Akogun Akomolafe
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7 January 2015 at 16 : 12 PM
Ghana: The Enigma called Jerry Rawlings
Ghana former president, Flight Jerry John Rawlings, is an enigma wrapped in paradoxes. With the exception of the towering Kwame Nkrumah, no other Ghanaian ever bestride the Ghanaian political landscape like the former Air force officer who shot his way into power in an [yes] abortive coup on 15 May 1979. Rawlings debut […]
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4 January 2015 at 19 : 00 PM
Girl-friends’ wrath
A short story by Femi Akomolafe Abena slapped me! William Shakespeare is generally credited with the quote: “Hell has no fury than a woman scorned.” But actually, it was another satirist, William Congreve, who, in the “Mourning Bride” (1697), wrote: “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell […]
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30 December 2014 at 09 : 26 AM
Germany: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Germany: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose © Femi Akomolafe Sadly, the more things change, the more they remain the same. We humans flatter ourselves by calling ourselves ‘homo sapiens,’ or thinking beings. Very sadly though, most of our actions belie that grandiose presumption. In 1994, yours truly wrote a trenchant article […]
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12 December 2014 at 08 : 46 AM
Happy Farmer’s Day
Hey, Femi, how did you enjoy your holiday? Me, I went to relax in the village. Thank God, it was a Friday. So, mankind just combined it with the weekend to go and chill in the village; to recharge batteries, so to speak. Which holiday do you talk about? You! Didn’t you […]
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6 December 2014 at 10 : 46 AM
Burkina Faso: The Revolution was not televised.
Burkina Faso: The Revolution was not televised. For years experts will struggle to unravel the secrets of what made it possible for one of Africa’s longest-serving and wiliest of leaders to be toppled from power in few short days of protest by ordinary people. They also will struggle to unravel how, twenty seven […]
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4 December 2014 at 08 : 55 AM
The Philosophy of White Supremacy
“We [therefore] weighing all and singular the premises with due meditation, and noting that since we had formerly by other letters of ours granted among other things free and ample faculty to the aforesaid King Alfonso – to invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ […]
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3 December 2014 at 09 : 09 AM
It is Electricity, stupid
“True leaders make plans, not promises.” – E.J. Mayers We don’t want to kid ourselves that the president of the Republic of Ghana read what we write, or that he takes decision based on what in read in this column. Nevertheless, it gratifies greatly when few days after we touched on […]
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24 November 2014 at 11 : 50 AM
When rulers are totally disconnected from the people they ruled
“Africa has not always been stagnant. In the 1960s and 1970s, when all the supposed structural impediments to growth were present and often more binding, it actually posted a decent growth performance. Moreover, all the structural handicaps that are supposed to hold back Africa have been present in most of today’s rich […]
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13 November 2014 at 13 : 49 PM
Chinese Restaurant, pardon, Ghana Parliament
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” – Frederick Douglass Hello. Mr Femi? Yes. Is that Mr Femi Akomolafe? Hello, yes. Speaking. Greetings, sir. Please sir, do you think that we […]
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5 November 2014 at 13 : 50 PM
Interview with Professor Atukwei Okai
Secretary -General Pan-African Writers Association (PAWA) Published in New African magazine, November 2014 Professor Atukwei Okai is one of Africa’s literary giants. He is also the Secretary-General of the Pan African Writers Association [PAWA]. Femi Akomolafe went to interview him at his office in Accra. PAWA House, Accra, September 25, 2014 […]
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