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By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong Forget the fact that Dominic Nitiwul, the main opposition National Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Bimbila, has LLM from the University of Westminster, UK, MBA in Corperate Finance from the University of Glamorgan, UK, and BED (Science) from the University of Education, Ghana. Despite his unversity degrees and the fact that [...]
Read the rest of this story »By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong All progress starts from the mind. The better the mind, the better the progress. How better the mind is driven by how serious, sophisticated, and deep the thinking is. If the society thinks poorly, its development becomes poor. This is glimpsed from the society’s intellectuals, their Big Men. Why? Because the intellectuals, [...]
Read the rest of this story »The February 2011 major political protests that broke out in Libya against Muammar Gaddafi’s government – inspired by recent similar events in Tunisia and Egypt – reveal not only the artificiality of Gaddafi’s Libya but also the irrationalities and superstitions that have been running the country for the past 42 years. No doubt, over the [...]
Read the rest of this story »The one year anniversary of the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti and left over 250,000 dead, a quarter of its civil servants killed and most of its infrastructure destroyed have brought into the forefront why is that 207 years of independence from France colonial rule Haiti is in almost permanent misery, the poorest country in [...]
Read the rest of this story »Whatever others may make of him, John Atta Mills continues to see himself in the mirror of Pan-Africanism, a philosophy that seeks cultural, political and economical unity of Africa.
Read the rest of this story »There may be some hiccups in the December, 2010 District Assembly (DA) elections, a key face of Ghana’s 23-year-old decentralization exercises
Read the rest of this story »Perhaps nowhere in the world is the journalist life more burdensome and complicated than in Africa where long running entrapping ancient believes – some stalling, some destructive, some frightening, and some formidable – clash with modern better living. For some time, front-line Ghanaian elites and journalists have become seriously aware of this. They have been [...]
Read the rest of this story »Cote d’Ivoire’s President Laurent Gbagbo uses the country’s Constitutional Council, with the backing of the military and some southern ethnic groups and elites, to cling to power. The opposition candidate Alassane Ouattara defeated him on December 2. But at the bottom of Gbagbo’s thinking are the African political diseases of tribalism and the Big Man [...]
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