Year: 2007

This divisive gimmick worked in 1949, when a group of upstarts and political charlatans finessed Kwame Nkrumah into forming his so-called Convention People’s Party (CPP). And to be certain, to this day, it still surprises […]

In the lead-up to Election 2008, and the desperately stentorian vow among the leading membership of the so-called National Democratic Congress to rain hell and brimstone on Ghana, in the certain likelihood of the party’s […]

While on a campaign tour of the Central Regional town of Komenda recently, Professor John Evans Atta-Mills was reported to have boasted that he was more than healthy enough to jog – or trot, like […]

Washington, 27 November, 2007— An exhibition of 100 striking black-and-white photographs evokes the personal stories and hard-won victories of influential African Americans who helped shape the life of their nation over the past 150 years. […]

Washington, 26 November, 2007— “There is a culture of failure that is unique to the United States,” said Jonathan Ortmans, of The Public Forum Institute, referring to the role failure plays in business activity. “You […]

He served under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for two terms as a cabinet member, but last Saturday (11/17/07) Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom had the chutzpah to flatly lie to the good people of […]

Ndjamena, 26 November, 2007— In the past two days two different kinds of armed attacks have put aid workers on alert in eastern Chad near Sudan’s Darfur region: one by robbers who attacked aid facilities; […]

Johannesburg, 26 November, 2007— Zimbabwe’s main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), is threatening to pull out of talks with the ruling ZANU-PF party over its refusal to give way on key demands for […]