FEATURE

Today is International Day of Democracy. Ghana, certainly, should boast of its democratic achievements hailed by many and its peers. But this should not be restricted to the peaceful and lawful transfer of power, through the ballot box,…
Read More...

I can’t recall exactly when I first watched the Deadly Voyage movie, but the scenes are still fresh in my mind. For the benefit of those who may not have watched the movie, here's a gist. Deadly Voyage was based on the true story of some…
Read More...

A few days ago, I read an opinion piece online captioned: ‘Our English language: A national embarrassment’. The crux of the author’s periodical is that Ghanaians handling of the Queen’s Language has been on a downward slide, and…
Read More...

Some things in life belong to the category which someone has described as “the unalterable law of life”. An example is ‘Devaluation”. Another is “Pumping Dollars into the Economy”. No African Minister of Finance wants it, yet every African…
Read More...

“27. Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. 28. Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.” ? Proverbs 3 When God…
Read More...

Atukwei Okai’s impact on the Ghanaian literary climate was and will remain phenomenal. As a poet, academic and culturist, Atukwei Okai rose above it all, perching at a dizzying height, dictating the pace as he chose fit. The name Atukwei…
Read More...

One of the rational ethics society offloads on us during our upbringing is that, children must love their parents unconditionally and should never do anything to hurt their feelings. Thinking along these lines, it may be distasteful to…
Read More...

Shanice is a seventeen (17) year old girl of a Jamaican father and a Nigerian mother, born and bred in Nigeria. She has long dreadlocks just like her father. Shanice feels apprehensive, different and intimidated because she’s the only one…
Read More...

A famous resource economist, Erich Zimmerman, once stated that "resources are not, they become”. While the above statement is true, it’s a wonder why in a country with some of the best brains in civil engineering, urban planning and…
Read More...

As the nation pays her last respects to the memory of one of the greatest Ghanaian and African of all time, His Excellency Kofi Atta Annan - an iconic global statesman and international diplomat par excellence, the Minority Caucus in…
Read More...