By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
The president of Ghana’s National Association of Graduate Teachers’ assertion that the quality of education in Ghana does not lie in merely extending the duration of courses, has some inescapable truth and validity. (more…)
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Ms. Akua Sena Dansua’s alleged lamentation over the 4-year duration of Ghana’s secondary educational system denying women the right to early marriage is, to be certain, far less rankling to me than her very call for the already woefully inadequate 4-year high-school curriculum to be reviewed and possibly reduced by a year (MyJoyOnline.com 5/30/09). (more…)
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
In the United States, the month of March has been widely observed to provoke rampant instances of lunacy among citizens disposed towards violence. Oftentimes, such lunacy comes in the form of shooting sprees in which innocent people lose their lives at the hands of clinical basket cases with an axe, or two, to grind. In recent years, such violent incidents have found near-exclusive expression among teenagers and/or high school pupils. As a result, there has been coined the term “March Madness.” (more…)
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
I read of President Barack Obama’s proposed overnight stopover in Ghana in July this year and did not particularly feel any enthusiasm about it. Then my good friend and adopted elder brother, Mr. Kwasi Ohene, phoned me this Sunday (5/17/09) to confirm the same news report. (more…)
President Obama is visiting the continent of Africa in July and the country of his choice is Ghana. This is a big blow to Nigeria; the supposedly giant of Africa is losing face and respect around the globe. (more…)
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The President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, is expected to pay a two-day state visit to Ghana in July. (more…)
Choreographer Dies at 62
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.
(Atumpan News Agency)
When he hugged and kissed his wife, Charlotte, and daughter, Allyson, goodbye and they all departed for church that Sunday, March 8, 2009, (more…)
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
In the wake of President John Evans Atta-Mills’ naming of his twin-brother to membership of a “ten-man” Economic Advisory Council (EAC), ideological
opposition tongues have, reportedly, begun wagging over what many of these critics perceive to be palpable evidence of nepotism being at the very heart of the president’s employment agenda. (more…)
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