Musings
The Republic of Loud Ignorance
“Reason has been replaced by insult, intellect by raw emotion, and curiosity by preconception.” — The Economist Ghana has always
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Musings
The Press as Conscience
What does Ghanaian journalism owe to its people and what has it too often withheld? There is a comfortable lie
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In Defense of My Happiness
It is a cold Monday evening, and I am making a case. Not to a judge, not to a jury
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New Media and the Non-Reading Public
There was a time, not very long ago, when the flow of public information followed a narrower path. News was
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Musings
The Gospel According to Shysters
There’s a special kind of madness that comes with living in a neighbourhood where everyone assumes your wallet was woven
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Ebo Taylor: Sonic Architect of a Continent
Ebo Taylor with multiple grammy-nominated Ghanaian artiste, Rocky Dawuni. Picture courtesy: Rocky Dawuni Facebook page. Ebo Taylor, one of the
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Ghana: Failing the next generation to satisfy the previous one…
It is a cool Saturday evening in my home town. Finding a way to escape the incessant noise blazing from
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THE CIRCLE OF DYSFUNCTIONAL FRIENDS…
In the late 1950s, St Thomas Aquinas, a Catholic High School in Accra, had a headmaster by name Rev Father Maurice
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CITY ON ITS KNEES
“And they said, go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven;
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A RADICAL APPROACH TO SECONDARY EDUCATION…
It is the dream of every young person to live a life of absolute fulfillment with a decent job, successful
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WHY READING MUST BE ON YOUR NEW YEAR RESOLUTION LIST FOR 2020
At midnight on a recent Sunday, my Australian-based friend Harriet called me and asked of reading list for 2020. The
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A VISION OF MY COUNTRY …
It is not always I get this fortunate. I spent the last two weekends reading the breath-taking memoirs of William
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VESTIGES OF A RUINED CULTURE
A friend sent me a damning text after her wedding, calling me ‘anti-social’; my crime was my refusal to attend
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WHEN YOUR NATION KEEPS FAILING YOU…
I usually spend days and sometimes months before deciding on a blog post. It seems to be the only bad
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POLITICS, HISTORY AND EDUCATION
…Indeed, it got me wondering if my Marxist Nkrumaist leaning teachers indoctrinated me. Some of my most favourite teachers in both secondary school and university where people who espoused views that I considered outrageous but I would never say they indoctrinated me. Some of them were among the most brilliant teachers I ever encountered.
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