That our Fourth-Republican democratic era has helped throw wide open our nation’s borders to fellow West African nationals, a move that these foreigners would have been wary of pursuing in droves during those security-conscious days of the Jerry Rawlings-superintended revolutions of 1979 and 1981, is as undeniable as it is factual. That some of these
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The epiphanic moment during the recent National Democratic Congress’ flagbearership contest, which took place in Sunyani, Brong-Ahafo Region, between President John Atta Mills and Nana Konadu Rawlings, was when former President Jerry John Rawlings humbly raised the arm of President Mills in victory, after all the votes had been counted, which, for all intents and
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Aminatta Forna, born to a white Scottish mother and a black Sierra Leonean father in the early 1960s in Aberdeen, Scotland, at a time when interracial marriages were frowned upon or outlawed in many places, is the winner of the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for her book, “The Memory of Love.” Forna’s book, short-listed for
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Michael Teye Nyaunu, the reckless and loose-tongued Campaign Manager for Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, who intends to unseat President John Atta Mills at the National
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