March 2024 – Jack Sanger

Open wide. Say Arrgh!

Of course, most Ghanaians never see a dentist. Until recently their teeth weren’t subjected to processed foods with all that sugar and, anyway, apart from having a tooth wrenched out, there would be no thought given to any other treatment. It would be too costly. I paid my first visit to a dental surgery for… Know More
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In Flagrente Delicto

For those of you who are not aware, and there are readers in Mexico, Russia, and in Indonesia, say, for whom it may not be of any interest (they may not like football), the Captain of the current English football team is one John Terry and he has been discovered to have had an affair… Know More
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Swan Upping

So, Tiger Woods is not the only one in the news for belying his carefully manicured image among advertisers, the media and those who held him in such high esteem as a family role model! That bastion of dutiful and faithful creatures, the swan, is now a number one target for those who would uphold… Know More
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Addicted to love…

Addictions appear to be on the increase. Note that I am using the plural here. So what I am talking about is not an increase in the population of addiction but the range of possible addictions available to us all! In the 18th/19th Century, at a time of imperialism and empire building, medicine underwent a… Know More
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Ghana and the ‘opiate of people…’

Intellectuals, who are also religious, have always fascinated me. Since whatever religion one might favour is, at its heart, based on belief rather than fact, I want to know how, contrary to human logic, these usually evidence-based individuals end up constructing a personal cosmology with a god at its centre. There is a story about… Know More
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T Pyxidis is not a glam rock band or a disease, it is a death star……

Well, here we are into the new year and still having difficulty writing 2010 instead of 2009. But it won’t be a problem soon if my recent tv watching is anything to go by. There has been a plethora of programmes about Nostradamus and, in particular, a newly found original work consisting of a few… Know More
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Forever Young: A Trade Secret

Canute is often depicted as trying to repel the waves as he sat on his gilded throne on the sandy shore whereas, in fact, he was teaching his courtiers a lesson. Sick of their sycophancy he was showing them that he was a mortal and had no power to control nature. Thus it is with… Know More
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Vulture on a Hot Tin Roof

So what did I do on Christmas day? Well, it wasn’t the UK story of snow and ice and a red peaked northerner pulling a sleigh. It wasn’t holly and mistletoe and carols at the door. Here in Ghana there are black-skinned red peaked equivalents who are sleigh-less as far as I can gather and… Know More
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Can’t see Woods for Shes

I’ll let you into a secret. I feel less of a man because I can no longer aspire to the perfect symmetries and successes of the Tiger. I stare at my Gillette razors in dismay. They no longer have the magical power to promote youthful skin and manly insouciance. I won’t ever work for or… Know More
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Ex-Pat pontifications

There was the usual shock of recognition as we disembarked from the plane last night in Accra. The temperatures were up near 30 degrees, the humidity was around 70 % and everyone on the plane had been pulling off their UK winter gear to reveal short sleeved shirts and tee shirts or blouses. Being Christmas,… Know More
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