Category: Issues

A category focusing on the issues that plaque that African continent. All you need to know about poverty, malaria, HIV/AID, african stereotypes, africans struggle in the west, bad leadership at home

Does Civil Rights Equal the Right to Be Scared of Other People?

If  like most minorities, you are wrestling with uncomfortable stereotypes, prejudice and bigotry, someone who was once a civil rights activist is making the fight appear fruitless. It is said that if you live in glass house, do not be the first to throw a stone. Juan Williams, a long time respected NPR analyst did… Continue reading Does Civil Rights Equal the Right to Be Scared of Other People?

Some field evidence on what Ghanaians think of the 4th Republican Constitution

I present the results of a survey that was conducted from February 22, 2010 to March 21, 2010. The purpose of the survey was to collate the views of Ghanaians everywhere on the 4th Republican Constitution. Survey respondents participated voluntarily by accessing a link that was placed on www. Ghanaweb.com and other chat rooms known… Continue reading Some field evidence on what Ghanaians think of the 4th Republican Constitution

Where Ghana Went Right: How one African country emerged intact from its post-colonial struggles, John Schram

John Schram, Senior fellow with the Queen’s Centre for International Relations, Former Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Liberia from 1994 to 1998. Early one December morning in 1965, a few months after my arrival in Ghana, I was jolted out of a tropical sleep by a pile of Daily Graphic newspapers whumping… Continue reading Where Ghana Went Right: How one African country emerged intact from its post-colonial struggles, John Schram

We have your number – Ugandan nespaper presents ‘gay list’

An Uganda Newspaper has published the list of top “homosexuals” or Ugandan gays on the front page with a bright yellow banner across it that read: “Hang Them”. Names, photographs and addresses of the Ugandan gays were also made public . The paper’s editor, Giles Muhame, defended the list and said he published it to… Continue reading We have your number – Ugandan nespaper presents ‘gay list’

We’re in to Fight it, Congolese Women tell Rapists in Protest

The  first lady of the the Democratic Republic of Congo’s has led thousands of women on a march against sexual violence. Many of them carried banners with slogans such as “No to sexual terrorism”, according to the AFP news agency. It is reported that some of the victims left the hospitals where they are recovering from… Continue reading We’re in to Fight it, Congolese Women tell Rapists in Protest