The Rawlingses’ Democracy: A Look at the Madness of Power
They are supposed to be from the same ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) party but events wheeling within the party are diametrically different. At certain times, it is as if the NDC is in permanent chaos, caught in self-destruction, about to explode into pieces. It is as if the NDC has mutated into two opposition [...]
Archbishop Palmer-Buckle’s “Funeral Oration”
The Ghanaian enlightenment campaign is evolving. Ghanaian elites, for some time asleep, are fast getting involved in the enlightenment movement from their diverse stations in life. As the movement gathers steam, backed by the Ghanaian mass media, one area of the Ghanaian traditional life that has come under the enlightenment flashlight is the implications of [...]
Pondering Africans’ beginnings for advancement
The Accra Sports Stadium was re-named Ohene Djan Stadium by the former ruling National Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2004. Then the Ohene Djan Stadium was re-named again as Accra Sports Stadium by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) September, 2010. The first naming was innocently nationalistic, the second on purely ethnic feelings. This has set off an [...]
Jerry Rawlings is the new AU Special Envoy to Somalia
Former President of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings, who was recently appointed AU special envoy to Somalia, will be wanting to take tangible steps in his new role as he is expected to mobilize support from the international community for Somalia, where AU forces are fighting with Islamists militiamen bent on collapsing the government there. African political [...]
Spotlight on Ghana – Finally some sense in national planning
The proposition by the chair of Ghana’s National Development Planning Commission, P. V. Obeng, that stakeholders in the financial sector should factor in the informal, traditional sector not only go with the current enlightenment thinking but it also reveals the ongoing attempts by Ghanaian policy-makers to think hard from within their traditional values for progress. [...]
Mills’ democratic walk into Central African Republic
Despite receiving little media coverage, Ghana’s President Atta Mills’ short stop-over on his way to the just ended 15th Ordinary Session of African Union in Kampala, Uganda in the isolated Central African Republic (CAR) has democratic significance. In other words, it was to throw democratic light into a close, authoritarian African enclave – forget about [...]
Africa’s democracy rises despite obstacles
After much misunderstanding, with all the anarchic one-party ordeals and self-serving dictatorial military juntas, it appears Africa is nearing a turning point in its democratic grasp. There may be divergent signs, some incredibly disturbing as Guinea Bissau and the Central African Republic indicate, but it looks like a turning to democracy as the best option [...]
Sekou Nkrumah’s “Despicable Me”
Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, is a member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and third son of Ghana’s first President Kwame Nkrumah. He has further added to the agony of the NDC by telling Africa Watch magazine that the so-called NDC founder Jerry Rawlings, who ruled Ghana as both a military dictator and elected president [...]
Kofi Akosah-Sarpong joins the Newstime Africa Editorial team
Newstime Africa Online and Newstime Africa Magazine is pleased to welcome on board its already fantastic Editorial team, Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, an outstanding Journalist and Academic whose prolific writing skills have graced some of the world’s top media publications. Kofi brings to Newstime Africa a wealth of experience in journalism unrivalled across the continental African press. [...]
The enlightenment of Asante Kotoko
Aside from politics, nowhere in Africa is the intersection between juju and groups more pronounced than soccer. From high schools to professional soccer teams, juju is heavily appropriated, so much so that it obscures tactics, efficiency, technicalities, discipline and team work. Though there are no official figures, millions of dollars are spent on juju supposedly [...]
