21 June 2011 editorial ALL LIBERIANS ARE sailing together in a single boat, the Liberian State, cruising through the seas of uncertainty this year in wake of presidential and legislative elections, the second since the cessation of military hostilities in 2003. Witnessing the horrors of war firsthand, Liberians are panicking, and rightly so, because they are not sure whether the ensuing elections will backpedal recovery and development efforts and turn the nation back to conflict and war or will help solidify democracy and peace. And it is an undisputed fact one of these eventualities is bound to come to reality in the next few months, and that eventuality, whatever it would be, will principally depend on what a few Liberians called politicians--be it those seeking the retain political power or those seeking to acquire political power--shall choose.
Professor Kwesi Yankah, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Legon, will Wednesday give this year’s Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences lecture at the British Council in Accra at 5:30.p.m. He will speak on the topic: “Dzi Wo Fie Asem”.
The distinguished professor is the author of Abonsam Fireman; a political satire which attracted readers to the Catholic Standard in the 1970’s when the late General Kutu Acheampong and his cross-belt generals sat at the Castle and took political decisions for the country.
Prof. Yankah is credited with the creation of ‘Woes of a Kwatriot,’ which made The Mirror newspaper a must-read publication in Ghana at weekends not too long ago.
Head of the Linguistic Department of the University of Ghana for several years, Prof. Yankah is a member of the large Vicking family, the alumni association of the Mensah Sarbah Hall of the University of Ghana, where he was a student, Hall tutor and Hall master.
According to Odineho Kofi Dua-Adonteng, official spokesman for the Vikings support group for Wednesday’s lecture, all members are required to be present at the British Council Hall to give the professor the needed moral support.
