NTOABOMA—Some of you educated folks, especially those of you from abroad (Abrotsi) love to hate on what you call “Africa’s love for the dead.” Insinuating in equal measure—and this is actually your point—that those of us “left behind” in villages like Ntoaboma waste “way-too-much” money on the dead. You...
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Ghana’s Nana Akufo-Addo: The Insect Within Your Clothes
NTOABOMA—Akans have a popular proverb: "Aboa bi beka wo a, na ofiri wo ntoma mu." This statement literally translates: "For an insect to bite you, it must come up close, and it must certainly be already carefully lodged within your clothes." Else it has...
Our President Is On Drugs
In light of the contract signed by Mr. Akufo-Addo to bring in America's Land and Air Defence Forces to protect Ghana against Boko Haram (which he calls "bringing stability to the sub-region"), and the final anointing of the USA as the sole Sheriff in...
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NTOABOMA—Kwame Nkrumah became the first democratically elected political leader of the territory of Ghana in 1957, a contract he signed with the barbaric British Empire, which was wounded and retreating, yet determined and unwilling to let-go of its former slave-colonies at the end of world war two. The Common...
Just because you got help (money) to fix the gate to your house doesn't mean you sold your house. You may have demeaned yourself, but you didn't sell your house.
Just because Ghana received aid from the US to fund Avu-Koklo "Development" projects doesn't mean the government sold the country...
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Dear Trump Haters: Russiagate, Porngate, Harrassgate
My Dear Liberal Networks,
It is clear you want war with Russia. It is clear you are war-mongering. A child can see it. Russiagate has...
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Why Free Education In The United States of America Is Impossible
In reference to an essay on Truth-out.org entitled: We Are All Students: The Meaning of "Free Education", Friday, November 24, 2017, By Paddy O'Halloran,...
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