The collapse of the ‘Peoples Party’ vote in the Ghanaian elections. Do they really represent the people? – by Ade Sawyerr
The collapse of the ‘Peoples Party’ vote in the Ghanaian elections. Do they really represent the people? – by Ade Sawyerr Nearly 72 hours after the close in the polls at the Ghanaian general elections on 7th December 2012, the Electoral Commissioner has called the results in what was billed as a hotly contested election. […]
Life History of the late John Kojo Addae Hammond
Ni Mei ni Yehowa ekpoame le aaku amese ke aba ekon, ni ame aba Zion ke nyamo lala, ni nano mise aahi ameyitean; amenine aase mliflimo ke mise no, ni awereho ke ntsoidomo aadso foi They shall enter Zion with shouts of triumph Crowned with everlasting gladness Gladness and joy shall be their escort Suffering […]
My friend John Addae Hammond is no more!
Anyemimei, John Hammond was my friend, a long association from his first day at University in 1969, when we met. He introduced all of us to our travel agency business Afro-Asian; he had come to England in 1973 to work for the company; he welcomed me on several occasions when I came for holidays in […]
Okoampa-Ahoofe is barking! By Ade Sawyerr
Okoampa-Ahoofe is barking! By Ade Sawyerr My attention has been drawn to an article by that Okoampa-Ahoofe, he of the pompous phraseology titled ‘Alhaji Bature is cracking’, http://ftp.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=253352 in which he added me to a list of people that he seems to have a problem with. This is what the pompous git wrote. The obverse side of the question, […]
Festival 2012 – Homowo-Asafotufiam-Nmaayem
Festival 2012 – Homowo-Asafotufiam-Nmaayem Posted on September 22, 2012 by oberserber Sponsors for the celebration Shanco Bruce, Esther Lamptey, Diana Aryeetey, Nii Nortei Omaboe, Ben Aryeetey, Mr Victor & Mrs Cecelia Ativor, Ade Sawyerr, Patience Tagoe, John Quao, Diana Affutu-Nartey, Joe Adama, S.A Doku, Julie Lutterrodt, Comfort. Clottey, Sarah Worburton, Elizabeth Tetteh, Diana Nartey, Jennifer Quaye, Stanley […]
What is Christianity?
I was searching through a file my late father kept for me when i started secondary school. It included in the main receipts for payments that he had made during the period of the sixties and also my less than impressive school reports, a source of much aggravation during the holiday period when he sought […]
Blackening the White House
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Who speaks for the People? the Chiefs, Churches or Civil Society organisations?
http://spyghana.com/ghana-general-news/regional-news/trouble-brews-in-la-over-compromise-on-homowo-traditions/ this piece about how burial of President Mills has further eroded our traditions with Accra being the capital city, but is shows how multiple layers of authority and representation play havoc with our system of traditional governance. who speaks for Ga people is suddenly an issue. there are several who would rather not talk […]
Drumming and Dancing to Doom – Paul de Kanff ISBN 978-1-61204-559-7
Drumming and Dancing to Doom Ladies and gentlemen, all protocols observed as my Nigerian friends will put it so as to recognise all the important personalities here assembled. Fellow members of the literati, at least I am sure after this evening most of you will find it wise to join a book club or to […]
Tribute to my President: from a Ghanaian in London – Ade Sawyerr
Tribute to my President: from a Ghanaian in London – by Ade Sawyerr His Excellency Professor John Evans Atta Mills President of the Republic of Ghana: from 7th January 2009 to 24th July 2012 1 Corinthians 15:54-57 -54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall […]
August 10th 2012 – Where do we lay our dearly departed President Mills to rest? By Ade Sawyerr
August 10th 2012 – Where do we lay our dearly departed President Mills to rest? By Ade Sawyerr The story has been told, I do not know how true, that a former Governor-General of the Gold Coast, who was born in Galt in Canada, was buried twice! One of the chiefs of the Gold Coast, Nana Sir Ofori-Atta had […]
Rawlings – June 4th 1979 was not your finest hour, your best moment was January 7th 2001 by Ade Sawyerr
Rawlings – June 4th 1979 was not your finest hour, your best moment was January 7th 2001 – by Ade Sawyerr Retired military dictators, in the very few countries that tolerate military interventions, are allowed to lead the rest of their lives in obscurity drawing their military pension. But in Africa most turn themselves into […]
Odadaa, Yakub Addy and Wynton Marsallis brought Congo Square to the Barbican
I carried my pretentious self, with the good wife in tow to the Barbican last night to soak up a bit of culture and was amazed with the fare. Going to listen to jazz has always been a chore for me, i prefer my music to appeal to my primal rather than my higher faculties and […]
Fostering GaDangme Unity: the Dangme Perspective –
Gadangme Nikasemo Asafo – Public Lecture 14th April 2012 Fostering GaDangme Unity: the Dangme Perspective – By- Nomo Kabu CHARWAY and Nokortama Awuley DOKU. Introduction We thank the executives and members of GaDangme Nikasemo Asafo for the honour to deliver this important, interesting and rather politically and sensitive lecture. We would like to state that, […]
Is it time to ditch the colour Black for our true heritage, African?
Is it time to ditch the colour Black for our true heritage, African? The African Or Black Question: Colour or Heritage? – Ade Sawyerr In an article I wrote last year, I wondered what people of African descent would make of the declaration of 2011 the International Year for People of African Descent, http://www.obv.org.uk/news-blogs/2011-year-people-african-descent, and […]
Kwame Nkrumah: World Peace, African Unity and a United Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah: World Peace, African Unity and a United Ghana I start this retrospective with a quotation on African Unity by Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah and here I quote “We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together […]
6th March 1957 – Independence Day Ghana * What about the future ?
6th March 1957 – Independence Day Ghana – what about the future? * I was not yet seven years old and only in Class 3, but there is no fog around the events of the day, I remember it as vividly as if it had taken place yesterday and have more than once retraced my steps […]
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,300 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to […]
Use more community organisations to prevent knife crime now
Ade Sawyerr argues that it is up to us as individuals and members of community organisations to be vocal, to be willing to get involved and to ensure the right political and economic structures are put in place to tackle knife and gun crime. Youth crime has always been with us in London but has […]
Vision of unity
Vision of unity Ade Sawyerr looks to the future for African and Caribbean in Britain. African and Caribbean people may have followed different routes of migration to Britain and may have different cultural practices but, to all intents and purposes, they are seen by the authorities in this country as one people. The first generation […]