Why so many wrongly used commas and full stops? Am I missing something? I can't figure it out if this is a poem or satirical prose.
Why so many wrongly used commas and full stops? Am I missing something? I can't figure it out if this is a poem or satirical prose.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Thessalonians,
Thanks for your comments. Let me recommend two good books on standard English usage for your reading pleasure:
1) "The Elements of Style" (Authors: William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White);
2) "Style ... read full comment
Dear Thessalonians,
Thanks for your comments. Let me recommend two good books on standard English usage for your reading pleasure:
1) "The Elements of Style" (Authors: William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White);
2) "Style: The Art of Writing" (Author: F.L. Lucas)
Read these essays as well if you have the time:
1) 'On The Writing of Essays' (Author: Alexander Smith)
2) 'On The Fascination of Stye'(Author: F.L. Lucas)
3) 'Of Style' (Author: Ben Johnson)
4) 'On Familar Style' (Author: William Hazlitt)
5)'Why I Write' (Author: George Orwell)
6) 'Politics And The English Langauge' (Author: George Orwell)
7) 'Why I Write' (Author: Joan Didion)
8) 'How One Should Read A Book' (Author: Virginia Woolf).
You may also want to take a look at these additional books:
1) "Decolonizing The Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature" (Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o)
2) "Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: The Performance of Literature and Power in Post-Colonial Africa" (Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o)
3) Myth, Literature And The African World" (Author: Wole Soynka)
4)"The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism" (Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
Next, you can't even figure out the literary style, Thessalonians, yet you pontificate on, chatter so confidently about "wrongly used commas." Thesssalonians, you should have done yourself a favor by first determining the style first before critiquing (See Point Number 3 below).
Understandably, this is the major problem some of us with you self-proclaimed experts of the English language. These are a few useful points for you to consider:
1) You should have known that language rules are not static. For example, the rules governing the English language have not been static over the centuries, although a "good number" of them have remained relatively stubbornly so over the centuries--with minor alterations.
2) Geography is another. Pick any standard book on the English language in Australia, Canada, and America, to mention but three, and see if the standard rules that govern their English usage are the same as those spoken/written in Britain (UK) (find time to read about Estuary English/Cockney English).
Even the standard English spoken/written in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria are not necessarily the same as those of Britain, and, arguably, so go the standard rules.
3) You should have known that standard rules for spoken or written Englsih vary as you move from poetry to prose poetry (poetic prose) to prose, etc.
Thus, do this, I mean, figure out the style first, and then you should discover the apprpriate rules. I shan't tell you which style this is. Do also read about the following concepts:
1) Parataxis
2) Sybtax
3) Hypotaxis
4) Asyndeton
5) Polysyndeton
6) Objective Correlative
7) Iceberg Theory (or "theory of ommission")
I hope these few tips help. All errors are mine.
Thanks.
Liza 9 years ago
Francis, you must be bored or you have a lot of time on your hands to be posting all this nonsense
Francis, you must be bored or you have a lot of time on your hands to be posting all this nonsense
Botha 9 years ago
The idiot is going gaga. Too many commas wrongly placed and the fool is talking about style.
The idiot is going gaga. Too many commas wrongly placed and the fool is talking about style.
G.G. LAWRENCE 9 years ago
I pitty the woman who carried FRANCIS KWARTENG and BOKOR for 9 good months. They are both waste products.
I pitty the woman who carried FRANCIS KWARTENG and BOKOR for 9 good months. They are both waste products.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Botha,
Apparently you seem lost in your own misplaced confusion.
The word "style" is simply an embodiment of "literary element" and "literary technique" (or "literary device") accompanied by a set of well-defined ... read full comment
Dear Botha,
Apparently you seem lost in your own misplaced confusion.
The word "style" is simply an embodiment of "literary element" and "literary technique" (or "literary device") accompanied by a set of well-defined rules.
Therefore, a particular "style" is not operationally independent of a given set of those well-defined rules. It goes without saying you cannot do with them separately. The rules and "style" define themselves simultaneously.
Again, it bears repeating here what you may have conveniently glossed over in my pointed comments to Thessalonians,that rules governing spoken/written English are not the same as you move from prose to poetry to prose poetry (or poetic prose). And vice versa. That also means the "language" of poetry, prose, prose poetry are not technically the same!
