A birthday salute to Professor Kwame Karikari, West Africa's media mentor

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• Kwame 4 months ago

  Professor Kwame Karikari is an institution when it comes to journalism. The first time I met Kwame Karikari was in 1977.
  In 1985 he together with others formed the Forum which was helding its meetings at the Ghana Institute ...
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  Professor Kwame Karikari is an institution when it comes to journalism. The first time I met Kwame Karikari was in 1977.
  In 1985 he together with others formed the Forum which was helding its meetings at the Ghana Institute of Languages. It's aim was to turn he country back to civilian rule, expand democracy not only in the press, but in the all aspect of our national life.
  He became hunted by the PNDC and the Forum collapsed.
  Kwame Karikari did a log for journalism in Ghana and must be given that credit.
  However as a skeptic, who is not happy with lies being told must state here that journalism is a partisan profession.
  In developing countries one can pretend not to be partisan, but your articles, comments and rejoinders expose your world outlook.
  In journalism apart from lecturers, other practitioners play the tune of the one who owns the pipe and gives it to the piper.
  So, most of those who want to express their world view form their own publishing, radio and television stations.
  Whiles the imperialist countries claim to have a free press and call it the forth estate.
  In reality, there is not free press in imperialist countries, because a BBC journalist cannot have the pipe of BBC in his hands and his lips, then decide to play his own tune.
  Thus in the imperialist states journalism is never free, there a journalist must parrot the thoughts and voices of his master.

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