The late Burkinabe President Thomas Sankara - an icon for many young Africans in the 1980s - still remains a heroic "African Che Guevara" to some - 27 years after his assassination at the age of 38, writes the BBC's Alex Duval Smith.
Ransford Gyampo, Professor at the University of Ghana
A professor at the University of Ghana Ransford Gyampo has asked President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to quickly reshuffle the ministers he finds problematic to his government.
He explained that the failure to reshuffle such ministers only creates disaffection for his government.
Commenting on the list of the ministerial nominees submitted to Parliament by the President on Thursday, January 21, Professor Gyampo said some ministers disappointed the president during the first term.
Others, he said, embarrassed him, while a number of them also caused disaffection for him and the party as a whole.
The school was formally opened as a boarding school with the self-declared aim of providing for the educational needs of the people of the Gold Coast .
The nickname of the Achimota School is Motown and an alumnus or alumni of the college is called Akora .
The founders of the school are Dr. James Emma Kwegyir, Sir Fredrick Gordon Guggisberg, and Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser.
The centre of the school complex, which besides a primary and a secondary school consists also of a school-own kindergarten, a hospital, a police station, and a golf course.
The motto of the school is Ut Omnes Unum Sint meaning That all may be one , a reference to the founders expressed the philosophy that starting in the context of school life, black and white, male and female, everyone should integrate and combine synergistically for the good of all.
Ghana’s socio-political stability is Rawlings’ biggest legacy – says Victor Smith LISTEN
JAN 28, 2021
Mr. Victor Smith, a former aide to late ex-President Jerry Rawlings has judged his former boss favourably, stating that he will go down in history as a man whose contributions have ensured peace and stability in the country’s socio-political space and democracy.
For him, Rawlings’ effort in putting together the 1992 Constitution and his signing of same into law is a significant action the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will be dearly remembered for.
Victor Smith who served as Ghana s Ambassador to the Czech Republic and later, High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland believes, although the events marking the change from military to democratic rule should have led to a faster growth of the Ghanaian economy, he said that fundamental bold step in Ghana’s political development is a bequest worth celebrating.
He burst onto the scene like a meteor, but a meteor that did not burst into flames and disintegrate like all meteors do. On the contrary, it remained potent until the very end of its life, leaving strong footprints in the sands of time.
The turbulent occurrences of the 1970s in Ghana – the overthrow of the 2nd Republic and the Progress Party Government by the military coup of 13th January 1972; the takeover of power by the Col. I.K. Acheampong-led National Redemption Council and, subsequently, the Supreme Military Council; the proscription of multiparty democracy; the professionals’ strike of 1976; the March 1978 Referendum on the proposal to entrench military rule through the Union Government concept; the formation of the People’s Movement for Freedom and Justice (PMFJ) to mobilise the ‘No Vote’ in the Referendum; the consequences of the vote, and the conspiracy to abduct the Electoral Commissioner; the palace coup that removed Gen. Kutu Acheampong from office and ushered