THE CHIEF JUSTICE HAVE TO BLAME HERSELF NOT MAHAMA, INSTEAD OF THINKING THE COUNTRY FIRST, NO THE CHIEF JUSTICE SAID ONLY HER POCKET WAS IMPORTANT. GHANA SUPREME COURT IS THE SAME LIKE JUDAS, YOU (S.COURT) TOOK BRIBES FROM MA ... read full comment
THE CHIEF JUSTICE HAVE TO BLAME HERSELF NOT MAHAMA, INSTEAD OF THINKING THE COUNTRY FIRST, NO THE CHIEF JUSTICE SAID ONLY HER POCKET WAS IMPORTANT. GHANA SUPREME COURT IS THE SAME LIKE JUDAS, YOU (S.COURT) TOOK BRIBES FROM MAHAMA WHY ARE YOU NOW REJECTED HIM? HAVE THEY (S.COURT JUDGES) THOUGHT THAT BRIBES THEY TOOK FROM MAHAMA CAN SAVE THEM IF GHANA IS BURNING? NO THAT BRIBE CAN´T SAVE YOU AT ALL NOW YOU HAVE SEEN THE HEAT IN THE COUNTRY WE ARE ALL INN. NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST, HOSPITALS AND EVEN IN SCHOOLS ARE BURNING WITH CORRUPTION AND ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENS THROUGH YOUR (SUPREME COURT) GREEDINESS. INSTEAD OF THINKING THE COUNTRY FIRST AND PUT THE WRIGHT THINGS IN PLACE, NO MS. WOOD AND CO. DIDN´T DO THAT THEY LET THEMSELVES TO BE BRIBED FIRST AND REJECT THE GOOD PEOPLE OF GHANA. MAHAMA GOVERMENT AND THE SUPREME ARE THE SAME AND NO ONE WILL REMAIN IF THE COUNTRY BURNS.
NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago
Francis, keep up the good work........
It's a shame how she does not see herself as a leader and point fingers at others.
No wonder she's happy the nation continue to purchase those silly colonialists wigs on their heads ... read full comment
Francis, keep up the good work........
It's a shame how she does not see herself as a leader and point fingers at others.
No wonder she's happy the nation continue to purchase those silly colonialists wigs on their heads from their slave masters...............
A visionary leader like herself would have lobbied for them to be made in Ghana by GHANAIANS to help with job creation. Don't you think so?
Here we are with the likes of her and many others calling for visionary leaders whilst they sit down to see our citizens import toothpicks from China! I can never get over this one.
GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Hello good friend,
You always make me laugh. How are you doing?
I am happy you brought up the wig thing. And you have no idea how one reader got annoyed with me for raising the wig issue.
This reader, Non-Aligned, w ... read full comment
Hello good friend,
You always make me laugh. How are you doing?
I am happy you brought up the wig thing. And you have no idea how one reader got annoyed with me for raising the wig issue.
This reader, Non-Aligned, who called himself, Mohammed, did not see anything wrong with our judges wearing wigs.
He said I should have concentrated on their judicatory wisdom rather than on their wigs. How could he have said that? In fact, Mohammed went back and forth with me on the wig issue. And I had to opt out.
Obviously, he did not get the social and economic import of the wig argument. And as you suggested here, we could be making these wigs in Ghana by employing our people to make them. This was one of the implied messages of my attack on judicial wigs.
The other point, again, as you suggest here, has to do with the anachronistic nature of the judiciary wigs. Must we always go to the colonial master begging for aid and wigs?
You know what is surprising though? An African-American woman (Rhonda Lee, a TV meteorologist) got into serious trouble with her employer when she decided to leave her African hair natural.
She has since been fired (for a number of reasons resulting primarily from her natural African hair-do).
These white folks are not ready to wear our hair, why do we spend billions trying to wear theirs.
This hair thing, extensions, is a multi-billion industry in America alone. And it affects the economics of African American women mostly.
Some African American women go to the extent of protecting their fake hair even when their debilitating medical conditions say otherwise.
Sincerely, this fake hair also affects our African women in many negative ways. I don't know what goes on in the minds of our Christian African women who go to church on Sundays with their God-given woolly or kinky hair hidden under fake hair.
Have you seen the Nigerian movie "Brazilian Hair Babes" and Chris Rock's "Good Hair"?
Brazil makes tons of money in the fake hair business while many African American women go broke simply trying to spend the little money they have on these fake hairs.
Moreover, in New York and many American communities, Non-Aligned, Asian- and White-Americans own or control these fake hair businesses. It's sad.
