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16th November, 2011
A whole half a century has passed, but I remember it like yesterday.
I had just been promoted as a news editor at the Ghana Broadcasting
Corporation, and was fully in charge of the news that was ...
12th November, 2011
Olive oil – If the acquisition of knowledge does no one any harm then by all means let us add more to what we have in store.
As cooking oils go, this one pressed from the fruit of the olive ...
9th November, 2011
In the era in which Ghana achieved its independence, and took its place in the comity of nations -- the first British territory, south of the Sahara, to attain the nationhood that the visionaries of ...
5th November, 2011
When salt has lost its taste, salt has lost its all. It is no longer fit for purpose. The problem is this. How can you tell that, for those particular crystals, ground zero is reached. The crystals ...
2nd November, 2011
The incredibly brutal end of Col Muammar Gaddafi emphasises once again that power is a temporary possession in the hands of any man and that those who hold it must be careful not to use it to define ...
27th October, 2011
I heard the news that Ghana’s leading goalkeeper, Robert Mensah, was dead, before my two boys woke up that morning of 2 November 1971.
The previous 24 hours had been hell: they’d asked me, ...
13th September, 2011
Every now and then, certain events occur in our national life that define -- more than any verbiage our politicians and sociologists can throw at us – the true state of our nation and where we are ...
6th September, 2011
If you’ve ever sat down and listened to a “diasporan” talk about coming back “home” to resettle, you will have found out that the only easy bit about returning home is harbouring the desire. ...
30th August, 2011
Ok, sports events are often littered with anti-climactic moments.
Like Ben Johnson being exposed as a drug-cheat at a press conference at the Seoul Olympics in 1988, after wowing the world with a ...
23rd August, 2011
It was quite unbelievable, of course, when Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who had taken up arms to overthrow King Idris of Libya in began to talk like a monarch himself – a monarch who, moreover, ...
16th August, 2011
I was extremely sad to read the other day that “galamsey” operators have ruined the Birem River, the source of water supply at Kyebi, to such an extent that it has become nothing but a muddy ...
28th June, 2011
On Tuesday, 28 June 2011, the late George Padmore, who had been described by the famous West Indian writer, C L R James, as “The Father of African Emancipation”, will be honoured with a ...
21st June, 2011
After seven years at Asiakwa Presbyterian Primary and Middle Schools, I left (at what was then Standard Four or later, Middle Form One) to seek greener pastures at Kyebi Government School. I promise ...
16th June, 2011
NATO has considerably stepped up the pace of air attacks over the past several days in Libya. On Monday June 13, 2011 62 airstrikes were carried out. It resumed its airstrikes on the Libyan capital of ...
14th June, 2011
Why do teachers occupy such a dominant position in our minds? Long after they’ve passed through our lives, we can hear their voices as if we last saw them only yesterday. And, of course, we can ...
7th June, 2011
For God’s sake, how many times will the world ”end”?
Good question. The failure of the world to “end” on 21st May 2011 – as prophesied by the Harold Camping of Oakland, California – ...
31st May, 2011
As soon as the news broke that the Managing Director of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) Dominique Strauss-Kahn was in hot water over accusations of sexual assault in a New York hotel, a ...
24th May, 2011
They call it ‘419’ in Nigeria. Over here in Ghana, it has several names: one of my own favourites is “yeatwa no!” (he’s been got!). But the one that has gained the greatest currency in ...
17th May, 2011
Whilst we were in Luluaborg, I was told one day that “somebody” -- a Congolese -- wanted to see me.
A Congolese? The Congolese spoke French and did not read my magazine, Drum. So how could a ...
10th May, 2011
I have always loved Congolese music. I caught the bug from a friend of mine, the late Germain Mba, a nephew of the first President of Gabon, Leon Mba.
Germain was working for the magazine, Jeune ...
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