Ishmael Odoom, Assemblyman for Agona Asafo, Urges Action Against Drug Abuse and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana In a stirring address commemorating Ghana’s 67th Independence Day, Ishmael Odoom, affectionately known as Obiaa Bedidi, Assemblyman for Agona Asafo electoral area, highlighted the urgent need to address the escalating issues of drug abuse and teenage pregnancy, which are…
INDE-WHEN-DENCE By Kwesi Yankah There are rumors that we are celebrating our independence anniversary today. My fear is that the rumor may be true, in which case there is cause for alarm! And in which case one can also ask, Inde-when-dence? I am afraid we may have been doing this in the past 65 years; and…
GHANA IS NOT 65 YEARSO Omankyeamewrites Slave Coast! She is 65 years today, Yes, the black star of Africa is celebrating her six and half decades of colonial emancipation. At the second past midnight on 6th march 1957, Ghana in west Africa was born. This is indeed a remarkable feet in the historical antecedent and…
56years ago today, February 4, 1965, Dr. Joseph Boakye Danquah, a Ghanaian politician died in Nsawam after 13 months in detention without trial under President Kwame Nkrumah’s preventive detention regime. We reproduce his last letter to Kwame Nkrumah before his unfortunate demise. Dear Dr. Nkrumah, I am tired of being in prison on preventive detention…