More emphatically, though, you may not freely use punctuation (comma, semicolon, colon, etc) in prose as you may in prose poetry, say. In other words, certain literary "styles" offers writers more elastic deployment of grammatical rules than other "styles."
Botha, let me also remind you that punctuation use is an evolutionary process and that its stylistic deployment in writing or spoken rhetoric in some cases is solely a writer's prerogative, choice. Please allow me to exercise that freedom of authorial elsaticity!
Finally, if you care to know, my friend Botha, writers do sometimes have the right to impose their own disambiguation biases on their literary work. The list I gave Thessalonians should help you see via your thicket of grammatical nyctophobia. Consult it!
Learn to deal with the social and political issues this essay raises and stifle your deadening infatuation with grammatical irrelevancies.
All errors are mine!
Thank.
Botha 9 years ago
Kwarteng, is this a prose or poetry? If this is a poetry, then it is understandable but poetry doesn't usually take this format.
I am not debating your English, it is just hard to determine if this is a prose or poetry. If ... read full comment
Kwarteng, is this a prose or poetry? If this is a poetry, then it is understandable but poetry doesn't usually take this format.
I am not debating your English, it is just hard to determine if this is a prose or poetry. If it is a prose, then this is the first time I have come across so many commas haphazardly placed, but what do I know to challenge Francis Shakespeare Kwarteng.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Botha,
Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately this write-up is neither prose nor poetry.
Interestingly, though, one discerning reader on this forum has correctly identified the genre.
Let's play a game of "mu ... read full comment
Dear Botha,
Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately this write-up is neither prose nor poetry.
Interestingly, though, one discerning reader on this forum has correctly identified the genre.
Let's play a game of "musical chairs" then: Go via all the comments on this forum and you should find it, the holy grail, so to speak!
Let's have fun, my good friend Botha.
Thanks.
kosar 9 years ago
"A people losing sight of origins are dead. A people deaf to purposes are lost. Under fertile rain, in
scorching sunshine there is no difference: their bodies are mere corpses, awaiting final burial" Ayi Kwei Armah - Two Th ... read full comment
"A people losing sight of origins are dead. A people deaf to purposes are lost. Under fertile rain, in
scorching sunshine there is no difference: their bodies are mere corpses, awaiting final burial" Ayi Kwei Armah - Two Thousand Seasons
Good read! Brother Kwarteng
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Kosar,
I think Armah's "Two Thousand Seasons" is probably one of his best literary works; in fact one of Africa's best.
It is unfortunate to see this beautiful work being underrated by some literary critics.
B ... read full comment
Dear Kosar,
I think Armah's "Two Thousand Seasons" is probably one of his best literary works; in fact one of Africa's best.
It is unfortunate to see this beautiful work being underrated by some literary critics.
But I do personally believe it ranks the same as "The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born" in terms of its powerful critique of African societies and of its rhetorical power of presentation.
As a matter of fact, the irresponsible behavior of our greedy leaders today is not different from the irresponsible chiefs and kings Armah describes in this powerful book.
Thanks for bringing it up, Korsa.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 9 years ago
Francis, I like your satirical piece on Ghana and your oblique style. It makes an interesting read, like a novel, like an essay, like poetry, like a lyric, like a history, but none of these except vintage Francis doing his ow ... read full comment
Francis, I like your satirical piece on Ghana and your oblique style. It makes an interesting read, like a novel, like an essay, like poetry, like a lyric, like a history, but none of these except vintage Francis doing his own thing. Take it or leave it. It is like crocodile meat which a Nigerian friend tells me parts taste like chicken, fish, beef etc. So also they see of elephant meat. Francis writes to inform, provoke, educate, entertain , and above all, more importantly, to please and edify himself. Am I an apologist or advocate for Francis? Figure out!
Botha 9 years ago
You two dance to your own beat of music produced by people out to lunch . Satire, prose, poetry or sardonically written pieces all have one aim, to inform and the moment your audience fails to get your message, it is not only ... read full comment
You two dance to your own beat of music produced by people out to lunch . Satire, prose, poetry or sardonically written pieces all have one aim, to inform and the moment your audience fails to get your message, it is not only your audience whose education failed them but the Author's too. Just chew on that.
