By Kwesi Yankah I have been a silent student of ‘language in governance’ for a while now, beginning from the revolutionary period when Rawlings’ PNDC formed a blend of elites and grassroots in a Consultative Assembly to draft the 1992 constitution. The proposed constitution framers included non-literates, butchers, market-women, lawyers, […]

Today, 2 April, 2024, marks exactly six years of the passing of Mama Winnie Mandela. Today, we remember and honor the passing of an indomitable woman, who emerged as the Matriarch of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. When Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years, Winnie gallantly stepped into […]

Barely nine months before the “Agyapadie Schemers” leave office, Ghana has once again been plunged into resurgent,unpredictable electric power outages. Termed “dumsor,” the resurgent energy crisis is reminiscent of the nation-wide electric power outages the NDC inherited from the NPP administration in 2009, and for which former president John Dramani Mahama was demonized, making it possible for Nana Akufo Addo andDr. Mahamudu Bawumia to rise to the presidency of the nation. By the time President Mahama left office in January 2017, he had solved the dumsor problem, […]

On this fateful Tuesday, March 19, 2024, the Ghanaian skies held their breath as a Ghana Air Force helicopter descended rapidly toward the earth. Its rotors churned the air, desperate to defy gravity, while the hearts of the 21 passengers aboard beat in unison—a symphony of fear and hope. Bonsokrom, […]

Yes, back when I was in college a psychologist diagnosed me as an alcoholic. At first I thought it was a huge obstacle in my life which I would never overcome. But with time I realized that diagnosis made me free of my chains of alcoholism. Drinking when you are […]