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An interesting editorial appeared in the Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper edition of Friday, August 29, 2008. The editorial was limpidly titled “The Assassination Plot against Obama” and decried the allegedly uncovered plot to liquidate the African-American […]

Nairobi, 3 September, 2008— A three-day protest against insecurity and attacks targeting educational institutions in Mogadishu has shut down most schools and left thousands of children out of class, locals said. “Almost 90 percent of […]

Karat, 3 September, 2008— The crowd that filled Konso Mekane Yesus primary school in Karat town, 600km south of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, were not pupils, but hundreds of mothers and children forced by […]

Kufuor Discredits the Danquah-Busia Tradition By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. He started out on an auspicious note, after a longsuffering Ghanaian electorate, largely fed-up with the extortionate maladministration of the so-called Provisional National Democratic Congress […]

On June 13, 2008, an article titled “CPP Salutes ‘True Big Six’” appeared in the Features column of Ghanaweb.com. I was, naturally, beside myself with uncontrollable laughter, obviously, because the writer had not been thoughtful […]

Something morally bizarre and sickening appears to be fast taking an eerie shape on the Ghanaian political landscape these days. Only days after being questionably granted a pardon by a lame-duck President Kufuor, the Anlo […]

Washington, 10 June, 2008— On January 6, dozens of tall, lanky young men originally from Sudan gathered at Harry S. Truman College in Chicago to celebrate their birthdays. They weren’t really all born around the […]

When I initially heard about the People’s National Convention’s evidently expedient electoral alliance with the rump-Convention People’s Party, I laughed so hard that I almost fell off my chair. I, however, couldn’t stop torrential tears […]