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a good part of its 50-year existence Ghana hasn’t understood and known
itself, as the Greek thinker Plato would have said, the confusion
pretty muc... |
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Leaders in the West say Robert Mugabe is a demon, that he has destroyed Zimbabwe, and he must be gotten rid of.
This
demonising is made by people w... |
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Before the coalition of the 56 ethnic groups that were forced by the British colonialist to form the Ghana
nation-state, their societies was formed and ruled... |
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Ever since the first 42 cases of
HIV/AIDS was documented in Ghana in 1986, the cure, public education
and coordination of the pandemic has been played more or... |
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Nation building is a complicated project. And like all
projects you need to get the Work Breakdown Structure, as project management
literature teaches, as d... |
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After years of gossips in development circles that part of
northern Ghana’s development backwardness may be due to certain cultural
practices, some of... |
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Why will Ghana’s Health Minister, Mr. Courage Quashigah, ask “Has God left Africa?” Despite its complexity and its implications in divinity, t... |
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Is there a correlation between trust/faith and progress? Ghana’s Vice President Aliu Mahama thinks so, and if midwifed skillfully, can propel Ghana to gre... |
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Once a playground of
military juntas, autocrats, and one-party apparatchiks, Ghana has
experienced its share of Africa’s rough-and-tumble politics inclu... |
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Unknown to a lot of Ghanaians, the duality between their traditional and modern Ghana
is gradually being resolved, more from the daily activities of
Ghanaians... |
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Both as a medical doctor, a
bureaucrat, a policy-maker, a globalist, and as an international health
expert, Prof. Agyemang Badu-Akosah is known as a serious... |
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“Prof”
Aridu Sabo Azeez, who says he specializes in eradicating witchcraft and
traditional healing, told the Accra-based “The Statesman&rd... |
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Despite
the apparent incursion of Judeo-Christian tradition into Ghanaians’
spiritual life since they came into contact with the Europeans some 500
y... |
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For sometime, and this is nothing
new in Ghanaian political life, the word “God” has been on the lips of
some politicians either when they face ac... |
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Kofi Akosah-Sarpong discusses Ghana’s Health Minister, Mr. Courage Quashigah’s statement that Ghana’s progress should be driven it’s b... |
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As Ghana’s 2008 general
elections closes in, what type of leadership Ghana needs has become a
recurring subject, sometimes even unsettling, despite figu... |
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Kofi
Akosah-Sarpong discusses Liberia’s dilemma with human sacrifice and
cannibalistic practices in its development process, drawing cases from Ghana ... |
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Why is Ghana troubled by confidence in its development process? Kofi Akosah-Sarpong explores the issue
Of late, the word “confidence” h... |
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Compared to
other African states, the on-going debate about oil find in Ghana has
been more balanced and indicative of the emerging developmental wisdom. ... |
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Re: Nuclear - The only way out (Ghanaweb, July 30, 2007)
Anansesaid this previously: A
nation that cannot manage its organic and plastics wast... |
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Mr. J. H. Mensah, 78,
is Ghanaian President John Kufour’s economic development czar. He is
simultaneously a nationalist, an Africanist, and a globalist.... |
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Mrs. Mary Chinery-Hesse
is Chief Advisor to Ghanaian President John Kufour. That means we read
President Kufour through her, in terms of the thoughts, nuanc... |
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In 1953, four years after the
Red party had driven Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang ( The Nationalists)
from mainland China to Taiwan, Mao announced a pro... |
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How do you fathom a highly rational man and one of his
country’s leading intellectuals, who have used pretty much of his life-time
fighting the irration... |
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The much trumpeted African
Renaissance process, which seeks an open awakening of the African culture
for progress, will come in multifaceted ways. Nowhere i... |
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The body of the Ghanaian leukemia patient who recently died in London, Danny Whyte has been brought to Accra for burial.
The
late Danny Whyte set up a Trust... |
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Leading American
international development guru, Dr. Francis Fukuyama’s “Trust: The
Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity” remin... |
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The Daily Dispatch newspaper says by its calculation, President J.A.
Kufuor between January 2001 and December 31, 2006, hired and fired 42
Ministers of State.... |
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Health Minister, Courage
Quashigah, is increasingly emerging
as one of people thinking through the country’s culture in terms of
its prosperity. Qua... |
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African UniGov now - Inspired visions and sophisticated analysis aren’t necessary in developing a continental market economy?
“Afri... |
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Chieftaincy and Culture
Minister, Sampson K. Boafo’s recurring discussions for the need for
the long-suppressed traditional institutions to be opened ... |
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As a nation-state,
Uganda, born in 1962, has gone though lot of troubles - from political
and economic instabilities to invasion led by Tanzania to coups ... |
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Quality
Assurance is the proactive behaviour of a system with regards to its internal
and external success culture. Thus quality assurance management could ... |
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Orientation has become a buzzword in emerging democratic Ghana. The word, used variously by policy-makers, politicians, media practitioners, religious leaders/s... |
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Of recent times the idea of Ghanaian heroes and heroines in the nation’s progress has been in the forefront of Ghana’s development process. Kusi A... |
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Kofi Akosah-Sarpong argues that the only way to signal a new dawn in Ghana’s juducial service is for Ghana’s new Chief Justice, Justice Georgina ... |
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Kofi Akosah-Sarpong
considers Ghana’s Chieftaincy
and Culture Minister, Mr. Sampson Kwaku Boafo’s call on all Ghanaians
to cooperate to addr... |
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The rain is gone so we should be able to see clearly now!
