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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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14 November 2007 at 20 : 01 PM
The New Sino-African Relationship
(published in the New African Magazine, November 2007 issue, pp8-9) International Relations Course 101 teaches that: “In international relations, there are neither permanent friends nor enemies; only national interests are permanent. It was like Lord Chesterfield apt observation that: “Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.” What this means in plain […]
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14 November 2007 at 20 : 08 PM
Ghana Police Farce
Hardly a day passes without a report of a police sleaze being mentioned here or there. In order to find out why the reputation of our men in blacks have suddenly nose-dived so badly, I went to look for some answers at the Police headquarters in Accra. The Public and Corporate Affairs department […]
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10 November 2007 at 13 : 00 PM
G8 Blues
(satire by Femi Akomolafe) Frank Owusu, the Chief Protocol Officer at the mouthfully-named Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NEPAD and Regional Integration (let’s call it MINFARI) here), was in an ebullient mood when I met him last week. He certainly has plenty causes to be jubilant. As the right hand man to the Honorable Minister […]
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9 November 2007 at 11 : 00 AM
On the Sino-African relationship
(published in the New African Magazine, November 2007 issue, pp8-9) International Relations Course 101 teaches that: “In international relations, there are neither permanent friends nor enemies; only national interests are permanent. It was like Lord Chesterfield apt observation that: “Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.” What this means in plain […]
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