Ambassadorial deals, tours and entertainment shows are either suspended or cancelled after the outbreak of the dreaded coronavirus, otherwise known as COVID-19 pandemic, which has brought the world on its knees.
The coronavirus pandemic has turned the world's arts calendar upside down, as artistes and organisers around the world are...
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...
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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...
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 COVID-19 crisscrosses Africa, and policymakers are implementing emergency responses, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has issued a clarion call to African governments: “In other countries,” he said in March, “we have seen how the virus actually accelerates after a certain tipping point, so the best advice...