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in Essays
On Democracy and Politics
I just found an old Tom Hanks interview, part of his publicity work for ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’. It got me thinking about political dramas in general. There’s been some good ones recently. ‘Broken…
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in Essays
On Conflict
What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding? It doesn’t stand a chance, unless we all get some at once. Kind of like the Swedish with their Dagen H. In every other scenario, the first…
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Myself: My Self
What makes me? Physically speaking, I am an interesting collection of descriptions. My wallpaper is a sort of barbecued chocolate. The Northern border is wooly and uncooperative in the foliage, which nicely camouflages a very impressive skull.…
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Myself: My Age
I am twenty-one years old. In the eyes of the law, there’s nothing I can’t do. Except, I heard a radio commercial for Stone Strong Lager (the one brewed from rice, they said) and it’s “For…
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Myself: My Name
I intend to do what every victim of the Ghanaian primary school syllabus has wished to do at some point. Every time we’re forced to write ‘of dark complexion’, against the protest of…