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2 weeks ago | 
modernghana.com | Cameron Duodu
"MUMU":According to Google, "mumu" is a Nigerian pidgin insult meaning "fool``,`"stupid" or ``'daft'. Many Nigerians prefer "mumu" to other words indicating foolishness because its meaning is easily understood by all or most of the ethnic groups in the country.
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1 month ago | 
theghanareport.com | Cameron Duodu |Grace Tsotsoo Quaye
Most astute political observers would agree that it was the term, “Culture of silence” that paved the way to our current democratic political dispensation. The term was used by Fl.-Lt. Jerry Rawlings on April 6, 1987, to decry the “subjugation” of junior personnel to the holders of senior appointments that had “reduced the juniors to silence.” The phenomenon, Rawlings said, was occurring in such institutions as the police service and the armed forces.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
ghanamma.com | Cameron Duodu
First, for shaming the fire-breathers in our midst, who did not care whether we descended into civil warfare or not, despite their knowing full well that we are surrounded by countries in which civil unrest is barely hidden. One HIGHLY-PLACED person in the NPP was in fact heard ranting to the effect that his political party had more than “one million ways of winning the election!” How could such a person reach such a sensitive position in a party with democratic aspirations?
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
modernghana.com | Cameron Duodu
I have been fortunate enough to have been allowed by The Almighty to see all the historical phases through which it has pleased Him to pass my nation, Ghana. Having been born in 1937, I experienced colonial rule for a full twentyyears before Ghana achieved its independence. “Independence”! What a sweet-sounding word.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
dailyguidenetwork.com | Cameron Duodu
Of course, anyone who thought that the Americans would NOT bring back to power, a guy who had proved himself to be such a clown, now knows better. In a dangerous world filled with bullies of Putin’s type, to give power back to a guy who openly states that he wants to have the sort of “generals Hitler had”? The American electorate heard him all right.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
modernghana.com | Cameron Duodu
Of course, anyone who thought that the Americans would NOT bring back to power, a guy who had proved himself to be such a clown, now knows better. In a dangerous world filled with bullies of Putin’s type, to give power back to a guy who openly states that he wants to have the sort of “generals Hitler had”? The American electorate heard him all right.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
modernghana.com | Cameron Duodu
THE first thing that struck me about the late Herman Kojo Chinery-Hesse, who died in mid-September 2024 and is being laid to rest this weekend, was his originality. We first met at his mother's home in Accra, where I was introduced to him above the delghtful noise made by some very beautiful peacocks and peahens. Without much ado, he said to me, “I'm working on software that can give you your own TV channe1!”I was dumb-struck! Was the guy a mind reader?
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
modernghana.com | Cameron Duodu
Don’t worry, if you don’t know the meaning of “peripatetic”. I didn’t know either. Until I became – “peripatetic”!I first encountered the word when I visited the United States in 1968. I had been invited to participate in a “Foreign Journalists Programme”that took place annually at the University of Indiana (Bloomington). It was the autumn of 1968 and an election campaign was in full blast. Indiana in autumn (or what the Americans call ‘The Fall’) was a magnificent sight to behold.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
ghheadlines.com | Cameron Duodu
Features Home » Ghanaian Times » Tue 29th Oct, 2024 » The problem with being ‘peripatetic’ Don’t worry, if you don’t know the meaning of “peripatetic”. I didn’t know either. Until I became – “peripatetic”!I first encountered the word when I visited the United States in 1968. I had been invited to participate in a “Foreign Journalists Programme” that took place annually at the University of Indiana (Bloomington).
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
modernghana.com | Cameron Duodu
It is a great pleasure for me to observe the amazing consensus over the need to end galamsey immediately that has emerged from all manner of organisations in Ghana. Those usually shy to be seen backing a “political position” have woken up to the fallacious idea of wishing the nation to be governed well but being unwilling to tell it how to carry out that function.
