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26 April 2014 at 12 : 49 PM
Ghana Oil: The Descent of the Vultures
I penned this piece about four years ago when, with loud acclamation, Ghana joined the elite oil-exporting countries. My article was a cautionary one; advising the managers of the new oil wealth to learn from the history of countries like Nigeria and Angola which has turned their own resource into a veritable curse. Sadly, […]
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11 April 2014 at 09 : 42 AM
Nigeria: A not so happy centenary birthday
(Published in the New African magazine, April 2014 edition). If Nigerians required any reminder about their rulers’ total disconnection from the reality of their everyday lives and their daily anguishes, it was amply supplied on February 27, 2014 when the country’s elite threw a lavish party, where they dressed up in the finest fineries, wined, […]
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11 April 2014 at 08 : 47 AM
National Health Insurance Scheme Biometric Card Wahala
I always find it incredible that whilst we love to wear the most expensive watches that money can buy, most of us do not reckon with time. We waste time like it is some renewable, infinite commodity. Rather than be affronted, we even seem to revel in the macabre joke of our having our own […]
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7 April 2014 at 09 : 51 AM
Africa: The Sellout of 2014
(This one is for my friend, Barbara Gwanmesia. Thank you, Barb, especially for all the words of encouragement. Surely our continent deserve a lot better. Through our collective efforts, we shall, once again, shine. Keep hope alive!) “There’s a natural mystic blowing through the air; If you listen carefully now you will hear. This could be […]
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1 April 2014 at 00 : 53 AM
Ghana: Free Condom for SSS Students
The government has decided to distribute free condoms to every SSS student across the country, beginning next academic year. Announcing the good news at the Kasoa Girls Secondary School penultimate Friday, the Beautiful Minister for Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman, said government has taken into consideration the problems SSS students face in enjoying […]
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25 March 2014 at 11 : 27 AM
For what exactly are we praying?
“Oh, my body, make me a man that ask questions.” – Frantz Fanon. So, once again, the president assembled some Christian priests and together they prayed for the nation. At the end of the jamboree, they declared a 7-day prayer for the country. Ah! Are we ever going to learn in this country? […]
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14 March 2014 at 16 : 29 PM
The Ghana Meteorological Agency is Non-Prophet Organisation
Our independence celebration this year will go down as one of the worst organised. Ok, ok, we are not champions when it comes to organizing disciplined, hitch-free events, but this year’s mishaps stole all the thunder, the hailstorm and everything in between. One of our adages admonished that the head that wears the crown must […]
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8 March 2014 at 13 : 51 PM
Thank You, Pastor Mensa Otabil,
“I maintain that there is no solution for African people, except for some form of Pan African Nationalism, no matter how you cut it… We stop apologizing, stop imitating and began to innovate. For a people to be free, they have to produce one sacrificial generation. This generation must be the role model for […]
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18 February 2014 at 06 : 37 AM
A Bishop’s fulminations and the ire of presidential attack dogs
“We have already compared the benefits of theology and science. When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and hovels for the many, palaces and cathedrals for the few. To nearly all the children of men, reading and writing were unknown arts. The poor were clad in rags and skins – […]
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14 February 2014 at 12 : 24 PM
Ghana: Jumbo Ex-Gratia and the Gnashing of Teeth
Ghana: Jumbo Ex-Gratia and the Gnashing of Teeth We live in interesting times. Certainly no one can say that our rulers in Africa do not do their best to provide us with comic reliefs at these stressful times when those in power appear confused, the cedi has collapsed, public workers who already allocated […]
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