Is one society’s democratic culture replicable elsewhere?
During the first few months after I arrived in America in early 1992, I was constantly disoriented by the dizzying
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The lessons we need to draw from the quandary in Niger
On July 26, 2023, the democratically elected president of Niger, Mohammed Bazoum, was deposed in a coup by the country’s
The Cecilia Dapaah scandal is a classic homegrown African problem
Allegations of corruption recently forced Cecilia Dapaah to resign from her position as Ghana’s minister of sanitation and water resources.
My Q&A interview with Literary Titan about my book, The Boy from Boadua.
The Strength I Needed To Keep Going JUL 22 Posted by Literary Titan Patrick Asare Author Interview The Boy from Boadua
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy deserves our gratitude, not lectures
On the second day of the 2023 NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Britain’s defense secretary, Ben Wallace, and U.S. national
What if everyone thought like a mother?
My wife and I often watch the nightly television news together. We see the frequent reports of young men and
William Ruto should be a little more practical in his thinking
At the conclusion of the New Global Financial Pact Summit in Paris last month, President William Ruto of Kenya participated
A different perspective on the Titan rescue mission
On June 19, 2023, U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard teams, together with other supporting parties, launched a massive operation to
Not all knowledge is power
Poverty, racism, urban culture, and parental absenteeism understandably feature prominently in national discussions about the root causes of the dysfunction
The parable of the off-duty traffic cop
A traffic cop stopped a middle-aged man on a highway for speeding one afternoon. As the officer approached his vehicle,
A troubling self-doubt is creeping into U.S. foreign policy
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers recently expressed worry that the U.S. is getting increasingly “lonely” on the international
The crisis in Sudan and the principle of national sovereignty
In international politics, national sovereignty is a sacred principle that must be steadfastly safeguarded. But in deferring to this tenet,