Maybe this is not the forum to show off your linguistic combat.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Brother Kwesi,
Don't mind Mr. Botha, our notable Professor of English Grammar. Obviously Prof. Botha has no clue what he's talking about. I don't mean this in a disrecpectful way, however. It is merely a sarcastic ob ... read full comment
Dear Brother Kwesi,
Don't mind Mr. Botha, our notable Professor of English Grammar. Obviously Prof. Botha has no clue what he's talking about. I don't mean this in a disrecpectful way, however. It is merely a sarcastic observation.
Moreover, people are reading and making constructive critiques and here comes Prof. Botha saying readers don't understand what I have written. I don't fathom his reasons for interpretively conflating himself with those of the general readership.
What specifically don't you understand, Prof. Botha? Others (and I) may be of immense help. Ask the questions troubling you!
Thanks, Prof. Botha.
Form four leaver 9 years ago
It is not a matter of people not understanding, it is a meaningless piece and badly written and I don't mean the grammar. There is no tail or head to this stupid article.
It is not a matter of people not understanding, it is a meaningless piece and badly written and I don't mean the grammar. There is no tail or head to this stupid article.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
To Form Four Lever,
I am sorry you cannot understand this simple write-up.
Look at this 239-word sentence:
"Knowing that millions of people around the world would be watching in person and on television and expecting ... read full comment
To Form Four Lever,
I am sorry you cannot understand this simple write-up.
Look at this 239-word sentence:
"Knowing that millions of people around the world would be watching in person and on television and expecting great things from him — at least one more gold medal for America, if not another world record — during this, his fourth and surely his last appearance in the World Olympics, and realizing that his legs could no longer carry him down the runway with the same blazing speed and confidence in making a huge, eye-popping leap that they were capable of a few years ago when he set world records in the 100-meter dash and in the 400-meter relay and won a silver medal in the long jump, the renowned sprinter and track-and-field personality Carl Lewis, who had known pressure from fans and media before but never, even as a professional runner, this kind of pressure, made only a few appearances in races during the few months before the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, partly because he was afraid of raising expectations even higher and he did not want to be distracted by interviews and adoring fans who would follow him into stores and restaurants demanding autographs and photo-opportunities, but mostly because he wanted to conserve his energies and concentrate, like a martial arts expert, on the job at hand: winning his favorite competition, the long jump, and bringing home another Gold Medal for the United States, the most fitting conclusion to his brilliant career in track and field."
I hope you appreciate the complexity of writing!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Four Form Leaver,
Tell or explain to readers if the 239-word sentence I sent you is structurally correct or wrong!
Then use the standard rules of English to explain your choice!
Thank you!
Dear Four Form Leaver,
Tell or explain to readers if the 239-word sentence I sent you is structurally correct or wrong!
Then use the standard rules of English to explain your choice!
Thank you!
Ghanaian Patriot 9 years ago
There was no dumsor dumsor in Rawlings time, but dumsor dumsor in Busiah's time. J.B Danquah? Was he a President or Prime Minister in Ghana?
There was no dumsor dumsor in Rawlings time, but dumsor dumsor in Busiah's time. J.B Danquah? Was he a President or Prime Minister in Ghana?
Mr. Figure-Out 9 years ago
I think Yaw Kwarteng is under some sort of Trokosi spell. Instead of telling Trokosi Rawlings and Mahama straight in the face that the NDC sucks, we have this Chickened Aduman refugee still raining his usual vicious and defa ... read full comment
I think Yaw Kwarteng is under some sort of Trokosi spell. Instead of telling Trokosi Rawlings and Mahama straight in the face that the NDC sucks, we have this Chickened Aduman refugee still raining his usual vicious and defamatory attacks on the "dead empire", Busia and Danquah, whose ghost played no roll in the Dumso-Dumso dispensation that clueless Mahama and his incompetent lieutenants have caused to bear on us. Kuffour is the type of former first gentleman who every African state would want to have as her president because of the pride, dignity and hope that he brought upon the then hopeless and HIPIC State he inherited from that callous Trokosi murderer.
Tweaa 9 years ago
Kindly use his correct name ...Judas Boakye Wanker.His only disciple is the worthless and hopeless Okoampa-Ahoofe.
Kindly use his correct name ...Judas Boakye Wanker.His only disciple is the worthless and hopeless Okoampa-Ahoofe.
Akadu Mensema 9 years ago
Hmmm! Master kwarteng ODB!
