Browsing Category

Editorials/Opinion

The cultural clash over life and death

The attempts to disentangle certain erroneous cultural beliefs and practices from the realities of better living are getting warm by the day. Following the on-going campaigns to refine the inhibitions within the Ghanaian culture for…

NDC, lying with the economic truth

A year ago on 10th July 2009, I wrote an article attacking NDC public truths. NDC Big and Small Lies Will Un-Make the Party.   Actually walking the soil and riding Mass Metro Transit, Tro-Tro and taxis in Ghana, trying to make sense out of…

The civility of hand washing

It is human, and wise, that hand washing and general sanitation campaigns are heightened Ghana-wide. It borders on morality, too. Across Ghana, the sanitation situation isn’t good. That makes it instructive that in Ghana’s Upper East Region…

Battling child witchcraft accusation

The flowering of The African Century, as a material progress scheme, is also an enlightenment struggle. Most African elites have not thought about this despite their cultural obstacles wheeling around them that have asphyxiated their…

Free speech under siege in Ghana

The arrest and formal charge of Mr Ato Kwamena Dadzie, Acting News Editor of JOY FM, should be a matter of concern to every Ghanaian.  Mr Dadzie was arrested for refusing to disclose the source of a story aired by the radio station on the…

Is Boateng a Ghanaian name?

I recall my immense shock at an on air confession by a BBC presenter during the 2006 World Cup that he’d thought all along that the name Boateng was British. My awe at this ignorant statement knew no bounds, back then. On hindsight now, I…

FIFA endorses cheating at 2010 World Cup

It has been 48 hours since Uruguay’s player Luis Suarez used his hands to push a goal-bound ball out and ended Ghana Black Star’s advancement in the ongoing South Africa 2010 FIFA World Cup. Portuguese Referee Olegario Benquerenca saw…