My good friend Henry Kwasi Prempeh has come up with the idea of AfroPutinism. It refers to the predictable support that some Africans are giving to the mad Czar and butcher of Ukraine. The support for Putin is entirely predictable but deeply reprehensible. A very long time ago Edward Shils established the tendency of African […]Read More
Everyone seems busy these days, so many are those who are put off by long posts, not least when the post is about obscure animals and village life. Yet, I’m banking on you reading this one to the end. Obviously, some will not read because their time could be better spent doing something else. To […]Read More
Mr. Francis Kojo Poku popularly known as Poku Transport and affectionately called F.K by his children was born on 16th September 1919 to the late Kejetia Poku and the late Madam Ama Amoakowaa of Kwabre-Hemang. He started his education at Government Boys School in Kumasi and further went to Mfanstipim School in Cape Coast in […]Read More
We have come across two different narratives on the history of the UP tradition and we deem it necessary for the clarification of the many distortions they each contain. One is by the Deputy Majority Chief Whip, Hon. Habib Iddrisu and another by an anonymous writer titled “Complete Distortion of History”. It is worthy to […]Read More
Though Akans are 45 % of the population nonetheless we are the minority. So why after sixty (60) something years, an “Akan party” would seek to subject Akan lands to the central government? Nkrumah didnt even do that. Ghana is not for Akans. Akans do not rule forever. So why would “Akan party” attempt to […]Read More
The EIGHT AKAN Abusua all emerged in AMANSE (Amansie) in the area referred to as Adansi. It was there that the Akan people formed their ABUSUA system. It was from there that the AKAN people eventually dispersed to establish Towns; form Nations, e.g. Akwamu; Dankyira; Manpon; Akyem Abuakwa; Akyem Kotoku; Kwawu; Kwaaman; Kokofu; Akyem Kotoku; […]Read More
One of the best Kumasi-based Highlife band of the 1970`s in a group photograph gracing their album cover. Circa 1978.Ashanti Brothers band is one of the best band that ever graced the highlife landscape in Ghana. The Kumasi-based band was led by the legendary silky voice and talented highlife singer, Osei Kwame Vasco. This group […]Read More
He got a reprieve in Manhyia in 2021, unlike in 1838. And…… he shows up at Dwaben in style.Amankwaa Tia, enye wo na wo aye biribi………. The last time a Baafuo Bantomahene went to Dwaben in 1832, it was Baafuo Apraku II. He led Kumase troops to put down Daasebre Akwasi Boaten, Dwabenhene insurrection against […]Read More
I don’t want to be in the president’s shoes. He must decide whether levy or not to levy electronic transactions. Whichever road he chooses, there will be consequences. There are demands for roads, schools, hospitals and toilets (by the way, yesterday was World Toilet Day). The government needs money to meet these basic needs. If […]Read More
When Zeus asked Prometheus to create men out of clay and in their own image, says Greek mythology, he intended that men would be his playing toys. Prometheus later became too fond of men and began to teach them. Zeus forbade Prometheus from introducing mankind to fire as he feared with fire, men could do […]Read More
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