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Mode of registration: After months of hype, tension, demonstrations, Ghana’s Electoral launched a nation-wide registration Tuesday June 30, 2020 to compile a Electoral Register.

threats and Commission exercise on new national

A cluster system will be used. 6788 clusters, made up of 5 polling stations each will be covered.

All 33, 367 registration centers will be covered during the exercise. The exercise will be carried simultaneously in all 16 regions across the country.

Ahead of the launch of this exercise, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Jean Mensah met with the media on Monday June 29, to relay updates with regards to the exercise.

Among other things, the EC Chair touched on a number of measures put in place by the EC to ensure the process is safe and risk-free, as far as issues of COVID-19 and its spread are concerned.

The entire registration will be done in 5 phases.

Each phase will span a duration of 6 days. A registration team will spend 6 days each of the 5 centers of the cluster, that’s 30 days for each cluster.

An additional 6 June 30, 2020 and beyond:

Here are some of the key points she addressed: 1. All registration centres will be set up outdoors in open spaces. Where schools, churches, and other centres are being used as registration centres, centers will be set up in open spaces outside the facilities.

Mrs. Jean Mensah, Electoral Commissioner at all registration centers.

2. All furniture will strictly be provided by the Electoral Commission as has been the policy from times past. Furniture will continually be wiped with alcohol wipes.

6. The aged and vulnerable may go to the district offices of the EC across the country for their registration. They have the option of filling out and printing their forms before they go to the registration centers, to help speed up the registration processes.

3. All People queuing to enter the registration center will be required to wear a nose mask. Temperature will be checked, social distancing will be enforced, and mandatory washing of hands observed. Hand sanitizers will also be provided.

7. Registration for the aged and vulnerable starts from Thursday, July 2, 2020.

4. Some 7000 health assistants released by the Ghana Health Service to each of the centers nationwide to assist in the strict adherence of safety protocols outlined by the EC.

9. 8,000 biometric voter registration kits deployed into the field, thoroughly tested.

5. Special arrangements have been made for the elderly and the vulnerable in the registration exercise. All vulnerable persons such as persons with disabilities, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers, the aged who are 60 years and above, as well as the sick, will be given priority

8. 44,000 staff recruited, trained, and deployed into the field.

10. Each applicant should not spend more than 10 minutes to go through the registration process.

11. Over 5,000 technicians deployed to the field and zonal centers set up across the country to detect faulty kits.

After the first day of the registration exercise, The Coalition of Election Observers (CODEO) has commended the Electoral Commission for what it says is the smooth take-off of the registration.

According to CODEO, most registration centres are accessible and easily identified within communities and had safety protocols in place to check COVID-19.

On their observation so far, the project lead for CODEO Rhoda Afful said the delivery of registration materials to centres was also impressive.“All in all, day one wasn’t bad. There were some positives and some negatives. Most of the registration centres are easy to locate and accessible. The materials were there and election officials were there. The safety protocols were in place, hand washing equipment were there,” she said.

The Northern regional police commander, DCOP Timothy YoosaBonga, also expressed satisfaction over security in the various registration centres in Tamale when he toured centres.MrYoosaBonga said that his tour around the various centres indicate there is peace and calm.

There was relative calm at most centers across the country as citizens lined up eager to register as voters.

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Your vote is your Power: Do register to vote After intense periods of uncertainties, Ghana’s Electoral Commission began registration of new electoral voters from Tuesday June 30, 2020.

This exercise comes against the background of intense campaign by opponents of a new Voter’s Register aimed at preventing the exercise from taking off. The Electoral Commission, led by Mrs. Jean Mensah deserves commendation for keeping its cool in the face of threats, intimidations and outright show of hooliganism from some sections of the population towards this all-important national exercise.

December 7 must be a Ghanaian election, not a West African election’: PresidentAkufo-Addo By: The Ghanaian News Team Ghana’s President Nana AddoDankwaAkufo-Addo says it must be the collective responsibility of Ghanaians to ensure that the country has a register fit for purpose for the conduct of the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections.

That a credible voters’ roll is a pre-requisite for a credible and transparent elections and by extension, the assurance of political stability in any nation cannot be over-emphasized. Many nations around the world, and especially in Africa, have been plunged into post-electoral violence and instability because of suspicions surrounding electoral rolls.

According to President Akufo-Addo, “we must all make sure that persons who do not meet the requirements, as set out clearly in the Constitution, do not find their names into the register. If you aid the registration of an ineligible person, and you are caught, you will face the full rigours of the law.”

It has been a contentious issue in Ghana over years that the Electoral register has alot of issues around it. There have been claims, some verified, that a number of foreign nationals have managed to have their names on Ghana’s electoral register and duly participate in various elections, especially the Presidential and Parliamentary elections that have been held since 1992. Various forms of civil unrest have taken place in the country over the years over the credibility of the Electoral Register, some with tragic consequences.

Addressing the nation on Monday, 29th June, 2020, and monitored

by The Ghanaian News Team, ahead of the conduct of the voter registration exercise on Tuesday, 30th June, the President stressed that “the election on 7th December must be a Ghanaian election, not a West African election, conducted with a voter register of Ghanaians.

That is the only way the true will of the Ghanaian people can manifest.”

It is therefore gratifying to note that this muchanticipated and over-hyped national exercise has finally taken off without any major mishaps.

We commend Ghanaians for their patience and the discipline they have exhibited so far since the exercise began on Tuesday June 30, 2020.

We have monitored the exercise in various parts of the country and we are pleased with how it has been conducted so far.

Bearing in mind the fact that the only qualification a citizen has to vote in an election in the country is to be registered as a voter, we urge all qualified citizens of Ghana not to take the ongoing national registration exercise for granted.

Every qualified citizen should make it a national duty to take advantage of this opportunity and register to get their names on the national electoral roll. There are many young people who have turned adults (above 18 years of age) since the last register was compiled more than five years ago. This group has the inalienable right to be registered and to vote in coming elections. This way, they and other citizens can confidently join millions of their compatriots whenever there is an election in the country to express the credible powerthey have to choose those they wish to govern them at the local and national levels. The current voters’ registration exercise in Ghana will go on till August 6, 2020.

Those who have not yet registered still have time to locate a polling station and register.

In many elections, winners have been decided by a few votes, and in some cases by only a single vote. This means that your single vote can make a real difference in any elections that you participate in. This means that your vote is your power: claim it and use it when the time comes.

Ghanaians have now realized that those who were threatening to stop this exercise had no such power to do so. In actual fact, there have been instances over the early days of the registration exercise where some of the most noisy opponents of the voters’ registration exercise were the first people to turn out to register to get their names on the voters’ register. Great lesson in political deceit for all.

He, thus, urged all eligible Ghanaians, i.e. that is Ghanaians of eighteen (18) years of age or above, and of sound mind, to go out and register, so that they can exercise their civic responsibilities on 7th December, 2020, to elect a government of their choice in a free, fair, peaceful and transparent election.

“Using your God-given and constitutional rights costs nothing, but staying home can come at a very steep price. The pandemic, notwithstanding, we have to strengthen Ghanaian democracy,” he added.

Describing the compilation of the voters’ register as one of the most important tasks in the effective functioning of any democracy, President Akufo-Addo noted that if an eligible citizen’s name is not on the register, that citizen cannot exercise the right to vote, and cannot, therefore, participate in the determination of the choice of the government of the day.

“It is, thus, vitally important that all

President Nana Akufo Addo eligible voters register, so, on the designated day of 7th December, they can vote to choose the President of the nation, and the Member of Parliament of their area. In effect, our vote, our thumb, is the expression of our individual sovereign power as a citizen, which we should cherish and guard at all times,” he said.

President Akufo-Addo reassured all eligible voters of their safety at the 33,327 polling stations across the country, explaining that the Electoral Commission has put in place the necessary, elaborate protocols for the process.

“All these protocols should be adhered to strictly. Additionally, I want to remind all Ghanaians that all the other protocols and restrictions, especially those dealing with large gatherings, must be adhered to and enforced at the polling stations at all times. So, let us all abide by them, and conduct ourselves in a manner befitting the image and status of Ghana,” he added.

The President continued, “If you do not register now, you cannot vote in December. Present your Ghana card or passport, which are the only two forms of valid identification. In the absence of any of these valid IDs, an applicant can submit one completed Identification Guarantee Form, endorsed by two registered voters, to be registered and issued with a voter ID card. By these procedures, all eligible voters will be registered. No disenfranchisement of voters is contemplated by them.”

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Ghana struggles with Corruptovirus and Coronavirus

By Thaddeus Ulzen MD

Long before the Coronavirus pandemic, we were being strangled daily and could not breathe because of the persistence of Corruptovirus in all aspects of Ghanaian life.

As a matter of fact, for all the problems that Coronavirus brought, it took our minds off Corruptovirus, which has been carefully and expertly nurtured by the two major political parties, NDC and NPP in our public life, for as long as the sun shines every day in Ghana.

The sickening spectacle of the NPP delegates conference, taking place without adhering to any of the safety protocols necessary to keep Coronavirus in check, made for a very sad day in our lives as Ghanaians.

It is bad enough that we all know that delegates of the major parties are bought regularly at their parties’ conventions. But to disrespect the populace so brazenly by announcing how much delegates were paid and by openly displaying gifts of bicycles, televisions and refrigerators, is a clear indication of the culture of impunity and total disregard for the place of the ordinary voter in our democracy. This is a complete breach of public t r u s t .

Examples reported in the public space, included that of Dr. Dickson Kissi announcing that he had spent over a GHC1 million on his delegates.

Benjamin Ashitey Armah openly announced that he purchased the votes of 766 delegates at Ghc 550 each.

Daniel Titus Glover threw GHC 1000 and a refrigerator to each delegate to influence their vote. The obvious question is how do they come by this money? How do they intend to recover their investment.? This is public service? There are a whole lot more examples, not worth going into.

Where is our human rights lawyer president in all this?

Silence about such brazen, open, democracy-undermining wrongdoing, is tantamount to tacit approval by the president and party leader of corruption in the political process. If these are the custodians of the socalled “democratic dispensation “and the “peace dividend “, then indeed in the middle of this pandemic, we need to throw caution to the wind, go to church and kneel down and pray like hell.

If the delegates are bought by corrupt contestants, then indeed the parliamentarians are corrupt and parliament is

for sale. If the people’s house is for sale, then clearly the other two branches of government, being the executive and the judiciary cannot claim to be untouched by this culture of corruption.

Ghanaians have been brow beaten by politicians to accept such conduct as normal since the beginning of the fourth republic, more so than we have seen at any other time.

In such an environment, where influence peddling is so open, yet no one is arrested, no one is invited to explain their conduct to law-enforcement and no one in the public is able to hold politicians accountable, then this is not a democracy but a kleptocracy.

Within this operational context, when those seeking to manage our affairs are not held accountable, how on earth do we believe that we will be able to contain this pandemic.

We started out quite well, barring a few mis-steps, following the recommendations of health experts, but in no time politics begin to color the national interventions. Building 88 new district hospitals is the least important dimension of keeping Ghanaians safe from the vagaries of Covid-19. The distribution of such facilities within the country should not be determined by man-made geographic boundaries but by carefully studied populationbased healthcare needs and indeed by focusing on infrastructure that enables easy access, even if the nearest district hospital to a person happens to be in another district. Where is the human professional capacity to staff and operate these hospitals after they have been built? We need to learn from our own current realities. The urgency now, is for thousands and thousands of well-trained contact tracers.

It is disturbing even to mention the question of party cards when food was being distributed to the hungry. With an election looming, the temptation to color urgent public health interventions with politics is great but taking the highroad is what will save Ghanaian lives. The United States stands alone as an example of how politics can kill citizens in a pandemic.

On the face of it, everything is being done right. In reality, the question is how well are these interventions being managed and implemented to ensure that this public health emergency is treated as such.

Prof. T. P. Manus Ulzen To be blunt, in those 88 districts where hospitals have to be built, if citizens do not have access to potable water, then providing sustainable sources of clean water should be the most important investment in the healthcare of citizens in those districts. If they don’t have clean water, they can’t wash their hands as the president directs.

Social distancing, when possible combined with the wearing of masks is supported by global evidence from countries that have displayed the necessary discipline required to contain this pandemic so that economic activities can resume. One only has to drive a short distance outside Accra to find that compliance with the mandate for face coverings in public is not translated to action on the ground. It is rare to find a community we are more than 20% of the people in public are wearing masks.

An adherence rate of above 90% is required to have the desired impact.

We have not flattened the curve and indeed the curve is not being shown to us directly.

It is only partially true that increase testing accounts for increased cases. There is active community spread which accounts for most of the new cases and indeed, if we do not get real about this, really soon, we will be overwhelmed by this virus.

The mandate is good but behavioral change will come not just from public health announcements, presidential mandates and executive instruments but from real continuous community engagement at the local level, truly explaining risks to the population. Ghanaians need to understand clearly what an asymptomatic carrier is.

Looking at the data, it would be prudent and urgently so to lock down Greater Accra and Ashanti again and to enforce this lockdown seriously along with an intensified nationwide community engagement around mask wearing for the next four weeks or more to turn this around. Failure to step up our interventions because of political or other imperatives, will cost more lives and further disrupt the economy. Any program, no matter how well designed,will succeed on the basis of how well it is implemented. This is where the weak link in the chain resides.

