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Sunday, July 12, 2009 |
Good day dear reader For those of us who happen to find ourselves in the diaspora particularly in the northern hemisphere summer is here again This is widely considered as the holiday season For some of us those in the teaching profession this is the most opportune time to travel back to the motherland as it allows us enough time with our ki ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
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It is hard to believe when one reads articles by some Ghanaian writers who through a complex mix of an overinflated selfworth of being Ghanaian and blind nationalism seek to display bravado reminiscent of a house mouse issuing threats to a cat This was typically displayed in the article authored by Kwame Agbodza titled President Mills must r ... Read more |
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Friday, January 09, 2009 |
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Mate I dont see it as cheating at all Lawrence confidently clarified To the contrary I see it as a panacea to cheating You go verify he defiantly continued where in the bible or in the other religious books was it ever said a man shall have one wife Do give me a call if you find any such phrase and with that we bid each other farewe ... Read more |
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Monday, January 05, 2009 |
Having been confirmed only two days ago by the electoral commission as the victor of the fiercely contested presidential elections in Ghana to the discomfiture of many an NPP supporter among which I am it is tantalizingly fascinating if also convenient to watch presidentelect Attah Mills commit his first blunder by appointing a posse to the so ... Read more |
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Monday, December 29, 2008 |
There is no denying the fact that results of the runoff of the Ghanaian elections have been a source of great consternation and conundrum for bonafide supporters of the NPP among which I deem myself It isindeedsad that our great party has managed to disconnect from a significant number of the electorate who for lack of a more plausible alt ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
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A few moons ago I had a whinge from a close family friend about how my sister had opposed his candidature in a hotly contested seat at the Cape Coast Municipal Authority He lamented the openness with which this sibling of mine had supported another candidate rather than hima bona fide family friend going back nearly years Personally I found n ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 |
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The dearth of Attah Mills is clearly evidentOf which this writer need not lamentFor both in body and in mindThis Don Juan of a professor appears spentBut at the orders of his Pimp the airmanThis lackey professor must forever appear a showmanFor any dissent is met with a sharp rebukeAnd any disagreement with threats from the kook ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
In line with the Akan and indeed Ghanaian practice of showing respect to the dead by not criticizing them soon after their demise this writer and a number of well meaning Ghanaians have kept our quiet regarding the whole Ama Sumani deportation saga and her subsequent unfortunate expiration First of all my deepest condolences to the kin of tha ... Read more |
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Friday, May 30, 2008 |
On the occasion of the resignation of Fidel Castro the substantive leader of the Cuban revolution it is prudent that Africans in general and Ghanaians in particular take a moment to reflect on the immense contribution that El commandante has made to the African personality Bar the historic munificence of Anthony Blair in dispatching British peac ... Read more |
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Monday, April 28, 2008 |
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A childhood acquaintance sojourning in the USA called me lately with the merry news of his wifes impending labor in the next couple of days As is expected it was wonderful news and I was off course glad for him After the pleasantries he requested a hearttoheart Listen mate he said I am under a lot of pressure to go and witness the birt ... Read more |
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 |
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Rejoinder The Arrogant BeggarA psychotically demented analysis by Kwame Amankwa Ghanaweb Hardly will I write in riposte to an article or author who displays the illomened signs of a veritable scatterbrain This timehowever is an exception The reason being that Mr Kwame Amankwa in his rather Machiavellian rejoinder ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
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A chinwag with a chum a few days ago about the shameful Kenyan situation quickly degenerated into him delivering a rather homiletic monologue at me about how Ghana was at present a paragon of democratic governance in Africa and how the whole international communitys attention had been arrested by the motherlands bold strides towards entrenching ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
If anybody still doubted the infamous confession of Professor Attah Mills to consult Jeremiah Rawlings twenty four hours a day his visit to the dinner organised in honour of the visiting American president should without doubt erase them For it was altogether laughable even sad at times to see how the supposedly substantive leader of the so ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
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For the umpteenth time a seemingly casual dialogue with a South African work colleague took off on a tangent when she started to lament the depths to which her dear motherland had sunk She rather poignantly and quite often with the glitter of a tear in her eyes reminisced about how good the country used to be when she was growing up and to my ... Read more |
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