Apologies in Life

In the last few days—maybe weeks, our airwaves have been filled with condemnations and demands for apologies. These calls started with Nii Lante Vandapuye’s call for people who have non-Ga names to be prevented from registering in Odododiodoo constituency and escalated with Ken Agyapong’s declaration of war.

The Nation Must Secure Nkrumah’s Diary

Regicide is the act of killing a king or ruler and in all ancient cultures regicide carried a curse, especially if the ruler was unjustly sent to the other world. Ghana, more or less, committed regicide on February 24, 1966 when the President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown. The issue here is not whether he deserved to be overthrown, but six years later he died in a hospital in Bucharest of what Amilcar Cabral called the “cancer of betrayal”. Between 1966 and his death in 1972, Nkrumah expressed his political views publicly in a number of books, notably Dark Days in Ghana, Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare, The Struggle Continues and Voices from Conakry.