Akogun Akomolafe
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27 January 2016 at 07 : 35 AM
Ghana: The Gitmo Duo Brouhaha
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another edition of our current affairs programme, CRITICAL ISUES. My name is Kwame Osei. I am your indefatigable host, who do all that is humanly possible to bring you topical issues of great interest. We also do our best to get experts to shed light […]
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15 January 2016 at 14 : 08 PM
Dateline Ghana: Sharp-toothed Greedy Bastards
It is sad that President John Dramani Mahama stubbornly refused to walk his talk on corruption. Ok, ok, the man can talk. After all, he was a communicator, hence the moniker Johnny the Talker. But there comes a time when enough becomes enough, and actions begin to speak louder than fanciful […]
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8 January 2016 at 16 : 34 PM
Interview with Klaas de Jonge
(published in the New African magazine, December 2015) Apartheid South Africa experienced its biggest diplomatic row with a European nation in 1985, when the police detained 48-year Dutchman, Klaas de Jonge, at the entrance of the Netherlands Embassy in Pretoria. Ironically, the Netherlands has the deepest historical and cultural links with […]
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12 November 2015 at 17 : 58 PM
A visit to a Dog Salon in Amsterdam
Somewhere in the East of the city of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands is a thriving dog-grooming business – Reino Canino Hondentrimsalon. Honden is dogs in Dutch. The salon is run like any other modern business. Well-appointed in the vicinity of the famous Dapper Market, it is tastefully furnished and showered with all the […]
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30 October 2015 at 19 : 06 PM
Patched Throats, Iced Water and the Vision of an African President
A satire by Femi Akomolafe “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.”- Frantz Fanon Femi, do you know that sometimes you are not fair at all? Me? To what, specifically, do you refer, my comrade? I am referring to your post on Facebook […]
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20 October 2015 at 13 : 00 PM
Ghana’s mystifying house numbering System
Note: This was one of the first satires I wrote for the defunct HORIZON Magazine in the year 1996. Alas, almost twenty years later, nothing has been done to address the issue of street naming and house-numbering in the country. The opposition, New Patriotic Party, NPP, is making a major capital of […]
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6 October 2015 at 05 : 44 AM
Will you build a factory in Ghana, Mr. President?
In the piece, “Of school uniforms and other jazz,” we lamented the lack of shame that made it possible for African misrulers to go to international for and tout their smallish achievements to high heavens. This is among what we wrote: “If the president is on a campaign stomp and decides to […]
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12 September 2015 at 02 : 00 AM
Ghana Inc.: Still playing the hypocrite
Ok, ok, so Ghana Inc. is in uproar as it rightly should be. We do what we know how to do best – to play the ostrich. We like to bury our collective heads in the sand, see no evil, and hear no evil. We play the hypocrite and pretend that […]
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24 August 2015 at 16 : 11 PM
Global White Power Structures
by Femi Akomolafe O’REILLY (Fox News host): “…what The New York Times wants and the far-left want? They want to breakdown the white Christian male power structure of which you are a part, and so am I. And they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically breakdown the structure that […]
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20 August 2015 at 11 : 00 AM
Time to start creating our own miracles.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke. “You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that […]
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