The Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra for the Roman Catholic Church, Most Reverend Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle, turned up at the church’s end-of-year get-together for priests and religious leaders...
“We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong—this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it” (W. E.B. Du...
“For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent” (W. E.B. Du Bois). AKUFO-ADDO AND THE MAKING OF...
Apart from gospel Music, I am a big fan of Jamaican Reggae Music. I love the music of Joseph Hill of culture fame. My best number from Culture is “Where the tree falls.” In that song, the...
As Bob Marley once said, “you can fool the people sometimes, but you can never fool all the people all the time”. This is a serious statement but most politician hardly pays attention to this...
“We are going to see if he will deliver some of the promises he made, they really don’t make economic sense; I don’t think that every district in Ghana needs a factory” (Prof. Kwaku Nuamah...
Is Akufo-Addo the change Ghanaians really want? By Francis Kwarteng “Ungrateful nation wreckers! Hypocritical inglorious bastards, Ghanaian politicians—all of them!” (Francis Kwarteng,...
THE POLITICS OF COMPLACENCY “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher” (Socrates). At this point in time we have no evidence...
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent,” the imperishable words of a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement, Victor Marie...
THE MORAL IMPORTANCE OF A NON-ESTABLISMENT PARTY IN THE POLITICAL EQUATION OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT This simple quote sums up the nature of Ghanaian politics particularly in the Fourth Republic. In...
“At the end of the day it is our wish that neither major political party gets a nodding largess from popular sovereignty, for Ghanaians deserve a non-establishment political party which has been...
By Francis Kwarteng “Election is about choosing candidates we believe can lead us, election is not about war, it’s about expression of views. Don’t accept bribe or fight among yourselves. Why...
“Election is about choosing candidates we believe can lead us, election is not about war, it’s about expression of views. Don’t accept bribe or fight among yourselves. Why fight or kill for...
Vote out the NPP and the NDC! By Francis Kwarteng “The tension in the atmosphere created by the clashes does not speak well of the country and is tainting Ghana’s reputation…The clashes show...
“The tension in the atmosphere created by the clashes does not speak well of the country and is tainting Ghana’s reputation…The clashes show the level of intolerance, which is not a sign of...
I dedicate this article to the former Cuban president, Fidel Castro, who passed on a few days ago. I was struck by the demise of Fidel Castro on November 25, 2016 to write an article about the legacy...
“Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart” (Miriam Makeba). “There are two things over which you have...
“Say it loud, “I'm black and I'm proud “Say it louder, “I'm black and I'm proud… (James Brown, “Say It Loud—I’m Black And I’m Proud”). And, of course, Du Bois may not have been...
Reggae legend Bob Nesta Marley had other hobbies most people didn’t know about and one of them was his love for football. Bob Marley had practice sessions with the wailers backstage before live...
I am opposed to this funfair campaign of rallies by many constituencies and regional campaign teams of the ndc except president John Dramani Mahama and his Vice President Kwesi Amissah Arthur. We...
