Re: "Rawlings' Caucasian Blood Helped His Integrity: Says Nigerian Author."

Quote: "By Benjamin Tawiah: The author is a freelance journalist; he lives in Ottawa, Canada." End of quotation.

Exactly - the "author" does indeed live in faraway Canada not Ghana. Perhaps if he lived in Ghana he could have taken a short walk past the former president's Ridge residence - and counted the number of houses there: two, precisely. Not five!

One of the two very ordinary-looking houses, serves as his family's home - and the other his office. Massa, for the record, the former president does not live in "a plush complex boasting five houses." Period.

Massa, with respect, if you want to be taken seriously as a "freelance journalist", do endeavour to get your facts right - as it does your reputation no good at all to make such needless (and basic!) factual errors. That - and being fair and balanced, always - will get you far, in your chosen profession. So do take note of that, please. Haaba!

Finally, Opanin, may I humbly point it out to you, that there are many Africans (both in the continent, and in the Diaspora), who might say to you that Africans of the 21st century, ought to have enough self-belief, not to allow themselves to be influenced by those negative-minded Africans, whose own sense of inferiority, makes them deprecate everything African?

Opanin, there is no innate difference in intelligence between the races - and neither is there a scientific basis for suggesting or implying that race has anything to do with  the level of personal integrity members of the different races that make up the one human race have. That is arrant nonsense as many factors go into shaping  the character of indivuduals whatever their race might be.

Yes, there are some Africans who are less honest than the members of other races - just as there are some members of other races who are less honest than some Africans.

Massa, try and see beyond stereotypes - if you want to be a good “freelance journalist.” Is Botswana's ruling elite not as honest as that found in the developed nations of the Western world - such as that of Canada for example? Are they not Africans, too? Get it? Se mu ekotina abrokyire a, eyaa mu enje muhu endi kakra. Haaba. Hmmm, Ghana - eyeasem oo!

May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long freedom! Long live Ghana!