Ghanascope

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

 

        The source of the announcement of the glorious elevation of Mr. Paul Boateng, 59, a bona fide son of Akyem-Abuakwa and Scotland, was given on Ghanaweb.com in the form of a dash (–). But what really raised my hackles, as it were, was far less about the protean information source – for I am quite certain that most of the global media reported this landmark event – than the caption of the one-paragraph mouthful of a story which snidely sought to impugn the native-Ghanaian identity (more…)

BODO, Nigeria - Big oil spills are no longer news in this vast, tropical land. The Niger Delta, where the wealth underground is out of all proportion with the poverty on the surface, has endured the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez spill every year for 50 years by some estimates. The oil pours out nearly every week, and some swamps are long since lifeless. (more…)

By Eric Kwasi Bottah (Oyokoba)

Out front let me posit that this is no funeral dirges. I am not the type that dances on the graves of my enemies. There is no joy in beating on a dead horse. But today I would like to crave your indulgence in matters that have engaged our collective attention, being the ultimate consumption by fire, the abode of ex-president Togbe Avaklaso Rawlings, on the morning of February 14, 2010. (more…)

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

 

            In recent days, I have been engaged in spirited discussions about the dominance of some languages over others. The obvious examples are the great colonialist/imperialist languages, largely Western European and Asian, such as English, Spanish, French, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi and Arabic. Originally, many of these languages established themselves through military conquest and sustained self-advertisement (or propaganda) vis-à-vis their philosophical (largely ethical or moral) and cultural values. (more…)

By: Daniel Danquah Damptey

There is only one president in the country. We know who he is, for there can be no other President but John Fiifi Atta Mills. He is a learned Professor of Law. We are aware that the nature of his job calls for a high level of tolerance, discipline, integrity and a high level of moral principles. (more…)

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

About two, or so, years ago, a Ghanaian reader of my columns E-mailed me to bitterly complain that I appeared to have comfortably given a virtual pass, as it were, to Major (Rtd.) Courage Emmanuel Kobla Quashigah, for his allegedly untold atrocities against his fellow Ghanaian citizens as a staunch member and senior operative of both the erstwhile Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) and the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC). (more…)

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

 

         During the 10^th Congregation of the University for Development Studies (UDS), acting Vice-Chancellor Kaku Sagary Nokoe cautioned the Atta-Mills government of the so-called National Democratic Congress (NDC) against the establishment of regional academies along ethnic lines. (more…)