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Myopia and mortality
Read more: Myopia and mortalityThere is little motivation among societies’ leaders to take a long term view when establishing policies. That is why we have environmental disasters, genocide, diseases, poverty, multinational corporations overruling the interest of ordinary folks, bank collapses etc etc. Everything is measured in terms of their own lives and their own comforts. It is not just… Know More
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The drying of the will
Read more: The drying of the willThe hot, dry winds from the Sahara still blow across Accra. The dust gets thicker and the attempts to stave it off become more desultory. Any notion you might have that equatorial Ghana is plush with forest, dripping water, snakes and crocodiles must be relinquished immediately! It is an effort to keep vivacity going through… Know More
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The dust settles on Accra
Read more: The dust settles on AccraI was reminded of Dickens’ Bleak House this last week because Ghana is experiencing the Hamatan. It is dry and the sir is full of Sahara dust. Read the quote from the beginning of Dickens’ novel and substitute dust for fog, and you get the picture! Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows… Know More
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Lies, damn lies and poor interpretations of statistics
Read more: Lies, damn lies and poor interpretations of statisticsFunnily enough, when I was flying back from Japan, I saw a programme called Freakonomics based on the book of the same name. I hadn’t read the book but understood it was a lateral look at the myths that can abound when people make wrong inferences from data. Well, two outcomes that stuck in my… Know More
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The Disease of Disney and the Solace of Zen
Read more: The Disease of Disney and the Solace of ZenJapan is an oyster whose pearl is the asceticism of Zen and the consequent aesthetic of minimalism. Thousands of years of philosophical struggle with the eternal questions of existence and thereafter run a deep course beneath its modernity. I have to admit I am deeply affected by it. It needs protection from the global consumerism… Know More
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Masks or blindfolds
Read more: Masks or blindfoldsI am in Japan at the moment. It is a relief to be back in a culture where there is no tipping of waiters, no backhanders to get things done, and a country where people bow and show respect at all times (except the Yakusa!). Not that I have ever been a traditionalist, bemoaning the… Know More
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Charles and Camilla
Read more: Charles and CamillaOne of those symbolic moments occurred the other day on Regent’s Street, London, captured in a short take of film by a lucky photographer. And from it was extracted a single frame of film in which Camilla stares open-mouthed and Charles in bemused consternation at the parallel universe beyond the glass of their vehicle. The… Know More
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You Dear Reader, may not exist…!
Read more: You Dear Reader, may not exist…!There is an excellent series on BBC Knowledge showing in Ghana at the moment. I suppose you may have been able to see it a year or two ago but time here does not behave like yours does. Last night I watched Morgan Freeman, who fronts it, ask what the latest scientific proof might be… Know More
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Whose God is it Anyway?
Read more: Whose God is it Anyway?There they were in Israel trying to change the course of nature which, according to Sky News had become biblical in its form and effect. There is a seven year drought and we all know that plagues, pestilences, floods and the like go in seven year cycles in the Old Testament. God might work in… Know More
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On level playing pitches and moving goal posts
Read more: On level playing pitches and moving goal postsSo, as I mentioned a couple of emails ago, FIFA had little intention of supporting England’s bid, despite it being the best constructed, most viable and economically beneficial to grass roots football throughout the world. The 22, largely old men, who are steeped in forms of negotiation and power that are beyond the comprehension and… Know More