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kofi Akosah-Sarpong – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com Connecting To Advance Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:45:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.talkafrique.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ta_logo22-150x92.jpg kofi Akosah-Sarpong – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com 32 32 The First Lady and The Pregnant African Women http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-lady-and-the-pregnant-african-women http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-lady-and-the-pregnant-african-women#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:43:11 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=10331 Commentary/Ghana/Africa For the past years, the Ghana’s enlightenment movement have shown that rational choices are essential to how Africans distinguish and argue about their culture in relation to their progress. The enlightenment campaigners have identified cultural challenges – from the impact of witchcraft to developing policies from within the African culture – and raised their …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-lady-and-the-pregnant-african-women/feed 1 At last, African Culture in Mainstream Thinking http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/african-culture-in-mainstream-thinking http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/african-culture-in-mainstream-thinking#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:49:55 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=10282 Opinion/Ghana/Africa   The “City Forum on Culture and Development,” a policy orientated venture held in Accra to openly strategize the African culture for African progress reveal the increasing attention being given to the African culture.. For almost 50 years, the African culture, either because of colonialism or bad intellectual savvy by African elites, has not …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/african-culture-in-mainstream-thinking/feed 2 The 2012 Elections: The Juju-Marabou Games Gegin http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/politics-ghana-elections-2012-superstitions http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/politics-ghana-elections-2012-superstitions#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:16:11 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=10248 Commentary/Ghana/Africa It doesn’t matter if Ghana’s 2012 general elections is a year away; campaigning of some sorts is underway. Democracy-crazy, everyday appears to be campaigning day. The mass media is charged. Character, development issues, policies and programmes jumble easily with foul language and the irrational juju-marabou spiritual predictions. The past veers into the present and …

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]]> Campaigning for Africa’s Research and Development http://www.talkafrique.com/science-and-technology/campaigning-for-africas-research-and-development Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:14:59 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=10050 Commentary/Ghana/Africa It is encouraging to hear these days the constant talks about research and development (R&D) in Ghana’s/Africa’s progress. Propositions of setting up high-level research and training institutes in crucial fields such as green technology, crop improvement, tropical medicine, deforestation, water supply and desertification are becoming daily issues not only in Ghana but in one …

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]]> Harmonizing the Unrealistic Education System http://www.talkafrique.com/science-and-technology/harmonizing-the-unrealistic-education-system http://www.talkafrique.com/science-and-technology/harmonizing-the-unrealistic-education-system#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:26:07 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9999 Commentary/Ghana/Africa Education The mass failure of Junior High School students at this year’s national examination, a worsening trend over the past couple of years, has sent educationists, parents, the mass media and Accra scrambling for answers. Is it the quality of teachers? Is it lack of educational material? Is it the environment? Is it the …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/science-and-technology/harmonizing-the-unrealistic-education-system/feed 1 Democracy or Prosperity, Which Comes First In Africa’s Bid for Prosperity http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/democracy-or-prosperity-in-africa%e2%80%99s-bid-for-prosperity Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:16:39 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9895 As Africa’s democracy gradually evolves, the arguments are whether Africa should concentrate on creating prosperity first and then grow its democracy later or build up its democracy first and then use it to develop its prosperity. This thinking has come about because of the on-going democratic revolutions occurring in Africa, in places such as Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, and multi-party democratic elections after elections have become recurring rituals.

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]]> Kofi Busia: A Stimulant For Today’s Democracy http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/kofi-busia-a-stimulant-for-today-democracy http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/kofi-busia-a-stimulant-for-today-democracy#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:16:34 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9794 Feature/Ghana/Africa Democracy Ghanaians are enjoying their 19-year-old democracy. Why not! They have spent most of their 54-year statehood in autocratic one-party systems and dictatorial military juntas. Freedoms, a very critical indicator of their democracy, are breaking out everywhere, wheeling the democratic tenets. One will never believe that this was a country where at some time …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-president-god-and-progress/feed 1 The Twisted African Democratic Revolutions http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-twisted-african-democratic-revolutions Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:57:02 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9676 Either in Libya, Nigeria, Chad, Egypt or Tunisia, the African nation-state, from its birth, has been in some sort of undeviating inanimate democratic revolution. The reason is that the African state, as a political entity, is yet to have everlasting grip with the African nation, as a community, hence the almost constant schisms and the revolutions. African revolutions occur not because of the African community, which is intact, but the African state, which is unbalanced and unreflective of Africans’ innate democratic feelings

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