tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post1197220380123395585..comments2024-03-28T10:10:43.453+00:00Comments on ImageNations: 6. Obama vs Ampem-Darko--the Direct and Indirect LinkImageNationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06021414643103601330noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-13184435909136220682009-08-02T22:40:35.418+00:002009-08-02T22:40:35.418+00:00that's what i meant, novisi...that's what i meant, novisi...ImageNationshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06021414643103601330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-14518848113838476362009-08-02T17:07:32.184+00:002009-08-02T17:07:32.184+00:00i'm back like promised and i so so so get the ...i'm back like promised and i so so so get the diferentiation you make between actions of leaders the 'ordinary' citizens.<br /><br />our parliamentarians just hide behind laws and procedures protecting them as MPs to unleash stupid*ity on us. i hold no brief for Ampem Darko, but that kind of punishement is more of an insult than what Ampem Darko said.<br /><br />and worse of all, they have little sense of proportion, their own KT Harmmond is such a disgrace in same matter! <br />sad.novisihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144548155567055364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-68470350863883747682009-07-30T07:23:17.812+00:002009-07-30T07:23:17.812+00:00Thanks Stefania. Try reading some Ghanaian Writers...Thanks Stefania. Try reading some Ghanaian Writers. You would be glad you did. In addition to the Ayi Kwei Armah, Kojo Laing, Alex Agyei-Agyiri, Efua Sutherland, Ama Attah Aidoo, there are the younger generation of writers such as Ayesha Harruna Atta and Amma Darko. Try any of these.<br /><br />Post in both languages. Don't worry! English has only come to make us prisoners of our thoughts. It has decimated our mothertongue and has rendered us useless, yet we cannot express ourselves fully in it...neither her nor there.ImageNationshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06021414643103601330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-63344895465691947042009-07-29T19:45:47.146+00:002009-07-29T19:45:47.146+00:00You have a most wonderful blog Nana! I appreciate ...You have a most wonderful blog Nana! I appreciate your effort to read more and more African writers and to write about them.<br />Unfortunately, I have never read a book by a Ghanian author, my knowledge of African literature includes Nigeria, South Africa and few other countries on the big and wonderfully diverse black continent. <br /><br />I know that some of my readers don't speak Italian, but that's my mothertongue and sometimes I feel the urgency to use it. It is a dilemma for me: I don't know if I should use my mothertongue in which I am most confident or if I should use English and reach a bigger audience. I think I'll keep both languages...<br /><br />Why do you say that I don't have the follow widget? I thought you could add my blog from the homepage (blogger.com). I could find some easier ways to have some followers anyway... :-) <br /><br />PS: Good luck for your manuscript, I really hope that you'll manage to publish it!Stefania - The Italian Backpackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02208023950547260256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-50382069574166453922009-07-28T20:39:17.384+00:002009-07-28T20:39:17.384+00:00talking about Obama's comments on the Gates is...talking about Obama's comments on the Gates issue. I think he said what he feels in his heart and later came out to do a damage control because then he is the president...hahahahaha I like such people. They would say it just as it is like Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro etc. There is no single path to development. People practice what works for them.ImageNationshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06021414643103601330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-36887073200641222662009-07-28T19:44:10.178+00:002009-07-28T19:44:10.178+00:00I was so freaked out when i heard Obama!
on one h...I was so freaked out when i heard Obama!<br /><br />on one hand i thought it was a lil someway for the character that he is (unlike the Chavez or Castro-like). but on other hand i love Chavez and Castro like characters too- they tell it as it ought to be told.<br /><br />so interesting dynamics there for me. but hold. i'd be back.novisihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144548155567055364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-1532627788936846102009-07-28T12:56:52.299+00:002009-07-28T12:56:52.299+00:00Hmm...nope I think there is freedom before and aft...Hmm...nope I think there is freedom before and after the speech. I am comparing the behaviour of our 'honourable men' with that of the community leaders in Obama's memoir of which he was frustrated and perhaps bored. They both took pictures of people instead of getting things done. <br /><br />I am not saying that there are no qualified photographers in Ghana. In fact there are but the 'honourable men' were starstruck that they forgot themselves and decided to be their own cameramen. Get it? It is a pity, but that was just what happened. As for Ampem-Darko what brought him in is his supposed insult to the parliamentarians. And then again, if you should apply Obama's reaction to the leaders in his memoir to our 'honourable men' then Ampem-Darko is right. <br /><br />Yes...it's better we shut up (me inclusive) before they ask me to spend my meager salary on radio apologies...Pen Powder thanks for your comments.ImageNationshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06021414643103601330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-60943189410416674822009-07-28T12:02:26.042+00:002009-07-28T12:02:26.042+00:00I am just thinking, are you toying with the idea t...I am just thinking, are you toying with the idea that there is no freedom after the speech? That would make me so sad, because I have demarcated Ghana as my barometer on African Democracy (That elusive word!)<br /><br />I was also a bit embarrased by the photo shoot scenes that characterised Obamas visit. Are there no qualified photographers in Accra? Is Ghana that poor as to fail to afford mere photographers? I dont think so.<br /><br />You also raised an important point, how does Obama view us now, after the visit. Was his belief rewarded, strengthened, weakened or erased? The quote you have here should send shivers down our spines. Did we get him to do something for us, or we just got a photo of him. Warped priorities! but let me shut, lest I am made to proffer an embarrasing apology, and possibly get kicked out of Ghana too!Pen Powderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03695209474862045734noreply@blogger.com