CPP -The enemy is not within our party, the enemy is out there!
CPP -The enemy is not within our party, the enemy is out there! by Ade Sawyerr – London As an ardent supporter of the Convention Peoples Party, events over the past few months have almost thrown me into a state of despair. But as a firm believer in God, I am confident that these rows […]
Has Samia Come To Save Or Bury The CPP?
by Ekow Nelson The overwhelming victory of Samia Nkrumah in the national executive elections at the recent Extraordinary CPP Congress was both an emphatic repudiation of the ‘old guard’ and an affirmation of the deep affection her father Osageyfo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah continues to enjoy among party members. But will this symbolic and substantive shift at […]
Of Chiefs, Drumming, Dancing , Fufu and Culture
By Gilbert Nii-Okai Addy http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/photo.day.php?ID=215437 I’ve just been looking at these pictures ( clink on the link above ) from the Chicago GhanaFest a week or two ago; said to be the biggest pan-Ghanaian cultural festival outside Ghana. I just could not help wondering why on earth so many Ghanaians seem so psychologically and emotionally […]
Should Africa be scared of the Chinese exploration?
Should Africa be scared of the Chinese exploration? Submitted 4 Aug 2011 11:40am in News Ade Sawyerr, one of Britain’s foremost African thinkers gives an insight into an emerging relationship between African countries and the Chinese Republic. Should Africa now look East and abandon the long-standing albeit rocky relationship with the West. Ade informs. David […]
President Obama: What a week!
Home › News › President Obama: What a week! President Obama: What a week! Submitted 3 May 2011 11:08am in News OBama, ‘one ‘helluva’ of a lucky and smart President’ writes Ekow Nelson. The former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson once observed that “a week is a long time in politics”. And what a week […]
The rights and problems associated with Ga Lands
Rexford Dodoo – Lecture given on 9th April 2011 at GaDangme Nikasemo Asafo Chairman Nii Nortei Omaboe, Chief moderator, Mr Ade Sawyerr, Mr King Quarcoo, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen: It is a great pleasure to be with you in this Hall in Balham this evening, and I am very grateful to the three named […]
“High-tech lynching of an uppity black man” – America’s Day of Shame
“High-tech lynching of an uppity black man” – America’s Day of ShameEkow Nelson So the United States, the most advanced nation on earth capable of dropping precision-guided missiles to pick out targets in the thickest of forests, had been hoodwinked by a 49 year-old into voting for him even though he knew he was not […]
8th April 2011 – submission to the constitutional commission: All coups are illegal
8th April 2011 – submission to the constitutional commission: All coups are illegal – Ade Sawyerr As an active citizen I like to comment on world, British and Ghanaian politics. I also discharge my civic duties by voting in all elections without fail, but as an Nkrumaist living in London, I tend to go the […]
Brixton Uprisings 1981 – 30 years on
Brixton uprisings – 1981 – 2011 Submitted 11 Apr 2011 10:59am in News Yesterday was the 30th year since the Brixton Uprisings of 1981. On its anniversary Ade Sawyerr’s advice is that the black community must take ownership of its problems and fashion its own solutions. Thirty years after the Brixton Uprising that was a […]
Shame on you Carlton Cole
Home › News › Shame on you Carlton Cole Submitted 6 Apr 2011 1:34pm in News The ‘immigration’ tweets that Carlton Cole sent may have been funny in his view but it was ignorant in my opinion. Writes Ade Sawyerr. Carlton Cole an ‘English’ England International footballer created a backlash by remarks he posted […]
The Elephant in the Room: micro-aggressions
© Ferdinand Orleans-Lindsay 2010 David James Smith’s feature article in the Sunday Times Magazine in early August of 2010 triggered a surprisingly intense churning of consciousness in more ways than he is ever likely to appreciate. His use of the expression ‘micro-aggressions’ to depict the variety of subtle devices deployed by white people in this […]
Equinox Consulting! Celebrating 28 years of service to the black community in Britain
The Equinox Consulting story The story of Equinox Consulting can be likened to a journey of hard work with a lot of fulfilment along the way; but like all journeys, things do not always go as planned. There are detours and there are new objectives that get set up along the journey. The business model […]
A belated Happy Birthday to my late Grandfather – the Honourable Akilagpa Sawyerr
Pudor doceri non potest, nasci potest, (modesty cannot be bought, it must be born), wrote Publilius Syrus in his Sententiae: for indeed modesty cannot be taught, but must be born with the individual. And so rightly too did Demades, the Greek author, in his writings refer to modesty as “the citadel of beauty and […]
6th March 1957 – Interdependence – Ghana Union
I wrote this piece 12 years ago for the Ghana Union Newsletter ‘Amanie’ and have made some minor changes to reflect that we are now entering the 54th year of our independence ============================================================================================= Independence suggests that one can survive without external and therefore means that there is interval viability. In the real world everyone needs […]
The Martyrs of our independence – 28th February 1948
The Martyrs of our independence – 28th February 1948 Lift high the flag of Ghana, The gay star shining in the sky, Bright with the souls of our fathers, Beneath whose shade we’ll live and die! Red for the blood of the heroes in the fight, Green for the precious¹ farms of our birth-right, And […]
Big Society: One size fits all?
Big Society: One size fits all? Submitted 25 Feb 2011 10:52am in News One size does not fit all. Give government work programme contracts to local organisations says business and training consultant Ade Sawyerr. The Conservatives won the election in 1983 because the country did not want to relive the crisis of the mid to late […]
Will there ever be a British Dream?
Home › News › Will there ever be a British dream? Will there ever be a British dream? Submitted 18 Feb 2011 12:07pm in News The Prime Mininster’s recent Munich speech caused a backlash from UK BME communities. Ade Sawyerr highlights a thread of the controversy to examine whether Black Britons could ever follow the American […]
Egypt: Change has come and with it an opportunity for a more principled foreign policy approach
http://www.obv.org.uk/news-blogs/egypt-change-has-come News Change has come to Egypt and with it an opportunity for a more principled foreign policy approach – Ade Sawyerr Events of the past fortnight culminating in the turfing out of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president of 30 years should signal an end to an old era of foreign policy objectives by America […]
Voting has not solved the problem of the Ivory Coast but military intervention may worsen it.
Voting has not solved the problem of the Ivory Coast but military intervention may worsen it. http://www.obv.org.uk/news-blogs/ivory-coast-view-crisis The challenges in Cote d’Ivoire did not start with this election; they have their roots in the creation of a colonial state and simplistic demands for military action from the UN and the former colonial masters, France will […]
What are Black people in Britain to make out of this international year for people of African Descent? – Ade Sawyerr
2011, Year for People of African Descent http://adesawyerr.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/what-are-black-people-in-britain-to-make-out-of-this-international-year-for-people-of-african-descent-ade-sawyerr/ Submitted 11 Jan 2011 9:21am in News 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 […]