My Village Thoughts

I volunteered on November 25, 2017 to mentor young people desirous of shaping themselves to leading the change they want to see in their communities at BarCamp Sunyani, hash tagged #bcsyi. The program was organized by Ghana Think Foundation, under the able leadership of the pragmatic Ato Ulzen-Appiah and his competent team. Ato is a pacesetter when it comes to the organization of youth programs in this country. He is either behind the scenes coordinating the program or moderating it. In 2015 during ‘’ dum-sor dumsor ‘’ (shedding/rationing of electricity due to inadequate availability of generation capacity), I was invited by Global Shapers, Accra Hub to discuss “Ghana’s Energy Crisis: Is there Light at the End of the Tunnel?”  My good friend John Armah (CE0 Orios Group), another gem, successfully convinced me to confirm participation. Unknown to me, I was going to be surrounded by the likes of Franklin Cudjoe, President of the policy think tank Imani Ghana. Franklin at that ...

The truth is, we are all going to die some day but must any one be killed gruesomely this way? Background. Captain Mahama, who was heading a military detachment near Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region, Ghana, met his untimely death last Monday when he was jogging when some residents of the area accused him of being an armed robber and lynched him.I am still in utter shock how we got to this stage as a country.  A country like Ghana where we tout ourselves as peace loving, one people with a common destiny?No human feeling or the need to even cross check/verify a situation better before rushing to pass judgement?The fallen soldier according to his comrades was too gentle a person that he would even not hurt a fly left alone human beings. No wonder, although he had a pistol on him during the time of the incident, he failed to defend himself.  Thomas Hobbes in the Leviathan said human beings are " nasty, brutish and short". And that's what truly we are.It is even...

With the revered Mr. Emmanuel Kofi Ansah -Programs Director/The Producer Super Morning Show @ JoyFm after Etornam's dedication. Efo Kofi as I affectionately call him has being of immerse help to me dating back to my national service days at the Ministry of Information and career wise. I recall my first live in studio radio interview on no less a platform than the Super Morning Show which is part of the Multimedia Group one friday morning co-hosted by then Kojo Oppong Nkrumah now Hon. Deputy Information Minister & Bernard Shaibu now of StarrFm somewhere in 2012. I was timid, apprehensive and was shaking as if someone has literally given me a gun to forcefully shoot myself in the head. But efo Kofi prepared me, we had a small Q & A via email, he cheered me on & encouraged me to keep my answers KISS (keep it short & simple). The d-day came, I appeared on the show and ever since there has been no turning back. Let me place on record that, I am not a shy person a...