Kofi Akosah-Sarpong – The Afro News https://theafronews.com Voice of Unity Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:11:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The African Consensus https://theafronews.com/the-african-consensus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-african-consensus Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:11:18 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=4817 United States President Barack Obama’s November 6 visit to India has brought into the forefront the long-running issue of what development philosophy is appropriate for each developing region, especially Africa where there hasn’t been any clear-cut development philosophy.

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]]> The Cultural Clash Over Life and Death https://theafronews.com/the-cultural-clash-over-life-and-death/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-cultural-clash-over-life-and-death Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:33:10 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=3723 How do we extricate death from life, culturally? Ghanaian culture has made Ghanaians obsessed with deaths and funerals.

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]]> Old Leadership, New Leadership https://theafronews.com/old-leadership-new-leadership/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-leadership-new-leadership Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:40:23 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=3726 African leadership, being heavily over burdened and scatterbrained, is part of the Old Leadership. For the past 50 years, Africa has been sorting itself up into categories of Old Leadership and New Leadership.

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]]> The Civility of Hand Washing https://theafronews.com/the-civility-of-hand-washing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-civility-of-hand-washing Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:40:17 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=3728 Globally, health experts say over 80 percent of diseases start from the hands. And if the hands aren’t cleaned and sanitized properly, diseases are transmitted into the larger society.

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]]> The Endless Dilemma of Atta Mills https://theafronews.com/the-endless-dilemma-of-atta-mills/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-endless-dilemma-of-atta-mills Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:50:17 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=3348 For almost two years, since he became president, Mills have been dented from within his NDC than the main opposition, the National Patriotic Party (NPP).

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]]> G8/G20 Summit Preview: The Flowering of The African Century https://theafronews.com/g8g20-summit-preview-the-flowering-of-the-african-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=g8g20-summit-preview-the-flowering-of-the-african-century Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:07:27 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=3307 Once again, Africa’s development affairs are coming up at the G8 and G20 summits to be held in Canada from June 25 to 27.

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]]> Emerging Accountability in West Africa https://theafronews.com/emerging-accountability-in-west-africa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=emerging-accountability-in-west-africa Tue, 04 May 2010 16:47:45 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=2852 Whether in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea Bissau, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria or Mali, corruption saw the state helplessly spinning in mid air, gaping for accountability.

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]]> Understanding the Overloaded Police Service https://theafronews.com/understanding-the-overloaded-police-service-featureghanaafrica/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=understanding-the-overloaded-police-service-featureghanaafrica Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:17:33 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=2839 Nowhere in Ghana’s budding democracy have any of its institutions being critically tested for fuller scrutiny than its police service.

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]]> Asantehene: Power and Self-Restraint https://theafronews.com/asantehene-power-and-self-restraint/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=asantehene-power-and-self-restraint Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:45:31 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=2546 The Asantehene is by nature a liberal person and has been working to deepen Ghana’s budding democracy, but his Tuobodom utterances expose the fact that the unhelpful African Big Man syndrome is a developmental disease that has to be cured through rigorous rule of law, freedoms, democracy, and human rights.

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]]> The limits of Tandja’s stupidity https://theafronews.com/the-limits-of-tandjas-stupidity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-limits-of-tandjas-stupidity Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:10:39 +0000 http://www.theafronews.ca/?p=2311 Tandja was mired in the African traditional superstitious belief that he is the only one chosen by God to rule Niger in a country of immense poverty where 61 percent live on less than US$1 a day and stuck in disturbing record of coups, assassinations and on-and-off rebellion by its nomadic Tuareg group.

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