Serving The Ghanaian Chicago Community
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
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 […]
By Nii Daniel Okine, Accra The Ghanaian public, both at home and across the diaspora, has been consumed by one question: Is former Finance Minister Ken Ofori‑Atta truly in U.S. immigration detention, or is this yet another political smokescreen? Rumours have swirled with the speed and intensity that only Ghanaian […]
