Ghana’s election fever is typical of that of any constitutional democracy. It is inflected with allegations and counter-allegations by the two major players involved, namely, the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). Here in the United States, the two major players are the ruling Democratic Party (DP) and … Read more
Any lessons from election of President Trump for Ghana? We all woke up last Wednesday to the stunning news of the election of the property tycoon Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States to succeed President Barack Obama. Nearly everyone, politicians, pundits and ordinary folk worldwide had predicted a comfortable win … Read more
Many Americans have and continue to express serious concerns about their president-elect, business executive Donald J. Trump, Sr. While some of these concerns may be legitimate, not all are real or based on facts. A good number of them are based on the President-elect’s campaign-fever/mood utterances, which contextually and in my understanding, reflect a man … Read more
Hillary Rodham Clinton will become the first woman to win the presidency tomorrow, decisively defeating Donald Trump in no small part due to unprecedented Latino turnout. The Party Crasher predicts Clinton will win the Electoral College vote 322-215, capturing virtually all of the swing states, as President Barack Obama did in his 2012 victory. Reports … Read more
We have all been following the ongoing electioneering campaign between the Republicans and Democrats in America. The debates have been heated and uncompromising in all aspects. While the good people of America expect the candidates to address specific needs bordering on their socioeconomic welfare, the focus has often been about private affairs of the candidates. … Read more
It was characteristically and morbidly an NDC display all right. Morbid and theatrically primitive and barbaric. No surprises here, of course. After all, isn’t the National Democratic Congress (NDC) a political juggernaut of state-of-nature caliber whose barbaric “revolutionary” leadership has a track-record that would put even Dracula to shame? And, of course, the man at … Read more