Serving The Ghanaian Chicago Community
Thursday, January 15, 2026
By Kay Codjoe In 1973, during a bank robbery in Stockholm, hostages were held for days. When they were freed, some surprised the world by defending their captors and speaking of them with sympathy. Psychologists later called this response Stockholm Syndrome: the way fear and dependence can make victims emotionally […]
By Kay Codjoe Not the kind that brings prophecies or lottery numbers. This one came with files, brown folders, red tags, and the smell of old paper and new fear. In the dream, Ghana was not a country. She was a long corridor. At the end of it stood a […]
By Manasseh Azure Awuni On the morning of January 6, 2026, Ghana’s former finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, was arrested in Washington, D.C., by agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of the United States. The operation to arrest him, according to sources, appeared targeted, unlike the ongoing raids and […]
In the high-stakes theatre of international justice, the detention of Ken Ofori-Atta by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) represents a profound intersection of a visa’s expiration and a nation’s exhaustion. This is not merely a headline regarding an administrative oversight; it is a definitive collision between a carefully […]
Somewhere in Virginia, winter is doing what winter does best. It is stripping trees, numbing fingers, and reminding everyone that power is seasonal. In that cold, a former Finance Minister of Ghana is discovering that there are rooms you do not choose and waiting that does not care who you […]
