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I love Lagos – truly! If you are a determined enough guy, you can enjoy life in the city. But you must know the ropes – and the best way to do that is by finding a good friend.
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In some parts of Africa, the Internet behaves like a beautiful woman with whom one works in the office but whose moods one can never gauge correctly.
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How rote learning can make people say things without realising their implications explains why political discourse in Ghana is so full of invective.
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Music does wonders for the soul, that is why the music of Africa’s old masters should not be lost. They should be digitalised and made freely available.
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Discussions on the Internet can be either extremely depressing or inspiringly exultant. So watch out. The Internet can turn normal people who are ordinarily inoffensive into what has become known as “trolls”.
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Long before colonialism arrived on the shores of Africa, the people lived a fulfilling life based on the ability to conquer and enjoy their own environment. But then, colonialism came and tried its best to psychologically shatter the people’s self-confidence. The biggest weapon they used was “education”. They sent us to school where we began to be brainwashed to despise our own way of life. Cameron Duodu looks back at a temps perdue.
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In conversation with his “Stream of Consciousness”, our veteran associate editor reminisces on his work as a journalist through many a turbulent but satisfying terrain.
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What did President Barack Obama tell President John Atta Mills of Ghana when the Ghanaian visited Washington DC in early March? Welcome to protocol-diplomacy!
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Cameron Duodu
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Born and educated in Ghana, Cameron Duodu started work on a general purpose magazine called New Nation in Ghana, then moved to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, where he became editor of radio news. He returned to the magazine world as editor of the Ghana edition of the famous pan-African magazine, Drum.
He later edited the biggest-selling newspaper in Ghana, the Daily Graphic.