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GIVE ME NANA OYE LITHUR FOR MY BIRTHDAY!
Background: Nana Oye Lithur is a high-profile, gutsy Ghanaian human rights lawyer who champions all human rights including those of homosexuals here in Ghana where it is a crime. She has been nominated by President Mahama for the cabinet position of the Gender, Children and Social Protection ministry. I think her nomination is a stroke […]
Pass the Right to Information Act: Ghana’s good governance depends on it
August 6, 2012
“President Mills tirelessly worked to improve the lives of the Ghanaian people. He helped promote economic growth in Ghana in the midst of challenging global circumstances and strengthened Ghana’s strong tradition of democracy.” tribute from President Obama “He helped promote economic growth in Ghana in the midst of challenging global circumstances and strengthened Ghana’s strong […]
PRESIDENT MILLS TO VISIT PRESIDENT OBAMA, MARCH 8th, 2012
March 6, 2012
A belated HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY MADinGhana readers. Yesterday, besides wishing my Ghanaian born daughter a Happy Independence Day, I saluted a Ghanaian friend here in Montreal. His reply, “How old are we now? 54? What have we done?” ENOUGH! Now to the subject of this post. TOMORROW, PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL HOST PRESIDENT MILLS AT THE […]
THE 2012 NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL SHOW: IS GHANA THERE?
March 3, 2012
Been gone for a long time…in mind and body….on the other side of the Atlantic in Montreal, Canada with family. Hope this post marks a return to the blog and soon home to Ghana where I know madinghana won’t be neglected. But this WORLD event has provoked me to break my silence. Right at this […]
ANAS AREMEYAW ANAS MADINGHANA RESOLUTION: PART 7
February 5, 2011
Anas Aremeyaw Anas is an investigative reporter. Nobody knows what he looks like. He goes around with a hidden camera filming unsuspecting individuals engaging in criminal acts. A media blitz follows involving simultaneous newspaper and TV documentary exposure. Even President Obama in his historic speech to the Ghanaian parliament in July, 2009 singled out anas […]
GHANA-OBAMA
May 5, 2010
Hey, guess who I bumped into at Almighty God, the famous Kumasi street artist, BARACK OBAMA , the man himself. Na, it’s really a portrait of President Obama painted by Almighty God. Sure is lifelike, aye? I think I’ll email the nice people at Obama Hotel in Accra and suggest they think about putting some […]
The Obama Visit to Ghana Revisited
December 7, 2009
Way back in May, 2009, the Obama visit to Ghana was a stimulus to the creation of this MADINGHANA blog. Visit the category to see this blogger’s opinions on the visit. Well, all these months later, my very criticisms of the government’s decision making for the visit were somewhat affirmed. In the December, 2009 magazine […]
POST OBAMA VISIT STRESS SYNDROME
July 18, 2009
This blogger has been on sabbatical for over a week in the wake of the presidential visit. This was not for a lack of personal situations and public issues to comment on. There are always plenty of those. It’s just that blogging, like life, can zonk ya. Guess it was creeping up on me as […]
TOURISM MINISTRY TO CAPITALIZE ON OBAMA’S VISIT
July 7, 2009
Such was the headline on a story in the July 6, 2009 DAILY GRAPHIC (Page 47) and such was the Ghanaian agenda from day 1 when negotiations began between US and Ghanaian officials for a prospective visit of Barack Obama. Nice to see Ghana win one for a change. even though the agenda is misguided, […]
OBAMA MAJOR POLICY STATEMENT ON AFRICA
July 7, 2009
Well, the venue for the big announcement here in Ghana has been switched from Independence Square to the Accra Convention Centre because of the threat of impending bad weather. Authorities made the decision because they don’t want to cause any “financial loss to the state.” How responsible. And heaven forbid if there is a repeat […]
January 26, 2013
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