Savannah View: A postcard from South AfricaTuesday, September 18, 2012
Today the sun has refused to come out. It is 2 p.m. but it is still indoors. Yesterday was quiet different. Perhaps, it is only in these parts of the world that one can make real sense of the simile: as unpredictable as the weather.Yesterday was very sunny but today is as if were in a differe ...
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Savannah View: Boycotting the IEA debateMonday, August 20, 2012
A popular Akan proverb teaches us that satisfaction breeds forgetfulness. This proverb, perhaps, explains why politicians never seem to learn. How? It is not easy to remember how it feels to be hungry when one is full. Otherwise, how could Mr Richard Quashigah, the propaganda secretary of the ru ... |
Savannah View: Prez Mills’ Final SaluteWednesday, August 15, 2012
The reality seemed to have dawned on some of the mourners the very moment the well-drilled military cortege took the first step of their melancholic slow march out of the Independence Square.The sea of mourners, who bathed the national ceremonial grounds with black and red colours rose to their ... |
Letter to My Future Wife: Why House helps Snatch HusbandsMonday, August 13, 2012
Mrs Clara Oforiwaa Appau could not just imagine what attracted her husband to the poor house help. But the more she thought about it, the more she got confused. And the fact that her husband, Kofi Boadi Appau, would not say anything beyond his apology troubled her the more.The fact, however, was ... |
Mills' Last Words To JJThursday, August 09, 2012
Dear Mr. Rawlings,If theres ever one great achievement I should praise myself after 68 years of existence on this turbulent planet called earth, then it was my ability to resist the temptation to reply you. Not only did you reduce my personality to that of a nonentity but you also created the p ... |
Savannah View: Prez. Mills’ last letter to RawlingsMonday, August 06, 2012
Dear Mr Rawlings,If theres ever one great achievement I should praise myself after 68 years of existence on this turbulent planet called earth, then it was my ability to resist the temptation to reply you. Not only did you reduce my personality to that of a nonentity but you also created the plat ... |
Letter to My Future Wife: How Prof. Mills’ exposed us.Monday, July 30, 2012
Dear Serwaa, As I sit behind my laptop this morning, my fingers are numb. It is as if they are first time visitors to the very keyboard theyve become so used to for the past five years. And forgive me if this letter does not flow coherently. Im fighting in vain to collect my thoughts together. ... |
Savannah View: Mensa Otabil’s ‘unpastoral’ dress codeMonday, July 23, 2012
The last time I said I had lost hope in Ghana I was severely rebuked. One of Ghanas finest journalists of all time, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, had invited me to see his exposé on the Tema Harbour. He was almost done with it, but as he has often done, he called me to critique it before the final one came o ... |
Savannah View: How KRASEC made me a journalistWednesday, July 18, 2012
I had one of the greatest shocks of my life when I was about to sit my Basic Education Certificate Examination BECE in 2001. I knew all was not well the family, but I did not know that the repercussion of growing up in an economically handicapped family was so real until the time came for me to ch ... |
Savannah View: Alban Bagbin and the Axim DancersWednesday, July 04, 2012
The chiefs and people of Axim and the Nzema area have not yet forgiven President JEA Mills and his National Democratic Congress NDC government. And they have always not hidden it. The genesis? A little flashback will do.Dr George Sipa-Adjah Yankey was one of the first people on President Mills ... |
Savannah View: The Missing Regalia of Gbi StateWednesday, June 27, 2012
The last question I asked Kande Karim was how she felt about the whole incident. She sighed, shook her head and answered: When I think about the whole thing I feel ashamed.She wanted to continue. But when she opened her mouth no word escaped from her lips. She choked. But what she could not sa ... |
Savannah View: Graduating With Second Class UpperSunday, June 17, 2012
Before authorities of the Ghana Institute of Journalism GIJ released the list of the 2010 graduating class and how we fared, one lecturer who was visibly disappointed in my performance whispered my class to me. I had missed First Class narrowly, he said.I was not surprised at my performance. N ... |
A Letter to My Future Wife: If You Love Me, Love My FamilyWednesday, June 13, 2012
Dear Serwaa,Do you know that marriage is not supposed to be an individual affair? It is not contracted by only the two lovebirds in question. It is a union between families, clans and ethnicities. It is an everlasting bond that goes beyond the husband and wife.When our nation still had values, ... |
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