Yaa Asantewaa Versus The More Educated Than His Ancestor
NTOABOMA—Every evening, since I was little, my grandfather always engaged us on the ritual deipnosophies of Ntoaboma. One of these small talks may come to you as a big surprise, or perhaps not. Anyhow,...
Kumasi City And The Shopping Mall, Courtesy Of The More Educated Than His Ancestor
NTOABOMA—The more educated than his Ancestor (The Metha) has a new place to go and look more like Europeans. Enter the new Kumasi City Shopping Mall. “What is a mall?” asked my grandaunt, sitting...
The Barbarism of Private Debt
In the “The Lord's Prayer” the best-known prayer of Jesus the Christ, instead of the current translation “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,” the original Greek text for...
The European Problem: Or Africa’s 3,700-Year Struggle To Civilize Europe
Since the humble beginnings of civilization in the Land of Pwene (Punt) some 12,000 years ago, to the great innovations of Nubia and Kemet, our Ancestors, the Founders of Civilization, have always been willing—even...
My Dear, The Nature Of Your African Independence
You live in a country of about thirty million folks. It is an independent nation, or so the annual celebrations assert – that through the genius of a man you fondly call the savior-man,...
Value Creation: Or Is It Value Destruction—The Advent of Caveonomics
Everything is about ideology, for those who wish to care. Or it is not, for those who remain lazy enough to not care. And it seems, without much investigation, that even enlightened men without...
The Relentless Genius of Vodun
The intellectual foundations of Vodun abound in its expositions and rationalizations of our natural world. However, the striking feature of the religion throughout historical time shines brightest when one examines its resilience, its resolve...
Water Is Simply Intelligent
NTOABOMA— Sometimes we do the logical thing—whether we like it or not. Other times we do the illogical thing, because we like it. When a person indulges in the illogical, especially when he cannot...
Mr Jammeh Leaves The Gambia Amidst An Illegal ECOWAS-Backed Senegalese Invasion
Gambia's former President Yahya Jammeh left the country in the wake of the invasion of The Gambia by ECOWAS-backed Senegalese forces. Mr Jammeh lost democratic elections after twenty-two years in power to Adama Barrow,...
The Ice Cream Eating Men of Ntoaboma Kesi
NTOABOMA—“Kesi” means big. If your cottage was situated about a mile or two away from Ntoaboma proper—midtown—then you lived a mile or two away from Ntoaboma Kesi. In everyday parlance, the “Kesi” was often...