Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground
By students at the University of British Columbia School of Journalism.
Images: Heba Elasaad, Blake Sifton, Krysia Collyer. Interview: Dan McKinney.
October 29, 2009
On the outskirts of Ghana’s biggest city sits a smoldering wasteland, a slum carved into the banks of the Korle Lagoon, one of the most polluted bodies of water on earth. The locals call it Sodom and Gomorrah. (more…)
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
The National Service Scheme (NSS) which was originally hatched and implemented by the junta of then-Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong’s National Redemption Council (NRC) in 1974, was essentially geared towards the massive mobilization of well-educated Ghanaian youth for the rapid development of our country at all spheres of national endeavor. (more…)
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
When Mr. Rawlings’ chief of the prosecutorial death squad, otherwise known as the Public Tribunal, asserts that “It is time for [Ghanaians] to turn away from the old-time politics of personality cults and divisive tendencies, and rather turn to a ‘New Politics’ of consensus building and the creation of new ideas,” he shamelessly speaks with a forked tongue; more so even as he also, within the same breath, heartily congratulates President Atta-Mills for ahistorically declaring Sept. 21 as “Founder’s Day.” (more…)
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By Lawyer Georgette Dede Djaba, LL.M , reporting from London, g.djaba@ymail.com I attended the hearing and sentencing at Southwark Crown Court in London on Friday 7th August 2009 and Friday 25th September 2009 with some colleagues. The case had been referred from the Westminster Magistrates Court on 10 July 2009.* (more…) October 21, 2009How T.B. Joshua Took My WifePastor Peter Kayode Falarungbon is the Head Pastor of Awakeners Chapel International. 
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