Reflections of a Maverick Citizen...
The City That Drinks Its Dead
Accra has been flooding since before independence. The water is not the problem. We are. There is a photograph that
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Reflections of a Maverick Citizen...
The Sunday Problem: On the collapse of values in Ghanaian public life and the particular tragedy of a nation that prays with extraordinary fervour and live with extraordinary impunity.
On Sunday or Friday morning, Ghana is magnificent. The streets fill early, the women in their kente and lace, the
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Reflections of a Maverick Citizen...
Discipline Without Violence…
In the span of a few weeks, Ghana’s public discourse was forced into a difficult reckoning about authority, discipline, and
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Watching Courage Grow Quiet
I was listening to the World Service last Tuesday when news of The Gambia’s case at the International Court of
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We’ll Be Fine…
Picture courtesy: Caroline Koomson. One of the wigs on sale… The world quietened around me. In that strange hour before
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LOVE IN THE DARK
I remember standing at the gate of that famous house along the banks of the great river. Dusk was falling
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REFLECTIONS OF A MISERABILIST…
I visited my hometown over the last weekend to attend the funeral of a very good friend of mine who
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Reflections of a Maverick Citizen...
SEEING PLACES FROM A DISTANCE
It was just after 2a.m. on a Wednesday dawn in April and I was driving from Tema to the Amansie
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TRAVELING BROKEN AND ALONE…
Sharing the happiness and optimism of the day from Alley Bar, I felt things might eventually be okay, even if
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A GIRL WHO WOULD NOT SQUASH HER QUESTIONS OF THE WORLD WITH AMENs…
The birth of a child is a momentous occasion, one that brings joy and hope not just to the parents,
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Young and Politically Angry in Ghana…
I must make a confession before I embark on this journey. I don’t know what I’m going to end up
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The Assault on the Public School System in Ghana…
Thirty years ago, one could be fairly certain that products from the public basic school system were in a position
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Of urban spaces in Ghana’s rapid urbanisation drive…
Tema, Ghana’s port city is in so many ways reflective of the growth trajectory of this West African state. With
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UNCERTAIN ALLEGIANCE…
A couple of weeks ago I found myself one evening in a coffee shop with a young graduate of the
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