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26 August 2012 at 11 : 00 AM
Destroying the begging bowl
Have you hear the good news, my friend. What news, now, my friend? I hope that you’re the bearer of some good tidings, I need some stirrups. Wow, the president has done it again. Our brand new president has pulled off another nice one. This is simply magnificent. What are you talking about, what […]
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18 August 2012 at 17 : 00 PM
A committee for development, please!
But why didn’t you call me? Call you, why? We saw each other just last week. You! Apart from you, almost everyone else I knew burnt good copper to call me. And you, you that I consider my best friend refused to call me, ah! Really, what happened; were you sick? Me sick? Allah […]
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4 August 2012 at 14 : 00 PM
Power: Its transient nature and the lessons of history
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” – Baron Acton. “The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.” – Albert Einstein. “The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which […]
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1 August 2012 at 08 : 00 AM
Dissing our own heroes
“If you can control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to […]
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31 July 2012 at 15 : 00 PM
A call for a part-time legislature
Readers will bear me out when I say that this column has done its best in chronicling some of the shortcomings we all see around us in this country of ours. Where possible, we have also proffered ideas and suggestions on how we think that we could move things forward. As we have often […]
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23 July 2012 at 12 : 00 PM
Lifting a hand to help ourselves
In my epic essay, ‘The Blackman’s dilemma,’ I wrote: “If the truth be told, ours have become a lethargic race. I have done my fair share of traveling around the world, and I daresay that I have never met any other group of people with absolutely no interest in improving their physical environment and […]
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14 July 2012 at 11 : 00 AM
Wanted: Financial Engineer
“All I can I say is that we have been overwhelmed into insensitivity by sheer excess. I have studied very carefully those figures and I have had to take a couple of aspirins after every paragraph, after every figure to ask and pinch myself; are we really living in the real world? Or whether […]
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7 July 2012 at 10 : 00 AM
Minister Hannah Tetteh’s huge gaffe!
I still reach for reggae songs when events seem to overwhelm me. This week has rather been particularly grueling. A sickness in the family bothered the mind greatly. As though that were not grave enough, I had to spend time listening to the ongoing Public Account Committee of the Parliament, revealing how our officials […]
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4 July 2012 at 08 : 00 AM
Welcoming the president
My brother, where were you? I was all over the place looking for you. Me, why, what happened? I had wanted you to join us to go to the airport. Airport, why? I didn’t know that you expected someone from abroad. You! Do you mean to tell me that you didn’t hear that our […]
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1 July 2012 at 10 : 00 AM
Cry, the beloved continent
I told you so, didn’t I? What are you talking about, now? What did you tell me and why are you so agitated like an excited cobra? I told you that you and your bunch of so-called dreaming Pan-Africanists are deluded jokers, delusional day-dreamer, stupid utopians… Ok, ok, I get the drift. But what […]
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