‘True facts’, ‘false facts’ and the burden of truth telling By Dr. Kwame Akuffo Anoff-Ntow LISTEN MAR 3, 2021 Two of my favourite inscriptions on vehicles in Ghana are “Return to Sender” and “True Fact”. Whilst the former has a retributive cynicism to it, the latter strikes me for its seeming lack of ambiguity. It is for this reason that I invoke it as a heading to enable me to explore the question of what is a fact, and its corollary of whether or not there are “false facts”. By extension, it hints at whether or not it requires that the teller of truth owe it to his/he...