General • 27 Apr 2016 Geographic Stigma & Economic History Amnesia The journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni, in a recent facebook post has complained about attracting “…derogatory remarks such as “this otani too…” whenever he made comments perceived to be antagonistic to the NPP’s interests. Since I have little room in my wretched life right now for an extended Ghana-style debate on... read more
General • 27 Apr 2016 Is ‘Execution’ Really Everything? If you visited Wikipedia right this moment and pulled up the article on ‘Adinkra’, you would be told that the Adinkra motifs were originally invented by the Asante. This intriguing factoid has had me musing for much of today. There are some interesting insights to be drawn from it. Firstly,... read more
General • 14 Apr 2016 Is Religion Good or Bad? Can We Say? Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah argues that ‘religions’ don’t really exist in that distinct phenomenal way favoured by colonial European classifiers. Because religion is such a loose concept, it is almost meaningless to place such values as ‘bad’, ‘good’ or ‘indifferent’ on it. That is to say it is probably as... read more
