Ghanaian journalist Komla Afeke Dumor remembered
An accomplished and much-admired news writer from Ghana, Komla Afeke Dumor, was recalled as “the face and voice of Africa…”
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Africa was point of pride for MLK
On Dec. 18, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recalled his first trip to Africa with his wife Coretta to attend the independence day celebration of the new nation of Ghana.
Ghana’s former first lady warns of ‘seeds of dependency’ in western education
(GIN)—In a speech that examined the growing role for women in a rising Africa, Ghana’s former first lady also called for a critical look at formal western education. Mme. Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, wife of former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings, and head of the 31st December Women’s Movement, delivered her remarks recently at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, […]
Ghana security chief Joseph Nunoo-Mensah rebuked over anti-labor remark
(GIN)—A ex-military officer’s off-hand remark that striking workers strapped by rising electric and water bills should pack their bags and leave the country has stirred up a hornet’s nest among the Ghanaian diaspora. Retired Brigadier-General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah was rebuked for telling Ghanaians to take a hike if they could not sacrifice in difficult times. “Go […]
Ghanaians in mix of GMO debate
(GIN)—Members of Food Sovereignty Ghana (FSG) and other environmental groups took the issue of food security to the streets in a march through Accra that linked up virtually with seven African countries from South Africa to Kenya. It was the second annual march against genetically modified seeds, bioengineered food and its corporate backers, coupled with […]
Slap on wrist for selling fake drugs in Ghana called ‘shameful’
Counterfeit drugs are a chronic problem in Africa’s largely unsupervised market place. So-called anti-malaria drugs imported from India have been found with little or no ability to protect adults or children.
Renowned Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor dies in Kenya debacle
Africans on the continent and in the diaspora were in shock and grieving last week over the untimely passing of Kofi Awoonor, 78, from Ghana. He was one of the 68 who perished in the Al-Shabab-initiated assault at the five-story Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi.
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