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Under the Neem Tree (1)
I didn’t court the stream of consciousness. It just surfaced from deep within my psyche, and only because I had read Ghana’s Daily Graphic on the internet.
AFRICAN AT RISK IN LIBYA
Written by Cameron Duodu
NATO must, without fail, and immediately, save the black Africans threatened with death in Libya.
HOW EDWARD ACQUAH NEARLY GOT ME INTO TROUBLE
Cameron Duodu
A great footballer died in poverty on 5 October 2011; but during his heyday 50 years ago, Edward Acquah was dynamite!
FINANCIAL ENGINEERING 101
Written by Cameron Duodu
I have been wondering about the new “discipline” everyone in Ghana is talking about. It is called “financial engineering”, and it is such a neat way of making money that I have decided to set up an institution to teach others the science behind it.
WHO REMEMBERS ROBERT MENSAH?
Cameron Duodu
Forty years after his brutal murder, Robert Mensah, the Ghanaian goalkeeper is still fondly missed and remembered for his mesmerising vitality and incredible bravery on the pitch.
BRASS BAND BLUES
Written by Cameron Duodu
If you are not ill, don’t drink medicine prepared for someone who is ill, for even your mother might upbraid you for being too “huuhuu” (too forward) when you start to throw up. It happened to me.
THE USES OF PROTOCOL-DIPLOMACY
Written by Cameron Duodu
What did President Barack Obama tell President John Atta Mills of Ghana when the Ghanaian visited Washington DC in early March? Welcome to protocol-diplomacy!
AN ADDICTION TO POWER
Written by Cameron Duodu
The inevitable question on every sensible person’s mind is: “So, was it all necessary, Mr Gbagbo?”
Cameron Duodu
Under the Neem Tree
Born and educated in Ghana, Cameron Duodu started work on a general purpose magazine called New Nation in Ghana, then moved to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, where he became editor of radio news. He returned to the magazine world as editor of the Ghana edition of the famous pan-African magazine, Drum.
He later edited the biggest-selling newspaper in Ghana, the Daily Graphic.
Thursday, 06 July 2006 00:00
We Were Just Simply Magnificent
A moment of sublime greatness for Ghana football – Czech Republic 0, Ghana 2. It was a sweet, sweet victory – it showed us the true meaning of a joy that is perfect in every respect; a victory made sweeter by the faith it had regenerated in us, in our Black Stars.
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Thursday, 31 August 2006 00:00
The Zidane Finale
The Akan people of Ghana have canonised the idea of cause and effect with a proverb that says: “If nothing had gone and stamped on the dried palm leaf, it would not have crackled noisily” (Biribi ankoka papa a, enka ennye twereder).
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Tuesday, 27 February 2007 00:00
An Irreplaceable Love
Nana Yaa Difie of Kokofu (popularly known as Beryl Karikari) was my dear wife of 43 years. She was snatched away from me on 9 February 2007. May the Almighty hold her hand and sing her softly softly to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dance.
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Tuesday, 03 April 2007 00:00
How The Daily Telegraph Opened My Eyes To Racism
If you nobble a country politically at birth by handing it to your apes, because they can read and write English, you don’t deserve to sit back in judgement over yourself and say, narcissistically: “How great we were. If only they had done what we instructed them to do!” Pure tosh!
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Monday, 04 June 2007 00:00
Lewis Hamilton Is Top Class
Lewis Hamilton is sending a very useful and positive message to black kids that if they are talented and remain focused, their aptitude can be recognised and they could be given the chance they need to succeed.
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Monday, 18 June 2007 00:00
How Now, Mr Wolfowitz?
“Hey you guys. Have you apprised what’s ongoing in Washington? Wolfowitz is being bandoogled!”. The guy who is always saying corruption and bad governance is killing Africa. Well, he has been caught in a commingle himself.
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Monday, 03 December 2007 00:00
Mo Ibrahim Prize: A case Of Misplaced Priorities?
I wish that I could say I am enthusiastic about the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. But even though its motive is impeccable, it is likely to be viewed with derision, for there just are far too many causes in Africa in more urgent need of monetary assistance, than what could legitimately be seen as the “pampering” of former heads of state.
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 00:00
So James Watson Is 16% Black Himself?
Surprise surprise, Dr James Watson, the DNA “expert” who recently claimed that Africans were less intelligent than whites, has been found to be 16% black himself! – the embarrassment that awaits all racists.
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Friday, 01 February 2008 00:00
Oh! That This Should Happen To Kenya
The election chaos in Kenya has made an eloquent case for UN involvement in elections likely to be rigged or lead to confusion. The UN has election machinery that has enabled it to successfully supervise, or be involved, in elections in such countries as East Timor, Cambodia, Namibia, Mozambique, Nicaragua and Haiti. So why not formalise it?
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Friday, 29 February 2008 00:00
The Lonely Aspect Of Pain
Why hasn’t a single one of the guys who jumped about and drank champagne with me when Ghana was doing well in the African Cup of Nations tournament, phoned to share my pain at the calamity of Cameroon turfing us out of it?
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