Letter to Hassan: Ghana must write more

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Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

Pluuuueeezeeeeeeeeee! Live JJ alone!

Pluuuueeezeeeeeeeeee! Live JJ alone!
KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 11 years ago

What has the dark ugly thief Kufuor got to write about for the youth, Stealing?

What has the dark ugly thief Kufuor got to write about for the youth, Stealing?
REV DR 11 years ago

HE DOES NOT HAVE TO WRITE THE BOOK HIMSELF. WHETHER YOU LIKE JJ OR NOT , FOR THE SAKE OF INTELLECTUAL HONESTY, WE NEED A BOOK BY JJ ON HIS LIFE.
EVERY AFRICAN I HAVE MET IS INTERESTED IN THE MAN. BLACKS ALL OVER THE WORLD WO ...
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HE DOES NOT HAVE TO WRITE THE BOOK HIMSELF. WHETHER YOU LIKE JJ OR NOT , FOR THE SAKE OF INTELLECTUAL HONESTY, WE NEED A BOOK BY JJ ON HIS LIFE.
EVERY AFRICAN I HAVE MET IS INTERESTED IN THE MAN. BLACKS ALL OVER THE WORLD WOULD LOVE TO READ JJ'S BOOK.

BESIDES NKRUMAH, JJ IS THE NEXT GHANAIAN LEADER THAT GRABS PEOPLE'S ATTENTION.

JJ NEEDS TO WRITE. MANY LEADERS USE GHOST WRITERS.
francis kwarteng 11 years ago

Dear REV DR,

Rawlings does not have to write if he does not want to. Others have written about him. They are all over the place.

You should read Kojo Yankah's "The Trial of J.J. Rawlings: Echoes of the 31st December Re ...
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Dear REV DR,

Rawlings does not have to write if he does not want to. Others have written about him. They are all over the place.

You should read Kojo Yankah's "The Trial of J.J. Rawlings: Echoes of the 31st December Revolution."

There is another good biography of Rawlings whose title I don't recall. You may send me an email and I will get it for you.

Finally, there is what we call "authorized" or "unauthorized" biography. Nelson Mandela had both "authorized" and "authorized" biographies.

Even Mandela did not write his "Long Walk To Freedom," his bestselling alone alone. I also personally know the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who provided pictures for his biography.

Ultimately Kwame Nkrumah, one of our greatest and sophistcated writers, wrote at least 20 books. The University of Pensylvannia, an Ivy Institution as Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Darthmouth, Princeton, etc., has samples of his writings and his doctoral disservation.

You may visit the school's (University of Penssylvania) website or place a call to the Philosophy Department (University of Penssylvania). You get all the information you want.

Leading White, Black, and Asian scholars from around the world have written about Nkrumah too. Read my essay "Dr. Kofi Dompere On Nkrumah's Sientific Thinking (4)." I can provide with additional information from around the world if you care to know more about Nkrumah and scholars around the world.

All errors are mine.

Thanks.
Inusah Mohammed. 11 years ago

Mr. Francis Kwarteng, please this is my email.

Okoromaazi@gmail.com. Will love it if you send me the documents you have. Thank you!

Mr. Francis Kwarteng, please this is my email.

Okoromaazi@gmail.com. Will love it if you send me the documents you have. Thank you!
brazilous 11 years ago

tribalism nkwaaaaa!!

tribalism nkwaaaaa!!
Aunty Yaa 11 years ago

Do dilligent search. Yo will know that Akadu is great scholar: one of Ghana's best!

Do dilligent search. Yo will know that Akadu is great scholar: one of Ghana's best!
REV DR 11 years ago

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TO THE AFRICAN WRITER'S SERIES?

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TO THE AFRICAN WRITER'S SERIES?
francis kwarteng 11 years ago

Dear REV DR,

Let's play a little hide-and-seek game here.

The so-called African Writers Series is still functioning, though nominally, but has been taken over by better, more competitive, more efficient publishing and ...
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Dear REV DR,

Let's play a little hide-and-seek game here.

The so-called African Writers Series is still functioning, though nominally, but has been taken over by better, more competitive, more efficient publishing and distribution houses across the world.

A simple Google search and a little bit of research should have given you concrete answers. There are even publishing and distribution networks owned by Africans and by foreigners on the continent.

This has made it virtually difficult for the African Writers Series (Heinemann) to compete successfully with them. In fact influential writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ben Okri have shot to global accliam without the institutional chaperonage of the African Writers Series.

In other words, there are literally tons of African writers these days who are making literary impact on the world without the African Writers Series.

Many of the influential books by African writers which I have managed to buy over the years did not come from the African Writers Series.

For instance, do you have any idea who published Tsitsi Dangaremgba's influential "Nervoous Condition"?

Stop running around in circles and read the sources I give you. I will be generous again to remind you to real "NEW WAVE Of AFRICAN WRITERS WITH AN INTERNATIONALIST BENT." Here is the link:

www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/arts/new-wave-of-african-writers-with-an-internationalist-bent.html?_r=0

Bye.
francis kwarteng 11 years ago

Dear Brother Mohammed,

Thanks a lot for another masterpiece. Poignantly and aesthetically informative. Nkrumah always leads the way--either in Ghana or in Africa. Even in the world! Arguably!

Let the ever non-slumberous ...
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Dear Brother Mohammed,

Thanks a lot for another masterpiece. Poignantly and aesthetically informative. Nkrumah always leads the way--either in Ghana or in Africa. Even in the world! Arguably!

Let the ever non-slumberous world be reminded of the non-hypocritical icontrovertible fact that the great Nkrumah never dies! The living Nkrumah has always set the pace, a paragon of literariness! What a genius!

