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Who promotes corruption in Africa?		Nov 1, 2009	4286
Talking to the deaf.		Nov 1, 2009	1632
The father of African emancipation: 23 September 2009 marked exactly 50 years since the death of the man who quietly worked behind the scenes for the total liberation of Africa: Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, otherwise known as George Padmore. Here, Cameron Duodu, who knew him, pays tribute to the man widely known in his day as "the father of African emancipation".		Oct 1, 2009	3190
The Asamoah Boateng affair: the troubles of Mr Asamoah Boateng, a former Ghanaian minister of information, in the hands of the Ghana Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) should make him go down in history, and it is awful that the BNI should be acting as if the country were still under military rule.		Oct 1, 2009	1554
Obama do something before you go.		Aug 1, 2009	4591
Obama akwaaba: some things never change in Ghana, and not even a visit by the world's most powerful man, the American president, Barack Obama, could help make the lessons in Ghanaianism a bit more palatable.	Column	Aug 1, 2009	1636
Omar Bongo and his worldly possessions: "[Francophone] Africa without France is like a car without a driver. But France without Africa is like a car without petrol"--Omar Bongo, president of Gabon, who died on 8 June after 42 years in power.		Jul 1, 2009	1598
Where did all the money go? (Part II): what is a Ponzi scheme? And what made the difference between the collapsed businesses of the West and those that survived? Cameron Duodu concludes his two-part series on the credit crunch and the economic stimulus packages now in fashion in the West.		Jul 1, 2009	2716
Pity Mr Mreku: what goes on under the neem tree? Story-telling and banter! But you cannot sit under a neem tree and tell stories without provoking others to tell their own stories. That is the whole purpose of gathering under the tree. But don't tell one Mr Mireku of London.	Essay	Jun 1, 2009	1546
Where did all the money go?		May 1, 2009	2732
Oh, what an education! In the sort of education we got, you were taught by a teacher; you regurgitated what the teacher had taught you in an examination, and you either passed or failed. Original thinking hardly came into it. And adventurous experiments were discouraged. And it was thought "backward" to be a "mere farmer". And we moan that Africa is not doing well?	Viewpoint essay	May 1, 2009	1541
How long can football tragedies continue? Football tragedies continue to mar the African game - the latest in Cote d'Ivoire saw 19 fans crushed to death at the Houphouet-Boigny Stadium on 29 March. Enough is enough, and Fifa must act now!, demands Cameron Duodu.		May 1, 2009	2111
Pupil dies after caning! A Ghanaian pupil died recently after she was caned at school, which reminds me of my school days. Excessive caning by teachers is sadism, period.		Apr 1, 2009	1634
Good night, good knight: Cameron Duodu profiles the first black officer in the British army, the remarkable but self-effacing Major Seth Anthony, who faced immense racial discrimination at Sandhurst and beyond, and survived it all--and went on to live for 93 years before his death on 20 November 2008.	Biography	Mar 1, 2009	3132
How a teacher can create rebels: The other day someone took me to task in New African for writing that our "traditional" linguists at the kings' courts are "illiterate". He had assumed that I had used the word pejoratively. Nothing was farther from my mind, especially considering the kind of "formal" education I had in the Presbyterian schools in Ghana.	Column	Mar 1, 2009	1584
Our son: overnight, Obama has ensured that the situation in the world should change dramatically. Every black person in the world can now hold his or her head high, anywhere in the world, and without saying a word, proclaim to all and sundry, by gait and demeanour: "We are all truly equal." Cameron Duodu reports.	Viewpoint essay	Feb 1, 2009	2715
Why are teachers so different? All teachers undergo training. And if they all pass the same final examination, we can expect that they will provide the same quality of teaching, right? Wrong. I discovered this answer in my very first year at school.		Feb 1, 2009	1575
