Justice Kpegah’s “Indictment” of Akufo-Addo May Have Merit!Thursday, March 21, 2013
A stentorian news item carried on Ghanaweb.com on March 19, 2013, titled Akufo-Addo sued for impersonation, at once reveals the ugly facets of Ghanaian politics and resurrects the issue of Nana Akufo-Addos qualifications as a legal practitioner. In my July 26, 2008, article titled Why Akufo-Addo ...
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Dr. Bawumia's Vehicular Accident Exposes Politicians' InfamyTuesday, March 19, 2013
It was Max Weber who used the term vielseitigkeit to indicate a compendium of meanings found in the social world, a phenomenon he addressed as the many-sidedness of reality. This depiction of Max Webers comes at an opportune time and serves as a lesson for all Ghanaians, even as leaders of both ... |
Who Approved Chris Brown’s Request for a Ghanaian Visa?Wednesday, March 13, 2013
The recent brouhaha over the American crooner Chris Browns overt use of Cannabis sativa at a concert in Accra could have been avoided had the government refused to issue a visa to the artiste. My argument is adduced from the fact that the government, which remains the primary sentinel of the people ... |
Government Must Reverse New Prices of Petroleum Products Now!Monday, February 18, 2013
Fuel prices went up in Ghana on Sunday, February 17, 2013. According to government sources, the prices of petrol, diesel, and liquefied petroleum gas went up by about 15 to 20 percent. The governments position regarding the price increases is that the approximately GHC 2.4 billion that it had been ... |
Bishop Herman College: One of Ghana's Ten Best!Thursday, January 24, 2013
Yee are the light of the world. A citie that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither doe men light a candle, and put it under a bushel: but on a candlestick, and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Matthew 5:14, 15, King James Version, 1611 Edition This piece is dedicated to ... |
Winning the Battle but Losing the War: Lessons for Election 2012Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Presidential elections mean different things to different people. For some, their very lives depend on the outcome of an election that is, all of their resources may have been expended in a political game that would have given them only a second-place finish. Just not good enough for them especi ... |
John Mahama Can’t Win 2012 Without JJ- Daniel K. PryceMonday, August 27, 2012
The cymbal that heralded the euphoria-tinged elevation of John Dramani Mahama to the lofty office of president is still playing although the sounds, like a fleeting illusion, are gradually fading away. Incontestably, the discernible elation that has consumed the hearts and minds of John Mahamas f ... |
The Abidjan Imbroglio: Will African Leaders Ever Learn?Monday, December 06, 2010
On November 28, 2010, Ivorians went to the polls to determine who will become that countrys next president. It was a run-off. The initial election did not produce a clear-cut winner, not unlike what happened during Ghanas presidential elections in December 2008. Several hours after the run-off, th ... |
The Village of Waiting: A Microcosmic Vista of Africa’s Socioeconomic AridityMonday, November 29, 2010
George Packer travels to Togo in 1982 to fulfill John F. Kennedys eerily familiar call to service: Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country. In the spring of 1982, George Packer, then a senior at Yale University, receives a letter from the U.S. Peace Corps w ... |
Arrest These Pro-Rawlings Thugs Now!Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Just when the limb-severing boulders of intrigue regarding a possible internal coup by Nana Konadu Rawlings were being lifted by connoisseurs and political analysts to give Ghanaians the opportunity to catch their collective breath, we have been assaulted almost immediately by news that a facele ... |
Stephen Appiah: A Patriotic Ghanaian and HumanitarianMonday, October 25, 2010
An October 23, 2010, news item, sourced to Citifmonline.com and published on Francis Akotos oft-accessed and -read Ghanaweb.com, titled Stephen Appiahs Library Is An Instant Hit in Chorkor, evoked such pleasant and invigorating feelings in me, I would have remained interminably restless, for goo ... |
“The Devil That Danced On The Water”: A SynopsisMonday, October 18, 2010
This deeply engaging book, written by Aminatta Forna, born to a white Scottish mother and a black Sierra Leonian father in the early 1960s in Aberdeen, Scotland, at a time when interracial marriages were frowned upon or outlawed in many places, depicts a determined daughters quest to clear her fath ... |
Promoting the Ewe LanguageMonday, September 27, 2010
It has been said over and over again by both Ewes and non-Ewes that the Ewe language is one of the hardest to learn. I agree completely. In fact, it is one thing to be able to understand and speak the language; it is another thing to be able to write it well, even while we are not unaware of the com ... |
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