Month: May 2012

As if he has just woken up to the reality that bad leaders are elected by poor citizens who do not vote, the NPP’s Akufo-Addo is on a campaign of sorts, dubbed as “Restoring Hope,” […]

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said it will introduce a “Zongo” development fund to address the development gap in impoverished communities should they be voted into power. According to the NPP flagbearer, Nana […]

In one of the many rooms where detainees are held at Ganfouda detention centre in Libya’s second largest city, Benghazi, Suleiman Mansour*, a young Somali from Mogadishu, spends his days locked up along with 15 […]

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 […]

For the primitivistic African cultural nationalists in the postcolonial era, Busia offers this all-too-pragmatic reality check, as it were: “This is a reminder that cultures are not static. There is no society so custom-bound that […]

The inadequacies of our justice administration system have once again been brought to public attention. The Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) has issued a press statement decrying the circumstances surrounding the trial of Alfred Agbesi […]

In his treatise titled The Challenge of Africa (Praeger, 1962), Ghana’s second postcolonial prime minister demonstrates his scholastic organicity by deftly contextualizing contemporary African experience as an integral strand of the global human experience. In […]

Vice President John Dramani Mahama’s plea for a second term for President Mills is thought-provoking at several levels, probably excluding his premise that the two Presidents who have ruled since the inception of the 4th […]