Akogun Akomolafe
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10 February 2008 at 14 : 00 PM
Forgive us not our debtation
Reports that Ghana’s debt has climbed above the seven billion dollars range is both worrisome and disheartening. Yours truly was among many who, few years back, wrote angry polemics against the onerous debt burden Africa was forced to carry. Believing that our woes are finally over, we heaved sigh of relief when the movers […]
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10 February 2008 at 14 : 00 PM
Kuffuor’s last budget
Permit space in your esteemed magazine for this reaction to your story: ‘ Kuffuor’s last budget’ NA, December 2007, p98. I am a witness to the Kuffuor’s government spewing meaningless macro-economic gibberish for seven years running, while the lots of Ghanaians sank under his tutelage. An African saying has it that: “ye gods, if […]
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3 February 2008 at 17 : 00 PM
A Good time to be an African
I am probably an incurable optimist when it concerns Africa. But the truth is that Africa is simply too enchanting and so adorable – as has been chronicled by every objective traveler to the ancient birthplace of humans. The unvarnished truth is that Africa is magnificently beautiful and fabulously blessed. Do not take it from […]
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26 January 2008 at 17 : 00 PM
Generation Gap (from the father’s point of view)
a short story A Little background information is necessary in order to understand the story I am about to relate. I am getting on the wrong side of sixty. I am retired. Money is not fighting in my pocket but, give praise to God, I do not lack what to eat. I live in […]
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26 January 2008 at 17 : 00 PM
Generation Gap (from the boy’s point of view)
a short story For reasons I can’t yet fathom, girls, among some of their mysterious personalities, like to introduce us (boys) to their parents. I am not in a hurry to let my old folks know about ANYTHING, most especially about my girl-friends. But then Ama, that’s my girl-friend’s name, is very different from […]
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4 January 2008 at 03 : 00 AM
African State Declare War on the USA!
The tiny West African State of Kosangba stunned the world yesterday when its Chief Minister; Nana Bambeu Kugboji, declared that his hard-to-find-on-the-map, postage stamp-sized landlocked republic has declared war on the US, the world’s only superpower. Addressing a well-attended World Press Conference yesterday at his squalid, dilapidated woebegone capital of Petuje (pop. 567), the bearded […]
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4 January 2008 at 03 : 00 AM
Zimbabwe: The Algebra of regime change
According to the lies being peddled by the racist Western media, Zimbabwe is another glaring example of black’s incapacity for self-governance. According to this script, black people are simply ill-equipped mentally, physically, emotionally and intellectually to manage their affairs without the guiding hands of compassionate and altruistic whites. To these white Supremacists, president Robert […]
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4 January 2008 at 03 : 00 AM
Living on less than one dollar a day
I am always amaze at the length Europeans will go to portray Africa and Africans in bad light. From AIDS (supposedly wiping out whole societies in their mythical ‘sub Saharan’ Africa) to Mad Cow disease (claimed to be caused by game meat imported by Africans in Britain) everything bad has to have an African origin. […]
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9 December 2007 at 18 : 00 PM
Original Sufferhead
The late irrepressible Nigerian musician, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, is easily Africa’s most political singer and song writer. In the 1980s, Fela released one of his blockbusters from which this article borrowed its title. Fela sang: United Nation dem com get name for us Dem go call us under-developed nation We must be under-developed to dey […]
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14 November 2007 at 20 : 56 PM
Sirens for Envoys?
When early on Sunday the 4th of February 2007, I saw two police motor outriders blaring their siren and clearing traffic on the Kasoa-Winneba road, I thought it was one of our new local potentates abusing the already much-abused system of unnecessary siren-blaring. I was seriously surprised when I saw that it was a black […]
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