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Indepth Africa Magazine December 2011 Digital Edition
December 3, 2011 by benim
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December 1, 2011 by benim
New York – International Criminal Court countries on Wednesday agreed to nominate Fatou Bensouda of Gambia as chief prosecutor for the main war crimes tribunal, diplomats said. Bensouda, 50, is deputy to the current chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who must … read more »
November 17, 2011 by benim
The court order restraining the government and its agents from constructing any structure on the plots of land (No. 34 Airport Residential Area, also known as International Student Hostel) to house the Foreign Affairs Ministry and two state institutions is … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Columnist, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor, News, Politics, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, Chief Justice, East Africa, Foreign Affairs Ministry, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, KT Hammond, Kufuor government, Ministry of Justice, North Africa, Pan African News, West Africa
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November 16, 2011 by benim
The “City Forum on Culture and Development,” a policy orientated venture held in Accra to openly strategize the African culture for African progress reveal the increasing attention being given to the African culture.. For almost 50 years, the African culture, … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Columnist, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, News, West Africa
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Tagged Accra, Africa news, African people, Business and Economy, Culture of Africa, East Africa, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, Kwame Nkrumah, North Africa, Pan African News, South Africa, West Africa
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November 10, 2011 by benim
Before the emergence of Rawlings, governance had been mystified. When he burst onto the scene with his close attachment to the mass of the people, he succeeded in demystifying governance and raising the spirit of self-help and communal activities. No … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Columnist, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor, News, West Africa
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Tagged CHINUA ACHEBE, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, Jerry Rawlings, John Kufuor, Kwame Nkrumah, National Democratic Congress, NDC, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Rawlings, Southern Africa, West Africa
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November 10, 2011 by benim
Do you remember Chinua Achebe’s proverb of the lizard that drops from the tall iroko tree to hit the ground, nods its head, and praises itself if nobody will praise it for surviving such a mighty fall? Former President Jerry … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Columnist, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor, News, Politics, West Africa
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Tagged CHINUA ACHEBE, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, Jerry Rawlings, John Kufuor, Kwame Nkrumah, National Democratic Congress, NDC, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Rawlings, Southern Africa, West Africa
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November 8, 2011 by benim
Over the past one week alone, several pronouncements from the NDC camp have focused on the NPP’s flagbearer, Nana Akufo Addo, to such an extent that no single day passes by without anything damning being said about him. All these … read more »
November 6, 2011 by benim
The NDC’s General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu-Nketiah, is reported to have expressed sentiments that I share, even if he has turned round to deny what was attributed to him. No one should beg Rawlings and his wife to campaign for the … read more »
Posted in Columnist, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor, News, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged Alban Bagbin, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, Jerry Rawlings, John Atta Mills, Mills, NDC, New Patriotic Party, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Rawlings, Southern Africa, West Africa
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November 4, 2011 by benim
Friday, November 4, 2011 The causes of Rawlings’ problems are obvious. He is a bundle of contradictions who is suffering as a consequence of his own inability to come to terms with the reality of the human condition: he is … read more »
Posted in Columnist, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor, News, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, Head of state, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, Jerry Rawlings, John Atta Mills, Kufuor government, Legon, Nana Konadu, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Rawlings, Southern Africa, West Africa
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November 4, 2011 by benim
The irony of fate that has reduced former President Rawlings from the high horse of a hero to a near-villain in his own political camp defies rationalization; but it is understandable as the outcome of his own inability to change … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Columnist, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, Jerry Rawlings, John Atta Mills, Kow Nkensen Arkaah, Nana Konadu, National Democratic Congress, NDC, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Rawlings, Southern Africa, West Africa
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November 3, 2011 by benim
Arrogance in official government circles is disgusting to the electorate, and they won’t root for a government whose functionaries carry themselves too high and come across as condescending. The NDC MPs are particularly guilty; and this Abayateye can’t absolve himself … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Columnist, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor
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Tagged Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, Jerry Rawlings, John Atta Mills, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, NPP, Pan African News, Politics, Southern Africa, West Africa
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November 3, 2011 by benim
Factors that prevented the NPP’s Akufo-Addo from winning the 2008 Presidential elections may not have evaporated; new ones may have emerged ever since then to add to his credibility problems. But whether he will win the next general elections or … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Columnist, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor, News, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, John Atta Mills, Nana Akufo-Addo, NDC, New Patriotic Party, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, NPP, Pan African News, President of Ghana, Southern Africa, West Africa, World Bank
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November 2, 2011 by benim
Nana Akufo-Addo is in the news again and as usual, for all the wrong reasons. Speaking in Berlin, Germany, to NPP supporters, Nana Addo, made the case that “the stakes for power in Ghana have been heightened by the discovery … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Indepth Africa Magazine, News
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October 28, 2011 by benim
The United Nations Security Council has decided by a unanimous vote to end international military operations in Libya by Monday, October 31, 2011. Feeling complacent that its mission to “protect civilians” has been accomplished, the Council thinks that the Libyan … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Daylight Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor
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Tagged Gaddafi, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Libya, Libyan, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, Sudan, United Nations Security Council, West Africa
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October 25, 2011 by benim
The resurgence of controversy over the resettlement of Ghana’s former Presidents is unnecessary. In sum, of all the problems facing this country, that of resettling the former Presidents is the least important. It is not worth anybody’s attention at all … read more »
Posted in Columnist, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor, News, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, Jerry Rawlings, John Atta Mills, John Kufuor, Kufuor, Mills, President, Rawlings
