A Challenge To Be Steadfast
Witnessing life in Kafanchan and other areas of Southern Kaduna these past few weeks has been particularly difficult, infuriating and heartbreaking. Today marks about two weeks of curfew during which...
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A Challenge To Be Steadfast
Witnessing life in Kafanchan and other areas of Southern Kaduna these past few weeks has been particularly difficult, infuriating and heartbreaking. Today marks about two weeks of curfew during which...
Nana Akufo-Addo Gearing Up For 21st Century Public Policies?
An Akan proverb is loosely translated into English that one can fairly predict how successful or otherwise a village market activities will be, just by looking at the influx of the participants in...
Mawu Has Chosen The Short Man
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they...
To Fall Or Not To Fall?
Like many young seekers I have always known and taken Gandhi as an inspiration just as some African liberators like Nelson Mandela did. I have on some occasions quoted him. The movie, 'The Great...
‘The Beautiful Mess’ – The Future of Africa
I have had reasons constantly to blame our leaders for the woes of Africa. I look at Africa, the entire continent, the diseases, filth, plagues, wars, hunger and starvation. We are too backward. Poor...
The Gandhi Statue Removal Petition Had Nothing To Do With J.B. Danquah 4
“The iconic image of Gandhi is of a man of God steeped in austerity, sexually renunciate, meditating in his ashram, who the assassin’s bullet providentially transformed into a martyr…all the...
The Gandhi Statue Removal Petition Had Nothing To Do With J.B. Danquah 3
“Dr. Danquah was a protégé of the celebrated and iconic God-father of West African nationalism and the pioneer Pan-Africanist, Joseph Ephraim Casely-Hayford. In his own words, it was at the...
Did NDC Erect Gandhis Statue At Legon To Spite JB Danquah?
I have been studiously following the controversy and heated debate swirling around the erection and/or installing of the life-size statue of India’s independence movement icon and legendary civil...
Gandhi’s Statue Impasse As Reported By Huffington Post
Ghana will move a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from its main university because of his “alleged past racist comments”, the foreign ministry said, while paying tribute to Gandhi’s role as a civil...
Removing Gandhi’s Statue From UG Good News – Group
The group behind the ‘Gandhi Must Fall’ movement has welcomed government’s decision to relocate the statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi from the University of Ghana campus. The...
Relocate Gandhi To The High Commission Of India
It is sad that the statue of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi at the campus of University of Ghana is defaced. Though, the move is to get authorities act to remove the statue, stakeholders should have...
Gov’t To Move Gandhi Statue From University of Ghana
Government will move the Mahatma Gandhi statue on the University of Ghana campus to ensure its safety, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. This comes a day after Citi News reported the statue...
Government To Relocate Gandhi Statue From University of Ghana
Government will relocate the Mahatma Gandhi statue on the University of Ghana campus to ensure its safety, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. This comes a day after Citi News reported the...
The Destruction Of Mahatma Gandhis Statue And Prisoners Dilemma
The erection of Indian iconic freedom fighter and thinker, Mahatma Gandhi’s statue on the campus of University Ghana (UG) was encumbered with a controversy. For example, a former Director of the...
University of Ghana Authorities Fear Theft of Gandhi Statue
Authorities of the University of Ghana are living in fear of a possible theft of the statue of Indian freedom fighter barely three days after his signature spectacle was stolen by some unidentified...
Mahatma Ghandi’s Statue At Legon Defaced
The Mahatma Ghandi statue at the University of Ghana campus, Legon, has been defaced. This comes few weeks after some senior members of the University petitioned the institution’s council to pull...
Gandhi’s Economic and Political Significance In West Africa
Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1869) was shot dead in India on 30 January 1948. “We too mourned his death”, wrote Kwame Nkrumah, “for he had inspired us deeply with his political thought, notably with his...
Gandhis Economic And Political Significance In West Africa
Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1869) was shot dead in India on 30 January 1948. “We too mourned his death”, wrote Kwame Nkrumah, “for he had inspired us deeply with his political thought, notably with his...
Granddaughter To ‘Gandhi Must Fall’ Campaigners
Mahatma Gandhi wasn’t racist, communal or casteist, says his granddaughter Ela Gandhi. The defence may seem startling, given that few associate him with those terms. But it comes in response to...