2020 Lenten Chronicles

Ash Wednesday Reflections Watering can in hand, I stroll casually to do my favourite early morning activity – watering the flowers. On the way, I see this little flower gracefully, stubbornly and defiantly growing through a crack in the driveway and I ask myself: if this little guy could talk, what would it say? Little […]

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Random Thoughts #43

Teach the pupils and students about sex in a comprehensive manner so that they will discuss sex and sexuality in an open, informative environment – you said no.

Now seven teenage girls have been suspended and expelled from the boarding house after being caught talking about sex using cellphones.

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Random Thoughts #42

What a hellish week last week was. Simply a nightmare. I’m  a trained broadcast journalist and a woman from a family full of nurses so the murder of Ruth Eshun and the escalating vitriol and violent threats Gayle King faced was a double whammy. Mrs. Eshun was raped and murdered in Ayoum in the Bosomtwi […]

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Out & About

#1. A First Taste of Tamale As part of my personal resolution to Say Yes To New Adventures, I vowed to travel more around Ghana and expand my horizons. And God heard my prayer and decided that January would be a good way to kick start things with a trip to the capital of the […]

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Throwing Political Tantrums #33

2020 : The Year of Roads Indeed       An intriguing sight greeted me as I strolled to the main road leading out of my neighbourhood today – the stretch of road leading up to the LEKMA hospital and leading a good portion of the way down the Agblezaa-Manet road was glistening with tar. Traffic was also […]

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The AfCFTA Diaries #7

Climate Change and Africa’s Dream to Industrialise Earlier this year African leaders assembled on two different occasions to discuss and develop measures to make the continent more climate-resilient. The first session was in Addis Ababa and the second was the UN Climate Action Summit in September. Ironically, although Africa contributes less than six per cent […]

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Random Thoughts #41

Happy International Men’s Day and………….. Happy World Toilet Day 😁 Dear President #NotAllMen International (Ghana chapter), I trust you are doing well? The brightness of this day has led me to write this brief missive to you. Honestly, you and your executives have really disappointed me. Today is International Men’s Day and you’re not making […]

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