Twenty years ago, on 3 October 1990, the streets of Berlin were agog with people streaming into the city from all over the country and also beyond the borders of Germany. The Unter den Linden, one of Berlin’s most illustrious streets was packed with millions of people marching to and from the famous/notorious Brandenburg Gates
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I can’t even trust Mr. Kwesi Pratt to baby-sit my dog. And so I am still trying to figure out exactly why almost every one of the major Ghanaian media houses picked up his rather characteristic allegation that in the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election, Mr. Rawlings text-messaged the self-proclaimed rump-Convention People’s Party (CPP)
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Vice-President John Dramani Mahama’s reported declaration of March 6, 2010 as one that commemoratively caps the centenary anniversary celebrations of late President Kwame Nkrumah, provides absolutely nothing new or significant in Ghana’s post-independence narrative. At best, it is a pleonastic declaration that Ghanaians would rather do without; for, ever since those of us who are
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As we show solidarity with Haiti, my mind is immediately cast to my beloved Ghana. Natural disasters much as they are undesirable are also inevitable. Therefore, we should be thinking of how ready we are should a disaster strike. It is passive to always wait to respond to disasters rather than acting in readiness. Humanly
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There is absolutely nothing wrong for President John Evans Atta-Mills to invite the leadership of the Christian Council of Ghana to his Osu-Castle office in order to broach matters of conscience and ethics. However, his rather facile and at once brazen attempt to get the established Christian Church of Ghana to institute an annual week
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African President, Thabo Mbeki, was whisked to hospital after experiencing breathing difficulties as he addressed a political rally. Not quite long after that incident, former president of Tanzanian Benjamin Mkapa took ill for several months and even jetted out of his country for medical treatment. The former Zambian leader, Levy Mwanawasa, died after suffering a
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The 23-year old scion of an affluent family from Northern Nigeria who attempted bombing a trans-Atlantic airliner on Christmas day has left an ugly scar on the beautiful face of the green country and largely cast a slur on the entire continent. It is absolutely unfathomable and incomprehensible how Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab could ignore all
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Togo deserved better from CAF and the organizers (of the orange cup of nations) to afford them space to grieve and mourn their colleagues and also allow enough time to recover from the shock of the incident. Hence CAF´s decision to disqualify Togo through no fault of theirs is tantamount to the popular adage in
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Berlin, 4 December, 2009— The much awaited draw for the FIFA World Cup Finals in South Africa next year is now history. All doubts have been set aside. The participants know who their group opponents are and the venue where they will perform their “artistry”. The honour for this epoch making event for the first
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I have just finished reading the Ghanaian Chronicle’s news article captioned “K-Poly Rector Booted Out” (Ghanaweb.com 12/5/09), about the apparently “activist” ousting of Dr. B. E. K. Prah, until very recently rector of the Kumasi Polytechnic Institute (KPI/K-Poly). Dr. Prah has been accused of negotiating contractual bids that egregiously smacked of nepotism, including one allegedly
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