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Ghanaians’ Dangerous Tribalism, Resolving The Misu
Monday, April 30, 2012
The pronouncement by the Assin North Member of Parliament, from the opposition National Patriotic Party, the hot-headed Kennedy Agyapong, on the Accra-based Oman FM station, which he owns, that people from the Ewe and Ga ethnic groups should be killed in the Ashanti Region, once again opens the unre ...
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Traditional Deities Clash With Development Projects
Friday, April 27, 2012
In Ghana/Africa, some development projects could be difficult to discharge when it is entangled in rigid traditional beliefs. In some places, such as Kumasi, capital of the Asante Region and Ghanas second largest city, traditional beliefs clash with development projects. Taxi drivers, whose ill ... |
The Enlightenment And The Ghana Culture Day
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Wednesday, 14th March, 2012 was Ghana Culture Day. Authorities say the day is to promote mainstreaming of the culture in national development. This has been going on over the years - basically pandering the same thinking. From Wednesday, 14th March, 2012 till now, I was expecting something mor ... |
Integrating And Differentiating The Enlightenment Voices
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Prof. Esi Sutherland-Addy, of the University of Ghanas Institute of African Studies, floating of a Ghana Cultural Forum to some sort of differentiate and integrate the Ghanaian culture for progress, once again, enhances the on-going enlightenment movement. For now, as the Ugandans say, deeds speak ... |
Africa Struggles For "Democratic Deepening"
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
If our political parties fail, our democracy will suffer. - Michael J.K. Bokor, Ghanaian assistant professor of English at Long Island University, USAForget about the democratic hiccup in Mali, once of one of Africas emerging democracies. Or the fact that Mauritius is the only African country ... |
The Enlightenment And The Killing Of Deformed Children
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Realistically, the Ghanaian enlightenment movement is expanding. Traditional inhibitive values are being critically scrutinized boldly without fear of ethnocentrisms. It is in this sense that deformed children, for centuries killed in some parts of Ghana, for being evil, are getting not only media a ... |
Africa's Inhibitive Values, International Ideals Collide
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
As Africa flowers and its traditional values play out naturally with international ideals, the ensuing schisms are helping to refine some toxic African values that have been entangling Africans wellbeing. The conviction for life in London, UK of Eric Bikubi and Magalie Bamu of murdering Bamus 15-y ... |
Jerry Rawlings On The Enlightenment Cylinder
Monday, February 27, 2012
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 expl ... |
The Tribal Support Of Gargantuan Crimes
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The mind-set of fifteen traditional chiefs and queen-mothers, from the Tongu area in Ghanas Volta Region, descending on the National Police Headquarters in Accra, to sympathize with their tribes-man, Alfred Woyome, who was being held over financial crimes of about US40 million, is disturbing and l ... |
Woyome, Corruption And Development
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Development-wise, it appears despite their chequered development history, Ghanaian politicians do not get it. A ruling National Democratic Congress NDC Member of Parliament, Kojo Adu Asare, thinks a US40 million corruption scandal that is rocking the NDC wont affect Ghanas 2012 general election ... |
In The Face of Corruption, Ghana's Ruling Party In Juju Apprehension
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Almost ten months into the 2012 general election, Ghanas ruling party, the National Democratic Congress NDC, appears to be in never-ending turmoil. The restless ex-President Jerry Rawlings, the alleged founder of NDC, failing to control President John Atta Mills since he came to power over three ... |
The Last Laugh: The Juju-Man And The Members of Parliament
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
The year 2011 ended with remarkable improvement in Africans discussion of their culture in relation to their progress. As the on-going enlightenment movement deepens, Africans are increasingly discussing the enabling and the inhibiting aspects of their culture in relation to their advancement. Roma ... |
What the World Got Wrong in Côte D'Ivoire - by Thabo Mbeki
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Why is the United Nations entrenching former colonial powers on our continent? Africans can and should take the lead in resolving their own disputes. The second round of the Nov. 28, 2010, presidential elections in Côte dIvoire pitted against each other two long-standing political oppone ... |
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