHTENMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTSKofi AkosahSarpong in AgonaSwedru reflects on Journalists for Human Rights conclave for Ghanaian editorssenior journalists on newsroom management and human rights reportingThe AgonaSwedru workshop for Ghanaian editorsSenior journalists on newsroom management and human rights reporting by Journal ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 13, 2006 |
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From Adabraka Ghana to Ottawa Canada Kofi AkosahSarpong the development journalist collaborates with development experts in these fascinating discussions about the emerging new Africa development thinking For almost one hour Dr Michael AbuSakara Foster Country Director of Sasakawa Africa AssociationWorld Bank Liaison with offices in ... Read more |
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Sunday, February 26, 2006 |
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Increasingly being violated by some negative aspects of their culture Ghanaian teens appear helpless A Year of Action on Defilement by the Women and Child Ministry is the latest lesson in dealing with violation of teens rights In Sierra Leonean journalisthistorian Lansana Gberies A Dirty War in West Africa teens recount how they are i ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 31, 2005 |
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The appointment by Ghanas leading science and technology school of the Asantehene King of the Asante ethnic group Otumfuo Osei Tutu as its Chancellor not only reveals the increasing relevance of the Asantehene in Ghanas development process but also the emerging weight of GhanaianAfrican values in the countrys progress policy session i ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005 |
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Harona Esseku the outgoing chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP by not attending and not contesting for his reelection of the chairmanship of the just ended National Delegated Conference of the NPP at the University of Ghana Legon in the wake of the thunderstorm he created by alleging that the Kufuor Castle is the centre of kickbac ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
The row over whether to build a new seat of government or move the seat to another building once again reveals the emerging Ghanaian Renaissance as reflected not only in the Members of Parliament debates about this issue but also as the public ponders the metaphysical implications of managing Ghanas business in a building ridden with slavery and ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 18, 2005 |
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Heres John Kufuor touting the virtues of democracy repealed the coloniallyimposed criminal libel law opened the field of freedom of expression tolerated more dissent opened up the economy got debt relief in a country that has seen most of its life under military dictatorship Its wonderful life this democracy And heres again as th ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong says that a new policy making system is needed nationwide that will incorporate the enabling aspects of Ghanaian cultural values and experiences in the current thinking of mixing Ghanas colonial legacies with her cultural values in her development process In the climate of Ghanas emerging renaissance the lat ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 11, 2005 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong praises and encourages Ghanas Chief Justice George Kingsley Acquah for attempting to mix Ghanas traditional adjudication laws with the imposed colonial ones The campaign and the initiative to openly mix Ghanas innate traditional values with both the legacies of colonialism and the enabling aspects of the global culture is ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong reasons that with the Ghanaian opposition unable to say how they will do things differently they cant capitalize on the ruling National Patriotic Partys alleged kickbacks meltdown The Ghanaian opposition parties via exPresident JJ Rawlings say I told you so And if their unwavering criticisms of the ruling ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 01, 2005 |
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The thunderstorm variously dubbed Castle Hijacks Kickbacks or Castle in Crisis over Kickback Scandal that has been hanging over the Castle the seat of Ghanas government since last week sparked by investigations by the fastly emerging leader in Ghanas investigative journalism the new Accrabased The Enquirer has finally busted The ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
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Why should the Asantehene King of Ghanas Asante ethnic group Otumfuo Osei Tutu II say that Africa will develop faster if its leaders intellectuals and the people rid themselves of the mindset that traditional institutions must be relegated to the background in favour of Eurocentric and western ways of thinking There are varieties of reaso ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 24, 2005 |
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In terms of sheer patriotism and nationalism that propelled him to Ghanas political scene John Jerry Rawlings is in a class of his own He was Head of State around years having projected the need for acrosstheboard patriotism and nationalism rooted in accountability and general moral health Dont ask me to explain it in detail here but ap ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 19, 2005 |
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Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Asantehene King of Ghanas largest ethnic group the Asante courageous lecture Chieftaincy and Development in Contemporary Africa The Case of Asante at Harvard University in the United States challenging Ghanaian and African governments and the international community to help open up GhanaianAfrican values for ... Read more |
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Monday, November 07, 2005 |