Personally, I don't care if we owned or controlled these business since it's our women who mostly patronize them. We also do know that even Whites and Asians use these extensions. But that is beyond the point.
Thanks, and have a great day.
Concerned Citizen 10 years ago
This article is quite refreshing. To the writer's point, our collective participation in eradicating this cancer plaguing our country is needed. We need to not only hold our leaders accountable but also to hold ourselves acco ... read full comment
This article is quite refreshing. To the writer's point, our collective participation in eradicating this cancer plaguing our country is needed. We need to not only hold our leaders accountable but also to hold ourselves accountable.
Media Mogul 10 years ago
Francis, once again, takes up a very important and burning issue, but, once again, his writing style does not let you see EXACTLY what he is driving at.
Just like in his previous article, the contents of this piece cannot ... read full comment
Francis, once again, takes up a very important and burning issue, but, once again, his writing style does not let you see EXACTLY what he is driving at.
Just like in his previous article, the contents of this piece cannot be gleaned from reading the title alone.
The title makes you understand that this is going to be a discussion of the lack of VISIONARY leadership in our country (something which, by the way, many of us are sorely aware of). There is a long discussion about the virtues of womanhood and you are led to believe that the vacuum in the "set of visionary leaders" may be due to our underutilization of our female folk. Only that Francis does not say that directly and simply, because he is busy quoting others, including his favourite singers and writers, to support that point.
Then there is a discussion about something perhaps being biologically wrong with the male specie of the human race - the half that controls governance on earth (Ghana). Fortunately, the theory is dismissed and we may have to find other reasons why the male specie that has controlled governance and caused all the problems in the world has not made a paradise of our country.
But the article goes on to say other things and only now takes up the role of the judiciary (after all, the article is prompted by something the head of the country's judiciary has said). But there is really no discussion of the role the judiciary has played in enabling a situation where leadership in our country has been "vacuum-cleaned" of all its visionary elements. Instead, there is a litany of our already well known problems - how clueless our political leaders are and their morbid interest in the acquisition of wealth - the type that is acquired without the supposed (and acknowledged) input from the masses.
Just as you are still waiting for Francis to "really get to the point", the article stops here by giving us a very very very long list of persons who could never have achieved greatness without the masses. I wonder why Francis thinks that three or four well-chosen examples could not have fortified his point but must give us 19 (NINETEEN) different names!!! Otherwise we won't get it, eh? I think this is simply overkill!
After all these, we have to go to bed, and have some sleepless hours while waiting for answers in a second article that will come at a time that we don't know in the future. So, you see, you can't make any comments because the writer will say that he has dealt with (or is going to deal with) just those points in the concluding part which, of course, you haven't seen.
At the time of my writing this comment, there were three others talking of three different things about the article none of which really addresses the specific points made by the writer in the article. They talk rather of the general point - the known platitudes about our leadership difficulties. It is because they didn't get much help from the writer in honing in on the specifics.
A friendly reminder: Francis, don't forget to leave exactly two paragraph spaces between each paragraph - hit the return button twice. Any other thing will make the formatting bad when ghanaweb posts the article since they don't have time to do any editing. In this article, you hit the return button once between paragraphs and the piece comes together. If you hit the button thrice, that will not be good either since there will be too big gaps between the paragraphs.
Thanks, ma bruda.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Hello,
Don't worry, some of the answers, a few of them, are already on their way in Part 11. I sent both parts to Ghanaweb on the same day (yesterday).
And I am grateful to you for your constructive critiques. I sincere ... read full comment
Hello,
Don't worry, some of the answers, a few of them, are already on their way in Part 11. I sent both parts to Ghanaweb on the same day (yesterday).
And I am grateful to you for your constructive critiques. I sincerely believe you mean well for me.
I know within my heart that you want to make me a better writer though psychological intransigence insists my doing otherwise.
Please keep the constructive critiques coming because I know they are going to end up breaking my resolve one day.
Besides, as you suggested to me, sometime ago, to abridge my Ghanaweb articles and make them simpler, I am seriously thinking about that but time seems to be my major problem.
It's probably because I aim my write-ups specifically at non-Ghanaian readership who expects certain things from writers. You know what I mean, don't you?
Regarding paragraphing, it's one thing I seriously work on in every article. On the other hand, I don't see conflation of paragraphs when a particular article I submit is relatively short.
I think this is why you keep saying I should write short essays.How right you have always been! That said, I tried to make part two comparatively shorter.
In fact, part two was also part of part l. I subsequently divided the original into two parts to make both shorter when I realized the piece was too long.
How do I begin to make things better? For instance, I start to write about a simple topic and suddenly many ideas from nowhere begin to trickle in.