The British tortured Obama's grandfather: today, the British go abroad to preach human rights to other nations. But not too long ago, they were torturing freedom fighters all over their colonies in Africa, including President Barack Obama's Kenyan grandfather.		Feb 1, 2009	1626
The geniuses who gave us such fun: oh, the good old days, what a time! Whatever you say of the generation that enriched the youthful lives of those of us who grew up in the 1950s and early '60s, you can't say they didn't have initiative. Or imagination. And ingenuity.	Personal account	Jan 1, 2009	1549
Barack's hope, Bush's horror: the audacity of Barack Obama's hope is tempered by the limitations imposed on him by the economic profligacy left behind by George W. Bush. But the fact that Obama is not going to fulfill the unrealistic expectations of anyone is no reason why we should not rejoice at his spectacular victory, argues Cameron Duodu.	Essay	Dec 1, 2008	2715
One in the eye for West African slavers: there are some stories that give one hope that all is not lost in our all too gloomy world. One such story is that of the 24-year-old woman from Niger, Hadjiatou Mani, who has defeated the government of Niger in a slavery case brought before the ECOWAS Court of Justice.		Dec 1, 2008	1548
Another one to celebrate: they call themselves "Afro-pessimists". And their fallacious "philosophy" teaches that the black man can never achieve anything worthwhile. Well, Barack Obama in the US, and Lewis Hamilton in the UK--after winning the Formula One championship at only his second attempt--have proved them all wrong! Cameron Duodu reports.		Dec 1, 2008	2084
Think about something positive; Speak, Nana, speak. for, if we perform to our usual standards, we shall do nothing, until one day we wake up to find that we need to import water-most probably from desert countries like Libya or Saudi Arabia which have learnt to harvest water from deep underground, or from machines that turn salty sea water into potable water.		Nov 1, 2008	1606
End of the free market?		Nov 1, 2008	2808
Methuselah's granddaughter.		Oct 1, 2008	1731
The last mercenary?	Editorial	Aug 1, 2008	2966
The sense behind our nonsense; Libation is one of the most misrepresented African traditional practices. But it is extremely important because it is poured mainly to remind everyone that man is on the earth but the earth does not belong to him. "Listen and do the same!", therefore, is the basic message of libation.	Personal account	Aug 1, 2008	2965
Who will save South Africa? The South Africans who are attacking other Africans should ask themselves: "What would Africans whose enormous contributions helped to free South Africa from apartheid, feel, if they could hear that South Africans were now killing fellow Africans?", writes Cameron Duodu.		Jul 1, 2008	2890
Obama has cleared the way for black achievement.		Jul 1, 2008	1622
Beware the propaganda: the Western media serves as the propaganda arm of their governments. If you think this is not true, compare the number of services the BBC used to run when the Cold War was at its height, to the number of services it currently runs now that the Cold War has been "won" by the West, argues Cameron Duodu, one of Africa's veteran journalists.		Jun 1, 2008	3099
Britain should give credit where credit is due: over 374,000 Africans fought (and died) for the British Empire in the Second World War. One of them even rose to the rank of a major--Major Seth Anthony who helped the British by teaching them about jungle warfare. But have you ever heard of Major Seth Anthony? Even a high military medal recommended for him never materialised. Why?		Jun 1, 2008	1575
Who will judge the judges?	Essay	May 1, 2008	1556
Do some blacks have a problem with Obama? Those blacks who still cling to the notion that they should stand in the way of a historic decision by America to elect a black president after 222 years, will be relegated to the rubbish heap of history, and will eminently deserve to be there.		Apr 1, 2008	1669
The lonely aspect of pain: why hasn't a single one of the guys who jumped about and drank champagne with me when Ghana was doing well in the African Cup of Nations tournament, phoned to share my pain at the calamity of Cameroon turfing us out of it?		Mar 1, 2008	1591
USA: the Obama phenomenon.	Viewpoint essay	Mar 1, 2008	2956
