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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa. – Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) First President of Ghana. February 24 slid into history again a couple of days ago, hardly remembered by many as the 54th anniversary of the military coup that toppled Kwame Nkrumah as Ghana’s president and […]
Continue ReadingAfter the sailors of the “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, had rowed into the frigid waters of the Antarctic, they experienced short-lived relief from a near-shipwreck. The crew were delivered from the ice jam; but alas they were drawn into more distressing anguish: they were dying from thirst […]
Continue ReadingJanus was the Roman mythological god that had two faces – front and back. One looked backwards into the past, with the other gazing forward into the future. Heaven help you if you lost your way and ran into Janus at a crossroads. He would blight your plight. For, his mien would indicate two directions, […]
Continue ReadingIt has been said of Obafemi Awolowo, Western Nigeria’s first premier, that like Roman Empire’s first emperor, Augustus Caesar, he was “an efficient organiser” and a “great builder” who struck several feats that have remained unmatched in Nigeria’s record books several decades after his rule. In his well referenced book, An Outline History of the World, […]
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