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As Ghanas emerging renaissance increasingly spreads countrywide one of the key areas which is seen as entangling the progress of the country superstition which emanates from the culture is responding to the emerging changes The Ghana News Agency GNA one of the key media outlets in the forefront of Ghanas emerging renaissance and which ... Read more |
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Friday, November 04, 2005 |
The Asantehene King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II of Ghanas Asante ethnic impending lectures and the showcasing of the regalia of the Asante kingship at Bostons Museum of Fine Arts MFA as the guest of honor at the MFA on November and Havard Universitys WEB Du Bois Institute for African and AfricanAmerican Studies USA on November among o ... Read more |
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Friday, October 28, 2005 |
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Ghanaian leaders balancing their vocation with spirituality or letting their spirituality direct the countrys progress or having a divine mandate to lead the country into a state of total transformation as stated by Dr Michael Ntumy president of the Ghana Pentecostal Council is seen as the most foundational way of moving Ghanas development ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
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The idea of some Ghanaian elites talking The Role of Patriotism in the Affairs of Ghana Today Public Scene resonates patriotism into the development process today and demonstrates a deeper link between Ghanaians inner values and their progress Because of Ghanas longrunning encounter with colonialism patriotism in terms of national developm ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong says there is the need for more thinkers such as the legendary Okomfo Anokye who created the Asante Empire to move Ghanas development process further in the wake of the journalist Kwesi Pratts heckling of President John Kufour and his regime for not thinking enough about Ghanas problems There may not be heated public ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 24, 2005 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong argues that Ghanaian journalists should open up their journalistic inquiry on the growing activities of prophets and other spiritualists In a society mired in massive superstition more so helped by its culture where belief in witchcraft jujumarabou mediums spiritualist of all brands and the interpretation of many events by ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 10, 2005 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong gives a cultural interpretation of the Odododiodio byelections of which the main opposition the National Democratic Party won Anybody who thinks democracy is a Westernonlyandimposed political concept is dead wrong As Ghanas Odododiodioo constituency demonstrated on the August byelection before the Europeans set foo ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 04, 2005 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong features that a Ministry of Chieftancy will not only correct many an history wrongs but also help open up Ghanas development process despite what some critics fear of its politicisation of the chieftaincy institution Now the long quest was ending after centuries of marginalization in the development process by both the colonia ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 13, 2005 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong in Ottawa Canada responds to Y FreduaKwateng in Toronto Canada Etiology of Ghana Underdevelopmentarguing that the ongoing culturedevelopment debate is gradually flowing into the culturedriven African Renaissance process Y FreduaKwarteng of University of Toronto piece ghanawebcom August in respo ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 16, 2005 |
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The supremely open and important statement by Ghanas Vice President lawyer Alhaji Aliu Mahama that Article of the Constitution enjoins the State to take the necessary steps to encourage the integration of appropriate customary values into the fabric of national life through formal and informal education as well as the conscious introduction ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 02, 2005 |
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Lans Gberies piece Africa a Complicated Leadership Past Concord Timeallafricacom June is not only interesting reading more so revealing the stupidity of African leaders but demonstrates his grasp of the complicated nature of Africas leadership complexities but also it reveals how over time since independence Africa leaders fro ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 05, 2005 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong observes that Ghanaian cultural values are increasingly rising in the midst of the colonially structures in her development process Recent events cropping up as the Ghanaian democracy tries to lay solid foundation and drives the countrys development process send signals that after decades of much massive misunderstanding and ... Read more |
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Monday, May 16, 2005 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong says the Otumfuo Osei Tutu the Asante King attempts in engaging African traditional rulers in the continents development process would bring the right balance in development and help mix indigenous values with colonial ones From South Africa to Sierra Leone and its ensuing broadcast globally the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei ... Read more |
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Friday, April 08, 2005 |
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The ongoing uproar generated by Ghanas democracy Bad Boy expresident Jerry Rawlings comparison of President John Kufour to the countrys arrested top armed robber Ataa Ayi during the Wahala demonstration in Accra against the impending fuel price increases reveal the ongoing schism between Ghanaian values and her democracy project The unne ... Read more |
