Posted by Kofi Akosah Sarpong on 12:15 pm at 12:15 pm
Almost ten months into the 2012 general election, Ghana’s ruling party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), appears to be in never-ending turmoil.The restless ex-President Jerry Rawlings, the alleged founder of NDC, failing to controlPresident John Atta Mills since he came to power over three years ago,have been tormenting President Atta Mills. Today, corrupt payments scandals [...]
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Posted by Kofi Akosah Sarpong on 9:36 am at 9:36 am
The “City Forum on Culture and Development,” a policy orientated venture held in Accra to openly strategize the African culture for African progress reveal the increasing attention being given to the African culture.. For almost 50 years, the African culture, either because of colonialism or bad intellectual savvy by African elites, has not been purposely [...]
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Posted by Kofi Akosah Sarpong on 12:37 pm at 12:37 pm
For sometime, the centre of Africa’s anarchic one-party systems, gory tyrants, brutal dictatorships, self-serving military juntas and hideous civil wars, West Africa is changing and indisputably sowing democratic seeds. Whether in Cape Verde, Liberia, Guinea-Conakry, Niger, Nigeria or Guinea Bissau multi-party elections are blowing across the once politically sick region. The only black sheep today [...]
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Posted by Kofi Akosah Sarpong on 9:03 am at 9:03 am
By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong The August 17 meeting between Ghana’s President John Atta Mills and Botswana’s Ian Khama goes between the normal symbolic bilateral sweet talks. In contemporary African thinking, the core issue between Ghana and Botswana is how their respective democracies are harbingers of progress for the entire African democratic and development growth. The Botswana-Ghana [...]
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Posted by Kofi Akosah Sarpong on 3:09 pm at 3:09 pm
Five months into the Libyan crisis that seeks to nurture democracy by clearing out the long-running Murmur Gaddafi dictatorial regime, the Libyan leader digs in precariously. Part of the reasons is the environment Gaddafi finds himself in – Africa, where he has like-minded leaders. The June 29 to July 1 African Union (AU) Summit in [...]
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Posted by Kofi Akosah Sarpong on 9:29 am at 9:29 am
The so-called founder of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), ex-president Jerry Rawlings, is an unhappy man. By nature he is at home with dictatorship, loud noise and being at the center of the stage. Rawlings didn’t get all these at the national delegates’ congress of the NDC in Sunyani, Brong Ahafo on July 9 [...]
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Posted by Kofi Akosah Sarpong on 12:28 pm at 12:28 pm
On the streets of Ghana’s top cities, Kumasi and Accra, it is easy to observe increases in the perennial beggars – from the physically disabled to healthy men and women of all ages. “Please could you spare some change,” is a constant irritating tune. Aside from the beggars, more Ghanaians are falling below the poverty [...]
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Posted by Kofi Akosah Sarpong on 9:54 am at 9:54 am
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers – Voltaire, French philosopher Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, the Chief Executive Officer of the London, UK based Commonwealth Telecommunication Organization, on the surface appears big-minded. But there is more to that image than what we see on the facade. As the French thinker Voltaire would [...]
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