I don't want to write a three-part series for a particular idea. How do I compress my ideas into a simple five-paragraph essay, say? I am thinking of making your suggestions part of my mindset. Please just give me the time.
Thanks for the commentaries, anyway.
Media Mogul 10 years ago
Thanks for the response.
The paragraph thing is solved simply by hitting the "return carriage" twice instead of once between your paragraphs. All regular contributors to ghanaweb know this. On modernghana, you can go in a ... read full comment
Thanks for the response.
The paragraph thing is solved simply by hitting the "return carriage" twice instead of once between your paragraphs. All regular contributors to ghanaweb know this. On modernghana, you can go in and sort things out yourself. On ghanaweb, your slightest mistake is exposed to the whole world. You can't change it.
I saw the two parts of this piece on modernghana and the formatting is nice there. My comment is meant for ghanaweb readers who must wait for part two.
It isn't really that I think articles should NEVER come in multiple parts. But I believe that it will take a lot for an article sent to ghanaweb to DESERVE being split into many parts! So far I've not seen that need in your articles.
A pro pos many ideas tumbling into your head during the writing process, don't forget that the most important thing is to decide which of these ideas to include, and, even more importantly, which to EXCLUDE. Often, the latter requirement includes the very painful decision to exclude some of your most beloved ideas! Many experienced editors will tell you that the parts of a piece of work they advise writers to cut out are, often, just those parts the writers, themselves, think are the best bits...
Shall we continue tomorrow with part two?
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Media Mogul,
Thanks for the reply.Don't worry about the "multiple parts" thing. I know you made your commentaries on Part l in generalities.
Actually, your theoretical commentaries paved the way for readers' immediate ... read full comment
Media Mogul,
Thanks for the reply.Don't worry about the "multiple parts" thing. I know you made your commentaries on Part l in generalities.
Actually, your theoretical commentaries paved the way for readers' immediate expectations (Part l) and remote expectations (Part ll). That was kind of you.
Moreover, I know you are used to my thinking now and how I go about my writing, the ideational formatting, that's. But I still think I need to consider your ideas. I shall try the "return carriage" next time. Thanks for the suggestion.
Finally, never think I was offended by it, the "multiple parts" thing. I wish I could find an efficient way to write shorter pieces.
If you probably ask me to list a few ideas on paper for a particular write-up,that may prove a difficult task for me.
But I sit behind a keyboard and I can't stop writing. I don't know what draws me so close to a keyboard. Maybe I should begin to time myself as is done in computerized exams(lol).
Oh, so you have probably read Part ll on modernghana already? Are you some some of journalistic sleuth (lol)?
Anyway, modernghana and spyghana, as you know, give writers the opportunity to correct their mistakes. I wish Ghanaweb would one day give us that opportunity!
I am one of the worst proofreaders you can find on the planet. I some mistakes on Ghanaweb and had to correct them on modernghana.
Let me ask this questions: Who are your favorite musicians in the world? Please try and give me some names.
Thanks.
Media Mogul 10 years ago
My favourite musicians? Oh, just realised it's a difficult question for me to answer. I've had several "favourite musicians" over the many years I've been on earth. It keeps changing. I can't mention specific names. And even ... read full comment
My favourite musicians? Oh, just realised it's a difficult question for me to answer. I've had several "favourite musicians" over the many years I've been on earth. It keeps changing. I can't mention specific names. And even for specific musicians, it may not be everything they do that you like. I like some of the guys on your recent list.
One thing I can say for certain: a particular music type that has NEVER been my favourite. Surprise surprise? It's reggae! I think it started from secondary school in the 60s when we decided we wanted something more funky than the monotonous rhythm of reggae. Since then I've never really warmed to that music form even though I admit Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, "your" Lucky Dube and even Alpha Blondy did some great stuff. And one thing about me too: I don't really care that much for the lyrics. I pay more attention to the music which I somehow believe comes before the lyrics. There has been some great music where the musician is really saying shit. Very rarely, you get some great lyrics coinciding with some good music. But that's rare... And then some great lyrics with bad music that no one listens...
Now that I am grown, I've left the electronic type of jazz behind for the more classical kind. And I'll always have a soft spot for the type of rhythm and blues and soul that I grew up on. Throw in a few pop music of the old style. No, no country music for me...
Some choice "guitar band" music of the old school is always agreeable with me but the big dance band music of the old school (Ramblers, E T Mensah) will always set my soul at ease. I also listen to some purely traditional stuff too - in Twi and my native language. Give me Fela and Manu Dibango any day, and I'll have no problems with the world. Toss in Miriam Makeba and Bella Bellow and you can ask me to do anything for you... lol.
