Gayton McKenzie: Ghanaians have put me to shame   The South African motivational speaker and author is baffled poverty and hunger which drove him into crime, are not doing same to Ghanaians.

Ato Kwamena Dadzie: Bawku burns   I really feel sorry for the people of Bawku. My heart particularly bleeds for the innocent majority who have never handled a weapon and have nothing to do with the fighting in the township. These are the people whose lives are disrupted (and sometimes ended abruptly) whenever the Mamprusis and Kusasis decide to get at each other’s throats.

Kwaku Sakyi-Addo: LAST DANCE   How about a tortoise's dance before a famished leopard? This must be Robert Mugabe’s game plan. He knows he’s going down. But he wants to leave a legend.

Africa-bearing the brunt of the world’s groans   Some say ours is a cursed race. Tony Blair, the ex-British Prime Minister, once said that “Africa is a scar on the conscience of the world”. These assertions might not be far from reality. This is because almost every bad news that hits the world comes from Africa and since the advent of the white man on our soils we have never known any good.

What next, after firing Amoako Tuffuor?   President John Kufuor has for the first time in several years gone beyond rhetoric and given real meaning to his promise of rooting out corruption with the outright dismissal of the Executive Chairman of the Ghana Schools Feeding Programme, Dr. Kwame Amoako Tuffuor.