Ghanascope

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

       There is an Akan dictum which counsels against unproductive engagement of arrant fools in dialogical debates of moment. It roughly and tersely translates as follows: “The gratuitous insult of his/her intellectual superiors by a certified fool is insufferably painful.” (more…)

By Arthur Kobina Kennedy

Since the 2008 elections, there have been a lot of discussions about how divided Ghana is politically. This follows the narrow margin of the NDC’s victory—less than a percent and considered perhaps the closest elections in Africa’s history. While the divisions within our country are real, there is another serious problem—the divisions within our parties. I broach this topic knowing very well the passions it excites. (more…)

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

       My hectic summer-teaching schedule has prevented me from promptly weighing in on the absolutely needless controversy generated in the wake of the firing of Mr. Sekou Nkrumah by President John Evans Atta-Mills. And curiously, while some critics, among them prominent NDC operatives like Mr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, have been characteristically quick and gratuitous in upbraiding the President, what none of these critics either seems capable of confronting or simply hypocritically prefers to conveniently ignore are the very fundamental questions of context and the realities of postcolonial Ghanaian history. (more…)

PRESS CONFERENCE – JULY 21, 2010

        Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press, we have called you here to inform the good people of Ghana through you about developments in Parliament regarding the STX housing project.  You will recall that on Thursday, July 15, 2010, the NDC government through it’s Parliamentary representatives withdrew from the floor of the House a motion to approve of A Supplier’s Credit Agreement Between the Government of Ghana and STX Engineering and Construction Ghana Limited for an amount of US$1,525,443,468 for the construction of 30,000 units of houses for the security services in Ghana. (more…)

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

       Maybe Messrs. John K. Koduah, Alan Kyerematen, Frimpong-Boateng and Isaac Osei must be frontally and plainly told that the New Patriotic Party (NPP), like the proverbial phoenix, was inspired by the yeomanly spirit of illustrious Ghanaian pioneers the qualifications of whose butlers and couriers they would have had an extremely hard time in meeting, if ever at all. (more…)

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

        In this mid-term year to Election 2012, it would be more productive for the New Patriotic Party’s parliamentary minority leader to focus on returning his party to the executive and legislative seats of power than unnecessarily wrangling with firebrand feminists and human rights activists over a woman’s right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy (See “Minority Leader, Nana Oye Lithur Clash on Abortion” MyJoyOnline.com 6/21/10). (more…)

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

       During Election 2008, I pointed out the imperative need for the “Danquah Traditionalists” to launch a massive campaign battle aimed at reclaiming the Volta Region, one of our traditional strongholds, from the morbid and stultifying clutches of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). (more…)

By: Eric Kwasi Bottah (alias Oyokoba)

On Thursday July 15, 2010 the story was carried out on Ghanaweb, captioned: Kwesi Pratt Predicts Doom for NDC. That anybody would predict doom for the NDC at the going trend of affairs is no news at all, but for the reasons alluded to by Kwesi Pratt one is left wondering whether Kwesi Pratt, a card carrying member of the CPP is more of NDC than avant-garde NDC members like President Mills, Togbe Avaklaso Rawlings, Dr Kwabena Adjei and Asiedu Nketia, etc. (more…)

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

       We are all darned familiar with the jaded age-old joke about old-age and Ghanaian politics. No pun, whatsoever, is intended here, of course – just sheer coincidence, you may aptly say. And talking of “coincidence,” in 1979, for example, the old-age and politics joke revolved around the personality of Mr. William “Paa Willie” Ofori-Atta who, incidentally, also happened to be the maternal uncle of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. (more…)