March 2019

By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 29 March, 2019 Today, at the University of Ghana (UG), Legon, an important seminar on literature will take place. The theme is, ‘Radio – a platform for literature: Ghanaian literary broadcast cultures’. The speakers are Prof Helen Yitah, Prof Audrey Gadzekpo and Dr Victoria Smith, all of UG. On such an occasion, an opportunity arises for a national introspection on the literary discourse of our political actors and their civil/public servant appointees, since an inordinate amount of radio time is devoted to them as news sources/newsmakers. Most of Ghana’s political debates take place on radio, with political party spokespersonsRead More →

By Brenya Edward Kwabena Owusu, School of Communication Studies, WIUC-GHANA Wisconsin Accra – 27 March, 2019 When Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took over as interim manager of his beloved former club Manchester United, not much was expected of him. But after 19 games in all competitions since his appointment on 19 December 2018, the former super sub of the club has recorded 14 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. But has he done enough to convince the board? This question will be answered either in May or even sooner. Solskjaer, however, still has a contract he needs to honour at his parent club Molde and theyRead More →

By Robert Gbari Gariba Dubai – 25 March, 2019 REMARKS BY ROBERT GBARI GARIBA, GHANA TEACHER PRIZE WINNER FOR 2018 ON THE OCCASION OF THE GLOBAL TEACHER PRIZE 2019 AWARDS CEREMONY HELD IN DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ON 24 MARCH, 2019. Your Excellences, Heads of Government, directors of the Varkey Foundation, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, I am deeply humbled by the great honour that you have accorded me as Global Teacher Prize Nominee for 2019. Thank you all very much for being so gracious. It has been very exciting to be here in this great megapolis, Dubai. I have met many gifted, devoted and wonderfulRead More →

By Nana Ama Asiedua Boateng, School of Communication Studies, WIUC-GHANA Wisconsin, Accra – 22 March, 2019 As a chorister and a lover of choral music, music has inspired and blessed me in indescribable ways. The Methodist hymnal used by the Methodist Church Ghana (my mother church) contains 984 hymns, and 78 Canticles and Psalms. The words in each hymn have a way of reflecting the word of God in our lives. Sometimes the lyrics of a hymn are a form of prayer on their own when they are sung with a genuine and faithful heart. And of course there is almost always the accompanying pulsatingRead More →

By Lilly Adjorkor Adjei Tema – 20 March, 2019 Formulating a decision on the concept of the right form of education has suddenly become an enormous political matter in Ghana. The transition from the industrial age to the information age has caused a situation whereby the quality of information you possess and what you do with it determines your economic value. This has led to an increased importance for entrepreneurship. The paradigm shift to entrepreneurship now requires a new approach to learning. Consequently as a society, we ought to invest and inculcate the requisite skills into children. This should help them leapfrog Ghana’s lag inRead More →

By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 18 March, 2019 The dumbing down of the Ghanaian Kaba with slit (Kabsort) by our women ambassadors is bad, period. It does not depict deference, good taste and well…….class. Now shoot me! We do not want to demoralise them, but we shall play our vanguard role as always and say what needs to be said; we do not mind if we provoke them. Let us begin with Maame Foriwa (Foowah), my maternal grandmother and her ‘Kabsort’, a corrupted word for Kaba with slit. I used to iron them for her as a young boy. In fact, she taught meRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra – 15 March, 2019 I have many initiation dates – all of which I hold dear and celebrate. I know my date of birth, baptism, First Holy Communion, initiation into the Catholic Youth Organisation and so on and so forth. Like some of you might have experienced, life and learning sometimes conspire to ensure that you are no longer active. ‘I have disowned you as my son; if we meet somewhere we don’t know each other,’ some friends have reported their parents as saying. Yes, you may cease to be a member of an organisation, for whatever reason, but doRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Tema – 13 March, 2019 The Narh-Bita Hospital is 40 years old – and Dr Narh is 80 – this 1st August! Hurray!!! The family of Dr Edward Narh together with his staff in all the Narh-Bita institutions have every reason to be proud of themselves. The Narh-Bita College (NBC) logo, no doubt, symbolises a more complete representation of the mission of Narh-Bita. Symbols – even words used in mottos, slogans and taglines – open themselves to speculative analysis, which when properly performed must be consistent with history, logic and the traditions in use within the organisation. So let us attemptRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra – 11 March, 2019 With today’s publication we have hit a century of articles on this blog; we have been blogging thrice weekly since 26 July, 2018. It had been tough deciding, among many options, what to publish as the 100th article. The International Women’s Day came in as the winner, partly because the Catholic clergy’s cover up of abuses of women and the recent sentencing of some clergy by civil courts had also been on the shortlist. Whilst the global community is fighting for women’s empowerment, our ghanaian leaders – BECAUSE THEY DO NOT READ – are dumbing downRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra – 8 March, 2019 The title of this article was a question posed to me by one of my students in class during the last lecture for February. Let’s call her Sister A. ‘I may not want to be a journalist, so why force me to study Online Journalism and with it blogging as a core course in a communication school?, queried Sister A. ‘The blogging is my problem.’ Fair question. It brought to mind columnist Nana Prof Darkwa’s ICT Corner article published in the Ghanaian Times on 11 February, 2019. Darkwa argued that ICT will soon enable tertiary studentsRead More →