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Oct 28

SO WHAT AT ALL IS KATANGA?

    What’s New UPDATE: Gov’t Offers UTAG, TEWU Seat On Troubled KNUST Interim Council Columnist So, What At All Is ‘Katanga’? Dailyguide Africa October 27, 2018   K1: Koo, what at all is behind this massive crisis at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology? K2: Oh Koo, it all started at Katanga!! …

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Oct 03

FRANTZ FANON, PROPHET OF THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION

Frantz Fanon: Prophet of  African liberation By Cameron Duodu Dec 05, 2011 Frantz Fanon played a key role in ‘legitimising violent struggle’ among ‘African liberation movements’, writes Cameron Duodu, in an exploration of Fanon’s relationship with Pan-Africanism, in particular in Ghana.   The late 1950s, the era in which Ghana achieved its independence and took …

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Oct 02

THE COMPLEX ART OF RUNNING A GOVERNMENT

THE COMPLEX ART OF RUNNING A GOVERNMENT By CAMERON DUODU   Surely the headline above this article is a mistake? For how can running a Government — something that’s done every day everywhere —  be that “complex”? Hmmm — people imagine that “governing” is just a matter of presiding over a well-ordered process, whereby men …

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Sep 30

WHY ARE OUR PUBLIC UTILITIES SO CONTEMPTUOUS OF GHANAIANS? asks CAMERON DUODU

30 Sep at 13:40   WHY DO OUR UTILITY BODIES  TAKE GHANAIANS SO MUCH FOR GRANTED?  By CAMERON DUODU   Time Out Magazine, the famous international guide to the best places where one can eat well, be entertained well and sleep well, in the world, has just paid Ghana the compliment of naming Osu, otherwise known …

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Aug 27

CONGO!…CONGO! by CAMERON DUODU

 Patrice Lumumba: The rise and assassination of an African patriot Cameron Duodu Jan 20, 2011 Cameron Duodu remembers working as a journalist in Ghana and documenting PATRICE LUMUMBA’S dramatic rise to power – and subsequent assassination – from afar.  In so doing he uncovers why Lumumba is such an important historical figure who ‘was not …

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Jul 19

CAMERON DUODU: COLLECTED PIECES FROM THE NEW AFRICAN MAGAZINE

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Jul 19

SOME ARTICLES BY CAMERON DUODU FROM THE NEW AFRICAN MAGAZINE

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May 14

A review of Cameron Duodu’s novel, “THE GAB BOYS”

BOOK REVIEW: “A MOST ENJOYABLE BOOK”: The Gab Boys by CAMERON DUODU (REVIEWED BY ANDERSON BROWN)   ANDERSON BROWN’S LITERARY BLOG JOURNAL OF A SERIOUS READER: AFRICAN LITERATURE, IRISH LITERATURE, NOVELS, AND BEYOND TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2008 Duodu’s Gab Boys: QUOTE: Unlike a lot of politicized African literature, however, Duodu writes in a comic spirit, …

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May 12

THE UNINTENDED TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES OF GALAMSEY

THE TRAGIC UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF GALAMSEY By CAMERON DUODU   IF YOU type the words, “galamsey+pit +death into the GOOGLE search engine, you will get “About 39,200 results in 0.34 seconds!” Among the first set of results on the screen will be: #14 feared dead in Galamsey pit at Prestea –/2017/07/03/14; .#Video: Final year student …

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May 07

A CHAT ABOUT THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

  SO  WE WERE SOLD BY OUR BROTHERS. REALLY? BY CAMERON DUODU Cameron Duodu engages in serious conversation with the African Diaspora–about the slave trade and other matters. He writes: “Some killing, or rampage, or raid, or kidnapping, took place in Africa every single day, of every single week, of every single month, of every …

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