If a well implemented public health program with verifiable results is in place, then the resumption of international travel poses less of a risk.

Tourism-focused countries like Jamaica have a geotracking app for visitors, so they can be monitored. This is because travelers will be screened and will have to fall in line with appropriate selfisolation measures that are supervised by an army of welltrained contact tracers. The government and many travelers can be spared hotel expenses by using appropriate technologies. Rwanda with a population of 12 million people has 60,000 contact tracers. How many do we have in Ghana for our population of 30 million?

The cocktail of Corruptovirus and Coronavirus is an

explosive one. Ghanaians need to wake up to the reality that the NDC/NPP duopoly has created a culture that is an anathema to our development.

It is time to create a new culture of politics that rests on integrity in public life and in professionalized institutions and real regulatory mechanismsthat empower our citizens. Ghana has a lot of talented, patriotic and faithful citizens who are capable of doing a much better job for our nation. If our political landscape does not expand to include political alternatives to this false binary choice of NDC and NPP, we shall all pay dearly for complacency and inaction. Worst of all, we will pay for accepting the current norm as a basis for planning for our future. If we do, we would have failed our children and many future generations.

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” - Frederick Bastiat (1801-1850) French author, economist and statesman.

T. P. Manus Ulzen is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Alabama, Annual Visiting Professor at the University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences and author of “Java Hill: An African Journey” – A historiography of Ghana He is also Interim Chairman – Progressive Alliance for Ghana (PAG), a movement for social and economic justice in Ghana. tulzen@yahoo.com www.javahillelmina. wordpress.com Twitter: @thaddeusulzen

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Black Africans, Policing and Government Introduction His Worship Mayor Don Iveson and distinguished councillors of the City of Edmonton (Canada). Thank you for all your work. I am here at this public hearing as a blackman, a former police commissioner, a person who lived for 13 years on an indigenous First Nation reserve and served as its Chief Executive Officer. I am alsoa former Chief Administrative officer of the Town of High Prairie. I did my MBA in the Maritimes and I feel a deep sense of sadness for the recent policing death of Rodney Levi and Chantel Moore of the Maritimes. The cowardly police killings of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks has rocked our world and calls for all decent people to weigh in on this issue. Sitting on the fence is not an option. Despite my own personal experiences,

increase wealth. Today, that exploitation continues through the workings of several multinational companies.

I shall stick to an objective approach to this issue.

Human Resource 401 years ago, the year 1619, the Slave Trade in the Americas led to millions of Africans being taken from their motherland to work the plantations for free for several hundred of years. The wealth of the Americas and the quality of life of its citizenry has generally been built on the backs of black African free slave labour. The book “Das Capital” explains the immense benefits of surplus value generated by free or underpaid labour.

Industrial Revolution and Material Resource The Industrial Revolution in the 1700s and 1800s was backed by the textile industry which was fed by cotton grown and harvested through the

Keli Tamaklo free labour of black Africans.

The growing demands of the prosperous industrial revolution for more raw materials, capital investments and outlets for finished goods led to the colonization and massive exploitation of the African continent. Free raw materials at depressed world prices have since been used to support industries in the Western World and to

Modern Times The inhuman treatment of black Africans continues today in the form of racialized institutions and systems intended to prevent their equal and full participation in our global society. The colour of our skins has become the obvious stigma by which we are quickly identified and discriminated against in employment, education and social mobility. Our killings and incarceration have become a sport.

Ourcontinuous contributions to society in paying our fair share of taxes and our votes in a representative democracy leads to the creation of programs and services. It appears in general that these

votes and taxes have been taken for granted.

United Nations It is in this light that the United Nations proclaimed 2015 -2024 as the International Decade for People of African Descent to draw attention of society to the historic suffering of blacks all over the world.

At minimum, all government institutions are to make this declaration publicand to start encouraging work towards changing this history. After so much effort by our advocacy team, the Government of Alberta (Canada) endorsed the UN declaration on February 8th, 2018.

Policing Our policing systems are a part of our racialized society mimicking the very nature of its construct. Historically, our police program was created to protect capital and to ensure compliance of our slave dependent system.

The 2nd Amendment in the US is intended to protect the individual’s right to keep and bear arms.Partly in response, policing systems in the Americas have also been armed to the fullest. The use of guns and the fight or flight mentality of police have more than ever before been at the expense of disadvantaged and visible minorities.

Demand and Criminalization The growing demand for support within the society and the over criminalization from mental health, wellness checks, domestic disputes, neighbourhood conflicts, streets checks and minor traffic violations have led to a massive expansion in the mandate of police agencies who are undertrained and understaffed for some of these complex medical psychiatric situations. Psychologists and psychiatrists take days or weeks to make proper mental health diagnoses under clinical conditions,the police are often expected to assess and address the situation effectively in a matter of minutes, under the worst possible conditions.

Frontline officers are stretched thin and understaffed which has led to higher incidences of mental health issues within policing itself.

Government Since the inception of representative democracy and taxation, the fiduciary responsibility of elected officials is to take care of the interest and the purse of the people by creating services and programs to serve the needs of the community. The principle of equal and fair treatment is assumed to be one of the driving tenets of this democratic model regardless of the citizen’s background.

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FOCUS Focus: Reading should be encouraged among kids as Covid-19 Pandemic keeps them at home.

By Joe Kingsley Eyiah, OCT, Brookview Middle School, Toronto-Canada Did you know that READING can keep your mind active and engaged well into old age? Reading is considered one of the best habits that one can inculcate in him/her.

It leads one to knowledge!

The old Good Book says that ‘for lack of knowledge my people perish’. Yes, knowledge put to use is power. Though knowledge comes to us in many forms, it best comes in the pages of a book. However, we won’t know until we read what is written in the pages.

Therefore reading is the key parents to encourage their to knowledge. It is said that children to take reading the one who reads is a leader! seriously at home.

In these times of the As a parent and a teacher ‘new normal’ I am highly by profession I can’t impressed by the initiative overemphasize the importance of one Ghanaian lady living of reading to the teaching and in Toronto who has taken to learning process. Teachers Facebook every Sunday at 3 always encourage their pm to READ from books to students to read. And students audience (especially children) who read a lot excel in the from the comfort of her home academics. It is good to catch to the comfort of wherever they would be. This program them young with reading!

However, now that the titled ‘Afternoon Tea Time COVID-19 pandemic with Anti Anna’ is catching continues to keep our children on well with audiences in away from schools it has the Ghanaian community become the responsibility of in Toronto and elsewhere.

One may question: why bother reading while in our present age there is television to My experience as teacher give us all the news, and the both in Ghana and in Canada movies and videos to entertain has shown me that most us? Well, according to author Ghanaian children either don’t LeAnn R. Ralph, “Developing like reading or they are not good reading skills does not encouraged enough to read. only mean that you can read a Since reading is an activity novel or a nonfiction book or a with a purpose it stands to magazine or newspaper, it also reason that READING must means being able to read -done or ‘cultivated’ as a habit. and understand-- a credit card contract or an insurance policy.

Reading is done for various Or the directions for putting reasons. A student may read together that new shelving to gain information; verify unit you just bought. Or the existing knowledge or for instructions for how to install enjoyment! In all situations, a new printer to use with your the reader must be able code computer. Or the qualifications the words/sentences being you need to apply for a job read and comprehend the or to take out a loan to buy text to make meaning of the a house. Or that article you context in which it is written. found on the Internet advising consumers about the best, Some Benefits of Reading: most economical car to buy.”

which promotes better understanding and acceptance of other peoples. Reading also improves your vocabulary and use of words, and drastically improves concentration and focus. It is said that, the habit of reading ‘brings in lot of discipline and makes us consistent with the habit.

We develop habit of learning that brings in scheduling and good management of time’.

Moreover, consistent reading improves the thinking process and makes one more creative.

There are numerous benefits to be derived from reading.

Reading a good book can help you forget some of the problems in your life.

Obviously, if you can READ this, thank the one who encouraged you to READ. Thanks for READING this article!

Thank you very much Lady Anna Owusu Prempeh!

Other benefits from reading include increasing one’s knowledge based on cultures around the world,

I therefore indulge the pleasure and efforts of parents to encourage their children to do more reading now that we are stuck with them at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Riddance of Academic Streaming for Grade 9 Students in OntarioLong Overdue!

By Joe Kingsley Eyiah, Toronto

The news that the Ontario government is doing away with the academic streaming in Grade 9, is great and welcoming news but to some of us (educators) in the Province this is long overdue.

Streaming is the practice in which students are ‘compelled’ to choose to pursue either an “academic” or “applied” track when they begin high school. Unfortunately, this streaming has over the years ‘disproportionately affected Black and low-income students when it comes to graduation rates and the chance of going to a postsecondary institution.’

As an elementary teacher and Grade 8 lead teacher in the Toronto District School Board for about 20 years now I have been struggling with the recommendations I have had to give to my Grade 8 students on their transitional forms to High School supporting their choice to pursue either an academic” or “applied” track when they begin high school. What I saw as necessary and crucial for my Grade

8 graduates heading to high school was the need for more educational resources (academic & social) and not ‘streaming!’

Streaming, as rightly described by Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce in his announcement to the press recently is a “systemic, racist, discriminatory” practice.

No wonder educationists who, over the years, have opposed this practice called for it abolition long time ago.

Sadly, Ontario is one of the few places in Canada that continues to separate students into the hands-on applied stream and the post-secondary-track academic stream as they start high school.

Its riddance is long overdue!

Interestingly, the Toronto District School Board was pressured to abandon the practice since two years back, though not enforced! COVID-19 and the unfortunate death of George Floyd in the USA are turning a lot of things around! Thank God.

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EDUCATION BEYOND LOCKDOWN

By Gifty Annobil, Accra, Ghana

In an attempt to answer the above questions I have come up with the following suggestions:

I have always believed that school is not just a place but a process.

The advent of Coronavirus has obviously endorsed my belief.

School campuses are under lock and yet teaching and learning must go on.

Gifty Annobil

According to a UNESCO monitoring report, 99percent of the world’s student population have been affected.

the services of teachers to teach their wards at home, students of poor homes are disadvantaged .

The burden of school authorities and governments across Africa have overnight shifted from providing infrastructure to access.

Despite the efforts of governments, parents and schools there will be learning losses for almost everyone and worsened educational outcomes for the poor.

This is unprecedented !We certainly didn’t plan for such emergencies.

Monies have already been invested in school building projects which cannot be refunded.

Sadly students from rich and poor homes won’t be given different dates to write exams.

WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD THEN? HOW DO WE COME UP WITH SUSTAINABLE WAYS OF DEALING WITH FUTURE COMPLEX SITUATIONS?

Finding alternative learning forms is the language everyone is speaking.

While teaching and learning is going on undated in private schools with These are questions that some parents paying for must be answered!

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First, we must consider simplifying school curriculums to target areas where learning loss will be most consequential for the following years ahead of the reopening of schools.

Secondly, Parents must continuously support their wards with school work.

During the lockdown period and when schools finally reopen to make up for lost time.

And finally government must consider investing in softwares to promote online teaching and learning across board even when schools finally reopen.

Online learning has come to stay, we therefore need to catch up on technology. Telcos can contribute to this by providing discounted prices for e learning.

We need to address this issue holistically beyond Politics.

YES WE CAN!

GCAO Homework Club goes Virtual during the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Joe Kingsley Eyiah, Toronto Children are undoubtedly the greatest assets of any developing community.

Their welfare therefore becomes a big concern for the community. Parents are the first help to children in their pursuit of success in life which include their success at school. Many, if not all parents/wardens would like to see their children succeed at the end of the academic year and get promoted to the next grade or graduate with honors.

Any progressive community leadership will also want to do something to support parents to realize the dream for their children success in their academic pursuit. The need to set up a volunteer-based homework club in our Ghanaian-Canadian community within the Greater Toronto Area become very crucial as the population of children in the Ghanaian community is growing astronomically over the years.

A community-based homework and mentoring program nicknamed “GCAO Homework Club” was started few years ago at 10 Belfield Road, Etobicoke (Apostles Continuation Church), a location which is wellknown to many Ghanaian parents in the Greater Toronto Area. Volunteers from the Ghanaian Canadian Association of Ontario (GCAO) were spending time from 3pm to 5pm each Sunday

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to assist registered students between the ages of 6years and 18years mainly in the areas of literacy and numeracy plus mentorship. The teaching of the Ghanaian languages (Twi is available as at now) was added for both children and adults who were interested.

After the March break this year, the COVID-19 pandemic made it unsafe for the GCAO Homework Club to operate physically at 10 Belfield Road. The leadership of GCAO and the hardworking volunteers of the Homework Club therefore quickly decided to let the Homework Club go virtual on Sundays from 3 pm to 5 pm. Since then some parents across Canada as far as Alberta and the British Columbia have registered the kids with the Virtual Homework Club.

Interestingly, last Sunday, we had a student from our homeland Ghana register with us! We are growing in numbers.

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IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL ISSUES By: James A. Kwaateng, B.A. (Hons), LLB (Hons)

Misrepresentation resulting from non-declaration of family members on immigration applications Misrepresentation could be words or forms of conduct that convey a false or misleading impression. It may be fraudulent, innocent or negligent. There are misrepresentation provisions in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) to ensure that applicants provide complete, honest and truthful information to the Immigration authorities when applying for entry into Canada.