Hmmm! Master kwarteng ODB!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Akadu Mansema,
How are you? I hope everything is fine with you!
Are you now calling me "Old Dirty Bastard"? Hahahahahaha. That was a good one.
Please, Mansema, I hope you will find time to listen to Rapper "Ol ... read full comment
Dear Akadu Mansema,
How are you? I hope everything is fine with you!
Are you now calling me "Old Dirty Bastard"? Hahahahahaha. That was a good one.
Please, Mansema, I hope you will find time to listen to Rapper "Ol' Dirty Bastard."
The late "Ol' Dirty Bastard" was a memeber of New York-based American hip-hop group "The Wu-Tan Clan."
He had these beatiful songs:
1) "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" or "Oh Baby, I Like It Raw"(See vedeo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITLNzPoEqs).
The 1995 track was produced by RZA, an important member of The Wu-Tan Clan. In fact RZA is a cousin of the late "Ol' Dirty Bastard."
RZA is the "beats," "sound," and "rhytym" behind "The Wu-Tan Clan." The "Old-School" syncopated piano/organ sound you hear in the rhythmic bacground of many of the songs released by "The Wu-Tan Clan" as a group and by the group's individual members are the creative fingerprints of RZA.
More importantly, the track "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" has been ranked one of among "100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop (VH1)." Elsewhere, he rapped on the track: "I will kick your ass..."
2)"Fantasy" (Remix with Ol' Dirty Bastard) (See video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6v_AiUK5mk). "Fantaty" was released in 1995 as well.
I hope you enjoy these two beautiful songs if you have not listened to them already. Yes, Ol' Dirty Bastard is a real "old dirty bastard."
Have a great week.
Thanks.
G.G. LAWRENCE 9 years ago
franci kwarteng is not that they are now calling but you are really an "Old Dirty Bastard."
franci kwarteng is not that they are now calling but you are really an "Old Dirty Bastard."
True African 9 years ago
This Mossi child with European name-G.G. Lawrence doesn't make any worthy contribution.
This Mossi child with European name-G.G. Lawrence doesn't make any worthy contribution.
Ghanaian 9 years ago
True African will not look down on any African. Is a Mossi not a human being and African? Are you better than a Mossi.
True African will not look down on any African. Is a Mossi not a human being and African? Are you better than a Mossi.
Franco 9 years ago
Man-Woman Akadu,are you still the Denkyira beauty?
Man-Woman Akadu,are you still the Denkyira beauty?
Akadu Mensema 9 years ago
I love it!
I love it!
WTF! 9 years ago
Do not comment about things you are incapable of knowing and incapable of understanding!
Do not comment about things you are incapable of knowing and incapable of understanding!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Kwarteng's work is in the genre of a prose-poem in the satirical vein.....
There are certainly a few comma splices, but technically speaking, most of the comma placements are correct. Remember that although a science scholar ... read full comment
Kwarteng's work is in the genre of a prose-poem in the satirical vein.....
There are certainly a few comma splices, but technically speaking, most of the comma placements are correct. Remember that although a science scholar, Kwarteng is a prodigy in the use of language.....a rare genius! I have been trying to convince him to study law and stop his Nkrumahist infatuation, but he would not mind me.
Having said this, I don't know how any question could be properly answered by Kwarteng's reference to a panoply of books. Rather, he should, in prescis, tell us what these books are saying in answer to the queries posed. Glossing over the importance of contemporary grammar is not the answer either.
Kwesi 9 years ago
GCE O Level English paper had a section in which you wrote a précis of a piece. You were asked to reduce a longer piece to not more that a certain number of words. They stopped this in the late 60s and replaced it with summa ... read full comment
GCE O Level English paper had a section in which you wrote a précis of a piece. You were asked to reduce a longer piece to not more that a certain number of words. They stopped this in the late 60s and replaced it with summary and comprehension. But I think both you, SAS, and Kwarteng were too young then. Even I missed it by the time I wrote my O Levels in the early 70s but it was still part of our studies in the 60s. There was also Oral English which by my time was a voluntary subject you offered at O Level. It didn't contribute to your overall grade but it was cool. Then they stopped that I think in the early 70s.
Perhaps Kwesi Sakyi will know more about these. I think he wrote the GCE on his own...
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Dr. SAS,
Thanks for your kind words.