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Friday, March 25, 2005 |
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The Truth Will Come Out Prof Agyemang Legon Students Wants VC Pro VC Out University of Ghana will protect its integrity Registrar Scandal rocks Legon Parts Osafo Maafo goes wildover reported Varsity exam malpractices ViceChancellors Son Escapes To US Legon Students Demand Further Probe Vice Chancellor promises to ... Read more |
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005 |
Kofi AkosahSarpong explores why the leakages of University exam papers has implications for Ghanas future development The scandal rocking the premier University of Ghana at Legon reflects the rot in not only among the countrys elites but also the future of the country Before this a lot of irritating odour had add up to all these moral rot spew ... Read more |
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong argues that the increasing belief and growth of democracy and rule of law is calling for new nationalism grounded in values new ideology and the emerging power game and rooted in history Coming out on the heels of the new generation of democraticallyminded Ghanaians touting the democratic and nationalist values of Dr JB D ... Read more |
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Sunday, March 13, 2005 |
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For long either because of the shortsighted of noninterference in each others business enshrined in the African Union treaty or in that of ECOWAS multilateral talking shops in the context of Africas problems or specifically West Africas daunting problems are frequently denounced as a waste of time and money But the resolved political cris ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 16, 2005 |
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Just after the December general elections of which the main opposition National Democratic Party NDC lost to the ruling National Patriotic Party NPP Dr Obed Asamoah chair of the NDC licking the partys wounds demonstrated Ghanas maturing multiparty democracy by explaining that the utterances of the socalled founder of the NDC M ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 04, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong looks at the long road to Ghanas December general elections and concludes that the roughandtumble democratic path has laid the foundation for democratic growth The road to the December general elections in Ghana has come in a onestepforward twostepsbackward kind of way sprinkled with political accidents polit ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
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Why would a University of Ghana law professor noted for his high intellectual ceiling and gentleness allowed himself to be disturbingly shadowed by a military officer turned junta leader turned civilian president attempting to avoid the excesses of a military regime turned civilian democratic regime Because he is John Atta Mills and over twenty ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 23, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong looks at the voices and visions that have been enriching Ghanas democracy in the last leg towards the December general elections There is nothing Ghanaians and the growing democratic institutions like more than extolling the virtues of Ghanas growing democracy A month ago during the Kumasi convention of ruling Nationa ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 18, 2004 |
Kofi AkosahSarpong ponders the main prize of the impending Ghanaian general elections the Osu Castle the seat of government and says it reflects all the troubles Ghana has gone through in its almost years existence in her journey for democratic stability and development All said and done the impending elections in Ghana on December is a r ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 13, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong says democracy and stability hungry West Africa has a stake in the impending Ghanaian general elections as not only a tranquilizer in the subregion but also to radiate as the regions oasis of democratic growth With Accra saying it has foiled a coup plot and military officers of Guinea Bissau demanding pay arrears beating thei ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 09, 2004 |
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One month into the impending Ghanaian general elections all aspects of the Ghanaian culture and religion both positive and negative are in full gear coming into the forefront of the political competition Political gift giving and communalism teleguided by native sipirituality are on the rise albeit temporarily All politicians and their supp ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 23, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong looks at the growing effects of the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu locally nationally and internationally and is convinced that the dawn of a new development process in Ghana and West Africa has begun where the burdens of Accra will not only be lessened but complimented in fighting poverty Ever since Ghana got its ind ... Read more |
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Friday, October 15, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong examines the ongoing deadly negative political campaigns two months into the general elections of Ghanaian politicians and concluded that they may be suffering from a West African Oedipus complex There is a creeping sense of disbelief among Ghanaians at home and abroad about the turn of events almost two months into th ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 09, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong examines the problems prophets and other spiritual mediums pose to the impending Ghanaian presidential and parliamentary election Prophets and other spiritualists have been the mainstay of Ghanaian politics since independence from colonial in But no where in the almost years since the creation of Ghana have prophe ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong in Ottawa Canada following the impending presidential and parliamentary elections in Ghana explores why anybody would like to be president in Ghana considering the fact that Ghanaian presidents often find themselves under severe physical and mental strains whether these stem from assassination attempts jujumarabou influe ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 04, 2004 |