Violations of the provisions could lead to a permanent resident or a foreign national being inadmissible or being banned from Canada for a period of time. Misstated and omitted facts and fraudulent documents constitute the bulk of cases of misrepresentation in Immigration matters.

Whenever necessary and appropriate, the Immigration uses the misrepresentation provisions of the Act to deny visas at visa offices abroad and admission at ports of entry to foreign nationals.

Misrepresentation could also constitute basis for removal of foreign nationals once in Canada and for refusing inCanada applications.

Under section 40 of the Act (IRPA), persons who

resident who has become a Canadian citizen, there is the possibility of revoking the person’s citizenship pursuant to subsection 10 of the Citizenship Act if the misrepresentation was made in order to obtain permanent resident status. And such a person could also lose his permanent resident status.

misrepresent or withhold material facts, either directly or indirectly, relating to a relevant matter that induces or could induce an error in the administration of the Act, are inadmissible to Canada. Thus, refusing to answer questions could even be characterized as a form of misrepresentation because that can deny the fact finder access to the truth.

Section 40 of the Act that deals with inadmissibility as related to misrepresentation is applicable whether an application is made abroad, at the port of entry or inside Canada. This puts applications for permanent residence, temporary residence, student and work permits; and renewals and extensions of status within the ambit of the section.

Even if the misrepresentation is made by a permanent

Subsection 64(3) of the Act limits the right of appeal for sponsors of family class members who make misrepresentations on applications for permanent residence, only to cases of the spouse, common-law partner or dependent child of the sponsor. This underscores the overwhelming importance the Immigration attaches to the need for applicants to provide complete, honest and truthful information.

The misrepresentation must not necessarily be wilful or intentional. Thus, an applicant who asks a relative to obtain information in support of an application cannot be exonerated if the information tends out to be false. The applicant could therefore be inadmissible for misrepresentation for

submitting false document despite the fact he was not the one who fabricated the evidence.

Certain situations would indisputably constitute misrepresentation. This could include an applicant failing to disclose that he recently applied for a visa to Canada; failure to disclose a criminal record; failure to disclose family members; failure to disclose a previous removal order; including a nephew in your application as a son; misrepresenting ages; a skilled worker applicant submitting a false education certificate; and failure to disclose changes in marital status or changes in material facts in the course of the application.

The relevancy or materiality of the misrepresentation made is very important. If the misrepresentation prevented or could have prevented the officer from doing the right thing he should have done, it could be said to be material.

Misrepresentation becomes material only when it affects the process undertaken or the final decision.

Black Africans, Policing and Government cont’d from pg. 9 Levi, Chantel Moore and the severe beating of Chief Allen Adams and many other incidents calls for a drastic look at the mandate of government services and programs especially policing.

The municipality of Edmonton needs to keep an image of good governance to attract the world as a safe place of residence to achieve economies of scale for its property taxes which is used to develop and maintain its services, programs and infrastructure. I urge the mayor and council to seriously consider implementing the following;

on policing and ensure that policing time is spent on core policing, continuous training to include implicit bias, mental health simulations, trauma care, and population protection education.

2. Engage the police leadership; commission, police chief, Senior Officers Association and the Police Union with the stated goals of decriminalizationof services and monitoring established outcomes of diverse workforce and increased women participation. Carding and chokeholds must be terminated immediately and a databank of severe police use 1.

Funding appropriately of force be established. social services such as Reach Edmonton, 24/7 Access 3. Engage proactively andPolice/Crisis Team for with the province to open the mental health, homelessness police act and to participate programs, home shelters and actively in its improvement. not for profit organizations actively such as the Africa Centre, All 4. Support In For Youth and Boys and and engage productively the Girls Club Big Bothers &Big Black/African and Indigenous Sisters (Bigs) who are in the Liaison Committees and any prevention and mentoring other taskforces that may be services. This will divest the setup to address the current burden of service overload situation with the goal of improving communication

and understanding of these visible minority groups so as to serve them better.

5. Conduct a total diversity demographics audit of the city’s municipal workforce at all levels and to encourage the same at the provincial leve 6. Display and promote the Proclamation declaring 2015 to 2024 as the International Decade for the People of African Descent 7.

Promote the teaching of African studies at early educational stages.

Conclusion Reflecting on the larger social state in terms of developing sustainable systems, there is the need to redefine the culture of community safety, law enforcement and community or social services since the current structures and culture exclude many members of our communities. The current systems have lagged behind and not fully embraced the changing identity and priorities of the society as

well as the changing socioeconomic conditions.

The need is urgent for communities, leadership and governance to reimagine and co-develop complex integrated adaptive and continuously collaborating systems at and across the different levels of government. Society stands to lose a lot by continuing to work in silos and having inequitable priorities that privilege some and not others. Reimagining our education system, our community safety and law upholding systems, our social services and our systems of economic advancement to affirm the lives of all members of society starting early in life is our biggest social challenge.

We are at a turning tipping point in our history and the actions and inactions of our elected officials will forever be etched in the annals of our history.

Written by Keli Tamaklo, MBA and Edited by Dr. Sentsetsa Pilane

With respect to failure to declare a family member, if there were compelling reasons for the failure to declare, then humanitarian and compassionate factors may be considered in the application.

However, a prospective sponsor may be putting his own status at risk because if the act leads to a misrepresentation finding, it can eventually cost him his status. This article covers the topic superficially.

Seek complete professional advice if and when necessary.

James A. Kwaateng is an Immigration Law practitioner with offices located at 168A Oakdale Road, Suite 4, Toronto, Ontario. For a thorough discussion of your immigration and related social and legal issues, contact him at telephone number (416) 743-2758 and book an appointment with him.

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Someone filed a claim against me but I filed for Bankruptcy in Canada

BY AJAY OBEROI

able to receive relief against the outstanding debt you owe. In the meantime, you might have to experience many other challenges.

For example, someone else might go ahead and file a claim against you. In such a situation, you will wonder Filing for bankruptcy is what you can do to get out one of the most difficult of the situation. situations in your life.

However, you will feel ab Once you file for bankruptcy, it of relief upon filing for stay of proceeding will bankruptcy. That’s because come to effect. Along with you know that you will be that, legal notices will be sent to all the companies and

individuals that have a legal action against you. This will provide you with coverage against the unsecured debts that you have. In the meantime, stay of proceedings is in a position to keep another person from filing any claim against you as well. Therefore, you will need to go ahead and let your trustee not to leave out This can take place after anything. bankruptcy. In such a Even under such instances, situation, you will need to you might receive a notice go ahead and contact the about legal action from trustee. Then you will have the unsecured creditors.

to inform the trustee to take legal actions against them.

This is a protection that you can receive from law.

It is also important to keep in mind that Stay of Proceeding is sent to the court as well.

Therefore, you will be able to receive assistance with handling the legal issues as well. For example, if you are dealing with a case that is linked to wage garnishment, the stay of proceedings would provide ability for the courts to go ahead and stop it. Therefore, stay of proceedings has the ability to deliver an excellent overall protection to you with dealing with the unsecured debts that you have. Therefore, you will be able to manage the proceedings of bankruptcy with minimum hassle.

Along with this, you are also encouraged to take a look at defaulting on the consumer proposal. In case if you fail to meet the terms and conditions that are implemented within the consumer proposal, it would go into default. Therefore, your stay of proceedings would be lifted as well.

Along with that, creditors will be able to regain their complete collection rights, along with the court action.

There is a possibility that stay of proceedings to be lifted by the courts as well. A creditor will have to go ahead and apply for this. In fact, they have all the rights to ask from the courts whether it is okay to go ahead and take specific legal action against you.

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Politics in time of COVID-19

By Edmund Agbeko, Toronto The one message I have taken to heart among the COVID-19 protocols is that, unless it is very important, I stay home. There are so many things I used to think I couldn’t do without, and now, I have discovered that they are not that important after all. Faced with the reality of a malignant virus, I discover I can do without many things.

On December 7 this year, Ghanaians will have to go to the polls and elect a President and Members of Parliament. There is no avoiding it, COVID or no COVID. The drafters of our national Constitution did not make any room for manoeuvre. Come hell, come high water, come pestilence, come war, the term of an elected President comes to an end on January 6. Therefore, we must have our elections. Ghanaians would be placing elections, therefore, in the category of things we have no choice but to do.

And to have elections means we get into full partisan political campaign mode. The more I think about it, the more I realise that it is going to take a lot

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of interesting adaptations to the way we do things.

It does not look like this virus is going away any time soon, and that means, Ghanaians are going to have political campaigning and elections in the midst of COVID. Now, there comes the tricky part. It is a game of numbers, is what they say about elections.

The COVID protocols deemphasise numbers and togetherness.

Whoever heard of social distancing in a political campaign?

Whoever heard of not shaking hands in a political campaign? A candidate has to go into crowds and press the flesh and kiss babies and hug whoever comes up smiling. If you are looking for votes, you don’t stay at one place and you certainly don’t stay at home. You move around the country, and the best

Ghana political campaigns mean rallies, and the bigger the better; some people make a living by analysing the crowds at campaign rallies, which candidate has the bigger and more enthusiastic crowd.

Successful campaigners make good speeches to the crowds, sometimes, they burst into song on the podium. At a good rally, the type that leaves you feeling that your candidate will win, there would be communal singing and shouting… ONAA PO. And wouldn’t the virus just love such an atmosphere, with thousands of people singing and shouting in one another’s face. If you are looking for votes, you are advised to look people straight in the face and give firm handshakes.

Everything that we do in searching for votes would fall foul of the COVID-19 safety protocols.

On a normal campaign trip with a presidential candidate, there would most likely be about 12 stops in a day. Moving from town to village to city and round the whole country would

mean breaking all the safety protocols. We used to be ever so worried about the length of the convoy, for fear that a long convoy of cars might offend the sensibilities of the towns you drive through. Now the worry would be how many people in the convoy would be testing positive for COVID-19 at the end of the three-day swing through the region. When you make 12 speeches in a day for four days, the chances are you would get a sore throat and lose your voice. Sore throats and colds used to be part of the campaign hazard, today, every time your candidate sneezed or tried to clear his throat, there would be many anxious faces jumping up to say maybe we should abandon the outing.

I wonder what campaigners could offer that would be attractive enough to lure people out to a crowded political event. It does not matter how well-intentioned and how hard you try, these campaign convoys always run late and I used to marvel at how late into the night, and sometimes in the rain, people were ready to wait to see and hear the candidate.

How many people would do that today and possibly contract COVID-19 while

they are about it.

The checklist for the logistics before hitting the road will now have to include thermometer guns, and I wonder if convoys would carry their own Veronica buckets. And what happens when the candidate gets a fever or tests positive to the virus? Or shall we abandon all the old ways of campaigning and resort to Zoom? Facebook? Twitter?

So, do I put my candidate in a room in Accra and in front of a screen and he conducts a webinar or Zoom conference with the public?

I wonder if the crowd at Sandema and the gathering at Honuta would have a similar list of priorities.

I know technology is doing wonderful things these days, but I cannot see what has been invented that would make up for a candidate not shaking hands with would-be voters and a screen image instead of the man standing in front of them. And all the time, everyone would have one eye on the Ghana Health Service website and the figures for the new cases of COVID-19. The list of goodies that candidates offer would-be voters will now include liquid soap,

hand sanitisers, masks, thermometers and testing kits. I wonder if there will be any need for the T-shirts and scarves and hats that normally characterise our political campaigns if we are all sheltering in place at home. Since our traders and business people are no longer going in and out of China, are our local designers and printers going to get the job of printing T-shirts?

Since the campaigning is not likely to rely on outdoor activities, I am hoping there won’t be as many billboards and posters on the streets. I am drawing up my list of winners and losers in the new mode of campaigning brought on us by COVID; fake news manufacturers top the list of the winners, radio and television stations will do well, the big stage designers and builders will be among the losers. It will certainly take some adjusting to, this masked, quiet, no crowd campaigning, but maybe the messages will be clearer.

Covid has brought a new way to life and we must adapt to these changes.

Wearing a nose mask is the new normal in the year of the Rat.

What About Our Own “ I -Can’t-Breathe “ Moments In Africa?

Why are we bent out of shape about the development in the U.S? TAKE OFF YOUR KNEES from our necks, we can’t breathe!

Yes, we can’t- breathe when the ‘system’ in Africa has put a choke-hold on us like the police officer charged with alleged manslaughter of George Floyd, what a sad death!

And being suffocated by our own leaders ,we feel marginalized.

Protesters have raged in the U.S for several weeks now ,sparked by the May 25th death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed while in police custody, as well as the recent killings of other blacks by the police.

And, watching the inhumane and mindboggling video of the slaughtering of George Floyd in the middle of a street in Minneapolis was a vomit-inducing experience so was watching the pictures of hundreds of African’s sons and daughters getting drown in the Mediterranean sea for no fault of their own.

Indeed, denigrating of

black people(Africa’s descendants ) has been going on for centuries, but this time the public’s appetite for change is overwhelming than many elites had realized.

It wasn’t about the ‘victims’ per se ,but the people had it on their chins .

Nevertheless, as an African I can’t be an armchair quarterbacking about the development in the United states of America. However, I’m not bent out of shape about it like the rest of my contemporaries on this side of the Atlantic ocean.

