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I am probably being melodramatic here, but I can’t think of a better way of putting this. My birth was political. I am the first child of my parents and the legend goes that the celebrations on my arrival were rather muted. My…
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A couple of weeks ago, I chanced upon a live streaming of UTV’s United Showbiz with Nana Ama McBrown. It had Lil Win (Kwadwo Nkansah) and Funny Face (Benson Nana Yaw Oduro Boateng) as guests. They were discussing matters about an award gone…
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The euphoria was like a suppressed volcano that could no longer be contained. So it erupted spontaneously. The reason for that indescribable joy was unprecedented in the history of Kete-Krachi – unprecedented as the coiners of the word…
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A democratic state runs on the notion of increased awareness of the democratic state, consistency of the principles guiding it and adherence to the neutral principles in the application of the law. Democratic culturalization happens when…
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God is having a good laugh up there. He has known, since Adam, that every imagination of the thoughts of the human heart is evil all the time. He looks at the greed, every grubby detail of our ‘clever’ plot to win Election 2020, and laughs.…
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A Hausa proverb I like very much goes like this and please pardon the spelling: “Tabarman kunya, da hauka ake nade wa.” Let us repeat: Tabarman kunya, da hauka ake nade wa.” It is a catch-all phrase that generally covers shameful behaviour,…
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Fellow citizens, almost twelve years ago, I broke the news of DrMahamadu Bawumia’s nomination as Running-Mate to Nana Addo from the Alisa Hotel in Accra. Bawumia was relatively unknown. He was also relatively young. However, the former…
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The UAE’s predominantly urban population presented one risk. Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah would seem to be the perfect environment for a contagious virus to spread quickly. Added to this was the even greater threat presented by the…
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Until recently, Vice-presidential nominees make a smaller electoral difference in Ghana’s politics but Dr Mahamudu Bawumia changed the narrative. The current Vice-president of Ghana was naïve and lacked a sufficiently nuanced…
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July 5, 2020, marked 60 years of the establishment of diplomatic relations. Sixty years of enduring and exemplary relations and cooperation between two countries which is worth celebrating and pondering over. Ghana established diplomatic…
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