A Review of Patrick Asare’s “The Boy from Boadua: One African’s Journey of Hunger and Sacrifice in Pursuit of a Dream” By Nana Dadzie Ghansah According to the Library of Congress Compilation titled “Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations,” published in 2010, the saying, “The show’s not over till the fat lady sings,” was coined in 1978 by Dan Cook, a sportswriter from San Antonio, Texas. That year, the San Antonio…

By Nana Dadzie Ghansah Return to the root and you will find the meaning.” - from the Chinese poem, “Xinxin Ming” The only way he could get into Holy Cross College, one of the Catholic “Ivies”, was because of a scholarship set up for minorities. During his 1991 confirmation to…

By Nana Dadzie Ghansah Intro: A group of serious amateur astronomers and astrophotographers are discovering hitherto unknown nebulae. Tops among them are a German graphic designer called Marcel Drechsler and a Frenchman named Xavier Strottner. By himself, Drechsler has found 37 new deep space objects (DSOs). Six of them have…

By Nana Dadzie Ghansah “The pen isn’t mightier than the sword. Pens don’t win battles and swords don’t write poetry. Mighty is the hand that knows when to pick the pen and when to pick the sword.” - Anonymous Pull back the curtain and one notices that though wars are…

By Nana Dadzie Ghansah I am claustrophobic, so getting an MRI is not a pleasant experience. If my head and upper body have to be in the tube, I need general anesthesia. I have coping mechanisms if the scan is of the lower body and my head does not have…

A Christmas Story by Nana Dadzie Ghansah Prologue The disheveled-looking man stood in the shadow cast by the trees across the street and watched the house. He could see the young lady in the wheelchair moving around. Occasionally, the older lady would come into view. She was still as beautiful…

By Nana Dadzie Ghansah I was securing the arterial line I had just placed in her left radial artery when I heard her singing quietly under her breathe. It piqued my interest, so I listened closer. …

By Nana Dadzie Ghansah They are rolled down the hallway in a special gurney to the first stop on their journey to eternal rest. They are those who did not make it. Those who, despite our best efforts, lose the fight. Before the pandemic broke out, one would see the…

By Nana Dadzie Ghansah There was an abandoned well in the Ghanaian village I grew up in. The story was that many years ago, a little child fell into and drowned in the well. His body was never recovered. Fearing the same fate might befall me, my grandparents warned me…