It’s emotionally and spiritually exhausting and mentally draining to debate this issue(of negative image about black people) that Africans have helped to perpetuate. Sometimes, I want to shout my barbaric yawp from the rooftop.

Time and time again, I have become accustomed to having to defend my own stand on institutionalized racism against black people everywhere; not as something I subscribe to ,but something that

I think the continent of Africa has perpetuated by its actions and inactions.

No, I’m not excusing the systematic racism we experience in the western world, Arab countries and China, but does it take that long to see our role in it? It’s indeed, a slap in the face.

This is what is giving me sleepless nights over the entire development unfolding in the U.S :Why should Africans in general and Ghanaians in particular be bent out of shape about the racism , inhumane treatment and injustices perpetuated against the blacks ?

For one thing, have you noticed that kids from privileged households and backgrounds tend to have preferential

treatments everywhere they go? The same thing can be said about race. When all they see coming from Africa are starvation, famine and war torn neighborhoods on CNN ,what do you expect them to feel and think about us and the descendants of Africa?

Our problem is not just the skin tone ,but our households’ (home front issues) images give off negative vibes and that is the main cause of our problem.

Yes, it may seem absurd to argue that in the time of pandemic, economic catastrophe and demand for racial justice, the make-up of Africa should preoccupy us .

Look.

Africa has zero,zilch,nada, none respect in the international quarters and that has affected the way others relate to us .

And, anyone who claims otherwise is engaging in the sort of mythmaking.

For several decades, the lousy policies of our governments upon governments on this side of the Atlantic ocean have perpetuated

a ‘system’ that has put a permanent chockhold on our necks which is suffocating us very profoundly; by preventing us to be creative and ingenious.

That has not only affected our potential to see the socioeconomic promised land ,but our desire to live, work and die peacefully on our motherland. As if that is not enough, it has also turned a lot of Africa’s sons and daughters into globetrotters; meandering through life aimlessly; and in the process pushes us across the high sea in search for greener pastures. If that is not inhumane and atrocious then nothing else is heartbreaking.

Unfortunately ,there are no cameras to record the negative serious effects of the ‘systematic ‘ literally kneeling on our necks .With our zillion tons ( all sort )of natural resources at our disposal, why do we always panhandle for loans to fill our budgets’ faucet ?

It’s indeed, a mystery why the people living in the warmest parts of the earth are often the worst off ,economically

and politically. You will think that not having to expend money for energy or resources to stay warm would be an advantage, but that doesn’t seem to be so.

Africa is the warmest continent, but it has many of least successful societies on earth.

If it isn’t shit crazy then what-the- hell is it?

Warm weather should give people in Africa a head -start on prosperity ,but not so. I wonder why!

The fact of the matter is that when it comes to the effects of racism ,certainly there is enough blame to go around; when bemoaning how we got to where we’re as people .

There are three major problems that have put our progress in a chock-hold indefinitely.

It’s believed that any country that depends solely on natural resources as a source of revenue can never make it in the new world order.

Why? Fact: We have not created any viable and sustainable economy cont’d on pg. 40

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This Change Starts with You! We Can Do It! Let Us Do It! Diversity has always been important, but now more than ever, only few will dispute the fact that our world is in desperate need of appreciation and some help in understanding, respecting, and celebrating diversity?

Culture, race, age, gender. These are just some of the many forms of diversity that we see all around us. my expectation and hope with this piece are to raise our hope about our world with respect to our future when it comes to diversity. This is especially because we have become aware of the downsides of the lack of appreciation and value of the diversity our world is blessed with.

As far as I know and certainly believe to be true, none of us created this world and all that that there is in here – even ourselves.

The Maker created everything and all of us! He went on and did us the honors of having us here to enjoy and experience this beautiful experience called life and to co-create our own experience while we are here for the limited time

we are privileged to be around, and when our time is up we’ll exit – whether we want to, and are ready to exit, or not!

Also, as far as I know, none of us got to choose we wanted to be prior to our entry into this space of reality: where to have a blue or peach skin color, whether to be a male or female, whether to be born under water or on land, and on which continent into which culture. Really, when I think deeply about these things, I simply end up saying thank you!

Essentially, everyone’s hands are tied until we are here. Then, while we are here, our hands are loose and are brains are powerful as can be and we are to dominate and create or enhance this beautiful universe He created – with His power and His presence in us.

So, essentially, if anyone is existing in this life and focused on trashing the diversity that the Creator has put here for us, then, I personally believe the person has to look into yourself and consult with the Power Who breathes you and ask Him for wisdom and understanding of your existence in this life!

I pray and thank God that, the world will sooner than later arrive at a time of clarity and unity, for the very first time – or maybe better clarity and better unity.

That our world will have deeper awareness and loving understanding on this topic of diversity and inclusion. That our world will be cleared of biases and prejudices and discrimination – and be filled with objectivity, fairness, impartiality, respect, and true love as from the Giver of Life.

I pray that the world will be truly thankful for the gift of life and be truly appreciative of the blessing to be here for the time that we are all here.

My stronger desire and intent and prayer is that more people will have this desire and prayer that I have; that we’ll stop talking about the division and confusion that there is now, and all that we do not want for our world. That we will develop our awareness and appreciation of what diversity and love in true unity looks like, and think about what we want and desire to see and have as a world; not only for ourselves as individuals, but for our world as

humanity. What we talk about we bring about.

So, as an individual, it begins with you! This is the first step in the right direction. When you start thinking and doing the right thing – which you certainly know, you will by default create and send out the signals and attract more like the new you and there will start being more like the new you, and on and on it goes.

I believe by now we know that we copy and learn from one another – intentionally and unintentionally. So, when you, when people start to be loving, united, positive, and respectful, through personal

relationships – at home, and outside the home wherever we may be, it will spread! As you grow in your awareness, appreciation, value, and respect of the importance of diversity, inclusion, and unity, share these truths with others and make a positive change in our world. One key to know you have grown in this is when you begin to think and talk very positively about diversity and unity of our world in your closets to yourself; in your private spaces with those in your inner circles (especially, with people who look like you!).

We are eternal beings!

We are all here for that set time, and we will leave this physical space to eternally live in that eternal space where no one will have that opportunity to display any form of discrimination – so why don’t we start living that way now.

We all can and, should be experts of this subject by leaning and learning from the Highest Power Who breathes us and Who utterly understands all things! We can and must co-creating a world of true love and unity for everyone’s enjoyment – this is the original intent of the Maker! Be a change maker!

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Frankly Speaking The corrupted Political Primaries in Ghana should be scrapped!

By Prof. Michael Baffoe, Winnipeg, Manitoba participationunder which party members at the “grassroots” were supposed to have their say as to who is chosen to represent them at the polling stations, constituencies, Regional and national officers of the political parties.

At independence in March 1957, Ghana was bequeathed with the British Parliamentary political system of Government in which the Head of the government was a Prime Minister who was the leader of the Party that won the most of the parliamentary seats contested in the elections. It was known as the “first past the post system” in which the winner of the election is a fifty per cent plus one vote.

However, on July 1st, 1960, the first Prime Minister, Kwame Nkrumah, held a sham national referendum to abandon the parliamentary system and adopt a Presidential Republican system of government. That referendum recorded a 99.99 per cent “Yes” votes for the government’s position. Ghana was thus declared a Republic with the then Prime Minister, Kwame Nkrumah crowned as President. No elections were held then.

After decades of political upheaval, a Third Republic was ushered into Ghana’s political process in 1979. A new blended form of government wascreated when Ghana blindly and strangely, adopted a mixture of the American and British political systems with an elected

It has turned out, over the past forty-one years, that this system, which was borrowed pork and barrel without proper analysis of its implications, has created a dangerous monster, a gargantuan corruption machine which has now spinned out of control from its adherents and practitioners.

Let’s examine them one by one: First is “elections” of polling station, constituency, and regional political party officers.

President and a Parliamentary Legislative body.Part of the process for electing political party officials in Ghana under this new system is a “primaries system”,also borrowed from the American political system with no thinking or analysis of At a cursory glance, one its implications for our local would think that these are just realities in Ghana. mere party officials trying to practice grassroots participatory Under this new “primaries” democracy. But hell no! These system, officers of political “election” of party officials has parties: from polling and become the breeding ground for constituency executives, the perpetuation and practice of to Parliamentary and corruption of the highest order P r e s i d e n t i a l c a n d i d a t e s f o r in the country called Ghana. elections had to undergo a selection system supposedly One would think that these to be chosen by the grassroots elections mean nothing, but of the political parties. nay. They mean a lot because At first glance, this was it is these polling stations, conceived and “crafted” as an constituencies and regional exercise in grassroot political

Coronavirus - African Union Member States (54) reporting COVID-19 cases (627,783) deaths (13,828), and recoveries (317,694) African Union Member States (54) reporting COVID-19 cases (627,783) deaths (13,828), and recoveries (317,694) by region: Central (41,032 cases; 839 deaths; 23,366 recoveries): Burundi (269; 1; 207), Cameroon (15,173; 359; 11,928), CAR (4,356; 53; 1,229), Chad (884; 75; 798), Congo (2,358; 48; 618), DRC (8,163; 192; 3,983), Equatorial Guinea (3,071; 51; 842), Gabon (6,026; 46; 3,475), Sao Tome & Principe (732; 14; 286).

Eastern (49,525; 1,287; 25,966): Comoros (321; 7; 302), Djibouti (4,979; 56; 4,743), Eritrea (232; 0; 107), Ethiopia (8,181; 146; 4,717), Kenya (11,252; 209; 3,068), Madagascar (5,605; 43; 2,811), Mauritius (342; 10; 330), Rwanda (1,416;

4; 737), Seychelles (100; 0; 11), Somalia (3,076; 93; 1,380), South Sudan (2,153; 41; 1,175), Sudan (10,316; 657; 5,403), Tanzania (509; 21; 178), Uganda (1,043; 0; 1,004).

Northern (128,642; 5,535; 57,519): Algeria (20,216; 1,028; 14,351), Egypt (83,930; 4,008; 25,544), Libya (1,563; 42; 370), Mauritania (5,446; 149; 2,501), Morocco (16,181; 258; 13,666), Tunisia (1,306; 50; 1,087).

Southern (309,079; 4,551; 150,156): Angola (541; 26; 118), Botswana (422; 1; 38), Eswatini (1,434; 20; 695), Lesotho (256; 3; 48), Malawi (2,497; 40; 795), Mozambique (1,330; 9; 375), Namibia (960; 2; 31), South Africa (298,292; 4,346; 146,279), Zambia (2,283; 84; 1,434), Zimbabwe

(1,064; 20; 343).

Western (99,505; 1,616; 60,687): Benin (1,378; 26; 557), Burkina Faso (1,038; 53; 882), Cape Verde (1,780; 19; 850), Cote d’Ivoire (13,037; 87; 6,908), Gambia (64; 3; 34), Ghana (25,252; 139; 21,397), Guinea (6,141; 37; 4,862), Guinea-Bissau (1,902; 26; 903), Liberia (1,024; 51; 439), Mali (2,423; 121; 1,748), Niger (1,099; 68; 992), Nigeria (33,616; 754; 13,792), Senegal (8,369; 153; 5,605), Sierra Leone (1,651; 64; 1,190), Togo (731; 15; 528). *Africa numbers are taken from official RCC and Member State reports.

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executives who will eventually have the unbridled power to “elect” the national party office holders. And they are the ones who will also “elect” every four years, the political party’s parliamentary and later Presidential candidates. This is the enormous power that these seemingly “harmless” individuals have in their various political parties in the country.

To this end, therefore, political party members at the local levels will literally “kill” each other to be elected or impose themselves in some cases to executive positions of the parties at the local level. In fighting like mad to get elected to these positions, they have their minds and eyes on the bigger fishes and bigger prizes four years along the line when elections for national executives, parliamentary and presidential elections will be due.

It is these local officers who vote at the so-called “primaries” to elect delegates who vote at the regional and national party elections. And it is these delegates that vote to choose the parliamentary constituency candidates. And it is these same delegates who vote to choose the party’s Presidential candidates.

The political party elections field has therefore become a super gold mine for local party officials known as “delegates”.

Sensing their once-in-a-fouryear “mining” opportunity, these delegates have practiced the art of political corruption up to the gates of hell. At these elections’ primaries season, they demand, are offered or showered with all kinds of goodies: from cash bribes to goods, materials, promises of scholarships and higher positions in the party.

During the “primaries” season, the candidates have been known to offer openly, bribes of cash, bicycles and, motor bicycles, refrigerators, television sets, mobile phones, hair dryers to name but a few.

In one instance a parliamentary candidate aspirant of the NDC brought to the “primaries” grounds in Ajumako in the Central Region, a fleet of thirteen Tigo salon cars which he promised to donate to the constituency. He lost the primaries and immediately hired a flat-bed truck to reload his cars back to wherever he brought them from.

These “primaries” delegates are known to take bribes and “gifts” from all the contestants knowing very well that they can only vote for one candidate.

The late celebrated former popular General Secretary of the ruling New patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as “Sir John” was given a bitter

taste of this medicine when he contested for re-election as the party’s General Secretary. He was so sure of victory knowing very well how the delegates had taken his money and gifts. He got the shock of his life when he lost massively to his opponent and he uttered the now famous expression of, “fear delegates”.