People of the world--Listen raptly to the great Nkrumah speak so wisely, so confidently, so intelligently, so knowledgaebly, so masterfully, men, women, children, to us via the corpus of his written works! Even via his speeches! Oh what a great man!

Kwame Nkrumah is an intellectual par excellence as well, a man still on the world stage with his brilliant mind afire, with his discerning tongue commanding, with his spectral wisdom haunting political men of intellectual and political mediocrity. What a great man!

The incomparable Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Let the wise sons and daughters of Africa learn from this great man!

The living Nkrumah has always taught the lazy-minded automatons, the robots, the androids, the zombies, People of the World, to wake up from their slumber! What a genius!

Here comes the incomparable Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah!

Readers interested in African literature, world literature for that matter, should take note of this beautiful written by The New York Times' Felicia R. Lee, a piece titled "NEW WAVE Of AFRICAN WRITERS WITH AN INTERNATIONALIST BENT."

Here is the link:

www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/arts/new-wave-of-african-writers-with-an-internationalist-bent.html?_r=0

Thanks so much, Brother Inusah Mohammed.

Sleek Shushu 11 years ago

Massive!! This is a woke up call to us; the youth. I'm short of words so all I can say is kudos to you..keep it up bro!

Massive!! This is a woke up call to us; the youth. I'm short of words so all I can say is kudos to you..keep it up bro!
REV DR 11 years ago

DO WE HAVE A READING PUBLIC?
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE AFRICAN WRITER'S SERIES?

DO WE HAVE A READING PUBLIC?
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE AFRICAN WRITER'S SERIES?
francis kwarteng 11 years ago

Dear REV DR,

Thanks for your comments.

People are generally reading more today in Ghana than in my day when I was in school.

Today there are literary clubs in high schools, universities, etc., where students meet t ...
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Dear REV DR,

Thanks for your comments.

People are generally reading more today in Ghana than in my day when I was in school.

Today there are literary clubs in high schools, universities, etc., where students meet to discuss books they have read. This was unthinkable in a few years back.

In fact, readership is expanding across Africa, REV DR, so much so that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for instance, one of Africa's rising literary giants, has to travel to Nigeria every summer to offer workshops on reading and writing.

This is happening all over the continent. US-based Ghanaians and other Africans here in the US are encouraging their children to read African writers as well.

I have known many Ghanaian families who do this in the US. I have also read a few scholayly articles on this matter. On the other hand, I have known many science majors from Africa in New York, for instance, who read African authors as voraciously as I did.

Interestingly, we used to exchange books on almost every vacation. We discussed the books' contents as well on the phone as well as when school re-opened. Some of my friends who came to borrow books from me in the 1990s now have their own personal libraries where people go to borrow books. They tell me how happy they are to see people read unlike before.

Finally, the literary works of African writers constitute some of the most widely read in the world. Therefore the readership of African writing is ever widening. The reading public is alive and kicking if you had done a little research.

Please take a look at this link again "NEW WAVE OF AFRICAN WRITERS WITH AN INTERNATIONALIST BENT":

www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/arts/new-wave-of-african-writers-with-an-internationalist-bent.html?_r=0

All errors are mine.
Iddris S. Gulo 11 years ago

Great piece and profound reminder to all of us. It is important that we all write something. Something that will help and posterity. Thank you.

Great piece and profound reminder to all of us. It is important that we all write something. Something that will help and posterity. Thank you.
francis kwarteng 11 years ago

Dear Sleek Shushu,

Please shoot me an email (franciskkwarteng@yahoo.com).

I am sure this is another KNUST or Accra Aca classmate. The sobriquet "Akorat" or "Okorat" says it all.

Thanks.

Dear Sleek Shushu,

Please shoot me an email (franciskkwarteng@yahoo.com).

I am sure this is another KNUST or Accra Aca classmate. The sobriquet "Akorat" or "Okorat" says it all.

Thanks.
Rabie Koenzy 11 years ago

That was a profound masterpiece, though poignant, it leaves us thinking. Hmmm Ghana

That was a profound masterpiece, though poignant, it leaves us thinking. Hmmm Ghana
Rabie Kpenzy 11 years ago

That was a profound masterpiece. Leaves us in deep thoughts, though poignant.

That was a profound masterpiece. Leaves us in deep thoughts, though poignant.
Mina 11 years ago

massive

massive
Bintu 11 years ago

Massive, u write wit unequalled finesse n unparallel panache, well done bosss , big ups.

Massive, u write wit unequalled finesse n unparallel panache, well done bosss , big ups.
phiddy 11 years ago

gudwork done Maazi

gudwork done Maazi

Senator Abdulsalam Mohammed Daaru 11 years ago

Kudus Mr Inusah Mohammed. Your article is indeed a masterpiece writing that has serious stimulative, motivational and inspirational effect for the youth of this country, Africa and the nation at large. I hope and pray that, t ...
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Kudus Mr Inusah Mohammed. Your article is indeed a masterpiece writing that has serious stimulative, motivational and inspirational effect for the youth of this country, Africa and the nation at large. I hope and pray that, the youth will direct leadership by communicatingeffectively ours, ideas suggestion, through writing. That is the way to be engaged in the shaping of the futurity of todays decision. The way for us to be sure we are handed good future by consciously assisting those aspects of live that has significant relevance for the future of the youth. Indeed, writing is difficult but very fulfilling and exciting. I come to this realisation as I journeyed all over the country documenting the history, challenges,achievements and the way forward for Muslim in Ghana. Indeed a lot is yet to be known....
Gibby 11 years ago

nice one Maazi... The sky isn't even The limit.

nice one Maazi... The sky isn't even The limit.
Armani Linkin 11 years ago

You did well keep we expect more from you

You did well keep we expect more from you

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