Columnist / Baffour ankomah
Rhodesia was 'successful' because essentially it was a province of SA
This week, I am going to start by doing something that we journalists don't normally do. Often we think our duty is to criticise or point out wrongdoing but never to praise even when praise is due. Bu...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 09:26hrs | | by Baffour Ankomah
Why did Ian Smith give in so easily and abruptly?
Let's look abroad before coming home. We all know Donald John Trump, the 45th and current President of the USA. If Trump were African, they would say Africans are daft to have elected him president. B...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 13:36hrs | | by Baffour Ankomah
Zimbabwe is not the worst country on earth!
At the beginning of this new weekly column, more of which is going to come in the next months and years Inshallah, let me make this humble appeal to the authorities on behalf of the suffering resident...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | 7 | by Baffour Ankomah
Zimbabwe's well-intentioned law triggers violent agitation
The outside world must be wondering what is really going on in Zimbabwe with the Western media reporting "massive protests breaking out across the country". What is true is that groups of Zimbabweans,...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 06:32hrs | | by Baffour Ankomah
West's bad Press against President
Shall we start by taking a cue from the great British journalist, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne (now 92), former editor of the Sunday Telegraph (1986-91).Confessing in an article in the Daily Mail ...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Baffour Ankomah
State House is far, says Mnangagwa - Interview Part 3
Q: So you created what is called a "bogey" in this country?A: What is a bogey?Q: A kind of false flag, where people...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 10:19hrs | | by Baffour Ankomah
State House is far, says Mnangagwa - Interview Part 2
Q: Why can't the many "solid" cadres you talk about be like Mugabe? Iron sharpens iron, isn't it?A: I don't know what that means, iron sharpens iron, that i...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 10:10hrs | | by Baffour Ankomah
State House is far, says Mnangagwa - Interview Part 1
"I have been with the president since 1963. We have been working together since then, first in Tanganyika and thereafter we were in prison together; he did 11 years and I did 10 years," says VP Mnanga...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 10:03hrs | | by Baffour Ankomah
The so-called men of God
If you cannot trust your pastor to pastor your wife for just a day, or if you allow me the pun for just a night, know that society is in deep, deep trouble. And that i...Published: 21 Jun 2014 at 06:54hrs | | by Baffour Ankomah
'If anyone was defending Nkomo, it was I. I was the last to leave Zapu,' says Mugabe
[Ed. Note: We are deeply indebted to the generosity and solidarity of Baffour Ankomah for sharing this historical interview:]Before the 2003 celebrat...Published: 19 Feb 2013 at 12:02hrs | 1 | by Interview by Baffour Ankomah - September 1, 2003
Fidel Castro of Africa!
In the 1970s and 80s, Fidel Castro sent 350,000 Cuban soldiers, civilians and doctors to support the African liberation struggle, especially in Angola, Namibia, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde,...Published: 24 Aug 2011 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Baffour Ankomah
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