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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: A critique of Akufo-Addo’s “Thank You” tour
When the much-vilified Old Man showed up again for the third time, his fate on the chopping board of the sharp-teethed babies and ill-bred adults was more predictable…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: The undiplomatic diplomat and the hypocrites
The first time I heard about Jon Benjamin was in November 2014. I was in the United States participating in the International Visitors Leadership Programme on Investigative Journalism,…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: Rashida ‘black beauty’ and the angry Kumkum Bhagya audience
The Multimedia Group has a comprehensive election coverage project dubbed Election Headquarters. From the Election Day until the results are announced, almost all employees of the…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: In defence of Amissah-Arthur
The defeat suffered by National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the just-ended election was a humiliating one. It was an emphatic rejection an eight-year legacy of two Presidents –…
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Manasseh Azure Awuni writes: This will convince you that Wofa K’s attack is a lie
On Sunday, December 11, 2016, an Accra-based radio presenter who had campaigned for President John Mahama and the NDC in the just-ended elections sat in Joy FM Newsroom…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: How GHOne TV scared Multimedia in election coverage
I am one of those Ghanaians who are not proud of the standard of journalism in this country. Ghana is one of the freest countries on earth for…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: When losers remember and winners forget
Last week, many of the NDC supporters who said their party was more united than the Holy Trinity are suddenly realising cracks and divisions that had been there…
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PHOTOS: Tears of Akufo-Addo’s daughter and the price of victory
Photographs of the moment President John Dramani Mahama called Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to concede defeat have been released. The most touching images are the tears of…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: President Mahama’s concession speech [a spoof written before the President conceded]
Good evening, my fellow countrymen and women. A few minutes ago, I made the most difficult phone call I have made, and may ever make, in my life:…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: Why the EC’s intervention is suspicious and dangerous!
When voting ended on Wednesday, the Electoral Commission of Ghana and its chairperson, Charlotte Osei, were receiving tons of commendation from Ghanaians. The 2016 elections turned out to…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: My experience of rigging elections in Ghana
A few months after I wrote my senior high school certificate examination, Ghana was going to the polls. That was the 2004 election. I applied to take part…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: What it means to vote wisely!
For some days now social media, especially Facebook, have been awash with a question: “If people say vote wisely, what do they mean?” Some people think it is…