Society hands you the coin, points at one face, and tells you that is the whole story. The angel in feathery wings on Sunday morning. The devil in blood-stained apparel on a sun-infested hump day. The selfish-altruist nobody wants to talk about — and the system that made a public enemy out of the wrong person.
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Society
Sisyphus was condemned to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity. Every time he neared the summit, it rolled back down. In Ghanaian parlance — w’ani bɛ hu Canaan nanso wo nan ensi hɔ da. The Greeks called it divine punishment. Ghanaians call it an election cycle
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Politics, Society
There is a specific kind of evening in Ghana that belongs entirely to the Ghanaian movie. The family assembled. The television on. Nobody surprised by what is about to happen. Because for thirty years the Ghanaian movie formula has always produced the same film. A satirical field guide to the formula we all grew up on — and why a whole generation quietly stopped watching.
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Entertainment
