December 2018 (Page 2)

  By Isaac Ato MENSAH Ashaiman – 7 December, 2018.   Magyk Radio in Ashaiman Lebanon organised a formal inauguration of its broadcast on Saturday. They have been broadcasting solely online for nine months. They have no frequency allocated from the National Communications Authority and are unregulated otherwise. ‘Our next target after we launch the Magyk App is online TV. We’re getting cameras and a big place,’ Alhaji Ibrahim Tahiru, the Chief Executive Officer told writersghana.com. ‘We’re here to impact the community, to create jobs. We want to be the mouthpiece of the community’. ‘Any political motive?’, I asked him. ‘No. We want to sayRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Ashaiman – 5 December, 2018.   The Ministry of Health Ghana has just completed a limited yellow fever vaccination campaign. I got my shot in Ashaiman of all places. Hardly do I lose my bearings even in a foreign land. But I got disoriented in Ashaiman even though it was not my first time there. Let us start at the last stop (?lorry station) when you arrive from Accra. The heat was unbearable and everything was in disarray. ‘Low intensity riot’, my mentor will say. I would have failed as an ethnographer; I bought a sachet of “pure” water, stood byRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra – 3 December, 2018. In the wake of the passing of George Hebert Walker Bush, the news media have been celebrating him by recalling quotations from some of his most famous speeches. ‘Read my lips, no new taxes’, is the famous one. Why? He turned his back on his own words and imposed new and higher taxes. No written speech is complete until it is delivered. Due to this fact, even though many discerning people can tell that politicians, business people and even sometimes young clergy have their speeches written for them, they still give full acknowledgement to those whoRead More →