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29 December 2012 at 09 : 47 AM
Ghana Elections: Good news is no news
“I am disappointed” “Why is that, my dear friend?” “Don’t you dare call me your friend, my friend!” “Ah, what’s bugging you?” “I am sorely disappointed!” “In me, what have I done to wrong you, my friend?” “You and your bunch of friends from the Western Press” “Eh, what the heck are you talking […]
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21 December 2012 at 08 : 19 AM
Every Child is Beautiful, Mr. President
“When beggars die there are no comet seen… the heavens themselves blaze forth for the death of Prince.” – Shakespeare in Julius Caesar. “The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.” – Eldridge Cleaver in Soul on Ice “I can think of no other way to say this, so […]
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22 November 2012 at 11 : 00 AM
Of Criticism and Higher Criticism
“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?” – Mark Twain “(Mankind) is not likely […]
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20 November 2012 at 15 : 19 PM
What if I don’t want to be saved?
My Books on Amazon 1. Africa: it shall be well: https://tinyurl.com/sn64ocd 2. Africa: Destroyed by the gods: https://tinyurl.com/vglfk7w 3. 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 The shrieking sound of the gate-bell savagely […]
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16 November 2012 at 14 : 03 PM
A Joker called Hassan Ayariga
It is said that: “It is best to close your mouth and let people think that you are stupid, than to open it and remove all doubt.” Who advised the People’s National Convention (PNC) Presidential Candidate, Hassan Ayariga, to agree to partake in the recent Presidential Debate? Appalling, Catastrophic, Disastrous and Debacle are some of […]
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1 November 2012 at 08 : 27 AM
Random Musings
Africa remains a writer’s delight; our beautiful continent continues to be a writer’s paradise. So completely does art imitates life in Africa that a writer would be considered very imaginative if she only chronicles daily happenings in our beautiful continent. Standing aside and watch the goings-on in Africa, I often wonder if some of […]
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16 October 2012 at 10 : 01 AM
The Presidents and their speeches
You have been quite of late, my brother. What happened? Hmmm… You, what happened? I never knew you to be tongue-tied. What happened to you? My brother, our elders say when matters passed the stage to shed tears; we should just sit down and look. What matters? Why do you want to cry? […]
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11 October 2012 at 05 : 13 AM
Not so fast, Mr. Annan,
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” – Albert Einstein “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your […]
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20 September 2012 at 00 : 00 AM
Rational Europe and irrational racism
“In the past we made history and now history is being made of us.” – Jean Paul-Satre. Europe likes to tout its rationalism, and Europeans like to trumpet this as the main thing that separates them from the rest of us. European scholars never tired of telling the rest of us that we are […]
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27 August 2012 at 06 : 00 AM
Good Riddance, Mr. Ambassador
“The United States appears destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom.” Simon Bolívar. “Come, then comrades; it would be as well to decide at once to change our ways. We must shake off the heavy darkness in which we were plunged, and leave it behind. The new day which […]
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