First, I should like to let Botha, Thessalonains, and Liza partcicularly know that even the stylistic deployment of "comma splices" in poetry, for instance, is not always or ne ... read full comment
Dear Dr. SAS,
Thanks for your kind words.
First, I should like to let Botha, Thessalonains, and Liza partcicularly know that even the stylistic deployment of "comma splices" in poetry, for instance, is not always or necessarily wrong.
Then again, here, as elsewhere, "comma splices" stylistic deployment is a necessary function of the writer's authorial prerogative or choice. It is an "artistic license" I have purposively decided to enjoy to the virtual exclusion of Ghanaweb's grammatical Luddites.
Therefore, the standard rules of English do not explicitly enjoy or exercise emotional streaks of grammatical authority here, as in my essay.
Moreover, some English style books permit "comma splices" usage in poetry or in sentence structures with identical phrases. In fact its usage is generally deemed appropriate in poetry (or prose poetry).
Besides, I could have deployed conjuntional elements (and, so, or, for, etc), where appropriate, to circumvent the stylistic complications of "comma splices" usage but, Dr. SAS, I wanted the conjunctional avoidance to define my formula here. my essay.
Technically, Dr. SAS, the usage of "comma splices" also imbues a "fused sentence" or "run-on sentence," for instance, with structural aromas of stylistic richness.
In other words, it is not technically a structural flaw to accommodate "comma splices" in stylistuc formulations. Admittedly, the stylistic deployment of "comma splices" itself defines the norm in the syntactic or phrasal formulations in poetry or prose poetry (poetic prose).
However, I do acknowledge that the excessive deployment of "comma splices" in formal writing is heavily discouraged. Again, for instance, William Strunk, Jr.'s and Elwyn B. White's English language style book, "The Elements of Style," a standard text which I earlier recommended to Thessalonians, Botha, and Liza, does discountenace "comma splices" in formal American English.
Generally, though, the usage of "comma splices" is mandatory in some languages and not so in other languages. I hope Thessalonians, Botha, and Liza take note.
Finally, regarding one of your questions, Dr. SAS, the novelistic and non-novelistic titular constructions ascribable to Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Arma, Ovid, Tsitsi Dangaremgba,George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ali Mazrui, etc., point to the incessant internecine battles that go in the inner sanctum of human psychology as man strives to design an agreeable society for himself.
Among other things, they also point to an infrastrucural wardrobe of frustrations, failures, and hopelessness so typical of the human condition. In that regard, I also wanted to draw readers' attention to the textural richness of these creative works in connection with their vivid portrayal of the human condition, Sr. SAS.
All errors are mine.
Thanks.
GIRLS SP 9 years ago
THE OLD DIRTY BASTARD, FRANCIS KWARTENG HAS GRADUALLY BUT SURE BRCOME THE BOB OKALA ON THE GHANAWEB PLATFORM WITH THE DIRTY HYPOCRITE PARTISAN EWE, BOKOR AS HIS PRODUCER.
THE OLD DIRTY BASTARD, FRANCIS KWARTENG HAS GRADUALLY BUT SURE BRCOME THE BOB OKALA ON THE GHANAWEB PLATFORM WITH THE DIRTY HYPOCRITE PARTISAN EWE, BOKOR AS HIS PRODUCER.
WTF! 9 years ago
Refreshing! All is not lost. As usual, Kwarteng entertains, informs, stimulates and educates with his galactic knowledge of the disciplines and everything else in between.
Refreshing! All is not lost. As usual, Kwarteng entertains, informs, stimulates and educates with his galactic knowledge of the disciplines and everything else in between.
Why so many wrongly used commas and full stops? Am I missing something? I can't figure it out if this is a poem or satirical prose.
Dear Thessalonians,
Thanks for your comments. Let me recommend two good books on standard English usage for your reading pleasure:
1) "The Elements of Style" (Authors: William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White);
2) "Style ...
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Francis, you must be bored or you have a lot of time on your hands to be posting all this nonsense
The idiot is going gaga. Too many commas wrongly placed and the fool is talking about style.
I pitty the woman who carried FRANCIS KWARTENG and BOKOR for 9 good months. They are both waste products.
Dear Botha,
Apparently you seem lost in your own misplaced confusion.
