Accra – The Afro News https://theafronews.com Voice of Unity Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:00:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Twists Turns and Lessons Learned in Creating Naa Sheka https://theafronews.com/the-twists-turns-and-lessons-learned-in-creating-naa-sheka/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-twists-turns-and-lessons-learned-in-creating-naa-sheka Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:00:01 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=6743 The Naa Sheka brand is socially conscious and supports Fair Trade. The company supports local talents in Ghana and provides them with employment. The company strongly believes in the overall development of Ghanaians;

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]]> Battling child witchcraft accusation https://theafronews.com/battling-child-witchcraft-accusation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=battling-child-witchcraft-accusation Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:00:46 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=4203 If children are accused of witchcraft, who accused them? It is the pitiable adults, mostly from the children’s families. If is the adults, then the adults are unenlightened and aren’t aware of the destruction they are causing the youth and Africa’s future. And why will the adults entertain such beliefs in 2010,

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]]> Ghana Memories, Dating https://theafronews.com/ghana-memories-dating/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ghana-memories-dating Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:35:21 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=1840 By Jack Toronto The Afro News Delta

Sex for sale. It’s everywhere but at age 22 I’d never seen it as openly before. In bars and night clubs, in the lounge of the Government Rest House, at the movie theatre, alongside the fresh vegetables hawked outside Kingsway Stores and door-to-door. Sexuality was treated openly and casually in Ghana, certainly more than in Southern Ontario in the mid-‘60s.

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]]> Ghana Now, Able to Solve Its Problems https://theafronews.com/ghana-now-able-to-solve-its-problems/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ghana-now-able-to-solve-its-problems Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:31:19 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=1272

Contributing Ghana memories to The Afro News since June has been a personally rewarding trip into my past and a stimulus to bring myself up-to-date on the country’s current reality.

Ghanaians deserve to be proud of the progress toward democracy and effective governance which led President Obama to choose their country for his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa in July but more is needed. 

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]]> Emerging African development thinking (2) https://theafronews.com/emerging-african-development-thinking-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=emerging-african-development-thinking-2 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:35:48 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=1544 SPECIAL INTERVIEW (Part 2)  Development/Africa
Emerging African development thinking (2)

Kofi Akosah-Sarpong continues his discussions with Prof. George Ayittey on his argument that US President Barack Obama’s Accra speech that Africa’s future is in Africans hands is an “intellectual vindication” for the “Internalist School” of African development

Q. How did the “Internalist School” came about?

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