This brazen show of bribery and high corruption was again on display in the recent parliamentary “primaries” of the two largest political parties in the country, the NDC in 2019 and the NPP in May 2020. I monitored the “primaries” in my adopted constituency of New Juaben South in the Eastern Region where the candidates were seen openly to be dishing heavy doses of cash, television sets, refrigerators, hair dryers, etc. to the so-called “delegates.

In the end, the incumbent MP lost. The delegates were known to have taken huge amounts of money and gifts from the two main contenders. It was a shameful display of wanton corruption of the highest order.

In another constituency, Assin North in the Central Region, one of the candidates “bribed” some of the delegates (about 250 of them) with bicycles. He ended up with only 49 votes. He got so angry and incensed that he immediately commandeered a big KIA truck and sent a number of “macho” men to go and seize his bicycles from the delegates, many of whom apparently did not vote for him.

This growing corruption in politics at the local levels is becoming a serious canker in Ghanaian politics that needs to be checked and stopped before it leads to some serious disasters and negative reactions from losing candidates. I strongly suggest two remedies: One: Political parties should register members at the local levels and all such members should have the right to vote during the primaries. That way, no one candidate can go round bribing over 10 to 20 thousand voters at the grassroots. The current situation where the delegates comprise a few hundred “executives” lend itself to easy bribery and corruption.

Two: The “primaries” system should actually be scrapped and in its place should be a proper delegates’ convention of all registered members that can be convened to elect party executives and candidates for elections. These “primaries” system are now out of control and all the political parties in the country are guilty of the escalating corruption. Until they improve the system or scrap it completely, candidates will always, and should always, “fear delegates”.

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Jim Karygiannis, Toronto Councillor Ward 22, Scarborough-Agincourt removed again

By Jonathan Baah Annobil, Toronto, ON

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Ontario’s Court of Appeal on Wednesday, June 24 overturned the decision to the reinstatement of Councillor Jim Karygiannis by the Province’s Superior

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Court. He was removed from office for the first time on Monday November 4, 2019 for violating Municipal Election Act rules.

a whopping $217,669 to win the ward 22 in the 2018 Municipal Elections, an amount far greater than other elected colleagues raised in 2018. When Jim Karygiannis raised Jim Karygiannis was

reinstated by the Superior Court Justice William Chalmers, Adam Chaleff of Toronto appealed the decision and a threejudge Ontario Court of Appeal agreed with the

appellant and turfed out Jim Karygiannis out again, as violating the rules comes with an automatic forfeiture of his seat which took place immediately.

The next municipal election will be on Monday October 24, 2022, (2 and a quarter years away) as such the council can either appoint a replacement or opt for a bye-election to fill the vacancy before next election. The Council will meet to decide on what to do.

The Appeal Court ruled that “there is no jurisdiction to grant relief from forfeiture,” and added that he, Karygiannis “ has not clearly demonstrated to this court that this was a mere ‘clerical error,’” Karygiannis is banned from running for municipal office until after that election, under the Act.

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Only one Black woman in a room, only one me: a profile on Michaela Coel How Coel’s elasticity in the screen writing and tv production industry groomed and grounded her talent By: Dorcas Marfo, Toronto, ON

MichaelaBoakyeCoel is a 32year old Ghanaian actress, screenwriter, director and producer from East London. Coel is the creator of Chewing Gum,a comedic quirky sitcom that premiered on Channel 4 in 2015.

She plays 24-year-old Tracey Gordon and her unravelling discovery of all things worrisome for a woman in her twenties: friendships, sex, school, boys and more. In 2016,Coel won two BAFTAs for breakthrough talent and best female performance in a comedy programme.

In her acceptance speech Coel’s call to action was for a niche audience; similar to the characters she plays. “If there’s any one that looks a bit like me, or just feels a little bit out of place, and trying to get into performing arts and all these kinds of stuff, I just say, you are beautiful embrace it. You are intelligent,embrace it. You are powerful, embrace it.”

Characters like Gordon are in diverse ways parallel to the true stories Coel has experienced.

Coel bridges these stories with the novelty of sharing with an audience. “I was trying to be someone else and actually failing,” Coel said to the Guardian. “I could feel, ‘This isn’t good. I can do better than this.’ So I thought, ‘Let me, for once, tell my story.’”

One of these stories is I May Destroy You, a 12-epsiode HBO series, that Coel plays as Arabella Essiedu, a young Black woman from London, who struggles to piece together the events of a night out with friends. Her flashbacks soon reveal that she was drugged and sexual assaulted.

The series is based on Coel’s own experience. In 2016, Coel was sexually assaulted by strangers after being drugged while meeting a friend for a drink. Just like Arabella, the night before a deadline. Coel decided to share this with the rest of the world in 2018 when she delivered the esteemed MacTaggart lecture, as the first Black women to ever do so.

The show wasn’t created to centralize the police investigation after Arabella files a report but rather showcases the wandering path of how sexual assault survivors pan out after the crime has been committed. Something Coel said she drew from survivors she spoke with and writing in this space was “really beautifully cathartic” she described to Vogue UK. “It’s like growing a tree for two and a half years and people are now looking at the tree,” she adds.

Lindsey Addawoo, 28-year-old writer and story coordinator for the Coroner on CBC, speaks to the underrepresentation of how diverse our Black experiences are within our community and the need for more Black screen writers, specifically Black women, to control these narratives.

“I think that’s something I May Destroy You does very well. They talk about the PTSD of it all, not being able to remember things correctly, feeling like you’re being gaslight all the time, like all these very real things that come with sexual assault. There’s gravity to these things and we need to take it seriously and understand what that would look like within our own community.”

“The whole show deals with that moment where consent was stolen from you and you lost the moment where you had agency to make a decision,” Coel said to Radio 1 Newsbeat. The noise surrounding the series has highlighted conversations surrounding sexual assault, consent, and victimhood.

“It was showing in real time how she was mistrusting herself.

People think that sexual assault and rape can only happen one way but it brings forth a conversation of what victimhood actually is.

This show explores the multiple ways she can be exploited, that may or may not even involve sex. ” says Addawoo.

“For me, this show was never, ever coming from a place of anger. It was coming from a place of curiosity and of exploration.” said Coel to GQ Magazine. This kind of exploration comes with the responsibility to learn about what consent is, the pressure of piecing events together, how friends and family can support a survivor and more.

Within the Ghanaian community, Addawoo says “I think it’s up to parents to educate their kids on what sex means. I get upset when people put the onus on the potential victims. It shouldn’t be up to a child to avoid being assaulted. So as a child if I tell my parent x,y,z happened to me, you need to listen and you need to take my side, no matter what. It’s not a question of what did you do first.”

“No way that would make me feel safe or speak to you about it. There needs to be protection, specifically from Ghanaian fathers, who don’t understand what it means to be sexually assaulted. “ says Addawoo. Coel’s commitment to sharing this story was shown when she said “It took me two and a half years all in all to write it and I didn’t do any other job,” to Radio 1 Newsbeat. It was also shown when, despite her thoughts with having no business in the media industry, she enrolled in Guildhall School of Music and Drama and graduated in 2012. All while simultaneously birthing the one-woman play Chewing Gum Dreams, now known as Chewing Gum on Netflix US. If she could change one thing now, it would be raising awareness that jobs like hers are possible for marginalised voices, she told the Guardian. “I would plant that seed in the head of every child, especially working-class children, women of colour, men of colour.” said Coel.

Addawoo, from memory and

exposure, can only think of two Black women that are in senior or executive roles and five to six that are actively working in the Canadian screen writing industry. “A lot of production companies and networks are calling for submissions from Black Indigenous people of colour (BIPOC) writers but it almost seems like it’s a second hand reactionary gesture.” says Addawoo.

When it comes to all these diversity initiatives, whether it’s a fund or production company or whoever, that cultural disconnect is so clear and it really inhibits how well you can tell the story” Addawoo says. “They think ‘When I hire a black person in my room, I will tick off a box, the token diversity box.’”

One of the solutions Addawoo proposes is “Black people in producers, senior producers executive producers roles, in funding bodies, in grant systems, in institutions, to see our experiences for what they are and get them authentically made.”

One of those people is Coel and she recognizes this as a privilege “To be within the media, to challenge that, and to present us as fluid, multi-dimensional human people, just like everybody else, feels like a really amazing privilege.” says Coel.

Toronto City Council vote against defunding the police By: Monika Sidhu, Toronto, ON

Toronto City Council has voted in favour of implementing reforms to the Toronto Police Service but has voted against defunding their 2021 budget. These reforms come from a motion pushed by Mayor John Tory which include alternative, nonweaponized response for mental health calls as well as adopting measures to combat racism on the force specifically anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism.

The push for body cameras by 2021 was a reason that the TPS budget increased by $50 million over the next 10 years.

Councillor Josh Matlow who originally put forth the motion to defund the police force by 10 per cent, chose to not support the Mayor’s motion for that very reason.

“Even before the police board comes forward this year with their 2021 budget request, Council has voted today to increase the Toronto police budget by at least $50 million over ten years for body cameras, which studies clearly tell us don’t have a substantive affect on safety,” wrote Matlow in a tweet released during the meeting.

This decision comes after many in the City of Toronto have been calling to defund the police and reallocate funds to other community programs amid the Toronto Police Service being called out for its systemic racism. The death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet prompted many Torontonians to re-examine how the police work to protect its people and how there needs to be changes in the handling of crisis situations.

While the vote was 16-8 rejecting defunding the police services, the city has accumulated a $1.35 billion deficit. Tory has since come out asking for federal and provincial funding to help the City of Toronto through this deficit.

“As we’ve pointed out many times, the city has incurred millions of dollars—tens of millions of dollars in costs responding to COVID-19,” said the Mayor in a briefing on July 14. Tory said he is proud to make this statement as this cost has gone towards “making sure that our most vulnerable communities have been properly cared for during the pandemic.”

The Mayor is looking at some possible places for funding cuts including transit, homelessness and childcare. The Toronto Police Service has not been considered in these funding cuts.

Three fun and safe activities you can still do this summer By: Monika Sidhu

The summer of 2020 feels like it continues to pass us by. COVID-19 restrictions have made the warm months feel a lot different this year.

However, there have been efforts by many organizations to make socially distanced activities actually sound pretty fun. Between popup drive-in movies and outdoor markets, there is still a lot to look forward to.

guests and keep them a safe distance apart. The organizers have also stated that their capacity in their 10,000 sqft facility will be 132 people.

The exhibit will also be holding a drive-In option for those who still wish to keep an extra distance. “Gogh by car” will be available until Aug, 9.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA) as well as the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will both be coming back to operation on a times and pre-scheduled basis on July 23.

So, if you’re looking for something to do until the city reaches stage 3, or if you’re looking to continue If you’re looking for a movie keeping a safe distance while night COVID is still looming, Toronto Shines will be holding here are some ideas to keep pop-up drive-in at the Ontario your summer enjoyable. Place which includes a night of live music, comedy and If you’re looking for an art fix a film to end off the night.

There are quite a few COVID- While there are two dates friendly places to go in the scheduled for July 17 and 18, city. The Immersive Van Gogh there are many more soon-toexhibit is currently taking be announced August dates place in Toronto at 1 Yonge coming up as well.

St until the end of September.

The exhibit will include a There are also several at-home timed walk-thru option with options for film screening. The tickets starting at 34.99 during Regent Park Film festival will the weekdays and 39.99 on the be holding it’s annual Under weekends. There are social the Stars event virtually every distancing circles placed on Wednesday from Aug 5 to the the floors to properly guide 26. The TIFF Bell Lightbox

has also been continuing with showing films from their platform which can be rented at anytime and viewed at home.

If you’re looking for local markets The Kensington FleaMarketwill be taking place on every Saturday and Sunday from 11a.m. to 7p.m. until Oct 15. On display is jewelry, crafts and artwork among many other artisandesigned items. The flea will be held outside at 214 Augusta Ave, allows for social distancing measures to take place. The Flea will also offer masks for $1, the proceeds of which will go to local food banks. Of course, being in the Kensington Market brings with it its own unique and quirky experience which with a mask, can make for a fun socially distanced stroll.

The Trinity Bellwoods Flea will also be holding its monthly summer market on July 26. This flea also includes socially distanced measures, with limited entry into the space and masks available.

The event will be held at The Great Hall at 1087 Queen ST W.

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This column is devoted to answering your questions on health and discusions of diseases which are common among the African Canadians.

Tips for Healthy Snacking For your Children Summer is here again and kids are at home. In most households both parents are at work during the day and children are left under supervision of a baby sitter or an older sibling. It is always a good idea to take some time to plan for your kids while you are out there working. Let us start with snacking.

Snacking is a major pastime for many kids — and it isn’t necessarily bad.

Snacking can help your children curb hunger throughout the day, as well as provide energy and nutrients. But the quality of your children’s snacks is key. Consider these tips for healthier snacking.

Many of these tips may sound unfamiliar to the appetite of the average Ghanaian adult but remember that these are the types of foods your kids are more likely to encounter in their school cafeteria or while playing with their friends.

