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19 April 2008 at 13 : 00 PM
Africa, the usual beggar
“Europeans have a tendency of proclaiming ideas to the world that they do not believe themselves and would not dare live by if they are going to hold power over most of the people of the world.” – Professor John Henrik Clarke. Sometime in February 2008, George Bush, the brain-challenged war-criminal that occupies the […]
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12 April 2008 at 21 : 00 PM
Patriotic Journalism
“I wish African journalists were like their western counterparts.” “How do you mean?” “Western media are virtually adjunct of their governments.” “That is a rather sweeping generalization.” “Once you understand how they function, you can easily predict their take on any given issue.” “Ah!” “Take the case of Senator Obama. Remember him as the […]
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1 April 2008 at 23 : 00 PM
419 Elections
It’s pretty difficult to make a head or tail out of the just concluded elections in Nigeria. According to the twenty plus gentlemen who contested against the ruling party’s candidate, it was the worst election manipulations engineered anywhere in the world. National, Regional and International election observers were simply flabberwhelmed (contraption of flabbergasted and […]
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31 March 2008 at 11 : 00 AM
The Day The Dollar Die
“Isn’t it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?” – Kelvin Throop III “An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.” – Alfred A. Knopf “An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted […]
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29 March 2008 at 21 : 00 PM
Music Review (a satire)
Who asked Rita Tweneboah to sing? To describe her first (and hopefully last) CD cum cassette as a musical disaster is to be guilty of inadequate vocabulary. Nothing exists in the English language, or in any language that I know, to describe this incoherent, clangorous nonsensical piece Ms Rita foisted on us as a […]
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26 March 2008 at 15 : 00 PM
The fall and fall of Governor Eliot Spitzer
How indeed are the mightiest falling? A year, three months and eleven days into his powerful position of the governorship of New York State, fire-breathing Governor Elliot Spitzer was forced to resign for the most incomprehensible of reasons: cavorting with call girls. bismi-llāhi ar-raḥmāni ar-raḥīmi – In the name of God, Most Gracious. Wonders […]
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23 March 2008 at 05 : 00 AM
Dateline Ghana: The Power of Rumours
Rumours: unverified report: a generally circulated story, report, or statement without facts to confirm its truth. Illuison/disillusion/delusion/heartened/disheartened/enchanted/disenchanted/inspired/disappointed etc… When the Great White Warlord, George Bush, president of the USA decided to visit some African countries, including Ghana, in Mid-February 2008, little did people know that his visit would visit mayhem on the Liberian refugees […]
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18 March 2008 at 23 : 00 PM
BBZ – Allegory of a Western media
Newscaster: “This is Lahndahn. The time is thirteen hours, GMT. The news, read by Helen Goodgame. First, we continue with our special report on the situation in the Island of Kosangba, the ex-British colony in West Africa, where democracy has suffered a serious setback with the violent overthrow of the civilian administration of Alhaji […]
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17 March 2008 at 16 : 00 PM
Dateline Ghana: The Presidential plane imbroglio
(A reply to Dr. Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, former minister of Trade and Industry in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government) Readers will attest that yours truly hardly ever go personal in his articles. But reading Dr. Apraku’s lame excuses for wanting to buy a presidential with borrowed money thoroughly gets my goat. As […]
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13 March 2008 at 18 : 00 PM
The Obama Phenomenon
“It might sometime be necessary to cut off the hand that feeds you, if it stops you from feeding yourself.” – Malcom X. Various terms, including phenomenon (Something notable: something that is out of the ordinary and excites people’s interest and curiosity), have been used to describe the rise of Senator Barack […]
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