By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
The last several weeks on the Ghanaian political landscape have witnessed some of the most intriguing moments in our 53 years as a geopolitically “sovereign” British-minted corporation called the Republic of Ghana. (more…)
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
The Nkrumacrats must be desperate, indeed, to publish a children’s book on their hero’s life and, of all wonders of wonders, invite unarguably the most culturally polarizing Ghanaian to launch it (See “New Book About Nkrumah Launched” MyJoyOnline.com 3/25/10). (more…)
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
While she has been widely praised for inspiring women who aspire to the highest office in Africa, in general, and Liberia, in particular, still, at 71 and with the economy of her country ramshackle and corruption at the executive branch of government showing no remarkable signs of abatement, it is definitely time for the Harvard-schooled economist to peaceably exit the scene while her dignity is still fairly intact. (more…)
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth. Perusing President John Mills’ second and latest “State of the Nation Address” the other day, I couldn’t help but wonder aloud why Ghanaians seem to be so morbidly afflicted with this kind of hysteria whereby the mere announcement of a potential windfall is deafeningly celebrated even while such “natural” largesse squarely remains on the prospector’s drawing board. (more…)
By Eric Kwasi Bottah (Oyokoba)
What is the worth of women? How is the development of any particular society a direct product of how it treats its women? In gathering my thoughts for this topic, I found my mind drifting to one haranguing experience I had, a long time ago, whilst working as an expatriate teacher in the Republic of Niger, back in the 1980s. (more…)
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
It is rather refreshing, finally, to hear former President John Agyekum-Kufuor exhort the newly-elected National Executive Committee (NEC) members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to “employ truthfulness and love for the party [in order] to provide a level-playing field and conduct free, transparent and fair elections during the flagbearership contest.” (more…)
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
A good friend of mine once joked that the “D-R” honorific routinely prefixed to the name of Ghana’s first premier is merely a deftly sanitized abbreviation for the word “DICTATOR.” And it was precisely the latter of which I was reminded when I came across a Ghana News Agency (GNA) report captioned “Kwame Nkrumah Was Not A Dictator – Daughter” (See Ghanaweb.com 3/12/10). (more…)
By Mark Riddix, Investopedia.com
Almost 80 percent of National Football League players are flirting with bankruptcy two years after they retire, according to Sports Illustrated. NBA players aren’t faring much better. 60 percent of former National Basketball Association players end up broke within five years of retirement. Athletes squander millions of dollars due to bad decisions, lavish spending and poor financial planning. (more…)
By Steve Vickers
BBC News, Harare
In many ways, the Lemba tribe of Zimbabwe and South Africa are just like their neighbours.
But in other ways their customs are remarkably similar to Jewish ones.
They do not eat pork, they practise male circumcision, they ritually slaughter their animals, some of their men wear skull caps and they put the Star of David on their gravestones. (more…)
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
It is now becoming quaintly clear to me why the bulk of his most ardent followers and admirers almost invariably prefer to pick on just a single sentence of then-Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah’s Declaration of Ghana’s Independence Speech (more…)
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