Tissues of the Issues Archives

Lawyer Afenyo-Markin’s Bomphiologia

“Rhetoric is language at play-language plus. It is what persuades and cajoles, inspires and bamboozles, thrills and misdirects. It is

“Fighting corruption is not just good governance, it’s self-defense. It’s patriotism”—Joe Biden, former Vice-President of the United States. One day,

In May 2015, the Upper East Regional Chairman of then opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Adams Mahama, was doused

“Everyone who has commented on the controversy of GJA Awards has had the same difficulty: killing the tsetse fly

“We love to quote the saying: “Rome was not built in a day” but we fail to remember that Rome

“Brett’s assault on me drastically altered my life. For a long time, I was too afraid and ashamed to tell

“Attractive people earn an average of 3 or 4 percent more than people with below-average looks. Attractive people tend to

“Some other countries that run the free education system, like Australia, Kenya and Japan run the same double-track system too. Even in USA,

‘We will never change the world by going to church. We will only change the world by being the church’—Anonymous.

“If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again”—Arabian Proverb. “I