I studied O Level music, almost registered it but dropped it because I wasn't sure I could make a credit even if I passed it. Then the set score (something from Tchaikovsky) didn't even come early. Today, the most fulfilling music for me come from the classical masters - Bach and Beethoven in particular and some Wagner. Damn the fact that they're all DWEM. Great music has no colour and age!
Hip life, azonto? Am too old for them...
Hope I've answered you satisfactorily.
Nframa Boni 10 years ago
I agree entirely with Media Mogul and appreciate his cold, educative review of this confusin article. I think the writer is trying to show he has some academic leanings and so dives into all sorts of theories which confuse th ... read full comment
I agree entirely with Media Mogul and appreciate his cold, educative review of this confusin article. I think the writer is trying to show he has some academic leanings and so dives into all sorts of theories which confuse the reader. A hodge podge of unconnected thought. Francis, kindly simplify your thought processes and stop trying to IMPRESS your readers.It's comments/contributions like Media Mogul's that we need on Ghanaweb.
Brother 10 years ago
I have always admired your nationalist style of 'bringing it out' and let no one think that, only politicians and people in trust are to blame for any bad deed. It is much easier to point to others from afar forgetting our co ... read full comment
I have always admired your nationalist style of 'bringing it out' and let no one think that, only politicians and people in trust are to blame for any bad deed. It is much easier to point to others from afar forgetting our contribution. I don't know how people always think that, you must side. You should keep writing these well researched pieces.
Thanks brother.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Dear Brother,
Thanks for your kind words. Your are right.
We are the government and therefore accountable to ourselves and ourselves only.
We owe it to ourselves to see to it that our nation is well governed.
P ... read full comment
Dear Brother,
Thanks for your kind words. Your are right.
We are the government and therefore accountable to ourselves and ourselves only.
We owe it to ourselves to see to it that our nation is well governed.
Please continue reading. The Part ll should be in tomorrow, I guess.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE HAVE TO BLAME HERSELF NOT MAHAMA, INSTEAD OF THINKING THE COUNTRY FIRST, NO THE CHIEF JUSTICE SAID ONLY HER POCKET WAS IMPORTANT. GHANA SUPREME COURT IS THE SAME LIKE JUDAS, YOU (S.COURT) TOOK BRIBES FROM MA ...
read full comment
Francis, keep up the good work........
It's a shame how she does not see herself as a leader and point fingers at others.
No wonder she's happy the nation continue to purchase those silly colonialists wigs on their heads ...
read full comment
Hello good friend,
You always make me laugh. How are you doing?
I am happy you brought up the wig thing. And you have no idea how one reader got annoyed with me for raising the wig issue.
This reader, Non-Aligned, w ...
read full comment
This article is quite refreshing. To the writer's point, our collective participation in eradicating this cancer plaguing our country is needed. We need to not only hold our leaders accountable but also to hold ourselves acco ...
read full comment
Francis, once again, takes up a very important and burning issue, but, once again, his writing style does not let you see EXACTLY what he is driving at.
Just like in his previous article, the contents of this piece cannot ...
read full comment
Hello,
Don't worry, some of the answers, a few of them, are already on their way in Part 11. I sent both parts to Ghanaweb on the same day (yesterday).
And I am grateful to you for your constructive critiques. I sincere ...
read full comment
Thanks for the response.
The paragraph thing is solved simply by hitting the "return carriage" twice instead of once between your paragraphs. All regular contributors to ghanaweb know this. On modernghana, you can go in a ...
read full comment
Media Mogul,
Thanks for the reply.Don't worry about the "multiple parts" thing. I know you made your commentaries on Part l in generalities.
Actually, your theoretical commentaries paved the way for readers' immediate ...
read full comment
My favourite musicians? Oh, just realised it's a difficult question for me to answer. I've had several "favourite musicians" over the many years I've been on earth. It keeps changing. I can't mention specific names. And even ...
read full comment
I agree entirely with Media Mogul and appreciate his cold, educative review of this confusin article. I think the writer is trying to show he has some academic leanings and so dives into all sorts of theories which confuse th ...
read full comment
I have always admired your nationalist style of 'bringing it out' and let no one think that, only politicians and people in trust are to blame for any bad deed. It is much easier to point to others from afar forgetting our co ...
read full comment
Dear Brother,
Thanks for your kind words. Your are right.
We are the government and therefore accountable to ourselves and ourselves only.
We owe it to ourselves to see to it that our nation is well governed.
P ...
read full comment