GLOBAL CONNECTIONS

A Disgraceful Week In Global Race Relations!

A Disgraceful Week In Global Race Relations!

It is only Tuesday & already it has been a horrible week in global race relations. As the saying goes “give people enough time & they will eventually show you who they really are or better yet “people show their…

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Does Democracy in Africa Work or Is It Time To Look to Our Homegrown Form Of Governance?

I have been waiting for Africans & our leaders to have a real discussion on governance & the fact that the adopted Democracy in Africa has not worked for most of Africa. Oluwole Onemola wrote a provocative & thoughtful…

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Ghana Celebrates 53 years of Independence – A Brief History & the Future

Ghana Celebrates 53 years of Independence – A Brief History & the Future

Today Ghana celebrates it’s 53rd year of Independence from British colonial rule (March 6, 1957). I had a couple of conversations about Ghana with two of my fellow Ghanaians, one saying that Ghana should have kept the colonial…

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The Ghana Chronicles 09-Beginning the Journey from JFK 2 Accra

The Ghana Chronicles 09-Beginning the Journey from JFK  2 Accra

8/9/09
Let’s just say the day didn’t start off on a good foot because I had not slept at all the night before because I was overwhelmed with packing. Of course family members have to overload my luggage with stuff…

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Why isn’t there a national holiday for Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, The First Black President?

August 2009

It is now about a month or so after the much to do about nothing hoopla of President Obama’s visit to Ghana, as the first Black sitting president of the USA who chose to make Ghana his…

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