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The Man on Trial is Ghana’s Own Reflection: Wontumi and the Pathology of a Nation

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We are obsessed with the man in the dock, but we are missing the monster in the mirror. The case against Chairman Wontumi for the illegal acquisition of mining concessions is treated as a legal anomaly, a breach of the norm. This is a comforting lie. The uncomfortable, searing truth is that Bernard Antwi Bosiako … Read more

The Gavel and the Gold: The Wontumi Crucible and Ghana’s Unfinished Liberation

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The courtroom is a theater of the absurd. The air, thick with the formality of law, tries to mask the primal scent of power and earth. On one side, the state, armed with statutes and a mountain of allegations. On the other, Bernard Antwi Bosiako, known to a nation as Chairman Wontumi—a man whose very … Read more