The word "style" is simply an embodiment of "literary element" and "literary technique" (or "literary device") accompanied by a set of well-defined ...
read full comment
Kwarteng, is this a prose or poetry? If this is a poetry, then it is understandable but poetry doesn't usually take this format.
I am not debating your English, it is just hard to determine if this is a prose or poetry. If ...
read full comment
Dear Botha,
Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately this write-up is neither prose nor poetry.
Interestingly, though, one discerning reader on this forum has correctly identified the genre.
Let's play a game of "mu ...
read full comment
"A people losing sight of origins are dead. A people deaf to purposes are lost. Under fertile rain, in
scorching sunshine there is no difference: their bodies are mere corpses, awaiting final burial" Ayi Kwei Armah - Two Th ...
read full comment
Dear Kosar,
I think Armah's "Two Thousand Seasons" is probably one of his best literary works; in fact one of Africa's best.
It is unfortunate to see this beautiful work being underrated by some literary critics.
B ...
read full comment
Francis, I like your satirical piece on Ghana and your oblique style. It makes an interesting read, like a novel, like an essay, like poetry, like a lyric, like a history, but none of these except vintage Francis doing his ow ...
read full comment
You two dance to your own beat of music produced by people out to lunch . Satire, prose, poetry or sardonically written pieces all have one aim, to inform and the moment your audience fails to get your message, it is not only ...
read full comment
Dear Brother Kwesi,
Don't mind Mr. Botha, our notable Professor of English Grammar. Obviously Prof. Botha has no clue what he's talking about. I don't mean this in a disrecpectful way, however. It is merely a sarcastic ob ...
read full comment
It is not a matter of people not understanding, it is a meaningless piece and badly written and I don't mean the grammar. There is no tail or head to this stupid article.
To Form Four Lever,
I am sorry you cannot understand this simple write-up.
Look at this 239-word sentence:
"Knowing that millions of people around the world would be watching in person and on television and expecting ...
read full comment
Dear Four Form Leaver,
Tell or explain to readers if the 239-word sentence I sent you is structurally correct or wrong!
Then use the standard rules of English to explain your choice!
Thank you!
There was no dumsor dumsor in Rawlings time, but dumsor dumsor in Busiah's time. J.B Danquah? Was he a President or Prime Minister in Ghana?
I think Yaw Kwarteng is under some sort of Trokosi spell. Instead of telling Trokosi Rawlings and Mahama straight in the face that the NDC sucks, we have this Chickened Aduman refugee still raining his usual vicious and defa ...
read full comment
Kindly use his correct name ...Judas Boakye Wanker.His only disciple is the worthless and hopeless Okoampa-Ahoofe.
Hmmm! Master kwarteng ODB!
Dear Akadu Mansema,
How are you? I hope everything is fine with you!
Are you now calling me "Old Dirty Bastard"? Hahahahahaha. That was a good one.
Please, Mansema, I hope you will find time to listen to Rapper "Ol ...
read full comment
franci kwarteng is not that they are now calling but you are really an "Old Dirty Bastard."
This Mossi child with European name-G.G. Lawrence doesn't make any worthy contribution.
True African will not look down on any African. Is a Mossi not a human being and African? Are you better than a Mossi.
Man-Woman Akadu,are you still the Denkyira beauty?
I love it!
Do not comment about things you are incapable of knowing and incapable of understanding!
Kwarteng's work is in the genre of a prose-poem in the satirical vein.....
There are certainly a few comma splices, but technically speaking, most of the comma placements are correct. Remember that although a science scholar ...
read full comment
GCE O Level English paper had a section in which you wrote a précis of a piece. You were asked to reduce a longer piece to not more that a certain number of words. They stopped this in the late 60s and replaced it with summa ...
read full comment
Dear Dr. SAS,
Thanks for your kind words.
First, I should like to let Botha, Thessalonains, and Liza partcicularly know that even the stylistic deployment of "comma splices" in poetry, for instance, is not always or ne ...
read full comment
THE OLD DIRTY BASTARD, FRANCIS KWARTENG HAS GRADUALLY BUT SURE BRCOME THE BOB OKALA ON THE GHANAWEB PLATFORM WITH THE DIRTY HYPOCRITE PARTISAN EWE, BOKOR AS HIS PRODUCER.
Refreshing! All is not lost. As usual, Kwarteng entertains, informs, stimulates and educates with his galactic knowledge of the disciplines and everything else in between.