By Edmund Smith-Asante, JAMESTOWN, ACCRA
On a day that the sun decided to be at its scorching worst, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visited good old Jamestown, a community which shares so much history with Britain. And the town stood still for royalty.
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By Edmund Smith-Asante
The UTCs, Kingsways, GNTCs and later the Swanzy Shopping Arcade in Accra, Chellarams, Chandirams, White Chapel, UAC and Lava departmental shops could be said to be shopping malls in their own right but would not compete in size with what we now have in the Accra, Junction, Achimota, Marina and West Hills malls, among others.
Continue reading “From Kingsway to Accra Mall, *The ‘Malling’ of Ghana’s retail space”
By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA / SHANGHAI
We bubbled with excitement as we traveled to Akosombo for a cruise on the Volta Lake on board a leisure boat – the MV Dodi Princess, owned and managed by the Akosombo Hotels Limited (Volta Hotel) in 2010.
Continue reading “Tapping from China’s experience… Where innovation boosts tourism”
By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA
When Lieutenant General Emmanuel Alexander Erskine was appointed the first Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), he knew he would be exposed to danger, but little did he know that several attempts would be made on his life.
Continue reading “Lieutenant General Erskine …The soldier’s soldier who was a proofreader”
By Edmund Smith-Asante, BIG ADA
I saw more than three come sailing by but they were neither crafts nor ships. They were simple canoes that ferried indigenes living at the banks of the long stretching and winding river at Big Ada in the Dangme East District of the Greater Accra Region.
By Edmund Smith-Asante, BEIJING / ACCRA
A 400 billion RMB (US$60.68 billion) new international airport covering an area of 45 kilometres squared (km2) is currently under construction in China and scheduled to be fully completed by July 2019.During a visit to the site on February 23, 2017, President Xi Jinping said the new airport would become the new powerhouse for the development of China.
By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA / SHANGHAI
To avoid the intense traffic and make it on time for that crucial meeting scheduled to start in 45 minutes we all decided to park our cars and move to the venue by train.
A train arrived and left for the centre of town every 15 minutes at all the various stops and train stations, and so although we all lived far apart in different parts of the city, we all expected to meet in the office 10 minutes before time.
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By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA
Joel approached me and tried all he could to get us ride on his horse as we readied ourselves to leave for home.
He was so desperate to court us that he said he would allow us have free rides so that in his words “you will become my customers.”
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By Edmund Smith-Asante
It began as a very faint sound, as that of a passing big vehicle, but the sound grew louder and clearer. Before I could fathom what was happening, the ground on which I stood started shaking and grew in intensity as the seconds ticked.
By Edmund Smith-Asante
He referred to himself as a hustler telling the young students in the audience that they were living in China in better times and nothing they were going through could compare to the difficulties he faced 19 years ago as a ‘nobody’.
Continue reading “From barber to businessman• A persevering Ghanaian in China”
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