1. Give your kids a say. Offer comparable choices, such as regular or frozen yogurt, celery or carrots, whole-grain toast or whole-grain crackers, apples or oranges. Better yet,

recruit your children’s help at the grocery store when you’re selecting snacks or in the kitchen when you’re assembling snacks.

snacks — such as whole-grain pretzels or tortillas and lowsugar, whole-grain cereals — can give your children energy with some staying power.

2. Designate a snacking zone.

Restrict snacking to the kitchen. You’ll save your children countless calories from mindless munching in front of the TV.

6. Out of sight, out of mind. If the cookie jar is full, your children will probably clamor for cookies. But if there aren’t any cookies in the house, fresh fruit or raw veggies may seem more appealing.

3. Make it quick. If your children need to snack on the go, think beyond a bag of potato chips.

Offer string cheese, yogurt sticks, cereal bars or other drip-free items.

4. Don’t be fooled by labeling gimmicks. Foods marketed as low-fat or fat-free can still be high in calories. Likewise, foods touted as cholesterolfree can still be high in fat, saturated fat and sugar. Check nutrition labels to find out the whole story.

5. Go for the grain. Whole-grain

7. Play with your food. Ask your children to make towers out of whole-grain crackers, spell words with pretzel sticks, or make funny faces on a plate using different types of fruit.

Use a tablespoon of peanut butter as glue.

8. Think outside the box. Offer something new, help your children to develop a taste for fruits such as fresh pineapple, cranberries, oranges, apples, banana etc.

9.

Revisit breakfast. Many breakfast foods — such as low-sugar, whole-grain cereals and wholegrain toast — make great afternoon snacks.

10. Sweeten it up. Healthy snacks don’t need to be bland. To satisfy your child’s sweet tooth, offer fat-free pudding, frozen yogurt or frozen fruit bars.

11. Pull out the blender. Use Make your own snacks with healthy products such as skim milk, fat-free yogurt and fresh fruit .

12. Promote independence. Make it easy for older children to help themselves. Keep a selection of ready-to-eat veggies in the refrigerator. Leave fresh fruit in a bowl on the counter.

Store low-sugar, whole-grain cereal in an easily accessible cabinet, and stock fruit canned or packaged in its own juice in your pantry.

13. Remember your leftovers. A small serving of last night’s casserole might make a great snack.

14. Drinks count, too. Offer your children plenty of water between meals. Liven it up with shaped ice cubes, a crazy straw, or a squirt of lemon, cranberry or other fruit juice.

15. Keep it safe. Make sure your children’s snacks are age appropriate. Never give foods that pose a choking hazard — such as nuts, raisins, whole grapes or popcorn — to children younger than age 4.

16. Practice what you preach.

Let your children catch you munching raw vegetables or snacking on a bowl of grapes.

17. Be patient. Your children’s snacking habits may not change overnight. Look for positive changes over weeks or months.

Teaching your children to make healthy snack choices now will set the stage for a lifetime of healthy snacking. Start today!

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LETTER TO THE GHANAIAN/AFRICAN COMMUNITY Recently, I penned a letter to the global Black community that was published by SHARE NEWS [https://www.sharenews.com/june25-july-8-2020-vol-43-no-4/].Today asan African-Canadian of Ghanaian descent, I also want to reflect on the relevance of my African identity. I feel an existential need to write a similar letter with shared ideas to the Ghanaian and African community at large. Iam a member of thecommunity and I implicate myselfdirectly in the discussion. My main purpose isto have a critical collective dialogue. Ofcourse, I am not the first to make theseobservations and reflections onAfrican life in the Black Diaspora.

We are all part of the larger global Black community. Today there is a local, national and international reckoning on race and,specifically, anti-Black racism. As peoples of African descent, we should all be front and centrein these conversations.

This global reckoning will only let up if we choose to allow it to happen.Often times our society has developed a short attention span on such matters. We need all voices and hands on deck to hold society accountable.

For far too long a good number of us have remained silent on race, sometimes even blaming those who call outrace, anti-Black and anti-African racisms. There are some fear and discomfort of speaking about race and racism because of a backlash.

For those of us who once feared to fly in the winds of anti-racist struggles, that fear can no longer stand. We have been given courage as we fly with angel wings. We are each needed by our communities. We can no longer simply act and play the role of ‘back-up’ singers. We must all be leaders of the community choir.

We must focus on coming together using our differences as strengths for a collective voice and pursuing political action. Our Africanness is stronger and healthier because we are rooted and connected in our Ghanaian, Nigerian, Kenyan, Akan, Ewe, Masai, Igbo, Asante, Yoruba, etc. identities.

The fact that as Africans we can ourselves call on such myriad identities itself is a privilege not given to our Black diasporic communities.We should all be political subjects now very much involved in critical discussions and concrete action. The time for taking things lying down must end. Our unity is our power. Our diverse histories are our collective identity as Black and African peoples.

Prof. George J. Sefa Dei [Nana Adusei SefaTwenebaoh] issues cut differently for us depending on our class, gender, sexuality, [dis]ability, religious and linguistic differences. We are all implicated differently. Just as we collectively bring racism to the fore on public consciousness, we also recognize the intersectional privileges we may enjoy given ourlayered identities. This is why as we fight racism, we cannot forget about classism, sexism, genderism, heterosexism, hetero-patriarchy, ableism, and linguistic arrogance. Our different and myriad identities also mean we have collective and differing responsibilities and roles.We must be welcoming of all forms of identities that are part of our community that have longed been silenced. Our community is broad because it is inclusive of all. No one must be pushed to the margins by virtue of their sexuality, class, gender, [dis]ability, linguistic, and cultural identities. This must start by acknowledging the hate and violence endured by our LGBTQ+ communities by first confronting the colonial legacies that deny space for our multiple identities.

We must lift up and support all members of our community by acknowledgingour different lived experiences in a collective effort to fight transphobia, homophobia, gender violence, and all forms of human oppressionand how these relate to antiBlack racism resistance.Our collective action cannot be directed just at the police and criminal justice system but at the entire institutional structures that uphold Whiteness and anti-Blackness,whether inschools, education, health, housing, employment, transportation, media, and courts where there are perceived systemic disparities and barriers hindering Black and African advancement.

need to hear and support the voices of our youth, women, and mothers. If we cannot be part of the search for solutions, we must get out of the way and not become part of the problem. We can never be apologists for the demagogues who exploit our pain, suffering and anger in the racial animus.

We can never leave White privilege and any other privileges unchallenged. Let us have the courage to speak to our children and communities about anti-Black racism in all its forms.

Let me take a moment to reiterate a few things we all know about anti-Black racism. I say these things to put in proper perspective why we need to resist and fight for meaningful change. There is the denialism of structural [anti-Black] racism and White privilege that hurts deeply. AntiBlack racism does not mean one simply hates, dislikes or oppresses Black people.

Anti-Black racism means broadly that society refuses to extend to us as Black people, our life and social existence the same attributes and characteristics that are cherished by and attributed to White and other dominant groups and their life and social existence. Despite our excellence, skin colour continues to be a barrier in life.

We have to worry about our skin colour in ways White people do not have to worry about their White racial identity affecting them negatively. Of course, some White people may face hardships on the basis of class, gender, sexuality, [dis]ability, etc. but their skin colour is not a factoras it is for us as Black and African peoples.

The ‘continuing significance of race’ has never been in doubt except to those who would deny racism, arguing we talk too much about race. Contrary to dominant thinking we never get to talk ‘too much’ about race. In truth, as a colleague [Jewel Smith]pointed out long ago, we Admittedly, as Black and African peoplewe spend too much time avoiding any direct may also be privileged on the basis of our discussion of race.Of course, race is not class, gender, sexuality, [dis]ability, etc. But everything about us. But it is difficult to We need our African professionals and we face different realities in terms of our think of the Black/African experience intellectuals to speak out alongside the outside of race. I am aware that the community workers and activists. We

privileges because of how race intersects for us.Our skin colour is responded to differently. We cannot have any false sense of entitlements that come with our skin colour. Our skin cannot be a ticket or a passport or currency allowing us to enter freely into any space without accountability and responsibility.As Black and African peoples our potential is usually in doubt. We are not generally seen as individualswith the potential to do great things, unlike others. Black students need to work three times as hard to prove their worth. In other cases, Black students need to prove they are not like the other Black students, that they are not a threat, and that they are a good student, all because of anti-Black racism. We are less likely to see ourselves reflected in books, movies, conversation, and public places.We have to work extra hard for the world to value the things we, our families and communities do. We are expected to adapt to the Whiteworld, not the other way around. We must struggle to have everyday conversations framed from our viewpoint as well.We must fight to dictate the terms of the conversation about us.We need to challenge who we are attaining success, worth, and recognition from and the consequent violence we inflictonour communities as a result. We need to challenge the denials of privilege.

We do not have the luxury and power to consciously decide NOT to work for change if we donot want to.

African history is the totality of the African lived experience globally. We must reclaim the knowledge of our histories, struggles and resistance for our collective decolonization. We must develop the courage to challenge how our history is taught to us and others. We must reinvent our Africanness in a diasporic context.

For example, we need to teach about our language, culture, and African traditional values of family, community, ethical and social responsibility and respect for our Elders – very rich knowledge our children may not be learning. We also must be in solidarity and see our convergences with the global Black diaspora. In doing so, we must be in political solidarities with the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island through whose magnanimity and love we are all here on this Land today.

We must also challenge anti-African racism as we speak of anti-Black racism.

Let us speak out courageously when some of our own people internalize anti-Black racism and revisit it on us as Africans. We must challenge the flattening, devaluation, cheating and diminishing of Africa’ of its complexities and heterogeneities.

To be African is to claim our authentic self as proud people with a rich cultural and intellectual heritage. We must ask questions about our omissions, negations, devaluations, and absences anywhere it happens. cont’d on pg. 44

Ghanaian Association of Durham (G.A.D.) presented a $1,000 donation cheque to St. Paul’s on-the-Hill Community Food Bank

By Staff Reporter, Ajax, ON

On Thursday May 28, 2020 the Ghanaian Association of Durham (G.A.D.) presented a $1,000 donation cheque to Margaret Jocz, the operator of the St. Paul’s on-the-Hill Community Food Bank located in Pickering. G.A.D. was founded by its’ current President, John Wesley in 2007 and is a not-for-profit benevolent association for Ghanaians living in the Durham Region. It seeks to promote the social and economic welfare of the members and create and support sustainable business initiatives.

St. Paul’s on-the-Hill Community Food Bank was established in 1990 as a temporary outreach to serve members of the St Paul’s on-the-Hill Anglican church, Pickering. Since then, the food bank has outgrown many locations and is now located at the Parkway Storage on Pickering Parkway in Pickering, ON. The food bank is run

by Margaret and her staff of volunteers.

All funds received is used to support the food bank’s operations. They are generously supported by individuals, businesses, and organizations. It’s currently serving the Pickering and Ajax community Tuesday and Friday mornings from 10am to 12pm.

Members of GAD presenting the $1,000 cheque to Margaret Jocz are from left to right: John Westley (President of GAD), Comfort Arkoh-Forson, Janet Brakohiapa, Dr. Charles Sagoe (Secretary), Margaret Jocz (food bank operator), Christiana Labi

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George Floyd Remembered in a Memorial in Ghana

By Ivy Prosper, Accra, Ghana

A memorial for George Floyd was held on Friday June 5, 2020 at the W.E.B. DuBois Centre in Accra, Ghana. The Diaspora African Forum, Ghana Tourism Authority, the Beyond the Return/Year of Return team, The African American Association of Ghana, The Diaspora Affairs office, members of the diaspora community and local Ghanaians came together for the memorial. The U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, Stephanie S. Sullivan, was also in attendance at the service.In a time of social distancing and restrictions on large groups, the number of attendees invited to the memorial service was limited however, itwas livestreamed on the Beyond the Return Facebook Page so that those unable to attend could watch from afar.

Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin,on May 25thafter he held his knee on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes while three other officers stood by. The video recording of the incident went viral and sparked global protests and rallies around the world. People from all walks of life have joined in the fight against systemic racism. Although Floyd’s death is what re-awakened the current Black Lives Matter movement, the fight is not only because of his death, but also the countless others who have also suffered at the hands of law enforcement.

my deep condolences to the family and loved ones of the late George Floyd. We stand with our kith and kin in America in these difficult and trying times, and we hope that the unfortunate, tragic death of George Floyd will inspire a lasting change in how America confronts head-on the problems of hate and racism.” Floyd’s family expressed their gratitude for Ghana’s solidarity and for memorializing him.

Ivy McGregor read a statement during the memorial service in his hometown of Houston, Texas. “They are grateful that the country of Ghana stands with the Floyd family and the struggle of all families to change the status quo of racism and prejudice. The family is deeply moved by the generous act of the Ghanaian government to solidify George Floyd’s legacy.”

People of African descent have suffered the long-lasting effects of racism, which is deeply rooted in the history of the enslavement of Africans.

Last year, Ghana commemorated the 400 years since the first documented ship of enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony which is now Virginia, USA. It was the ‘Year of Return’ and thousands from the global African diaspora came to Ghana to commemorate and to celebrate the resilience of the African spirit. Ghana maintains its allyship while standing in support of our brothers and sisters as they fight and struggle for justice.

The President of Ghana, Nana AkufoAddo,made an official statement of During the memorial in Ghana, the solidarity on his social media. “On Minister of Tourism Arts and Culture, behalf of the people of Ghana, I express Barbara Oteng-Gyasi, spoke of the

Participants at the Memorial injustices faced by black people in America and other parts of the world.

