Akogun Akomolafe
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24 August 2014 at 14 : 52 PM
A visit to the Dutch National Museum of Science and Medicine (August 20, 2014)
We have consistently used this column to argue that our poverty in Africa is largely self-induced. We have opined that since the gods have endowed us with inestimable mineral wealth, there is little else they can do for us. We have pointed out that we do not face any problem that […]
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9 August 2014 at 07 : 48 AM
Defining New Economic Paradigms
“We have made a mistake to choose money, something which we do not have, to be our major instrument of development. We are mistaken when we imagine that we shall get money from foreign countries ‑ firstly, because to say the truth we cannot get enough money for our development, and, secondly, because even if […]
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6 August 2014 at 06 : 20 AM
Israeli and Nazi Germany – a pictorial comparison
Israel has announced that its bloodlust is satiated, at least for the time being. This time around, its war marching managed to kill over 1800 Palestinians, most of them women and children. This time around, I did not even try to write an article to condemn the atrocities. The reason being that I had […]
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6 August 2014 at 00 : 34 AM
Operation Condom Aluta
Hello! Yes, hello Hello. Is that Mr. Femi Akomolafe? Yes, speaking. Hello, Sir! Hello, Sir. Please, Sir, I need your help, Sir. I mean we need your help, Sir. Calm yourself down, young man. Who are you? Who are ‘we’? My name is Saviour Agbave, Sir. How are you, Saviour? What can I do for […]
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22 July 2014 at 08 : 13 AM
Keynote address at Book Launch July 18, 2014
PAWA House, Accra Mr. Chairman, Mr KB Asante; Professor Atukwei Okai; My Dear Sister, Honourable Samia Nkrumah; My Senior Colleague and Chief Launcher, Mr. Kwesi Pratt; My brother, Mr Nii Ankrah – alias Mr. Brown; My colleagues from the media; Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen. I thank you all for coming to grace the launching of […]
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15 July 2014 at 16 : 55 PM
Ghana: Brazil Fiasco as a metaphor
Heavens know that we have use this column to lament the outrage we feel about how things are done in this blessed republic of ours. We have chronicled the ills we perceived in the land, and we have (where possible) offer some suggestions on what we believe could be done to alleviate some of the […]
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14 July 2014 at 10 : 15 AM
SiliconAfrica interview with Femi Akomolafe
Femi Akomolafe is a computer engineer with a successful movie production studio in Accra. He is also a well known essayist and writer, passionate panafricanist, who recently published two books, which compile the best of his thoughts and articles published over the recents years about the struggle of the African people to free themselves from […]
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1 July 2014 at 13 : 19 PM
The Dutch and the invasion of Libya
(with an interview with, Mr. Aad Meijer, the spokesman at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs) “Colonialism and imperialism have not paid their score when they withdraw their flags and their police forces from our territories. For centuries the capitalists have behaved in the underdeveloped world like nothing more than war criminals. Deportations, massacres, […]
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24 June 2014 at 08 : 21 AM
Femi Akomolafe’s Books Launch
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23 June 2014 at 08 : 34 AM
Reviews of Femi Akomolafe’s 2 Books
By Ben Ephson REVIEWS OF 2 BOOKS BY FEMI AKOMOLAFE By Ben Ephson REVIEWS OF 2 BOOKS BY FEMI AKOMOLAFE By Ben Ephson Since 1996, Femi has been writing a column for our paper, the Daily Dispatch. His theme has consistently been Pan-Africanism. To describe Femi as a controversial writer is […]
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