Akogun Akomolafe
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12 July 2010 at 17 : 00 PM
Licensed To Rip Us Off
United Nations dem come get name for us Dem go call us underdeveloped nations We must be underdeveloped to dey stay ten ten in one room First and second day, dem go call us Third World We must be Third World to sleep inside dustbim Dem go call us Non-aligned nations We must dey […]
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12 July 2010 at 13 : 00 PM
Ghana’s fanciful employment figures
“There are lies, damned lies and statistics” – Mark Twain For all the noble efforts of successive governments, the population of the Republic of Ghana remains guesswork, estimate ranges from 20 to 26 million people. More than few eyebrows were raised when a Minister in the government’s propaganda outfit, Ministry of Information (those in […]
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9 July 2010 at 17 : 00 PM
Another African ‘liberation’ day
Femi Akomolafe’s Books on Amazon Africa: it shall be well: https://tinyurl.com/sn64ocd Africa: Destroyed by the gods: https://tinyurl.com/vglfk7w 18 African Fables & Moonlight Stories: https://tinyurl.com/s7qrp4p Try and get your copy. And, please, help me share the links. Kind regards, Femi Akomolafe To those among us celebrating ‘ALD,’ I say sorry for playing the Killjoy! This was […]
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9 July 2010 at 17 : 00 PM
Helping Apostle Kwado Safo
“Colo mentality e be sey, dem don release you now, but you never release yourself.” – Fela Anikulapo-Kuti “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.” Bob Marley “All emancipation is from within. That is to say, real emancipation. As a man thinketh so is he.” Marcus Mosiah Garvey In […]
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9 July 2010 at 17 : 00 PM
Rawlings is getting his comeuppance
Any doubt that there is deep, very deep division within Ghana’s ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) party was finally dispelled, when the party’s founder and former Ghana’s President JJ Rawlings upped the ante in his incessant criticism of current President John Atta Mills. What the former president called the sitting president was ‘Konongo […]
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14 June 2010 at 17 : 00 PM
Israel – a bastard behaving true to form
“No matter how much you dress up a hog, it will soon resort to its true form.” – African proverb. I am not a gambling type but I recently won a bet with a friend. I correctly predicted that the illegitimately sired Zionist state of Israel would behave stupidly in its confrontation with the […]
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1 June 2010 at 18 : 00 PM
IBB Should be stopped
“Year by year we are becoming better equipped to accomplish the things we are striving for. But what are we actually striving for?” – Bertrand de Jouvenel Many Nigerians were not amused when former dictator, General Ibrahim Babamosi Babangida, recently came out to confirm the swirling rumours that he was contemplating a run for […]
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21 May 2010 at 17 : 00 PM
The logic of violence
“There’s a natural mystic blowing through the air; If you listen carefully now you will hear. This could be the first trumpet, might as well be the last: Many more will have to suffer, Many more will have to die – don’t ask me why. Things are not the way they used to be, I […]
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19 April 2010 at 08 : 00 AM
Happy Birthday, Ghana, But…
[feather-share skin=”wheel”] “Nostalgia is not what it used to be.” – Anon How time flies! So, fifty-three years have already gone by since our parents gathered to celebrate our freedom from colonialism! Luckily for us, unlike in many parts of our dear continent, the bestial colonialists didn’t shed copious amounts of blood of […]
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24 March 2010 at 04 : 00 AM
Nigeria: Thank God Our President Is Back
I will praise thee, o my savior, I will praise thee for ever more. Hey, Alhaji na wetin bring you to church? And na you dey sing ‘I will praise thee’ like a zealot? (pidgin English) I beg, make you leave me alone. Didn’t you hear the good news? I will praise thee, […]
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