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Prof. Kwesi Yankah Writes: ‘Awengaa’

Prof. Kwesi Yankah Writes: ‘Awengaa’

We were careful those days in Duakwa not to be shamed and mocked as ‘Awengaa.’ A thirty-year old man who had ‘slept’ with an under-aged girl; he was Awengaa. A forty-year old having his way

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Prof Kwesi Yankah Writes: DC Kwame Kwakye and his Special English Diction

Prof Kwesi Yankah Writes: DC Kwame Kwakye and his Special English Diction

Kwame Kwakye, the legendary District Commissioner during the Nkrumah days, was a household name in the 1960s. I was in elementary school when I sniffed his presence in the neighborhood, Akim Oda which was 30

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Prof. Kwesi Yankah writes: Which school did you attend? 

Prof. Kwesi Yankah writes: Which school did you attend? 

Which school did you attend? That is a simple question that is more loaded than perceived. ‘Ehm… ehm… ehm’ is sometimes the initial response which may never be completed. Other times the response has been

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Prof. Kwesi Yankah writes: Giving me a haircut in my absence

Prof. Kwesi Yankah writes: Giving me a haircut in my absence

Since last week, I have been so excited heading towards Christmas in a somewhat happy mood. A cedi in coma has jumped to its feet, to earn some respect from a bullying dollar. Plantain and

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Prof. Kwesi Yankah writes: The curse of penalties; Dede Ayew

Prof. Kwesi Yankah writes: The curse of penalties; Dede Ayew

In 2007, I sat beside the Maestro Abedi Pele, the celebrated father of Dede Ayew, on a trip to Namibia representing Ghana. I was part of a three-member delegation put together to market the AFCON

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Prof Kwesi Yankah writes: My time with Anas

Prof Kwesi Yankah writes: My time with Anas

Monday, 14th November, I was all set going to see the latest operation by this mystery man, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, who for two decades had gotten Ghana turning on his five fingers. He had gotten the

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Prof Kwesi Yankah writes: Celebrating the Ewe-Asante romance

Prof Kwesi Yankah writes: Celebrating the Ewe-Asante romance

The past weekend had many sides, and allowed you to exercise your preference as to whether to laugh or to cry. If you wanted to laugh you could tune in to a Kume Preko demonstration,

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Prof Kwesi Yankah writes: Densu, Kojo Antwi and me

Prof Kwesi Yankah writes: Densu, Kojo Antwi and me

Kojo Antwi, Mr Music Man is a love bird. He is love on two legs. Lovers can listen to Kojo’s lyrics and fall in love over and over again, only because Kojo has wooed them

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Prof. Kwesi Yankah writes: Kuro Mu Ay3 Hye

Prof. Kwesi Yankah writes: Kuro Mu Ay3 Hye

I simply do not know why hot things of this earth should decide to by-pass all other months, and collectively land in the month when I was born--- October. Why the conspiracy? This is the

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Kwesi Yankah writes: Weep not Gyan, weep not Ghana

Kwesi Yankah writes: Weep not Gyan, weep not Ghana

He was in a happier mood the last time I saw him. That was September 4, 2020, at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA). The grand occasion was the commissioning of a new Astroturf