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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 30 March 2020 The only time I met Oko Dagadu, the veteran broadcaster, was an uplifting moment for minority languages anywhere in the world. The details. One early Homowo season in 2017, Alhaji Ahmed Salim Sowah, my preferred aide de camp at Radio Latenu 96.1MhZ accompanied me to North Ridge, Accra. We entered the home of Amatei Akuete, president of Ga Adangbe Council who succeeded the venerable KB Asante. The Ga Adangbe Council was founded as an independent think tank to promote Ga language and culture. Inside the house we also met Oko Dagadu, the legendary Ga language broadcaster/producerRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 26 March, 2020 History tells us that during the 1948 riots, colonial subjects directed protesters away from disrupting a polo match between Europeans and Africans. A group of our forebears were retreating from the Christiansborg Cross Roads demonstration where three ex servicemen had been shot, and this group angry at the colonialists got to the Old Polo Grounds opposite the Supreme Court building. There, Africans prevented their fellow subjects from disrupting the polo match. Were our educated forebears selfish, weak or brainwashed? No, they were educated, enlightened and principled. As a matter of fact, the Gold Coast intelligentsia, politicalRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 20 March, 2020 We met at Kibroth Hattaavah In a symbiotic palaver We are thriving as joint decision makers From a climate change crisis And we were hard As hard as air And we were so bold to lay down our lives We came in as a disease Like slay yeasts We infected thousands Like personae non gratae And we learned fast to be streetwise Our infamy was heavy But our aim was heaven We dug in steep And rallied deep And prayed to God with all of our might We had no science To cure our signs AndRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 13 March, 2020 The University of Ghana, Legon, has a proud history, but there is a widespread and persistent basic misunderstanding of its name. Legon, is a Ga village – it belongs to the people of La, Accra – where Lɛɛ, “a small kind of antelope” according to an old Ga dictionary, roamed its hills with its litter ahead of it. On account of this common sight, the indigenes called the environs between Okponglo and Achimota, Lɛɛgon, meaning antelope hill. The University of Ghana registry, Great Hall and Vice Chancellor’s residence are located on top of the hill calledRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 9 March, 2020 The 360-degree feedback system is fraught with serious problems, but many organizations still use it. Let us therefore present a review of the literature so that HR practitioners may be accordingly guided. Monalisa Mohapatra (2015) reviewed the scholarly work of 30 different authors about the 360-degree feedback spanning a period of 19 years, namely 1996 to 2015, and concluded that “Until and unless the process and the purpose of the implementation is clear to the people within the organization it will never be a success”. The literature shows clearly that where soft skills are being measuredRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 6 March, 2020 The Baba Yara Sports Stadium Friday saw a mixture of Ghana and ghana – nostalgia and some sub-par performances. Let us share our observations. National pledge – the president placed his right hand on his belly instead of his heart/left breast. A cameraman, was seen running in front of the president’s moving SUV, and later other cameramen ran through the president’s convoy while security personnel looked on. The resplendent police mounted squadron again escorted the president because we run a civilian administration and the police are designated for civilian duties. But then the parade inspection wasRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 3 March, 2020 There have been many times in ghana when other professionals have rightly accused journalists of a lack of simple comprehension of the facts. This therefore calls for a constant watch on our public discourse by all and sundry. It is a tough assignment since every single day all kinds of factual errors and unenlightened thoughts and ideas are bandied about in our ghanaian public space. Worst of all, these are often written up and lodged on the Internet proving disgraceful and dishonorable to the country as a whole. Policing and exposing these terrible ideas is almostRead More →