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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Friday 28 January 2022 As I enter into birthday mode, it is time to share a bit more about myself with our favourite readers. Some say I am a “fake writer”; that I do not exist.  Others still believe some people have been writing for me.  I do not begrudge them; they’re not alone in that belief; my friends/acquaintances may be puzzled that an introvert could be so blunt. At age 22, I was asked at 24 hours notice by Reverend Father Joseph Egblewogbe, then assistant parish priest of Martyrs of Uganda Catholic Church, Mamprobi, Accra, to deliver inRead More →

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  Authored by Rev. E.A.W. Engmann; Regnum Africa 2021: ISBN 9 789988 3 19625    Manuscript compiled by Rev. Dr. Philip T. Laryea, Akrofi-Christaller Institute   Review by Isaac Ato Mensah, Accra – 30 December, 2021 When I was growing up in Accra, never once was I made to feel awkward for being literate in Ga or for speaking Ga, which is not my ethnic language.  Sadly today, I have become accustomed to being asked whether I am a Ga indegene anytime I speak Ga in public.  It is a sign of the times for such a question does not make sense.  But I am not naive: stereotypesRead More →