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	<title>Under the Baobab Tree</title>
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	<description>Challenging orthodoxy about current international politics, particularly, politics in Ghana and Africa.</description>
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		<title>AFRICA: EXILE MOVEMENTS AND DEMOCRATIC CHANGE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exile Movements and Democratic Change in Africa
 
The report of a Conference organised in 2006, is entitled, “Telling Our Own Stories &#8211; African Activists in Exile” written by Zaya Yeebo, fills a missing chapter in Africa’s quest for genuine democratic rule based on Constitutionalism and democratic reform, and for a better understanding of the role of Africans [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com&blog=1211985&post=36&subd=ghanaianoracle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/africa-exile-movements-and-democratic-change/</link>
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		<title>Ghana: Northern Youth, Conflcit and the 2008 Elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ghana: Northern youth must reject the culture of violence.

Once again, Ghana is waking up to some painful realities: it cannot claim to be the sole island of peace and stability; that that politics in the north is inter-twinned with the numerous chieftaincy disputes that have lingered for years. In this case, I use ‘the North’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com&blog=1211985&post=32&subd=ghanaianoracle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/ghana-northern-youth-conflcit-and-the-2008-elections/</link>
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		<title>Ghana&#8217;s Presidential race: Why Akuffo Addo is miles Ahead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ghan&#8217;s Presidential race: Why I fear Nana Akuffo Addo is Miles Ahead.
 

A recent research by an American firm, claims that the MP for Akim Abuakwa South, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) “has been tipped to win the December election.” A similar research by groups fronting for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com&blog=1211985&post=17&subd=ghanaianoracle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/ghanas-presidential-race-why-akuffo-addo-is-miles-ahead/</link>
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		<title>Ghana at crossraods: Time for Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Ghana at Criossroads: Time for change 
 
For the first time in Ghana’s post independence history, the choice of a president remains a very tight race. For a start, there is an impressive array of presidential aspirants, most of whom, one can say with satisfaction, have the right credentials to run Ghana. That makes it a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com&blog=1211985&post=24&subd=ghanaianoracle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/ghana-at-crossraods-time-for-change/</link>
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		<title>Exile Movements and Democratic Change in Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exiles Movements and Democratic Change in Africa
 
What do African political activitis do in exile? This is a question i have been asked often. But the answer has always been long in coming. This time, i am trying to provide one.
 
Yusuf Hassan, a prominent Kenyan political activist in the 1980s, believes that by not discussing the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com&blog=1211985&post=23&subd=ghanaianoracle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/exile-movements-and-democratic-change-in-africa-2/</link>
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		<title>Promoting Parliamentary Democracy &#8211; the African Perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Promoting popular democracy  through legislative strengthening in Africa- a new approach required


 
This paper looks at ways in which African countries can build long term democratic institutions, while at the same time providing the wherewithal for institutions of democracy to become independent of vested interest and foreign influences.
 
Introduction
 
The second liberation of Africa occasioned by passionate street [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com&blog=1211985&post=19&subd=ghanaianoracle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/promoting-parliamentary-democracy-the-africa-way/</link>
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		<title>Ghana&#8217;s Presidential race: Why Akuffo Addo is Ahead.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why I fear Nana Akuffo Addo will win the elections.
 
A recent research by an American firm, claims that the MP for Akim Abuakwa South, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) “has been tipped to win the December election.” A similar research by groups fronting for the Convention Peoples [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com&blog=1211985&post=18&subd=ghanaianoracle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/ghanas-presidential-race-why-akuffo-addo-is-ahead/</link>
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		<title>Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah &#8211; The Unfinished Agenda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nkrumah’s unfinihsed agenda. 
Kwesi Pratt  examines  the factors which shaped Nkrumah&#8217; s ideas, ideals and vision, the  current state of the worldwide Nkrumaist Pan African movement and the struggles which lie ahead. 
 
The anti-colonial struggle in Africa, a component of the general anti-imperialist struggle, preceded the organised well focused nationalist struggle for independence in the late [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com&blog=1211985&post=16&subd=ghanaianoracle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/ghana-kwamew-nkrumah-the-unfinished-agenda/</link>
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		<title>Ghana: Political Leadership and the National Interest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND THE NATIONAL INTEREST 
It is in the national interest that an aspiring president must have roots in a constituency with a demonstrated record of performance in the provision and delivery of services. Political parties therefore have a duty to first think about what is best for Ghana and put forward candidates who through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com&blog=1211985&post=15&subd=ghanaianoracle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/ghana-political-leadership-and-the-national-interest/</link>
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		<title>Funding Political Parties &#8211; to whose benefit?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In parties we trust  
Political Parties and leadership in GhanaPolitical groupings have been part of the Ghanaian political landscape since the colonial era. The anti-colonial struggle was led largely by interest groups coalescing to act on behalf of the population, even at a time when there was no entity called Ghana. Even the then Gold Coast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com&blog=1211985&post=14&subd=ghanaianoracle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ghanaianoracle.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/funding-political-parties-to-whose-benefit/</link>
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