The 2012 elections: The Juju-Marabou games begin
It doesn’t matter if Ghana’s 2012 general elections is a year away; campaigning of some sorts is underway. Democracy-crazy, everyday appears to be campaigning day. The mass media is charged. Character, development issues, policies and programmes jumble easily with foul language and the irrational juju-marabour spiritual predictions. The past veers into the present and the [...]
Toxic electronic waste contaminates surrounding area in Ghana
UXBRIDGE, Canada (IPS) – Mountains of hazardous waste grow by about 40 million tons every year. This waste, mostly from Europe and North America, is burned in developing countries like Ghana in a hazardous effort to recover valuable metals. A children’s school in Accra, Ghana’s capital, was recently found to be contaminated by lead, cadmium and [...]
Kofi Busia: A stimulant for today’s democracy
Ghanaians are enjoying their 19-year-old democracy. Why not! They have spent most of their 54-year statehood in autocratic one-party systems and dictatorial military juntas. Freedoms, a very critical indicator of their democracy, are breaking out everywhere, wheeling the democratic tenets. One will never believe that this was a country where at some time people were gloomy, [...]
The President, God, and Progress
Let’s go into the mind of President John Atta Mills, a PHD in law, and envision with him, and his infatuation with God. In this imaginary Ghana, there are no ethnic problems, no sanitation plight and no vehicular accidents. Poverty is wiped out. God would be in such control that nobody would blame witchcraft, evil spirits [...]
Ghana is Africa’s newest major oil producer and the French have come knocking
Prime Minister Francois Fillon visited Ghana, Africa’s newest major oil producer, over the weekend, telling President John Atta Mills that France wanted to take part in his nation’s development. Fillon travelled to the West African nation on the second stop of a three-country tour that first led him to Ivory Coast, with his final stop Gabon. Ghana was the only [...]
Economic surge but inequality on the rise in Ghana
On the streets of Ghana’s top cities, Kumasi and Accra, it is easy to observe increases in the perennial beggars – from the physically disabled to healthy men and women of all ages. “Please could you spare some change,” is a constant irritating tune. Aside from the beggars, more Ghanaians are falling below the poverty [...]
Atta Mills’ ramshackle Pan-African calculus
Whatever others may make of him, John Atta Mills continues to see himself in the mirror of Pan-Africanism, a philosophy that seeks cultural, political and economical unity of Africa. From his teaching years at the University of Ghana to his political and social life, Mills is actuated by a lofty Pan-Africanism vision. Pretty much of [...]
Ghana suspended by the International Olympic Committee for political interference
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AFP) – The International Olympic Committee on Thursday suspended Ghana because of political interference, a move that could put at risk the African country’s participation at the 2012 London Games. IOC president Jacques Rogge said the executive board expelled Ghana in a dispute over the country’s sports law, “that does not respect the provisions [...]
The limits of Laurent Gbagbo’s idiocy
Cote d’Ivoire’s President Laurent Gbagbo uses the country’s Constitutional Council, with the backing of the military and some southern ethnic groups and elites, to cling to power. The opposition candidate Alassane Ouattara defeated him on December 2. But at the bottom of Gbagbo’s thinking are the African political diseases of tribalism and the Big Man [...]
The Daily Graphic and the Enlightenment
It was the German thinker Karl Max who observed that the human mind is linked by invisible thread. Marx could be interpreted in many ways but the sense here is how rapid the Ghanaian enlightenment movement is briskly spreading among Ghanaian elites, both at home and in the diaspora. They are using it in their [...]
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