E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Dec 2, 2009, 9:49 am
Few Ghanaians either care or make the effort to care about the issue of mining, and this is not because they are as naturally apathetic to causes as I sometimes make out in this blog. I suspect it al...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Nov 19, 2009, 11:01 am
Two important developments within the past two days have reminded me that Ghana might not be playing a low-key role in international diplomacy, albeit African geo-politics. Now that one of my long-ti...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Nov 13, 2009, 10:08 am
In 2019, when the-then 47-yr-old (former) carpenter looks back at when he won the grand prize of 1million dollars from Vodafone Ghana as part of its promotion, what will he say to his two children? ...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Nov 9, 2009, 8:36 am
Friday 6 November will go down in the annals of my personal history as a day of profoundly serious reminiscing. I blame the BBC Worldservice for its daily reminders of the fall of the Berlin Wall, w...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Nov 6, 2009, 9:16 am
Some of us hate to say "we told you so", but some of us really did carry on till the cows came home on how bad and inimical for Ghana the Vodafone deal last August was. Here is what I wrote for nowpub...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Nov 2, 2009, 10:43 am
I have not yet had the priviledge of meeting up with Dr.Sammy Laryea, but I like what I know. He recently obtained his Ph.D and he is an ardent believer in Ghana. And he is young. He sent me a message...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Oct 27, 2009, 9:04 am
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Oct 21, 2009, 11:35 am
MAN goes to shop, carrying basket. Points accusing finger to his car, while walking with a woman , who looks like his contemporary. He asks, almost shouting: Have you closed the car window? my phones...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Oct 19, 2009, 10:22 am
I am not really back as I never went away--just undercover. I do not like unannounced hiatus from blogging, but this time, it was necessary. Suffice-to-say, I am back--and proud! I am glad Ghanaians ...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Oct 7, 2009, 12:12 pm
Following my piece questioning afrigator, Stii has taken the trouble to respond. I post his reply for your general consumption. Enjoy! Hi Emmanuel, Sorry for only responding now! This slipped thro...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Oct 2, 2009, 8:35 am
Many people believe that middle-class types like those who blog about and in Ghana are all car-drivers. It's like if you can string a couple of sentences together that sound cogent, then you must ...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Sep 30, 2009, 8:51 am
Few people know that I have another blog, entitled "Reflecting the Eccentric World of E.K.Bensah II"--save Ghanablogging colleague Kobby Graham who has listed it in his aggregator. That's the spac...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Sep 23, 2009, 11:59 am
When little E.K.Bensah III and Samantha/Sammy are born, there is a story that must needs be told. It's a story about how their father--then 32 years young--imbued by the pride of being an Nkruma...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Sep 16, 2009, 10:05 am
For the cognescenti of Afrigator.com, my title might be a non-starter. I know for a fact that fellow ghanablogging.com bloggers like David Ajao have waxed lyrical about afrigator's peeps (akin to ...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Sep 15, 2009, 8:09 am
So you can check out this video, which was sent round by a friend on Facebook. I want to believe that it is not just because we are less than a week away from celebrating a holiday of 21st September i...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Sep 11, 2009, 11:37 am
Click to Play As the week winds down to a close, we can only feel that the week has just flown by with tremendous celerity. Some of us might have been too busy buried in work; others mi...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Sep 9, 2009, 10:22 am
Few issues make me viscerally turn my head out of disbelief than outright greed. So when I heard that the EXOPA CEO had been caught with cocaine, I couldn't quite make it out. Yeah, so we all love...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Sep 3, 2009, 10:00 am
This was how I started the morning:

humbled that Ghana's Joy 99.7FM supremos would seek my opinion abt Ghana's ministry of informati...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Aug 31, 2009, 11:17 am
My twitter comments last Monday went thus: wondering what to say to BBC Mark Doyle when BBC's Over To You team call re:my complaint about Doyle's prog title "Why is Africa Poor?" Shortly aft...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Aug 25, 2009, 11:43 am
Mighty African threw me an open challenge yesterday regarding the post about "CSI Tamale". It's great to read that the University of Development Studies is the first tertiary institution to come o...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Aug 24, 2009, 10:05 am
I have never met Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading GuideKweku Baako and don't think I might ever, especially now that he has seemingly abandoned his mother party the Convention People's Par...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Aug 24, 2009, 9:45 am
Last week's post about the Ghanaian media, and Anna Bossman elicited zero comments on my blog, but plenty on Facebook! Food for thought... Updated on Thursday · Comment · Like / UnlikeSamson Oj...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Aug 21, 2009, 9:36 am
I am writing this from AnC Shopping Mall in East Legon not because I am going to be stuck here indefinitely, but I thought it w as a while doing mobile blogging, so here it is--from no better place th...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Aug 21, 2009, 8:21 am
Currently in a taxi AnC Mall-bound. Windscreen is wet. More rain to follow suit? ___sent: e.k.bensah (OGO device)+233.268.891.841/ These words brought to you by Ogo.
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Aug 19, 2009, 10:30 am
On Monday evening, I was priviledged to have a brief Facebook-chat with no less than the very personable and delectable Ag.Commissioner of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice(CH...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Aug 18, 2009, 12:30 pm
I feel so energised now. It's like I can do anything I put my mind to. I've been doing some serious reflections about the trajectory of my life. Though rather stressed, it's kind of a posi...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Aug 3, 2009, 9:30 am
I have wittingly used this picture, which I took in 2005 of the roundabout as a testament to my decision to take you dsown memory lane. Now, in a bit of a departure from merely quoting articles from ...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Jul 31, 2009, 11:37 am
I think I owe my readers an apology for leading them up a wild goose chase with my title. So allow me to be clearer. A couple of posts ago, fellow ghanablogging.com member Esi Cleland guest-blogged a...
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E.K. Bensah Jr. posted an article on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana - Jul 30, 2009, 10:10 am
Blogging, generally, is like a candle in the wind: it waxes and wanes in the most unexpected manner, and like the sea, it ebbs and flows in quality and consistency. Blogigng is also rather solipsisti...
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