She also let them know they are invited to come to Ghana.“We continue to open our arms and invite all our bothers and sisters, home, Ghana is your home.

African is your home. We have our arms wide open, ready to welcome you home,” she said, “…Africa is waiting for you.”Since the Minister’s statement, many African Americans have been eager to heed her call and relocate to Ghana. Unfortunately, because of border closures around the world during the pandemic, that reality is not possible yet.

Rabbi Kohain, Executive Director for PANAFEST Foundation, has been a strong advocate for connecting the diaspora with their African rootsand spoke during the memorial in Ghana.“This is not a fight just for African Americans, not a fight just for African people, but it’s a fight for humanity,” Kohain said.“It was important for Ghana to take the lead in

planning the memorial because Ghana has a history of Pan Africanism,” he continued. “They needed to take a lead and stand in solidarity with their African diaspora.”

Ambassador Erieka Bennett is the Head of Missions at the African Diaspora Forum. She said that in doing this memorial they were also honouring all the others who lost lives at the hands of racist police officers. “We have got to touch the conscience of the world to stand with us now,” she said.

Floyd’s name has been memorialized on the Sankofa Wall at the Diaspora African Forum, where many others from the diaspora have their names permanently mounted. “Ghana has taken the leadership role on honouring and doing this...and we want to thank the Minister for the wonderful message she gave,” said Ambassador Bennett. “The message is ‘We are one’ regardless of where you’re from, if you are a black person you are an African and that’s the message, we want people to understand.”

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Around the World Sports Scene Aston Villa Women sign English-born Ghanaian Anita Asante

FC Porto sign striker Kelvin Owusu Boateng

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alongside fellow new signing Chloë Arthur, whose move was announced last week.

The 20-year-old striker has significantly improved in the past year and has made a giant step in his career towards reaching the highest level.

“Kelvin Owusu Boateng is a reinforcement of FC

By Frank Darkwah

Ghana’s Adjoa Bayor controls the ball against Russia’s Elena Denchtchik during their Group D match in the 2003 FIFA World Cup in Carson, California, 25 September, 2003.

The formal Right to Dream Academy forward moved abroad to join CD Aves in the 2018/2019 football season.

Last season, he made 32 appearances for the U-23 team of CD Aves as he found the back of the net 12 times.

Owusu has signed a loan deal with Porto

Porto B and arrives on loan from CD Aves, for a season, with a purchase option”, a club statement from

Kofi Owusu Boateng is determined to work hard at his new club to ensure he manages to convince the technical handlers to sign him permanently at the end of the season. footballghana.com

Kanoute reveals Thomas Partey is Africa’s most outstanding player in La Liga Former Mali and Sevilla striker Frederic Kanoute has disclosed that Ghanian midfielder Thomas Partey is Africa’s most outstanding player in the 2019/20 LaLiga season.

The 28-year-old is enjoying his best season in the topflight with Atlético Madrid - making 33 league appearances and scoring two goals so far.

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Bayor, who was in action for the Queens laments over the bitter defeat to Africa’s most successful team.

“It was this game (against Nigeria), I wouldn’t like to watch it, I couldn’t eat for about a week,” she said on GTV Sports plus.

“The whole nation was behind us and it was a big opportunity for us to make it for the first time.

“We had the advantage after

Mamunatu saved two penalty kicks but unfortunately we couldn’t capitalize on that.

“It was a very sad moment for all the players and for me I will say it is the most painful defeat suffered during my time with the team.”

Three years later, Bayor led Ghana to a third successive World Cup appearance as captain after the team made it to the 2007 edition in Canada.

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Former WBO Champion Kotey is dead Alfred “Cobra” Kotey former World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Bantamweight champion is dead.

reigned as WBO champion between 1994 and 1995.

He defeated Rafael DalValle of Puerto Rico on 30th July 1994 to win the WBO title in London.

Kotey died in New York, United States of America (USA) after battling with protracted illness.

Kotey was one of Ghana’s most skillful boxers and his pair with Ike Quartey formed the Boxing Whiz Kids.

FC Porto has said today.

The youngster has been signed on a season-long loan move from CD Aves and will play for the FC Porto B team next season.

Adwoa Bayor reveals her bitter moment as Black Queens player 16 years ago

Former Black Queens captain Alberta Sackey is yet to get over the team’s painful defeat to Nigeria in the 2004 Olympic Games qualifier.

Ghana missed out on a place to the multi-sport competition in Athens sixteen years ago following a defeat to their bitter rivals.

The Black Queens after securing a 1-1 draw away in Nigeria in the first leg were expected to capitalize on home advantage to seal qualification for the first time.

However the team blew away a huge opportunity to make their maiden appearance after losing 3-2 on penalties in the return leg at the Accra Sports Stadium after a 1-1 draw in regulation time.

with Jonathan Baah Annobil

Portuguese outfit FC Porto has completed the signing of Ghanaian international Kelvin Owusu Boateng, footballghana.com can report.

By Frank Darkwah

Anita Asante’s move to Aston Villa Women was confirmed on Monday as she took the next step of her glittering career.

The defender has won 15 titles during spells in England, Sweden and America, collecting 70 caps for England along the way.

Asante signed her Villa deal alongside Sporting Director Eniola Aluko before speaking to Villa TV and having her photos taken on the pitch.

She was also pictured

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Late Alfred ‘Cobra’ Kotey

He represented Ghana at the 1988 Olympic Games and

He also won the World Boxing Federation WBF Inter Continental Lightweight title.

Source: GNA

Following his impressive display, Partey has been the subject of growing rumours linking him with various European heavyweights including Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Juventus, and PSG. “It is difficult to answer but there are two players that have impressed me one is a bit younger and that is [Samuel Chukwueze],” said Kanoute during a LaLiga conference on Monday as quoted by Goal.

“There is [Youssef] EnNesyri who scored against [Real Mallorca on Sunday]

Atletico Madrid midfielder Thomas Partey

for Sevilla. I like Baba [Rahman] from Mallorca and [Andre-Frank] Anguissa from Villarreal and Cameroon.

“I have followed all of them and I would say that the one who took a higher and bigger dimension is Thomas Partey.

“He is all over the place in the middle of the park. He has impressed me in terms of his activity, the quality of his passes, recovery and winning so many balls.

“So, I would say Thomas Partey is number one.”

Source: footballghana.com

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PLACES OF WORSHIP DIRECTORY

Ghana Methodist Churches in Canada ( SOCIETIES UNDER THE GHANA METHODIST CONFERENCE) The Superintendents Minister-In-Charge invites

you to worship with us

Toronto Society Place of Worship: 69 Milvan Drive, North York, Ont. (Finch Av./Milvan)

416-743-4555 (Office) 905-216-2323 (Residence) Day and Time of Worship:

Very Rev. Joseph Owusu Atuahene Minister-in-charge

Edmonton Methodist

Sunday: Bible Class Meeting:

10:00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.

Church Service:

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Jericho Hour Prayer Meeting 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Wednesday Mid-day Prayer - 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Friday: Bible Teaching/Prayer Meeting 8:00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m.

Saturday Organizational Meeting: 6.30 p.m. - 9.30 p.m.

Sunday Brampton Prayer Meeting

8:00 p.m.

587-336-1223

Redemption Methodist Church

Ottawa Methodist

Location: 955 Wilson Ave., Unit 12, North York, ON

613-823-2291

Vancouver Methodist 416-833-1615

Weekly Service Schedule: Monday 7 pm - 8 pm Online Bible Study: Thursday 7 pm - 8:30 pm, Prayer Meeting Friday 7:30 pm - 9 pm

Divine Service, Sundays 10 am - 12:30 pm Contacts: Agnes Donkor - 647-881-4808, Felicia Owusu - 647-533-1093, Grace Kubi - 647-608-5373

In Montreal at: Place of Worship: 6870 Rue de Terreborne, Montreal, Que, H4B 1C5

Day and Time of Worship Sunday Divine Service: 12:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Friday Prayer Meetings: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

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Hamilton Society Stoney Creek United Church (Chapel) 1 King Street West, Stoney Creek, Hamilton Contact: 289-244-5914, 289-700-6815, 289-698-1388

Very Reverend Albert K. Appiah, BETHANY METHODIST CHURCH-BRAMPTON PLACE OF WORSHIP1A KNIGHTSBRIGE ROAD (Senior’s Lounge) Sunday Divine Service 2PM-5PM Online Prayer Meeting Fridays at 8PM -9PM 416-800-4317 Code # 9632581 Contact: Robert Frans (289-541-5579) Felix Gyimah (289-931-8443)

SERVICES ARE CONDUCTED FOLLOWING THE TRADITIONAL GHANA METHODIST LITURGY. PLEASE COME AND JOIN US. WE HAVE A PLACE FOR YOU. GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU

Disciples Revival Church Healing & Deliverance Centre Rev. Dr. & Rev (Mrs) Charles Mantey Founders/Senior Pastors

416-614-7771

CHRIST REDEEMER CHURCH

Pastor-in-charge: Pastor Eric Amoah Tel: (416) 748-1242 Cell: (416) 300-9970 Church Services Sunday Service: Bible Study: 10 a.m.-11a.m.

Worship Service: 11a.m. - 1p.m.

Wednesday: Bible Study 6:30p.m.-7:30p.m.

Pastor Eric Amoah Friday Night Prayer: 8p.m.-10p.m.

Location: 14 Haas Rd. , #100, Etobicoke, ON, M9W 3A2

Email:

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Ghanaian Presbyterian Church of Montreal

SUNDAY SERVICE - Morning - 10:00 am Mid-Week Service Wed: Bible Study & Prayer: 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Friday: Youth Service 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Friday: Adult Intercessory Prayer - 7:00 - 9:00 pm For deliverance & healing, come to Disciples, a Church that caters to your needs Do visit our website and sign up for the Pastor's monthly newsletter

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30 Gordon Mackay Rd, North York, ON, M9N 2V6

Minister: Rev. Stephen Azundem Services: Tel (office): 450-314-0871 Sunday 10:00AM – 1:00PM Tel (Cell): 514 660 2422 Divine Worship Service Res: 514-542-4142 Wednesday 7:00PM – 9:00PM Teaching Service (Bible Study) Friday 7:00PM – 9:00PM – Prayer Service

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by Rev. Isaac DeGraft Takyi

THE CHRISTIAN AND COVID-19: REACH OUT WITH EMPATHY “Panic not, fear not, worry not, blame not, complain not, condemn not and criticize not, BUT Trust God, Have Faith, Be hygienic, Stay home, Socially distance, Mask up, Pray always, Love people, worship God, reach out and Serve society” Isaac DeGraft Takyi Know all and you will pardon all. —Thomas à Kempis1.

Dear readers, as we move beyond COVID-19 and experiencing different faces of re-opening, let us look to the example of Christ and the Apostle Paul to make a difference in our world and community. Be empathetic. Live with empathy.

What does the word Empathy mean?

• This is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another2

he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. 20 And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over. 21 And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children. 4

• Isolate yourself to spend time with God, your Father • See the crowd as your Father sees them

The Apostle Paul, our Example of Empathy Romans 13:1-7 (NIV) 1

• Empathy is generally understood to mean sharing in another person’s emotional experience in a particular situation3

• Do something about what you see—the vision • Heal the sick, Feed the hungry—help people.

Example

• Begin with what you have currently—use what is available

Matthew 14:13-21.

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Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. 14 When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick. 15 Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” 16 But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.”

17 They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.” 18 And he said, “Bring them here to me.” 19 Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked

• See the crowd as people lost without Christ • See and know that the harvest is ripe and plentiful • Go to towns and villages, urban centers and ghettos, • Preach the Good News in words and deeds to the harassed and helpless • Pray to the Father for more workers into the harvest field

Lessons

• This often means entering into someone else’s pain to co-suffer with the person or people.

Jesus—Our of Empathy

Lessons

• Say a blessing over it and give it out in faith • Do not waste anything— gather the fragments Mark 6:34; Matthew 9:35-38 34

When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things5

35 Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. 36 When

Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established

by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong.

Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. 4 For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason.

They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.

6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

• Respect and submit to governing authority

Referencing from Jesus, and Peter • Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supremeor to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.— 1 Peter 2:13-14 • Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work— Titus 3:1 • They said, “ C a e s a r ’s . ” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are G o d ’s . ” — M t 22:21 Lessons—Showing Empathy to Your Country:

• Every governing authority is of the Lord • To disobey a governing authority is to displease God • G o v e r n i n g authorities are God’s servants • Obey them because of punishment and conscience • Pay your taxes right on time • Pay your revenue or bills promptly • Pay respect to all in authority • Honour all in authority honourably When we put ourselves in the other person’s place, we’re less likely to want to put him in his place.Farmer’s Digest6 (Endnotes) 1

Morgan,

R.

J. (2000).

Nelson’s complete book of stories, illustrations, and quotes (electronic ed., p. 254).

Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

2 Soanes, C., & Stevenson, A. (Eds.).

(2004). Concise Oxford English dictionary (11th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

3 Stevenson, D. H. (1999). Empathy.

In D. G. Benner & P. C. Hill (Eds.), Baker encyclopedia of psychology & counseling (2nd ed., p. 397). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.

