Cameron Duodu

When I was attending middle school at Kyebi, in the Eastern Region, my task each morning was to go to the River Birem, where I would bathe and bring some water home.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established under a multilateral treaty called the Rome Statute which was adopted on 17 July 1998 and entered into force on 1 July 2002. The is based in The Hague, Holland, and has 124 member states.

Democracy is not a concept that is too difficult to understand. It allows for what can be put in the Ghanaian language,  Twi, as  'ka-bi-ma-me-nka bi': (literally, "You say your piece  and let me too say mine".)

One of the most beautiful songs I heard from the incomparable EK's Band – undoubtedly the most popular band in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s – was entitled “Wobeka m'asem.” [“They will tell my story”!]

The word in Twi that comes closest to defining “hubris” for me is tirimudƐ.

For the benefit of readers who do not speak Twi, the word literally means “to entertain sweetness inside one's own head”!

It was in Louisville, Kentucky, that I first encountered the problem that ultimately – but remotely – resulted in the tragic deaths of five policemen in Dallas, Texas, last week.

The problem? The hostility between Black men (especially young ones) and white police officers.

Omar Mateen, the American gunman who slaughtered 50 people and wounded another 53 at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, on 12 June 2016, used an AR-15 assault rifle to kill his victims.

When “Cassius Clay” (as he then was) entered the ring to fight Sonny Liston for the World Heavyweight title in February 1964, I was afraid that Sonny Liston would kill him.

When we talk of “bequests” left to the living by the dead, we often think of material things.

But for The New York Times of 16 May 2016, I would never have heard of Dr. Anne Deborah Atai-Omorotu. Yet she was one of the greatest genuine heroines that Africa has ever produced.