Akogun Akomolafe
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24 February 2011 at 18 : 00 PM
How to Link our educational system to our culture
“EDUCATION is the medium by which a people are prepared for the creation of their own particular civilization, and the advancement and glory of their own race.” Marcus Garvey First, a working definition. According to the Webster Dictionary, “culture is the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of […]
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17 February 2011 at 20 : 00 PM
Nigeria National Assembly: Jumbo Pay For Little Work
In their recent confrontation with the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, members of the Nigerian National Assembly (NASS) got more than they bargained for. If they had thought that they could intimidate the Nigerian top banker, they were easily and sorely disappointed, as their supposed victim ended […]
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16 February 2011 at 19 : 39 PM
Battling Ignorance and superstitions
Two recent stories informed this write-up. “Drama unfolded at the Takoradi Market Circle on Tuesday morning when a strange crow was set ablaze by some traders and an evangelist who suspected the bird was possessed by witchcraft. Evangelist Nyame-Akwan of the Christ Healing Power Church and the traders poured ‘anointing oil’ (olive oil) […]
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11 February 2011 at 10 : 00 AM
President Mills Lamentations
A friend posted the link on my Facebook wall and asked that I watch and tell him what I think. Most of the time, I give Facebook requests wide berth, on this occasion I obliged my friend and watch the video and was left almost devastated. The video showed a visibly angry Executive President […]
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7 February 2011 at 12 : 00 PM
Interview with Samia Yaaba Nkrumah
(Published in the NEW AFRICAN magazine, October 2009) Samia Yaba Nkrumah was just six years when her father’s government was overthrown in a military coup. After a long sojourn abroad and a career in journalism and media consultancy, Samia returned to Ghana in 1987 and quickly joined her father’s party, the (CPP). Today she […]
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7 February 2011 at 08 : 00 AM
Is Honesty still the best policy?
Among the first phrases of the English language we learned was ‘Honesty is the best policy.’ In those days and times, it was not just a rhetorical saying. Those were days when words, like our currencies of old, have their true values. Honesty was then not only said to be the best policy, it […]
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4 February 2011 at 09 : 00 AM
An Essay on Slavery
Very often, the embalmers of Western history have tried to gloss over the sordid trade in African slaves by Europeans, for over four century, by putting up the argument that a lot of Africans also made a fortune in the dealings. From these ‘mythorians’ we often hear the stories that slavery was rampant in […]
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31 January 2011 at 16 : 00 PM
Focus on Africans interview with Stephen Osei part 1 of 5.mp4
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31 January 2011 at 02 : 00 AM
Mickey Mouse Independent Nations
When we in Africa condemn imperialism (aka neocolonialism), its apologists and their local trumpeters will hit town with the refrain: “But you have been independent for 50 or so years now; how could you continue to blame the colonial masters for your current woes?” This argument is as disingenuous as it is wrong: it […]
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30 January 2011 at 13 : 00 PM
focus on africans interview with justice laryea part 1 of 5.mp4
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