by Eric Atta-Sonno | Oct 23, 2023 | News, Scripts
Sometime in 2013, I had a foreign guest who was visiting Africa for the first time. He was so enthusiastic about the prospects of the visit. He had heard so much about Ghana being the foremost location from where most slaves were captured for the emerging American and...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Jun 5, 2023 | News, Scripts
I have been an ardent follower of the Ghanaian media landscape since the early 1990s. My special delight in those days included the newly established Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper that churned out two editions on Mondays and Wednesdays. On the airwaves, Joy FM had just...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Aug 19, 2022 | Scripts
“How a society treats its most vulnerable is always the measure of its humanity” – Ambassador Matthew Rycroft (United Kingdom Mission to the UN) A few weeks ago, my dear friend, I encountered a spectacle that shocked me to my bones. A man very well advanced in age had...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Aug 14, 2022 | Scripts
Last Friday, I worked from my firm’s facility along the Oxford Street in Osu. In the course of the morning, I needed to pick up an item from the Total Shop close to the Koala Shopping Centre. As I stepped out of the Oxford Street Mall, my attention was drawn to...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Mar 30, 2022 | Scripts
I did this piece as a follow-up to a write-up by the Rev. Emmanuel Ofei Ankra-Badu, an Apostle of The Church of Pentecost about the role played by the workers of Messrs Dormang Long and Salini Impregilo in introducing the Catholic faith to Atimpoku and Akosombo...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Dec 10, 2021 | Scripts
Many years ago while undertaking my National Service in the VRA, I was reminded of a very basic lesson which I had actually been taught during Civics in Primary School. The lesson was that the premises of all power transmission services at all levels are out of bounds...