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Four months into the general elections in Ghana serious issues that are needed to drive the development process and entrench democracy do not inform campaigns and actions of politicians heavily From rumours of mercenaries attacks to coup plots to when and where Jerry Rawlings traveled to Rawlings nearseditious boom speeches about the alleged wr ... Read more |
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Monday, August 30, 2004 |
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Ever since he shoots into the Ghanaian political scene some years ago with images of hunger and anger and frustration John Jerry Rawlings charismatic energetic and high driven has become some kind of an obsession in the Ghanaian psychic and political journey A twotimes successful coup maker Rawlings projects what is best in Ghanaians a ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 22, 2004 |
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The advert in the Monrovia Liberiabased The Analyst about some Ghanaian opposition parties recruiting mercenaries from neighbouring countries more specifically the collapsed and troubled ones such as Sierra Leone Liberia Guinea and Cote dIvoire to destabilize Ghana currently West Africas oasis of democratic growth calls for all West Afr ... Read more |
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Monday, August 16, 2004 |
The story by The Lens about Ghanas Internal Affairs Minister Hackman Owusu Agyeman ordering his police bodyguard to beat his domestic maid for allegedly stealing a ring from a member of his household and carried by ghanawebcom Crime Punishment of Thursday August calls fully for critical discussions by Ghanaians in their democrati ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 07, 2004 |
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From the impresario of Ghanas coup making Mr John Jerry Rawlings to President John Kuffour to Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development Capt Rtd Nkrabeah Effah Dartey and more the issue of military coup detat occurring has come into the forefront of Ghanas stability development and democratic journey a situation that w ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 18, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong on how Ghanaian students are socialized into jujumarabou culture and the implications for our development process In a bid that smacks of the European Enlightenment era Ghanaian elites are gradually taking on their cultural values that they deem counterproductive to their progress While some say globalization and intern ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 04, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong says the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu should expand and deepen his development initiativs by creating outreach communication ventures and globalising his development projects by reaching out to diasporan Asantes and Ghanaians The relevance of Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu s development initiatives is not only th ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 20, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong discusses the issue of Pull Him Down PHD syndrome and the development process following Ghanas Information Minister Nana Ankomeahs swipe at traditional rulers for their attack against the Asantehenes picture on Ghana Telecoms phone card Nana Akomeah is the latest of the Ghanaian and West African elites to join the ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 13, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong observes that West African elites and the increasing open mass media are finally confronting deadly superstitions that have been inhibiting their development process for long If a particular spot on the road is causing accidents the traditional thinking is that evil spirits or ghosts are operating there and must be exorcised ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 08, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong writes that the excessive addiction of Ghanaians to the dead is reminiscent of ancient Egypt and is counterproductive to the development process But despite this some sort of development revolution is on the making led by a generation of Ghanaian elites and the media As the issue of development takes center stage in the Ghanai ... Read more |
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Sunday, May 23, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong argues that while West Africans agree that there is the need for new security architecture the core of this should come from within West African culture because of the regions experiences and history West Africa is the most unstable area in Africa Why Because out of successful military coups not counting the unsuccess ... Read more |
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Monday, April 19, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong writes that in a West African where states have collapsed politics paralyzed some civil wars armed robbery a menace gangsterism a growing problem civic virtues weak and jujumarabou mediums ready to help criminals the police service in West Africa needs all the respect regard and cooperation they can get from an increa ... Read more |
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Monday, April 12, 2004 |
