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Special Feature: African Democracy

Special Feature

African Democracy

The Twisted African Democratic Revolutions

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

Either in Libya, Nigeria, Chad, Egypt or Tunisia, the African nation-state, from its birth, has been in some sort of undeviating inanimate democratic revolution. The reason is that the African state, as a political entity, is yet to have everlasting grip with the African nation, as a community, hence the almost constant schisms and the revolutions. African revolutions occur not because of the African community, which is intact, but the African state, which is unbalanced and unreflective of Africans’ innate democratic feelings.

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posted on Friday, September 02, 2011 11:44 AM by egsankara

Commentary: Africa And The Culture Question In Development

Commentary

Africa’s Culture Question

Ghana/Sierra Leone/Africa Development

 By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

As progress act, Africans are questioning their culture in terms of their advancement. The strategic issue of culture in Africa’s progress is gaining momentum. In Ghana, the culture-progress debate has given birth to an enlightenment movement.

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posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 3:37 PM by egsankara

Breaking News: D5,000,000 Missing At GPA, Jabou Jammeh Sits In Police Cell

Breaking News

As 5-Million Dalasis disappear at GPA

   Ms. Jabou Jammeh sits in police jail

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-in-Chief

In yet another case of an unprecedented scale of official corruption involving the Jammeh family network, The Gambia Echo reports with unimpeachable evidence that well over five million Gambian Dalasis (approximately $200,000) went missing at Gambia’s beleaguered seaport, The Gambia Ports Authority better known by its acronym, GPA.

M. L. Gibba Ex-GPA MD

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posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 3:28 AM by egsankara

Gambian Letter Writer Reflects On Jammeh's Misrule

The Gambia, 17years under Jammeh

 Dear Mr. Editor,

We are now into seventeen years of APRC rule under the man of seven or eight decorated titles. I hope Gambians would take some time to look back and seriously make a good analysis of APRC then and now. Mr. Editor, it’s been a while since I left The Gambia, I don’t know if school children are still gathered on July 22nd and February 18th to sing for the Banjul Airport terminal, which does not even have the capacity of a single concourse, while airports in many countries generally carry up to seven concourses.

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posted on Thursday, August 11, 2011 5:40 AM by egsankara

Amnesty Reports Hundreds Killed And Tortured In The Gambia

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

PRESS RELEASE

 22 July 2011

Gambia: Hundreds disappeared, killed and tortured

Gambia must act to improve the deteriorating human rights situation across the country, Amnesty International said in a campaign document released today. Climate of Fear Continues: Enforced disappearances, killings and torture in Gambia details how cases of enforced disappearances are yet to be resolved after several years, those involved in unlawful killings have not been identified and bought to justice, and torture is still widely used by the security forces.

 Africa's insane human butcher, Yahya Jammeh

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posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 4:36 AM by egsankara

Echo Legal Analysis:The Political Implications Of Dr. Amadou Janneh's Treason Allegations

Analysis

Treason: The Criminal Offence Dr Amadou Scattred Janneh did not commit

By Lamin J Darbo, JD, London UK

As a criminal offence, it sounds melodramatic, even extraordinary. No surprise that treason is seen as occupying the apex of political offences. It evokes sentiments associated with danger, death, even the ingredients of general mayhem.

Free Dr Amadou S Janneh Now

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posted on Thursday, July 21, 2011 2:46 PM by egsankara

The Gambia Alert: Ex-GPU Head, Ndey Tapha Sosseh, Mathew K. Jallow And Famara Demba Added To Treason List

The Gambia ALERT: Ex-Press Union Boss, six others accused of overthrowing President Yahya Jammeh 

Ndey Tapha Sosseh, the immediate past President of The Gambian Press Union (GPU) and two other Gambians, were on July 19, 2011charged in the ongoing treason trial involving Dr. Amadou Scattered Janneh, a former Minister of Communication and three others for allegedly distributing materials demanding an end to the authoritarian rule of President Yahya Jammeh.

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posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 2:21 PM by egsankara

Commentary: Ghana's Former President Rawlings Suffers Humiliation

Commentary

Ghana/Africa

 

Finally, Jerry Rawlings gets Democratic Shower

 

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

 

The so-called founder of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), ex-president Jerry Rawlings, is an unhappy man. By nature he is at home with dictatorship, loud noise and being at the center of the stage. Rawlings didn’t get all these at the national delegates’ congress of the NDC in Sunyani, Brong Ahafo on July 9 billed to elect a presidential candidate.

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posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:03 AM by egsankara

The Gambia: Opposition Unity Remains Illusive Dream

Commentary

I am distraught

 By Karamba Touray

 In the last 24 hours I have heard public comments from United Democratic Party (UDP) leader, Ousainou Darboe restating both his desire for a united opposition and his optimism that one would be forthcoming. I have also heard Halifa Sallah on VOA restate his wish for a united

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posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 9:38 AM by egsankara

Echo Analysis: Economics And Development In Ghana

EchoAnalysis

Economic surge, but inequality on the rise

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, BA, MA, MJ, Montreal, Canada

On the streets of Ghana’s top cities, Kumasi and Accra, it is easy to observe increases in the perennial beggars – from the physically disabled to healthy men and women of all ages. “Please could you spare some change,” is a constant irritating tune. Aside from the beggars, more Ghanaians are falling below the poverty line of US$2.00 a day. No doubt, labour strikes have become daily occurrence.

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posted on Friday, July 15, 2011 8:49 PM by egsankara

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Dr Fox says...

   

Extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; as if there were no difference to be made between the killing (of) a man and the taking (of) his purse, between which, if we examine things impartially, there is no likeness nor proportion .~ Sir Thomas More in Utopia, Bk 1. (1516)

 

 
 
 
 
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