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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, […]

I was not the least bit unamused when the legendary Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was recently shown on television handcuffed by the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police. It was actually the alleged crime for […]

The concession of electoral defeat by the presidential candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to the presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), and now President-Elect Atta-Mills, […]

In the first place it is totally incorrect and factually wrong for anyone to say or write that Akufo-Addo conceded defeat during his speech on Saturday because he did not. Throughout his speech, there was […]

We are deeply amazed, but hardly surprised, that President J. A. Kufuor would issue a statement seeking to flagrantly interfere with justice and the rule of law under Ghana’s fledgling democratic culture. The lame-duck president […]

“ People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.” — Norman Cousins. The above words of wisdom are the best description of the state […]

About five years ago, I met a middle-aged African-American woman who had adopted the township and people of the Nkwanta district of the Volta Region of Ghana as her kin. We had met at the […]

The recent raiding of the Arts Center Market in Accra by Interpol, in search of illegal ivory merchandise, reminded me of another widely publicized incident that occurred in 1987 and involved then-President Daniel arap Moi […]