The Three Kings
Prior to December 31, 2019, the running theme in preparation for the coming year seemed to be one of fatalism. All over social media, people yapped about how they were not going to make New Year’s resolutions for 2020. Their reasoning had been that these resolutions never...
So, Ama Ata Aidoo is 80 years old. Yay! I have met her just once. Well, I can’t really say I met her. She visited our school (Wesley Girls’ High School) one time when we put on a show of her play, The Dilemma of a Ghost. And I...
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Plunged headlong into this...unprepared
Pushed to spend and expend...unbudgeted
Pressed to take harsh steps...unplanned
Propose and impose daytime curfew...unpleasant
Pained to inflict daily austerity...unintentional
There was panic in the pandemic
...at the sound of a virus
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Aged and ageing
...all at risk of sliding down and out
Ailing and failing limbs
...all wailing at the hanging clouds
Action and reaction
...all...
“Imagine spending a month or so in a lock down with a partner you officially hate, essentially despise, primarily abhor, incredibly detest, and categorically dislike! It would be better to serve time in some unknown corona concentration camp, far away from your veritable nemesis than spend a month of...
“Your here is there and your there is never here yet.”
In your haste you’ll create waste. You need to get closer to things to tell their true colours and form. For this, I agree. At least that is what most of us learnt. The content, though, very important, always...
If you’re running a small business, chances are you wear many caps under the sun. From accountant to sales person to marketer and beyond, it’s understandable that “make a crisis communications strategy” hasn’t made it to the top of your to-do list yet. But I’m here to make the...
From London to Lombardy, from Madrid to New York, from Lagos to my home city of Accra, streets are empty, businesses are shut and social activities curtailed. The cities are in lockdown. The deadly covid-19 has forced once buzzing cities to go quite like the cemetery in my hometown,...
…either we change or something will change us
“These are not normal times.” Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo used these words when he addressed the nation on March 15, 2020 on the covid-19 global pandemic which had entered the country. Many other leaders and people across the world have used these same...
As part of measures to support businesses and households during the Coronavirus pandemic, President Akufo-Addo has announced that government will absorb three months free electricity bills for the poor, and 50 percent for industries and other households.
The relief package which covers bills for April, May, and June, follows an...
Director of Public Health of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Badu Sarkodie has made a startling revelation during his routine meet-the-press series to throw light on the COVID-19 situation in the country.
Contrary to what is widely believed to be true that young people are somewhat immune to the...