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31 August 2010 at 17 : 00 PM
The un-tenability of Justice Georgina Wood’s Position
“No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. “– Hannah Arendt In many other societies the Chief […]
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21 August 2010 at 09 : 00 AM
Making our institutions work
The Mirror (Ghana) of Saturday, August 7, 2007 edition carried my letter to the editor entitled: “Deal with alcohol-related accidents.” Incidentally, the same issue carried another letter from compatriot, James Annan, who wrote from Kumasi and titled his letter, “Ban unworthy commercial vehicles.’ This is what I wrote in my letter: “Hardly a day […]
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9 August 2010 at 17 : 00 PM
And The Parliamentarians Blink First
“It’s better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” —Abraham Lincoln According to press reports, the parliament of Ghana spent the better part of Monday the 5th of May 2010 discussing one Mr. Kofi Wafo. The eccentric politician had called various MPs some unpalatable […]
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30 July 2010 at 15 : 00 PM
The STX deal and other jazz
What exactly is wrong with you journalists? What do you mean? Why do you people always like to pick quarrel with those in authority? What is agitating you, my broda. What exactly is bugging you, now? You are asking me what’s bugging me, ehn! What are we to make of all the negative things […]
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26 July 2010 at 15 : 00 PM
Here we go again
Sometimes, writing has an uncanny way of mimicking prophecy. The last article I penned for this column was “Licensed To Rip Us Off.” In it, I lamented our (Africans’) seeming inability to tackle any given problem successfully. Here is what I wrote: “One of the most baffling things about governance in Africa is the […]
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12 July 2010 at 17 : 00 PM
Licensed To Rip Us Off
United Nations dem come get name for us Dem go call us underdeveloped nations We must be underdeveloped to dey stay ten ten in one room First and second day, dem go call us Third World We must be Third World to sleep inside dustbim Dem go call us Non-aligned nations We must dey […]
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12 July 2010 at 13 : 00 PM
Ghana’s fanciful employment figures
“There are lies, damned lies and statistics” – Mark Twain For all the noble efforts of successive governments, the population of the Republic of Ghana remains guesswork, estimate ranges from 20 to 26 million people. More than few eyebrows were raised when a Minister in the government’s propaganda outfit, Ministry of Information (those in […]
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9 July 2010 at 17 : 00 PM
Another African ‘liberation’ day
Femi Akomolafe’s Books on Amazon Africa: it shall be well: https://tinyurl.com/sn64ocd Africa: Destroyed by the gods: https://tinyurl.com/vglfk7w 18 African Fables & Moonlight Stories: https://tinyurl.com/s7qrp4p Try and get your copy. And, please, help me share the links. Kind regards, Femi Akomolafe To those among us celebrating ‘ALD,’ I say sorry for playing the Killjoy! This was […]
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9 July 2010 at 17 : 00 PM
Helping Apostle Kwado Safo
“Colo mentality e be sey, dem don release you now, but you never release yourself.” – Fela Anikulapo-Kuti “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.” Bob Marley “All emancipation is from within. That is to say, real emancipation. As a man thinketh so is he.” Marcus Mosiah Garvey In […]
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9 July 2010 at 17 : 00 PM
Rawlings is getting his comeuppance
Any doubt that there is deep, very deep division within Ghana’s ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) party was finally dispelled, when the party’s founder and former Ghana’s President JJ Rawlings upped the ante in his incessant criticism of current President John Atta Mills. What the former president called the sitting president was ‘Konongo […]
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