This is an edited extract from a new biography about Dennis Brutus, the anti-apartheid activist, poet and author. Brutus died in 2009. The extract records Brutus’s reluctance to write about his life when he was still alive. But as Tyrone August, author of the biography, writes, it was inevitable that […]

Had it not been for the loving God who ordained that I had many more years to live on this mysterious earth, and so sent in my mother to the room to come to my rescue with some palm oil, I, Ezzideen, the narrator of the story below, wouldn’t have […]

I don’t know who this Communications and Public Relations Expert, so-called, by the name of Mr. Raymond Ablorh is, but it is quite clear to me that the critic could not in any way “have taken President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the cleaners,” because in the original American idiomatic expression […]