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27-Dec-09 |
["I used (Ephraim) Amu's works as points of departure as I developed my personal style. For as the Akan proverb put it: 'A person who follows learns the gait of the one in front of him'; (but) finding space to create one’s personal identity or 'style' is crucial for giving a musical genre the internal diversity that makes it attractive to a discerning public.” Prof Kwabena Nketia.] |
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10-Jul-09 |
........ Obama follows W.E. Du Bois, and Kwame Nkrumah. In his 1993 book, They Had A Dream, the historian, Jules Archer, classified the civil rights struggle in the United States in three distinct phases. In the first relay, the charismatic figure of Frederick Douglass (1817? – 1895) dominated the abolitionist movement against slavery. |
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10-Jul-09 |
The mind is a terrible thing to waste. I remember those notices on billboards on major streets in the Watts and South Central areas of Los Angeles on my way to college in the early 1970s, as a student from Ghana. On one of those billboards I remember a most touching picture of the great civil rights leader, the late Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, with a little child nestling in his arms to stress the point that the mind is a terrible thing to waste. But such positive notices were few and scattered. |
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07-Jul-09 |
........ A prelude to his historic visit to Ghana, July 10, 2009 Harvard University overflowed with various graduation ceremonies on June 4, 2009. At the Harvard Law School, on my recent educational tour, I sensed the atmosphere seething with optimism. Like Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, the 32nd and 35th U.S. Presidents respectively, a Harvard favourite son was making waves across continents, and all eyes were on him with great expectations. What was conspicuously missing at the function that Thursday was the presence of Barack Obama himself. The new U.S. President had cut his legal teeth at the School, having served as the first African-American President of the Harvard Law Review. |
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02-Mar-09 |
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25-Feb-09 |
...A visionary behind Rect Academy's success: "If we forgot to show our gratitude Enough for all the things you did, We're thanking you now And hope you know all along How much you meant to us. We shall forever remember you, Daddy" - Rect Academy JHS. |
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25-Feb-09 |
.....How the World Bank/IMF can help: The umbilical connections between the past and present were defined by Gamel Nasser, Ben Bella, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kwame Nkrumah, Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta, Patrice Lumumba, Nelson Mandela, and others, for a continental, African unity. |
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24-Feb-09 |
Daily Graphic: November 20, 2008 |
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24-Feb-09 |
.... In celebration of J.W. Abruquah of Mfantsipim
Since 1876, Mfantsipim School has continued to live up to its mission, producing a great many academic distinctions in Ghana, and leaders of international repute. Naturally an institution of that calibre (enjoying an almost mythological status) has been led by particular men some with immense stature and vision.
When Mr. Abruquah came to the school as headmaster in 1963, a number of us had already made up our minds about him. From our worm's eye view, we concluded that the world was filled with old people, all of them over 19 years of age. |
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24-Feb-09 |
Daily Graphic, February 2, 2008 |
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24-Feb-09 |
Familiar strands run through Dr Kwame Nkrumah, George Padmore, Aneurin Bevin, George Bernard Shaw, and Edmund Burke. Certainly, the quintet belonged to a class of eloquent activists, and inspired writers. They have influenced many including Mr Kwaku Baprui Asante. The snatches of spirit (in the medley of Pan-African, socialist, and democratic undertones) showed in Mr Asante's intellectual choices. |
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24-Feb-09 |
Daily Graphic, December 14, 2002 |
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24-Feb-09 |
Daily Graphic, December 4, 2002 |
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24-Feb-09 |
Daily Graphic, August 208, 2008 |
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24-Feb-09 |
Daily Graphic, July 21, 2008 |
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