The Final Border of Our Liberation: Why the Battle for Africa’s Mother Tongues is a War for the Future

My English teacher in high school stood before our class on the first day and made a declaration he believed was as fundamental as gravity: “English,” he announced, “is the mother of all subjects you will study here.” He was wrong. Profoundly, catastrophically wrong. But his error was not his own; it was the ghost … Read more

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

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