4 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (Mt 14:13–21). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

5 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (Mk 6:34). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

6 Kesler, J. (1988). Being holy, being human: dealing with the expectations of ministry (Vol. 13, p. 101). Carol Stream, IL; Waco, TX: Christianity Today, Inc.; Word Books.

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What About Our Own “ I -Can’t-Breathe “ Moments In Africa? cont’d from pg. 17 for ourselves that is not independent of natural resources.

In other words, every revenue we generate is linked directly or partially to natural resources. And, that is not the best way to survive in this dogeat- dog world. This kind of arrangement works against our progress because it always allows someone else, who lives thousands of miles away from us---in an Ivory towers--- to determine the prices of our natural resources.

Fact: The African human capital is not adequate to produce any considerable economic megawatt dividend because some of our education degrees have no value at all, in our situation. And those with relevant education may sometimes feel that many kinds of work are beneath them. In that case ,even engineers may prefer the desk to standing in the mud in hip boots at a construction site.

The employment market place has little value for our unemployed graduates that would be commensurate with their expectation, therefore the governments have created swollen artificial bureaucracies to hire them ,in order to neutralize their

potential for political dissatisfaction, civil unrest or insurrection .

In turn, these bureaucracies and the voluminous and timeconsuming red tape they generate can become obstacles to others who do have the skills and entrepreneurship drive, needed to contribute to our economic advancement.

Fact: As if all the above mentioned deficiencies are not enough to bring any economy on its knees over a period of time, now ‘religious economy ‘is being thrown into the twist---to complicate things-- with very deadly repercussions on our lives, future, progress and distorted image.

We’ve been looking the other way about this new religious economy ,whiles people’s lives are being thrown down the drain .We’re wasting a lot of resources , quality hours and labor on this religious dome in the hope of redeeming the wounded souls, while in fact we’re digging our own graves economically.

Some people even fake illness just to get a chance from work to attend allnight vigil in one-man churches. And ,that is t-r-o-u-b-l-e!

My point is : George Floyd death has brought racism and sexism and other ‘isms’ into open.

What we’re witnessing in America and around the world is an accelerated shift in thinking. His death has touched a nerve and evoked a long history of racism, but how long is it going to last and what do we make of it in relation to our own mess and selfinflicted wounds?

Just as the corona virus thought us that we must learn to deal with serious issues at our home-front by ourselves, without waiting for “manna” from the big guys, it’s a wake-up call we may well have to grapple with and take personal responsibility for our development.

It’s also a teachable moment, giving the fact that even the pandemic couldn’t stop people from protesting against the injustices and inhumane system ; when they have it on the chin for too long.

Racism against blacks will go away as soon as we find our own bearing and equilibrium on this continent and able to give its sons and daughters the needed nutrients and socioeconomic ecology to allow them to breathe

freely and comfortably without any hindrances.

That means the culture of silence on our own “can’t -breathe” moments need to stop so as to find permanent solutions to our emerging problems .How many more lives need to be sacrificed on the altar of racism and sexism to show us the writings on the wall?

Would the concerns of the protesters(especially whites folks) against racism dissipate once the

threat of the pandemic has passed? I pose the question because the effects of racism have never been the interest of the western world and thus never registered on the world’s seismography, until now--I wonder why!

Now is the time. I sincerely believe this is the time for Africa and its leaderships to get their acts and ass together and make Africa a fountain of hope and work on its battered image for the

sake of its offspring and descendants globally.

I hope that is not too much to ask from our leaders and stakeholders.

Stay tuned informed.

and

be

Kwaku Adu-Gyamfi *The author is social commentator and a diehard citizen ,not a spectator.

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EVANGEL ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH 314 Rexdale Blvd. Etobicoke, Ont. M9W 1R6 Tel: 416-242-7950 Fax: 416-242-8573 Church Activities

Pastor in Charge

Rev. Milton Offei

Sunday School: Church Service: Sunday Evening: Wednesday Bible Studies: Friday Prayer Meeting:

10a.m. -11:00a.m.

11a.m. - 1:30p.m.

7p.m. - 8:30p.m.

7p.m. - 8:30p.m.

7p.m. - 9:00p.m.

I AM ALPHA & OMEGA MINISTRY INT'L We invite you to worship with us Church Service: Sunday Worship: 10.00a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Studies: 6.00p.m. - 7.30 p.m.

Friday Prayer Meeting: 7.00p.m. - 9.00 p.m.

JESUS Loves You

Bishop John Mensah

NEW LOCATION 100 Penn Drive, Unit #6, North York, Ont.

Tel: 416-419-6671

Transformation Centre Assembly of God Church, Mississauga Join us on Sundays for Worship at: Venue: 161 Lakeshore Road W, Mississauga, ON

Time: 10:30am—1:30pm

Contact: Rev. Isaac K. Bonful Tel: 289-814-5482 Email: transformcentreag@yahoo.ca Website: www. transformationcentreag.ca Be transformed by the renewing of your mind… “Rom.12:2a

Bethel Prayer Ministry Int'l Do you desire to experience the power and the presence of God demonstrated in your life?

Do you want to experience the marvelous work of God's grace in your life?

Then, Bethel Prayer Ministry International would like to invite you to visit their church where the word of God is preached powerfully to release the power of God in your life.

Pastor Dennis Awuku COME AND YOU WILL BE BLESSED Senior Pastor

Contact:

Cell. 416-400-8211 Church 416-642-0390 Worship Hours: Sunday Service: 9am - 1pm Tuesday 9am - 2 pm Consultation Wednesday: 7pm - 9p.m.

Friday: 9pm - 12 pm Saturday (Prayer Warriors) 6pm - 8pm Location: 52 Carrier Drive, Unit 12, (Albion/Hwy 27)

Good Shepherd Prayer Ministry Invites you all to come worship with us Venue: 95 Eddystone Ave unit 4 North York, ON Time of worship: Sunday:10am - 1pm Wednesday bible studies 7pm - 9pm Friday Prayer / Deliverance 7pm - 9pm

Etobicoke, Ont., M9w 5S5

Harvest Christian Church Invites you for a wonderful time with the Lord

Worship Hours Pastor Joseph Nash Sarfo Founder & Pastor-in-charge

The thief cometh not , but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.11.l am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. Amen.

John 10 :10-11

Tel: 416 667-9763 cell 647 500-4415 / 647 718-4819 / 416 300-4258 Email:pastorjsarfo@gmail.com I encourage you to join us in worship regardless of your situation the power of God is available to make you whole

Sundays (Mornings) 10 - 12:45pm Wednesday (Bible Study) 7 -8:30 pm Friday (All Night Prayer) 8-10:30pm Rev Moses Sarpong

Come and Experience the power of the Word Join us at 196 Toryork Drive(Corner of Weston/Finch)

Tel: 416-743-2507

It’s Harvest Time So Reach Out And Make A Difference

It’s A Great Commission!

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The Apostolic Church Int'l.

The Apostolic Church International (Toronto Assembly) is a Branch of The Apostolic Church in Ghana Apostle Nii Aryee (Area Supt. Canada-Wide)

Meeting Schedule Sunday (Worship) Wednesday Teaching Service Friday Prayers Friday: Monthly All Night Service Saturday : Movements -

- - - -

10:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

10:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m.

5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

THE APOSTLES'

Field Superintendent contact: 416-454-6141 (cell) 905-913-2037 (Res)

CONTINUATION CHURCH INTERNATIONAL (CANADA)

168 Rexdale Blvd.,

North American Headquarters: 10 Belfield Road Toronto, Ont., M9W 1G1 Tel: 416-247-6629 Fax: 416-247-5308

Etobicoke, Ontario, M9W 1P6 Church Office 416-740-1979 Field Secretary: Pastor Cyril Williams - 416-875-9616 Apostle Charles Anokye-Manu

Lighthouse Assembly of God Church

SERVICE TIMES:

THEME FOR YEAR 2020:

“PRAYER AND THE WORD” Acts 6:4 SUNDAY SERVICES: 10:00 am-1:30 pm Ghanaian Service Pastor-in-charge: Rev. Boniface Keelson

WEEKDAY SERVICES: Wednesday - Bible Studies 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Friday - Holy Ghost Service 7:00 pm -9:00 pm LOCATION:

Worship Service Bible Studies Service All Night Service Deliverance

Toronto

Montreal Assembly

10 Belfield Road Tel: 416-247-6629

378 Cremazie East Montreal, Quebec, H2P 1E5

Scarborough Assembly

(Hwy 27/Steeles) Toronto, Ontario, M9W 6Y6

63 Howden Rd., Unit 'F' Scarborough, ON, M1R 3C7

lighthouseagtoronto.org

lighthouseag@outlook.com

Rhema Power of Grace Chapel Int'l

Tel 647-850- 0142 Fax 416-945- 9445

350 Deerhide Cres, North York, ON Rev. Bishop Joe Bonnah

Sunday Divine Worship Twi Service - 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Multicultural Service - 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Wednesday - Midweek Service Friday - All Night Service

-

8p.m. - 10p.m.

10p.m. - 1a.m.

Contact Lines: 416-321-2796 (Pastor's Res) 416-747-9225 (Church) Cell: 647-921-2414

Contact: Res: 450-687-4916 Cell: 514-654-6178

Church, Scarborough

Place of Worship:

Founder &Pastor-in-charge

Tel: 514-271-9083 Pastor-In-Charge: John Arhin

Immanuel Assembly of God

Invites all Christians, Non-Christians and members of the community to join us worship the Great Jehovah

Days And Time of Worship

- Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday 9:00 p.m.

- Friday 9:30 p.m.

- Saturday 4:00 p.m.

Worship With Us At These Branches In Canada

42 Steinway Blvd. Unit 1&2

Tel: 416-740-1200 Fax: 416-740-6435 Email:

Website: www.apostlescontinuation.org

Rev. Douglas O. Ansah Pastor-in-charge

Sunday School: 9:30am -10:30am Church Service: 10:30am - 12 noon

LOCATION Don Montgomery Community Centre 2467 Eglinton Ave. E. Scarborough, Ont., (Kennedy/Eglinton Subway Station) For more info contact:

647-880-4216

Email: immanuelscarborough@gmail.com Website: immanuelaog.ca.

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Church of Christ Ghanaian Congregation Greater Toronto Area Matthew 16:18

Address: 1771 Albion Rd. (Forum Banquet Hall) Hwy 27/Albion

Every Sunday: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon Contact Information Adu Kwasi 647-745-8074 Brother Acheampong 416-671-4268 Sam - Ghana House 647-867-2020 Brother Agyenim 647-656-9905 Brother Ato 416-728-8574 Brother Asamoah 647-867-0945

All Are Invited

Welcome Home Evangelistic Ministries Affiliated with the Evangelical Church In Canada

Gen. Overseer & Founder: Evang. & Prophetess Winnie Manu BRE, M. Div.

New address: Heart Lake United Church 85 Sandalwood Pkwy E. Brampton, ON Sunday Worship Service Start from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Wednesday Discipleship class is 7pm Friday Prayer meeting is 7pm Contact Info: Tel: 647 210 7057 Fax: 905 495 4789 Website: www.whemfamily.com

Email: whemtoday@gmail.com

Glory Pentecostal Ministry of Toronto Pastor-in-charge: Rev. Rockson Owusu Atwima - 416-708-7742

Invites all Christians and Non-Christians to join us to worship the Almighty God WORSHIP SCHEDULE Sunday Regular Service 11:00 am to 1:30 pm Tuesday Prayer and Healing Service 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Friday Prayer Night 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm

PLACE OF WORSHIP 230 Eddystone Ave., #207, North York, Ont. M3N 1H7 We are more tan our conquerors Romans 8:37

"Come and see the manifestation and the power of the Holy Spirit at work"

Praise Temple of Christ International Snr. Pastor: Apostle Osei-Bonsu 336 Gary Ray Drive @ Signet Worship Schedule Sunday Worship - 10 am - 12:30 pm Wednesday - Bible Study - 7 pm - 9 pm Friday - Prayer Meeting - 8 pm - 10 pm Second and last Friday of each month All Night Prayer Meeting 10 p.m. - 2 a.m.

Apostle Osei Bonsu

Pastor Appiah Jacob

For information call: 905-840-7387, 647-208-1093 416-209-9136, 647-710-2573

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cont’d from pg. 33 There is alwaysan African village because we are only strong when we have a supporting village. Our village is our pride. Don’t let us literally tear downthe village.We must always see the forest beyond the trees.The truth is that we are not going anywhere, in part because our job is never done.We will always come from communities where within the ‘I’ is the collective ‘We’. Our Elders and ancestors have continued to guide us through these troubled and unsettling times. In the midst of our collective pain, the culture of silence, and the silencing of courage we must be bold to speak out clearly and without ambiguity. We must contest and design our own futures. We must demand that as a society we seriously pay down on new futures rather than mortgage futures.

We will continue to speak for as long as we can breathe and only hope that we will be heard in ways that acknowledge our mutual and collective complicities and responsibilities. We are witnesses to history as it unfolds.Let us stand up and demand our voices be heard. As many others have noted, history has its own way of righting past wrongs. History no matter how long it takes to unfold will always be harsh and unkind to injustice and oppression. Let us all work together to make this moment a sea change. We owe it to ourselves, the young among us, and the generations yet unborn.

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