If you have been following the series so far you would have seen how misinformation over the ages across different media has significantly influenced culture and politics. The History of Misinformation Opinion series is a reflection of the author’s opinion, inspired by the Age of Mistrust, a talk held by the British Academy in London in February...
“The History of Misinformation” is a 3-part opinion series inspired by The Age of Mistrust, a British Academy lecture held in February 2025. Each article reflects on a key speaker’s contribution, tracing how misinformation has shaped legal, political, and historical narratives from ancient Greece to modern times. Together, the series underscores how misinformation—driven by bias, media influence,...
Good grief! Here’s a chap who’s currently running the airwaves at Atlantis Radio, but whose journey to get there reads like someone who simply couldn’t be bothered with the conventional career ladder and decided to build his own zigzag staircase instead. Felix Kwame Amoako, ladies and gentlemen. A man who spent five years mastering the...
The casual observer, entranced by the pageantry of West African democracy, fails to perceive the deeper currents that govern political life in Ghana. What appears as mere electoral theatre masks a complex equilibrium of forces — ethnic, economic, and institutional — that would have been familiar to Nkrumah in his pragmatic moments or to Nyerere...
Civilisation endures not through institutional architecture alone, but through the transmission of meaning across generations. Among the Ewe of Ghana’s Volta Region, this transmission occurs at the loom. The kete, or kente cloth, represents more than textile craftsmanship — it embodies a philosophical system, encoding cultural memory in pattern and colour. The loom functions as...
Permit me, if you will, a brief meditation — scribbled somewhere between a disgracefully tepid cappuccino and what I can only describe as a mild existential crisis of the sort that afflicts one at three o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon — on this proposition: that life, my dear reader, is nothing more nor less than...
By the ancestors! Let me tell you about the most extraordinary, the most delightfully peculiar, the most absolutely spiffing libation to ever grace the tropical shores of West Africa—Ghanaian palm wine! Now look here, I know what you’re thinking. You’re clutching your flutes of Moët, your Bollinger, your frightfully expensive Dom Pérignon, and you’re saying...
“The History of Misinformation” is a 3-part opinion series inspired by The Age of Mistrust, a British Academy lecture held in February 2025. Each article reflects on a key speaker’s contribution, tracing how misinformation has shaped legal, political, and historical narratives from ancient Greece to modern times. Together, the series underscores how misinformation—driven by bias, media influence,...
In the silenced halls of Accra’s casino’s, beneath the shimmer of chandeliers and the soft rustle of cards, Blackjack is in full swing — an agbadza of risk and reason, where chance plays its part, but skill leads the way. To the untrained eye, it is but a gambler’s pastime: swift hands, fleeting fortunes, and...