A friend of mine once said, ‘’ Progress is impossible
without change and change is... |
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Torn between cultures and continents, our children do not
really know where they belong and don’t appreciate the sacrifice their parents
made for th... |
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Let us continue to pray that 31st December, 1981, was the last of coup d’état in Ghanaian history. With each passing year, with each successful g... |
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Kofi Akosah-Sarpongponders on Ghanaian Health Minister, Courage Quashigah’s suggestion that Ghanaian/African traditional food is good for health Ghan... |
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Recently I had the privilege of having a long, broad, and incisive conversation with Dr. William Cowie, a respected international development consultant and a... |
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Kofi Akosah-Sarpong looks at the newly installed Ga Mantse, Nii Tackie Tawiah III, king of Ghana’s Ga ethnic group, attempts to work with the overburden... |
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Kofi Akosah-Sarpong examines the implications of the juju-marabout row between Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy, Atiku Abubaka, in t... |
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Your excellencies, invited guests, students, ladies and gentlemen, the nature of the topic “Justice Under the Rule of Law and Reparations for Historical... |
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Your Excellency, moderator, invited guests, members of the Kilimanjaro Students Association, students, ladies and gentlemen. I am for peace, but when I speak,... |
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Developmentally, despite its 50 years of corporate existence, indigenous Ghana and neo-liberal Ghana are worlds apart. It will take more than the late President... |
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2015, only eight years away, how heavenly it’ll be for Ghanaians, when we shall be a middle-income economy?May 21, 2007 Resurrected ghosts seen in Ghan... |
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Kofi Akosah-Sarpong on the remaking of the Ghana nation-state following the fact that most Ghanaians appropriate Ghanaian/African traditional values for their s... |
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There is no doubt that after independence, Kwame Nkrumah continued to build the country in the image of the White Man as already stated by the British. That... |
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Since the beginning of the year there have been sporadic strikes by health workers across Ghana. Pretty much of the reasons rest on pay issues, but at deeper le... |
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Kofi Akosah-Sarpong on how open appropriation of traditional healers in Ghana’s Upper West Region will help correct some of the inadequacies in the Mi... |
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The introduction of the cell phones and the internet is making the Postal Service very irrelevant—so they think! Are we developing IT at the expense... |
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…..BEHIND THE PAIN, DISAPPOINTMENT AND FRUSTRATION, PART OF YOU IS STILL IN GHANA. ONCE A GHANAIAN boards a plane he or she automatically acquires a... |
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Kofi Akosah-Sarpong examines J.H. Mensah, President John Kufour’s development planning czar, new “Made-in-Ghana” development planning vision... |
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The DNA test results are in but, they‘re not good: You’re not the biological father! A MODERN-DAY science can unearth families’ long-... |
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Since Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s official election as the greatest African of all time, and even more so this year because of the globally reported Golden Anni... |
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Ananse kept quite for a while, to hear the whispers during the Ghana@50 event; let’s be real, it was an event, not a process deserving of a year-long ca... |
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Kofi Akosah-Sarpong argues that a shadow floats over Jerry Rawlings’ life – and recent Ghanaian history as well. That dark presence affects more t... |
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I HAAVE A DREAM that one day Ghana would be able to find its bearings on the world’s scene, and take its son and daughters to the socio-economic PROMISED ... |
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…….BY PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES, NUTRITIOUS DIET AND WELLNESS PROGRAMS. THESE DAYS, the sudden explosive growth in chronic diseases like,... |
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WHOOPEE, LET’S CELEBRATE! IT’S NOT COMMON to see the “good news “from Africa in the western media .So when news from Africa made it... |
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The Broken Promises and shattered dreams: Is the nation’s future hooked on crack- cocaine? Surprise, Surprise! Drugs are everywhere, but our Mps were... |
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The importation of the modern day technologies, alternative lifestyles and a junk-saturated culture, have changed the way we behave and have thrown Ghana’... |
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It Needs In-Service Training to Hone its skills. I GO to Ghana twice a year. And, every time I go, I try to take with me some crime- fighting tools for the... |
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Ghana’s power and strength cannot base on its dependence on remittances from abroad but, on its human resources. However, its human resources need to be... |
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The spirit, word and material mix. In the age of wounded souls and the quest for answers to emotional baggage, there’s no shortage of mindless Diasporan... |
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Misplaced priorities and our Achilles’ heel? Ghana is a divided society, with a major social disparities. Pretending it is one country is a disse... |
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Follow your dreams and keep them alive. Here are some trivial questions for you: Who are you and how pregnant are you with your imaginations? Need a hint... |
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The most pressing issue confronting Ghanaians today is dwindling power supply, which has resulted in load-shedding affecting many homes and enterprises. It i... |
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Here are the Campaign Strategy Freebies for Dummies… Do you think selling is something the insurance agents and the used- car sales people do? Thi... |
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