Former President Rawlings is in the news again; and, as is characteristic of him, he is in for the wrong reason. Speaking at the 30th Anniversary ceremony of the 31st December Women’s Movement, he was angry at what he called “unprecedented monetization of the political space,” being perpetrated by members of his own party in
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Suddenly, ex-President Jerry Rawlings has had epiphany about the on-going Ghana/African enlightenment movement. Face-to-face with some lethal cultural inhibitions that have been demeaning Ghanaians’/Africans’ humanity, Rawlings, in the manner of Archimedes and Isaac Newton, exclaimed “I need an explanation.” For long, some wrong-headed spiritualists have made it their craft to accuse children and old women
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At long last, there is something on the horizon to assure us that the decades-long Somali crisis will be tackled to restore sanity to the Horn of Africa and relieve the world of a major headache. Somalia may be suffering the negative backlash of political instability but the world feels the pinch when the Somali
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Ghana’s former President and African Union High Representative for Somalia, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, says Africa failed to prevent excesses sponsored by some members of the international community during political upheavals in countries such as Libya and Cote d’Ivoire. President Rawlings said the political movements in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Cote d’Ivoire challenged the
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We often think of Egypt in terms of its massive and impressive ancient monuments, which have made that northeastern African country the great and unique tourist attraction that it has been for centuries. Early this year, however, in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring that swept the eastern moiety of North Africa – largely
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The atmosphere in and around the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi must be buzzing with much chit-chat and light-heartedness at the news that the Asantehene, Otumfuo
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Thunderous chanting by thousands of demonstrators in Tahrir Square echoed on Falaky Street, hundreds of metres away, but fava bean seller Ashraf Ibrahim could find no reason to join in the revolutionary fervour. “The revolution has brought people like me nothing but loss and poverty,” Ibrahim, 36, told IRIN. “I wish it had never happened.”
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In an editorial published in the October 26, 2011 edition of Modernghana.com and captioned “Rawlings Now NPP…Declares NDC MP,” the publisher of the Al-Hajj newspaper
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The United Nations Security Council has decided by a unanimous vote to end international military operations in Libya by Monday, October 31, 2011. Feeling complacent
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North African Arabs, including ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddhafy, are generally not known to be very charitable towards indigenous Africans who happen to find their way into their countries. In the case of Libya, in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring, we even learned that bona fide Black-African citizens from that country, largely the
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