Dear Ataa Aflah Barnor, As one of our very few remaining elders of the Jamestown community, I will call you on your birthday and sing you a song and wish you the best, again and again, every year as you edge gracefully towards your ton!. The central piece of your [...]
Five things to change Africa – what can we get right in this coming decade? Africa Economic Independence – Independent Africa took a long time in the making: from the late 1950s when Ghana became independent right up to the last decade when new countries like Southern Sudan have emerged. [...]
https://wp.me/p1xAYQ-9Z Nyame Nhyira (God Bless) Kwame Nkrumah Posted on March 12, 2020by ekownelson We were told he was the most corrupt leader ever; an impostor who did not earn a PhD but was flashing his honorary Doctorate around; a ‘showboy’ who built useless white elephants the country neither needed nor could afford; an [...]
Letter to my nephew – managing that sickle cell Dear Tei, Visiting you in the hospital brought back memories of my being struck down with a painful sickle cell crisis during a short training course in Tehran in the mid-1970s. Tehran is supposed to be the fount of modern medicine, [...]
Christiana House in Tudu - Painting by Charles Paddy Sawyerr Jnr, It is a New Year and I am trying to do new things. The Year 0f Return has triggered a desire to also go search my roots. I am hoping that my Sawyerr family will get more [...]
Will Brexit affect Africa at all? THE fascination with Brexit continues with the torturous process of democracy being showcased. All the important institutions of the state are playing a role, the executive, parliament, the Supreme Court, the Queen – and it has already cost Britain, two prime ministers. But it [...]
Why I have now joined the Labour Party oberserber britain, equality, politics November 4, 2019 7 Minutes By africanvoice -October 11, 20190409Share on FacebookTweet on Twitter By Ade Sawyerr – In 2008, I was invited to a Labour Party fundraising event in Streatham. I met the Labour Party MP who was in conversation with the person who eventually succeeded [...]
oberserber Uncategorized October 30, 2019 4 Minutes Look how far we have come – Ghana Union in retrospect The origins of Ghana Union can be traced to the old West African Students Union that was vibrant in the early part of the last century, when students on scholarships and private study alike, needed [...]
MATTERS ARISING – Vision for Ghana and Africa ADE SAWYERR Will Africa ever achieve the potential envisaged by the leaders at independence? Will Africa ever rid itself of the poverty that continues to rack the continent amid all the wealth and resources that exist on the continent? The answers [...]
What are Black people in Britain to make out of this international year for people of African Descent? - Ade Sawyerr The African Diaspora has been a reality for such a long time that we do not even think about its complexity and how it happened. Slavery was definitely [...]
