My Village Thoughts

The shooting of three ex-servicemen at the Christianborg Crossroads on February 28, 1948.The three, Sergeant Adjetey, Corporal Attipoe and Private Odartey Lamptey all members of the Gold Coast Regiment of the Royal West African Frontier Force that fought alongside the allied forces during the Second World War were killed while going to present a petition to the then British Colonial Governor, Sir Gerald Creasy.The contingent, led by British Superintendent, Mr Imray ordered that they dispersed and when they refused to obey, he gave an order to the police to open fire and the three ex-servicemen were killed. The ex-soldiers returned home poor and were not paid their gratuities and after several appeals to the colonial government to consider their plight failed, the ex-servicemen decided that a direct appeal should be made to the British Colonial Governor of the Gold Coast.Any lessons to be learnt ?

As a part of the youth initiative, the first Pan African Youth Conference on HIV & AIDS took place in Zambia in July 2002 as an effort to devise a strategic approach of African young people being at epicenter of fighting HIV & AIDS scourge. From the above mentioned conference, the Pan African youth Conference held in Kigali in June 2003, the Pan African Youth Organization against HIV & AIDS was created and endorsed the secretariat to be hosted in Kigali, Rwanda. PAYA is conceived as a common forum for African youth initiative at National, sub regional and continental levels where youth are able to actively and effectively share experience, best practices and challenges towards creating a prosperous and sustainable continent free from HIV & AIDS scourge. The Conference was opened by the Rwandan Minister of Youth Mr.Mitali-K-Portais who in his speech reiterated the point that, the youth are the future generation and must be fully involved actively so far as the fig...

President Barack Obama,the first African- American President of the USA plans to visit Ghana from the 10 th -11 th July and this will be his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since his assumption of office. This visit will strengthen the long existing bilateral relationship between Ghana and the United States of America. His visit will also showcase Ghana’s profile and foreign policy as one of the democratic countries to the international community as he comes with all the reputable international media houses such as the Cable News Network(CNN), Sky, Voice of America (VoA), The Washington Post,The New York Times, Reuters, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) among many others. One may ask, is President Obama coming to Ghana because he and President Mills campaigned with a similar message of “Change”that got both into office or has he read Francis Quarshie’s Tourism in Ghana in which he wrote in the introduction” if you have ever dreamed of visiting a country in Africa south of the ...