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Food Culture Poverty IQ Development As Ghanaians and Africans increasing open up into the development process these elements have come to constitute their development search an increasingly vast amalgam in terms of their living well This situation has also come into the forefront of their thinking unlike yesteryears As the global g ... Read more |
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Friday, April 09, 2004 |
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Following the World Banks developmental cooperation with Ghanas traditional Asanteman Council Kofi AkosahSarpong looks at the implications for tradition and change in Africas developmental path It may appear low key in the larger schemes of Africas contending development variables but the World Banks chief scribe James Wolfensohns developm ... Read more |
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Friday, April 02, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong a yearold veteran correspondent with the now slumbering London UKbased WEST AFRICA magazine weigh in on the ongoing debate about the future of the magazine in the subregions development The report Graphics mismanagement MD must resign ghanawebcoms Feature Article of Monday March carried by Gye Nyame C ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 |
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The longrunning description of Ghanas as the Black Star of Africa is not for nothing at least developmentally As Africas development moves on as is the mission of the Black Star symbol it is becoming increasing clear that Ghana is the light of Africa in the continents development drive Ottawas GhanaianCanadian immigration lawyer Seth Aw ... Read more |
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Sunday, March 21, 2004 |
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Following honours bestowed on Mr Kofi Annan the UN chief and the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Kofi AkosahSarpong argues that they can be used as inspirations for national development Nation building the world over is a complicated process as West Africas experiences show It can be one step forward two steps backward As a devel ... Read more |
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Tuesday, March 09, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong says despite being unpleasant to discuss the increases in prophecies in Ghana reveal not only social stress and strain caused by poverty and modernization but emanate from the negative values in our culture Sampson Kwaku Boafo Ghanas Ashanti Regional Minister is a lawyer and an evangelist For this reason he has deeper insi ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 26, 2004 |
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Grief drives men to serious reflection sharpens the understanding and softens the heart President John Quincy Adams USA The two countries in Africas most troubled region are engaged in reconciliation jamboree as a tranquilizer as a therapy to understand why all these troubles of yesteryears and then use it as reality thresher to soften ... Read more |
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Friday, February 06, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong looks at the implications of President Kufuor being linked to jujumarabou dabbling and says Ghanas experience expects the President to live about such talks President Agyekum Kufuor was a God fearing man and who is not the type to visit shrines to consult mediums to help him maintain his position in power ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 25, 2004 |
The KorleBu Teaching Hospital Ghanas number one health center says it is to construct a new block to serve as a center for Traditional and Herbal Medicine the Accrabased Ghanaian Times says This is after years of independence from colonial rule a rule that suppressed African values and imposed European ones The suppression of Ghan ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 01, 2004 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong writes that in the mist of abject poverty ignorance and some aspects of the African culture that promote superstition miracles like the ones reported in Ghana via satellite from a Nigeria preacher should be approached thoughtfully People at a spiritual retreat at AsanteMampong say their diverse illness have been healed at ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 28, 2003 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong continues his deep look at developments in the West African subregion and argues that the current fragile security climate calls for a new security thinking rooted in the regions culture history and experiences Espionage technical attack disgruntled staff poor conditions of service sabotage indiscretion inc ... Read more |
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Monday, October 13, 2003 |
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Kofi AkosahSarpong takes a long look at the military incursion into West African affairs following rumours of coups aborted coups and a successful coup in the last nine months Ouagadougou says people have been arrested for plotting to stage a coup Public prosecutor Abdoulaye Barry said they included two army captains and had foreign backing ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 24, 2003 |
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The ceremony in Monrovia at which President Charles Taylor stepped down as part of moves to end more than a decade of civil war and regional instability gives a glimpse of the troubles of West Africa a region that for the past years has generally become home to most troubles in Africa From the shortlived coup detats in Sao Tomei and Principe ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 31, 2002 |
Kofi AkosahSarpong asks if jujumarabou witchcraft and other African spiritual practices can be used for good purposes to bring comfort to millions of Africans just as the new microchips invented to help people see again That all development has its spiritual foundation has been amply demonstrated in this longrunning column perhaps the longes ... Read more |
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