Oh! That this should happen to Kenya.		Feb 1, 2008	1707
So James Watson is 16% black himself? Surprise surprise, Dr James Watson, the DNA "expert" who recently claimed that Africans were less intelligent than whites, has been found to be 16% black himself!--the embarrassment that awaits all racists.	Viewpoint essay	Jan 1, 2008	1720
Cote d'Ivoire: how Houphouet's house of sand collapsed (2).		Dec 1, 2007	2119
Mo Ibrahim prize: a case of misplaced priorities?		Dec 1, 2007	1464
Should Mandela statue be in UK's Parliament Square (2).		Nov 1, 2007	1491
Cote d'Ivoire: how Houphouet's house of sand collapsed.	Country overview	Nov 1, 2007	2566
Should Mandela statue be in UK's Parliament Square?		Oct 1, 2007	1773
Lighten our darkness, president kufuor! Ghana's main hope lies in solar power. Ironically, the very sunshine that is drying-up Africa's rivers and making it impossible for people to rely on their hydro-electric power supply system is what can save Africans from being perennially plunged in darkness.		Aug 1, 2007	1590
Give us African unity now! Forty-seven years after many African countries gained their independence, pan-Africanism is still only words on paper. African unity is for diplomats, not the rest of us. Thus, African leaders cannot leave their summit in Accra without giving us, ordinary Africans, African unity now!, writes Cameron Duodu who has seen it all--since 1958.		Jul 1, 2007	2999
Water, water, everywhere and not a drop in the dam!		Jul 1, 2007	1668
Lewis Hamilton is top class: Lewis Hamilton is sending a very useful and positive message to black kids that if they are talented and remain focused, their aptitude can be recognised and they could be given the chance they need to succeed.	Biography	Jun 1, 2007	1493
How now, Mr Wolfowitz? "Hey you guys. Have you apprised what's ongoing in Washington? Wolfowitz is being bandoogled!". The guy who is always saying corruption and bad governance is killing Africa. Well, he has been caught in a commingle himself.		May 1, 2007	1608
How The Daily Telegraph opened my eyes to racism; If you nobble a country politically at birth by handing it to your apes, because they can read and write English, you don't deserve to sit back in judgement over yourself and say, narcissistically: "how great we were. If only they had done what we instructed them to do!" Pure tosh!		Apr 1, 2007	1530
Ghana: we couldn't wait for independence!		Mar 1, 2007	2800
An irreplaceable love: Nana Yaa Difie of Kokofu (popularly known as Beryl Karikari) was my dear wife of 43 years. She was snatched away from me on 9 February 2007. May the Almighty hold her hand and sing her softly softly to sleep--to sleep, perchance to dance.		Mar 1, 2007	1651
Somalia: why the new American 'blueprint' is dangerous for Africa; It is important for the AU not to be fooled into sending troops to Somalia, because such a peacekeeping force will ultimately legitimise the American/Ethiopian invasion.		Feb 1, 2007	1396
When the sun shines on America; And I wondered: "what in hell's name are these American politicians doing turning such a glorious land into the hate-figure of the world?".		Jan 1, 2007	1638
African media: how life was 40 years ago (Part 2).		Jan 1, 2007	3084
African media: how life was 40 years ago; So many things have changed in African newsrooms since New African was founded as African Development 40 years ago. Cameron Duodu, who has lived through all these 40 years as a journalist, writes about the African media's odyssey using his own professional life story as the anchor.		Dec 1, 2006	2975
'Self-government was not given to British West Africa on a silver platter': Cameron Duodu concludes his series on Prof Adu Boahen's demolition of English historical "authorities" on the history of Ghana. A son of the soil had spoken. No one who wanted to study Ghana's past seriously relied upon the British historians after that.		Nov 1, 2006	2920
The case for solar energy: the future for Africa is solar, solar, solar. So let's soar upwards and bring it down.		Nov 1, 2006	1676
How Adu Boahen unlocked Ghana's history.		Oct 1, 2006	3068
The Zidane finale; The Akan people of Ghana have canonised the idea of cause and effect with a proverb that says: "If nothing had gone and stamped on the dried palm leaf, it would not have crackled noisily" (Biribi ankoka papa a, enka ennye twereder).		Aug 1, 2006	1820
