Blog (Page 18)

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 Like some of you might have experienced, life and learning sometimes conspire to ensure that you are no longer active.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 →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH/Engr. Kwame OFORI-ADDO Accra – 5 March, 2019 Wednesday 6th March, 2019 is the sixty-second Independence anniversary of our beloved country Ghana. Congratulations to H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, president of the Republic of Ghana and Commander-in-chief of the Ghana Armed Forces. And Happy Anniversary to all Ghanaians and people of Ghanaian descent, both home and wherever dispersed over the surface of earth and water. This year’s national parade takes place in Tamale, the first national parade to be held outside Accra. It is to mark the enskinment in January of Ya-Na Abukari Mahama II, the Overlord of the Dagomba kingdom. NoRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Akyem Dompim – 4 March, 2019 A researcher is required to be impartial in his investigation, even if (s)he is a participant observer in a qualitative study. But in Akyem Dompim, I broke down; my hands became weak, I could not write nor ask any further questions; I just sat there for about 10-minute intervals several times. A simple close-ended question brought up issues that got me thinking so many things. ‘Oye awereho,’ to wit, ‘it is sad’, was how a man and his wife ended their narratives. ‘I have a small cocoa farm and a taxi which has broken down,’Read More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra – 1 March, 2019 The Communication Students Association (COMSA) of Wisconsin International University College (WIUC) Ghana on Thursday celebrated one year of their newspaper production. The occasion was also used to launch COMSA. But the survival of the newspaper was the burning issue. ‘We have decided to do digital migration; anybody who wants to read the latest news can get it online,’ said the editor of a leading national paper. ‘But if you have [to choose between] the free content online and the hard copy, you will go for the free content online.’ He further explained that perhaps the mostRead More →

By Lilly Adjorkor ADJEI Accra- 27 February, 2019 Widespread discussions continue on the recent multiple financial scandals within our nation. These discussions often revolve on who to blame for these crises; the greed of some investors; the lack of knowledge of others; incompetence of regulators such as Bank of Ghana, auditors and the institutions themselves. The solutions were then easy to identify. But is this the first time Ghana is experiencing such turmoil within the financial sector? The answer is No! We have had the likes of CB Net Marketing Concepts, E Finance, DKM and now The Menzgold saga, as well as the collapse ofRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra- 25 February, 2019 This is the time when public intellectuals have to step up and speak up – down with public opinion; we are in crisis mode! Occasionally, along with chatter on social media platforms, there is a query over the range and domain of some article posted on a particular platform (pardon my mathematics). Questions arise whether such and such a topic is appropriate or could be discussed on a platform or not. Surely, we all have experienced that before. It is always good to set the ground rules for the platforms so that “brethren or sisteren” do notRead More →