On Miracles, Magic, Superstitions, Delusions And Emmanuel TelevisionTuesday, April 30, 2013
We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fa ...
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Africa: One Step Forward, Giant Strides Backward!Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal ... |
A Call For A Part-Time LegislatureMonday, April 15, 2013
Predictably, the news that the government has released money to pay ex-gratia to parliamentarians was greeted with outrage by Ghanaians. The timing alone shows gross dis-respect to the good people of Ghana.At a time when citizens endure paltry electricity and water supply, it is nadir of ins ... |
God don’t fix economySunday, April 07, 2013
A reply to Most Reverend Prof. Emmanuel Asante.Heaven helps those that help themselves. Popular saying.Never say sorry for being honest. Anon.It is has become impossible for yours truly to keep tolerating the type of nonsensical effusions with which our so-called men of god keep on ... |
Feeling Sorry, Unsorry For Mr. President!Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Why are you guys so merciless, even cruel and so totally heartless? Dont you guys know that you are dealing with a fellow human being, an ordinary mortal like you and I, with blood coursing through his veins? Dont you guys know that the man also has feelings like you and I? Or do you want to send ... |
Why Not A National Science And Technology Day?Sunday, March 31, 2013
We have already compared the benefits of theology and science. When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and hovels for the many, palaces and cathedrals for the few. To nearly all the children of men, reading and writing were unknown arts. The poor were clad in rags and s ... |
Thank You, President Mahama!Friday, March 29, 2013
The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership Chinua Achebe.It is not every day we have something positive to say about our leaders in Africa. The pedest ... |
Our Officials As Agents Of Neo-ColonialismMonday, March 25, 2013
It is difficult not to think that our elite in Africa are in cahoots with our slavemasters to keep us in perpetual servitude.I have often lamented the attitude of our paid officials who behave more and more like agents of the neo-colonial forces bent on ruining our lives in Africa.Let us tak ... |
Nigeria: The Plane TruthWednesday, March 20, 2013
All I can I say is that we have been overwhelmed into insensitivity by sheer excess. I have studied very carefully those figures and I have had to take a couple of aspirins after every paragraph, after every figure to ask and pinch myself; are we really living in the real world? Or whether this is ... |
Interview with Minister Hanna TettehTuesday, March 19, 2013
Among the brightest stars in Ghanas political firmament today is undoubtedly the newly-appointed Foreign Minister, Madam Hanna Tetteh.A woman of keen intellect and amazing communication skills, Hanna Tetteh has managed to cut her teeth in Ghanas cut-throat political clime without attracting ne ... |
Ghana @ 56 - Happy Birthday, But...Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Forward Ever, Backward Never. Kwame NkrumahUnited Nations dem come get name for usDem go call us Underdeveloped Nation.We must be Underdeveloped to sleep ten ten in one room.First and Second day Dem go call us Third Word.We must be Third Word to dey sleep inside dustbin.Dem go cal ... |
Politicians and other ScoundrelsSunday, March 03, 2013
A dead politician is the noblest work of God. Anonymous.The greatest questi ... |
Forgive Us Not Our Debt RevisitedFriday, March 01, 2013
Each and every time that I think Ive heard the worst from my dear continent, come news that leaves me totally flaberwhelmed contraction of flabbergasted and overwhelmed.It is with great sadness and anger that I read the government and the opposition in Ghana trading accusations over the new g ... |