Akogun Akomolafe
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26 March 2008 at 15 : 00 PM
The fall and fall of Governor Eliot Spitzer
How indeed are the mightiest falling? A year, three months and eleven days into his powerful position of the governorship of New York State, fire-breathing Governor Elliot Spitzer was forced to resign for the most incomprehensible of reasons: cavorting with call girls. bismi-llāhi ar-raḥmāni ar-raḥīmi – In the name of God, Most Gracious. Wonders […]
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23 March 2008 at 05 : 00 AM
Dateline Ghana: The Power of Rumours
Rumours: unverified report: a generally circulated story, report, or statement without facts to confirm its truth. Illuison/disillusion/delusion/heartened/disheartened/enchanted/disenchanted/inspired/disappointed etc… When the Great White Warlord, George Bush, president of the USA decided to visit some African countries, including Ghana, in Mid-February 2008, little did people know that his visit would visit mayhem on the Liberian refugees […]
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18 March 2008 at 23 : 00 PM
BBZ – Allegory of a Western media
Newscaster: “This is Lahndahn. The time is thirteen hours, GMT. The news, read by Helen Goodgame. First, we continue with our special report on the situation in the Island of Kosangba, the ex-British colony in West Africa, where democracy has suffered a serious setback with the violent overthrow of the civilian administration of Alhaji […]
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17 March 2008 at 16 : 00 PM
Dateline Ghana: The Presidential plane imbroglio
(A reply to Dr. Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, former minister of Trade and Industry in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government) Readers will attest that yours truly hardly ever go personal in his articles. But reading Dr. Apraku’s lame excuses for wanting to buy a presidential with borrowed money thoroughly gets my goat. As […]
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13 March 2008 at 18 : 00 PM
The Obama Phenomenon
“It might sometime be necessary to cut off the hand that feeds you, if it stops you from feeding yourself.” – Malcom X. Various terms, including phenomenon (Something notable: something that is out of the ordinary and excites people’s interest and curiosity), have been used to describe the rise of Senator Barack […]
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4 March 2008 at 20 : 00 PM
Still on Simon Barker
It’s nice that Simon Barker finally realizes what made New African so different from the so-called ‘Free presses’ of the Western world. Unfortunately, Simon, by his parroting the alleged ‘human rights’ violations of President Mugabe failed to grasp what the real issues are. The fact of the matter is that Africans have absolutely […]
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4 March 2008 at 20 : 00 PM
Baba ‘Standstill’
A recent international poll rated Nigerians as the happiest people on earth. Although no reasons were adduced for the findings, but I suspect it has to do with the Nigerians’wicked sense of humour. Nigerians can poke fun at anything. Nigerians are loquacious; both men and women and children have opinions about everything and they […]
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17 February 2008 at 16 : 00 PM
The sad saga of Ama Sumani
“Goods are priced the way they are displayed.” – Yoruba proverb Sometime in January 2008, British immigration officials forcibly removed a terminally ill Ghanaian (she suffers from a form of cancer called multiple myeloma) from the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff and deported her to her native Ghana. There was widespread condemnation. […]
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17 February 2008 at 16 : 00 PM
Drunkenness versus Infidelity
What would you do if you get home drunk and met madam co-habitating seriously with a stranger? Before you hasten to make a declaration, read my story. Yours truly job makes him a virtual nomad. Hardly a month passes without my attending one conference or the other. You know about conferences, don’t you? […]
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10 February 2008 at 14 : 00 PM
Don’t blame the bottle!
The first thing I noticed was an overpowering stench. Initially I couldn’t place it. It was way way out of this world. Then I saw them. Mosquitoes. There were zillions of them, with their abdomen red with my blood. They were buzzing all around me. I lifted my tired right hand to drive them […]
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