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Of Dogs and Men
Read more: Of Dogs and MenAway from the dogs of war in Libya, Cote d’Ioire, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq – I suppose the list would comprise a whole, dispiriting blog without any further content but this is holiday time as those atheists and agnostics among us piggyback on the Christian calendar. There are a number of churches within earshot of our… Know More
I know it’s only rock and roll…
Read more: I know it’s only rock and roll…I walked into a supermarket in Accra today and asked who was in charge of the poultry section. A nice feller came up to me and said I am the Eggman I wondered whether he had heard of the Beatles and he looked pinched before nodding dubiously. No Ghanaian wants to say no to anything. … Know More
Dear Brother Leader and Sister Burqa
Read more: Dear Brother Leader and Sister BurqaSome news items are difficult to write about. and some not. Libyan citizens (apart from Gaddafi’s own tribe) have generally been oppressed for forty years with secret police instigated disappearances, torture and an absence of the freedoms they would like to take for granted. The African emissaries did themselves much harm in toadying up to… Know More
Blind Spots
Read more: Blind SpotsI was reading a BBC website article on acronyms and the internet this morning and had one of those rude awakenings that my parents must have had after I first played a 78 of Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock as it ushered in teenspeak from the United States which was completely unintelligible to them. … Know More
Upwardly and laterally mobile in Ghana
Read more: Upwardly and laterally mobile in GhanaMaybe life is a struggle for everyone, rich or poor if you see it through the eyes of each individual but it doesn’t look like that from the outside. While students in developed countries fight to maintain their grants and fulfil the expectations of having universal education, albeit with varying degrees of fee-paying in the… Know More
The eyes have it but who cares?
Read more: The eyes have it but who cares?I have always had problems with my eyes and, in the course of a fairly physical as well as intellectual life I have suffered just about every operation on them known to ophthalmologists. If eyes are the windows to the soul, then whatever spiritual essence resides inside must be mutated out of all recognition! … Know More
Skin Deeper
Read more: Skin DeeperI am writing this on the road back from Cape Coast to Accra. We have just spent the weekend on the beach; long stretches of sand and coconut palms, a few local villagers walking to and from Elmina, a small and delightful fishing port. From the chalet they are silhouettes, carrying large basins full of… Know More
Covering the Japanese Tsunami, UK style
Read more: Covering the Japanese Tsunami, UK styleI suppose that the more you travel, the less jingoistic you become. I am three thousand miles from the UK these days and it seems like so many light years from home – not! That’s it, really. Home is for me an ephemeral outdated concept, maybe the place of my childhood or childrearing years but… Know More
It’s life but not as we know it, Captain…
Read more: It’s life but not as we know it, Captain…Leaving aside belief in gods, the hereafter, heaven and hell and the trappings of metaphysics, where are we when we drop, for example, the meta in the last domain? Where are we with science, generally? Do we believe it? The professions are certainly beholden to it. Law now has its forensics, medicine has its pharmaceuticals,… Know More
Enemies of the People
Read more: Enemies of the PeopleAs Gaddafi unleashes sub-Saharan mercenaries, threatening to kill the children in every family that has protested against his tyranny, Cameron the UK Prime Minister is wandering with a band of British arms dealers around Kuwait. His snake oil salesman’s rhetoric runs along the lines of every country needs to defend its borders. After the Libyan… Know More