3 generations of Saro-Wiwas: Ken Saro-Wiwa is on the left, in a suit and tie. KEN SARO-WIWA – ALREADY 20 YEARS? By CAMERON DUODU Daily Guide 07 November 2015 10 November 1995 was – to mix lingos – a dies horribilis par excellence for me! (A horrible day to beat all horrible days). It …
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Jun 27
THE ICC AND INTRA-AFRICAN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS By CAMERON DUODU
THE ICC AND INTRA-AFRICAN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS By CAMERON DUODU A lot of abuse has been heaped on the head of the South African Government for allowing President Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan to leave South Africa on 15 June 2015, whilst a South African court was still considering a complaint from a South African NGO …
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Feb 23
DR J B DANQUAH’S DEATH IS STICKING IN THE THROATS OF SOME PEOPLE LIKE A DEAD RAT
DR J B DANQUAH’S DEATH IS STICKING IN THE THROATS OF SOME PEOPLE LIKE A DEAD RAT By CAMERON DUODU Daily Guide 21 February 2015 A 69-year-old man is carted off to prison. He has never been charged with any crime. He has not been sentenced to any term of imprisonment by any law …
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Nov 19
AN EVENING AT BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD, WITH LORD BOATENG “OF AKYEM AND WEMBLEY”
The “Akyem” in the title was a tribute to his late father, the Honourable Kwaku Boateng, MP, who served as Minister of the Interior as well as of Higher Education, in the Government of Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Mr Kwaku Boateng hailed from Akyem Abuakwa and his son, who was brought up in Ghana (his secondary school was Accra Academy) did not forget his ancestry in his hour of glory. It was an extremely courageous thing for Mr Boateng to choose such a title, for the British find it difficult to pronounce even “Boateng” (which some still mispronounce as “boating”, despite his having been in politics there for so long!) Adding Akyem (which they would no doubt pronounce as Ah-kyerm!) could have seemed a foolhardy thing to do: a double mispronunciation of the name of a single individual? But Paul Yaw Boateng is not the sort of man to be deterred by trifles like mispronunciations. He nonchalantly took that “cumbersome” nomenclature to the ”House of Ermine” and Lord Boateng of Akyem and Wembley he became. The title, of course, evokes a particular resonance in the bosoms of all Akyemkwaas – like yours truly!
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Dec 08
NELSON MANDELA AND I
PHOTO (by LEMON, JOBURG SUNDAY INDEPENDENT: NELSON MANDELA TELLS CAMERON DUODU: quote: ABACHA IS A BRUTAL DICTATOR WHO HAS USED A KANGAROO COURT TO MURDER HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST KEN-SARO-WIWA AND EIGHT OTHER OGONIS unquote (The historic interview took place at Mr Mandela’s private home in HOUGHTON, JOHANNESBURG, on 24 NOVEMBER 1995) UPDATE: THINGS YOU MAY …
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Dec 01
APARTHEID’S REVENGE
APARTHEID’S REVENGE by CAMERON DUODU (First published in May 2008) There are certain times when the English language refuses to accommodate one’s feelings. How, for instance, does one say ‘Mese afem’in English? ‘My teeth have gnashed together against each other?’ . No! For although that does give an idea of discomfort, the bitterness one …
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Aug 21
HOW COULD THE ANC ALLOW THIS NEW ‘SHARPEVILLE’ TO HAPPEN?
HOW COULD THE ANC ALLOW ANOTHER SHARPEVILLE TO HAPPEN? By CAMERON DUODU It has joined the names of the other South African localities that make you shudder when you hear them; names like Sharpeville, Langa and Nyanga. And the date won’t be forgotten, either – Marikana: 16th August 2012; just like …
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Jan 11
THE CONGO AND I by CAMERON DUODU
The Mail and Guardian, Johannesburg Of Congo’s music and blood-stained history Oct 02 1998 Cameron Duodu: LETTER FROM THE NORTH The Democratic Republic of Congo has always aroused two contradictory emotions in me as an African: the ecstasy created in my soul by some of the best guitar music on the continent, and the fear …
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