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Help Deferred, Help Denied
“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…
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Mediocrity Did Not Exist In Atukwei’s Dictionary – Rawlings
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…
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Blame Dad, not Uncle; Mom, not Auntie
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…
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Ghana Beyond Aid: Akufo-Addo’s Juicy Pie in the Sky
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…
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Rains and Bagre Dam Spillage: Valuable Resource Going Waste
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…
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Name Foreign Ministry Building After Kofi Annan – Minority
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…
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V.C.R.A. C. Crabbe Evoked Memories of Third Republic
Justice V.C.R.A.C Crabbe who passed away in Accra last Friday at 95 was an outstanding jurist and administrator, but a big part of his fame and mystique, over the decades, had invariably been his unusually long initials which preceded his…
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Honouring Kofi Annan: A Tribute by Prof. Ivan Addae-Mensah
We pay tribute to one of Ghana’s foremost distinguished and world-renowned sons, Mr Kofi Annan, our former Chancellor.
On the 2nd of August 2000 the University of Ghana conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree on the then Secretary…
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Repeating the Past Self-Inflicted Mistakes in Name of Political Captivity
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots - Marcus Garvey.
I have heard from the grapevine the supposed decision taken by some Ninety Four National Democratic Congress elected…
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Taxation of Religious Organisations: Position of the Law
“There are two certainties in life: death and taxes. There is no escape from either of these variables. The inscription in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington reads: “Taxes are what we pay for a civilised society.”…
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