I simply do not know why hot things of this earth should decide to by-pass all other months, and collectively land in the month when I was born— October. Why the conspiracy? This is the month when a Ghanaian keeper of the British purse, Kwasi Kwarteng was kicked out just as a […]

By : Kwesi Yankah Traveling from Accra to Koforidua through Aburi last Saturday, I had chosen a friendly route enabling me to wind my way up Aburi mountains, descend by Peduase Lodge then enjoy the long stretch to Mamfe before turning towards my destination. The smooth ride suddenly gave way […]

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, […]