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October 21, 2011 by benim
Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi is just the latest name to be struck from the list of Africa’s so-called “Big Men”, the dwindling band of strongarm rulers who are finding it ever harder to keep their grip on power. But while the … read more »
Posted in Indepth Africa Magazine, Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Darfur, Gaddafi, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, United Nations, United States, West Africa
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October 13, 2011 by benim
In our kind of political climate, weird things continue to happen every passing day. Nana Ato Dadzie, the former Chief of Staff under the Rawlings regime, is reported to have made utterances that should annoy every Ghanaian interested in upholding … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Columnist, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor, News, West Africa
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Tagged Convict, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, John Atta Mills, John Kufuor, Kufuor, Kufuor government, Nana Ato Dadzie, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Pardon, Southern Africa, West Africa
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The mass failure of Junior High School students at this year’s national examination, a worsening trend over the past couple of years, has sent educationists, parents, the mass media and Accra scrambling for answers. Is it the quality of teachers? … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Columnist, Education, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Miscellaneous, News, West Africa
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Tagged Accra, Akan language, Ghana, Ghanaian Chronicle, Government, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Japan, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, United States, West Africa
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Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa took to his Facebook page yesterday and wrote out a powerful and telling confession about the assassination of the late President of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana. Dr. Rudasingwa’s confession explains in detail how this decision was made and … read more »
Posted in Analysis, East Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, News, Rwanda, Spotlight
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Tagged Habyarimana, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Juvénal Habyarimana, Kagame, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Southern Africa, Tutsi, West Africa
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Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings is in the news again, making utterances that indicate the depth to which her family has sunk itself as it continues to seek needless public attention over non-existent concerns. She is reported to have … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Columnist, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor
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Tagged Ghana, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, John Atta Mills, Kufuor government, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Oliver Twist, Pan African News, Rawlings, Rawlingses, Southern Africa, United States, Upper East Region, West Africa
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As Africa’s democracy gradually evolves, the arguments are whether Africa should concentrate on creating prosperity first and then grow its democracy later or build up its democracy first and then use it to develop its prosperity. This thinking has come … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Columnist, Indepth Africa Magazine, News
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Tagged Botswana, Botswana Democratic Party, Gaddafi, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Kofi Abrefa Busia, Libya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa
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September 30, 2011 by benim
It is not very often that a long serving African President is given a hero’s welcome by his people in New York City but on Sunday, September 25 over 5,000 Eritreans from all over the eastern USA and Canada converged … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Indepth Africa Magazine, News, Spotlight
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Tagged Canada, Eritrea, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Meles Zenawi, New York City, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, toronto, United Nations, Washington DC, West Africa
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September 28, 2011 by benim
Many communities in Ghana have suffered for far too long at the hands of the Fulanis whose anti-social activities have now become a major national problem to confront with vigour and determination. Most of these Fulanis are accused of committing … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Columnist, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor, News, West Africa
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Tagged crime, Fula people, Fulani, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Kofi Annan, National Security Advisor, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, West Africa, West African
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September 28, 2011 by benim
This is the voice of an ordinary citizen from the horn of Africa. He is one of the people of the globe who are supposed to lead miserable life due to the absence of justice and real democracy in the … read more »
Posted in Analysis, East Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, News
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September 27, 2011 by benim
For some time now, I have resisted the urged to write about the Wikileaks revelations that have hit Ghana these last several weeks. This is because the more I think about the WikiLeaks episode; the less I know what to … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, News, West Africa, Wikileaks, WikiLeaks Cables
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Tagged Christopher Graham, David Leigh, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Julian Assange, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, The Guardian, United States, West Africa, Wikileaks
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September 22, 2011 by benim
We begin this essay by reaffirming our previous assertion that there are no tribes in Ghana. The phenomenon of language differences has no name in ancient or modern linguistics. Therefore the tagging of the various language groups as tribes is … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, News, West Africa
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September 20, 2011 by benim
If there is ever the golden opportunity for Ghanaians to develop and take a commanding height among those who call the shot when it pertains to economic power, the time is now. Since independence, Ghanaians of yesterday and today have … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, News, Politics, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, Government, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Libya, National Democratic Congress, New Patriotic Party, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, united state, West Africa, World Bank
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September 19, 2011 by benim
They are killing black people in Libya. They are killing them in the street, they are killing them in hospitals, they are killing them in transit camps, they are killing them in their houses. They are not killing any old … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Indepth Africa Magazine, Spotlight
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Tagged Amnesty International, Black people, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Jacob Zuma, Libya, Misurata, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa
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September 19, 2011 by benim
Many factors have combined to make the NDC steadily unattractive these days. Whether by design or miscalculated manouevres, the party is moving toward an unpleasant Fate. Obviously, the situation in the party has degenerated to such an extent as to … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Columnist, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor, News, Politics, West Africa
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