We were just simply magnificent: a moment of sublime greatness for Ghana football--Czech Republic 0, Ghana 2. It was a sweet, sweet victory--it showed us the true meaning of a joy that is perfect in every respect; a victory made sweeter by the faith it had regenerated in us, in our Black Stars.		Jul 1, 2006	1698
The man who rescued African history.		Jul 1, 2006	2194
Can Bristol city conceal its slave past?		Jun 1, 2006	1808
The day the world failed to end--again: solar eclipses have a tremendous hold on the imagination of our people, and a major one on 20 May 1947 brought utter panic in Ghana, particularly among doomsday prophets. Fast forward to 29 March 2006.		May 1, 2006	1638
Farewell to the 'zulu queen'.		Apr 1, 2006	1799
Coming to Aburokyire.		Mar 1, 2006	1690
The 'hoax-masters' who have seized America: Cameron Duodu replies to Katie Phelps, an American resident in Johannesburg, South Africa, who wrote to complain in the February issue of New African that our November issue contained "overtly negative reports" about her "homeland, the United States".	Interview	Mar 1, 2006	2801
Who was the best footballer ever?		Feb 1, 2006	1784
Hypocrisy will kill the west: the frightening manner in which the US is now stalking the world, capturing people like in the days of the old slave trade, makes the flesh creep, writes Cameron Duodu. And they call it "rendition". Welcome to the brave new world.		Jan 1, 2006	2943
Nigeria: how Mandela stood tall for Ken Saro-Wiwa.		Dec 1, 2005	3066
World Cup, here we come! Oh, the joys of football. At long last, the glamorous Black Stars of Ghana have qualified for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. How it reminds all of us--full-blooded Ghanaian boys--of the good old days when we kicked stones and pebbles about, whilst trying to turn ofuntum (gum tree) juice and other things into footballs.		Dec 1, 2005	1936
Nairobi beckons again.		Nov 1, 2005	1535
Is America selling itself short? Cameron Duodu writes about the Hurricane Katrina disaster in the Gulf States of America, and asks: "by ignoring the suffering of the victims for so long, did the Bush administration act as a 'government of the people'? Is America selling itself short?		Nov 1, 2005	2847
Breathing the free air of Africa: "roaming in Africa, I encounter a customs officer at the Johannesburg airport who wants to fleece me of my money. But I was damned if I was going to help corruption to grow in the new South Africa and become a way of life, as it has become in West Africa. Besides, if I succumbed, what would happen to travellers with less muscle than I had, as a journalist?".		Oct 1, 2005	1602
Gleneagles: what was all that hype about?		Aug 1, 2005	3025
Of dwarfs and men.		Jul 1, 2005	1705
Betrayed by lemons: the reason why I was a bit cleverer than most of my classmates when I started my schooling was that I had already obtained a smattering of "education" thanks to an elder half-brother of mine, Kwasi Kwakye. He was already in Standard Three when I enrolled in Class One.		Jun 1, 2005	1491
Raffia cane victims (part 2): even a cane-happy teacher can sometimes be disarmed by the inability of a "local-foreigner" to comprehend difficult words in a foreign language. And so it happened to Duodu's hard-nosed teacher--he could occasionally find a brain cell to use among the bones that knocked about in his thick skull.		May 1, 2005	1347
Malcolm X: when he came to Ghana.		May 1, 2005	3044
Africa, your destiny is in your own hands!		Apr 1, 2005	3384
Raffia cane victims (part 1): "if there are 10 birds on a tree and a hunter shoots at them, how many would he bring down?" Discuss.	Column	Apr 1, 2005	1556
Beaten, yet forbidden to cry: when Ghana became independent in March 1957, something eerie happened. Many of the British colonial civil servants, who had never been on friendly terms with the Africans they bossed, suddenly changed.		Feb 1, 2005	1613
Cote d'Ivoire: what is Gbagbo playing at? President Laurent Gbagbo must learn to swallow his pride. In this ambiguous political situation, to stand on absolutes is to engage in pretence, and pretence has no place in a situation where lives continue to be lost needlessly, and the threat of more bloodshed dawns with the coming of every day. Cameron Duodu writes.		Dec 1, 2004	1425
So farewell then, Colin Powell: he was said to be the "acceptable face" of the Bush administration but Colin Powell had become what we call in Ghana "Simpa Panyin"--a man who dressed in the costume of authority but has no actual power. Ironically, it is another African-American, Condoleezza Rice, who has taken his place as secretary of state.		Dec 1, 2004	1577
What Africa wants from Tony Blair: Africa is tired of being handed down readymade solutions to problems that concern it. Africa may be poor, but it doesn't mean it has no sense.		Nov 1, 2004	1600
When God was not looking: if you have an enemy, fight him straight--as so many gallant resistance-fighters have done throughout history. Picking on the innocent to use as human shields or as cannon fodder is amoral.		Oct 1, 2004	1183
Africa: the mercenaries must be stopped! Cameron Duodu on the abortive attempt to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea by mercenaries. He wants Africa to send out a clear message that the continent will not tolerate interference in its affairs by any latter-day incarnations of Cecil Rhodes.		Oct 1, 2004	3178
Dribbling the world over Darfur: all knowledgeable people who take an interest in Sudanese affairs must be aware that what has been going on in Darfur, just as what has been going on in the south for the past two decades, amounts to ethnic-cleansing and genocide. No more punches should be pulled if the Sudanese government does not change its ways.		Aug 1, 2004	1343
Ghana: the price you pay; Ogyakrom is the name bestowed by Ghanaians in the Diaspora on their homeland. It literally means "Firetown". And what a fire it is!		Jul 1, 2004	1585
When the land of gold engages in self-renewal: Cameron Duodu went to Kumase in Ghana to watch the Asante people engage in self-renewal at the rarely held Adaekesier festival. "It was a wonderful sight to behold," he reports.		Jul 1, 2004	3015
Kumasi is still The Garden City: when the current crop of Kumasi (and indeed Asante) adults die off, will Asante culture be able to survive? Only a rash prophet would quickly answer this question.		Jun 1, 2004	1581
South Africa: no more coasting along softly; Ten years of "coasting" by the ANC is a long enough period. In any case, you don't have to seek the permission of someone sitting on your neck, in order to throw him off and be able to breathe. Viva ANC.		May 1, 2004	1594
The fear of vaccines: fear that a vaccine used by the WHO to combat polio can cause sterility in both men and women, has spurred some Northern Nigerian states to block a crucial vaccination campaign that is aimed at eradicating the disease from West Africa by the end 2004. it reminds me of my boyhood in Ghana.		Apr 1, 2004	1605
You don't want me to die? Mac the Man would not die at the Korle Bu Hospital in Accra, where (in the long, long past) people only went when they were at death's door. To see him dead in London, after all that, has been a staggering, incredible blow.		Mar 1, 2004	1739
We must go the OPEC way, if necessary.		Feb 1, 2004	1350
The WAWA syndrome.		Jan 1, 2004	1594
Nigerians are up and going: visiting Nigeria again after a 10-year absence, I am fascinated with the changes. Abuja has grown enormously since I last saw it. Traffic jams are gradually taking on Lagos' dimensions. And buildings, huge ones, are going up all the time.		Dec 1, 2003	1473
Five ways to handle your foreign donors: "they all come together, we all sit down and get to know what each one is doing, and we fill the gaps together. And we've all made remarkable savings in time," says Ghana's finance minister. Yaw Osafo-Maafo.		Nov 1, 2003	1758
When a forked tongue bites itself: "you don't have a stable Iraq. You don't have support for the American presence. You don't have greater democracy in the region ... or a diminution of terrorism." What does George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld have then? "The finest military in the world!".		Oct 1, 2003	1664
91 and still going strong: born in 1912, Osabarima Agyemang II (known in private life as Wofa Kofi Manu), one of the most experienced chiefs in Akyem Abuakwa, if not in Ghana, is still going strong. He even made it to London recently.		Aug 1, 2003	1751
Where in hell are the WMD? (Under the Neem Tree).		Jul 1, 2003	1708
Honour, where art thou gone? (Under the Neem Tree).		Jun 1, 2003	1689