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Koranteng's Toli: The Art of Omission

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1 A juicy piece of news. 2. The latest word or gossip. 3. The talk of the town, typically a salacious or risque tale of intrigue, corruption or foolishness. Ga language, Ghana, West Africa). Wednesday, March 28, 2012. The Art of Omission. Until recently, my friend Teju Cole. Luddite that I am, I waited until the paperback was issued to get my copy of Open City. If not its title. So, what are we to make of Julius's world? He delights in words and worlds that are hidden in plain sight - and, to digress on ...

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Koranteng's Toli: Heart of Darkness

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1 A juicy piece of news. 2. The latest word or gossip. 3. The talk of the town, typically a salacious or risque tale of intrigue, corruption or foolishness. Ga language, Ghana, West Africa). Saturday, March 18, 2006. Part 5 of the Things Fall Apart. Series - in which we head down the river. But first, what of Conrad's own creative spark? The writing is hallucinatory, Conrad has a talent for repetition and incantatory description. Some characterize Heart of Darkness as a meditation on man's capacity f...

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Koranteng's Toli: Timepieces

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1 A juicy piece of news. 2. The latest word or gossip. 3. The talk of the town, typically a salacious or risque tale of intrigue, corruption or foolishness. Ga language, Ghana, West Africa). Saturday, December 08, 2007. I present the following item from the Remembrance of Rogues Past collection: a campaign watch for the YEAA '98 campaign. Youth Energetically Advocating Abacha. I'm a avid collector of this kind of historical artifact. And you'll sometimes find me bidding for a mint copy of the. On the one...

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Koranteng's Toli: The Game of the Rough Beast

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1 A juicy piece of news. 2. The latest word or gossip. 3. The talk of the town, typically a salacious or risque tale of intrigue, corruption or foolishness. Ga language, Ghana, West Africa). Thursday, October 19, 2006. The Game of the Rough Beast. This is an open letter. This is a game. This is a poem. This is my second draft. First I wrote to The Editors,. Then it was to you. Now it's a different beast. A parlour game in your honour. I tried it out on a friend. A political junkie, he likes toli. Imagine...

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Koranteng's Toli: The Ways of the Porcupine

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1 A juicy piece of news. 2. The latest word or gossip. 3. The talk of the town, typically a salacious or risque tale of intrigue, corruption or foolishness. Ga language, Ghana, West Africa). Monday, April 08, 2013. The Ways of the Porcupine. Notes on reading the novels of Alain Mabanckou. All is not quite what it seems. And so I was drawn deep into his world. I had previously read his debut novel, Bleu Blanc Rouge. And what kind of literature emerges in the wake of these uncivil wars? Surveying the scene...

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Koranteng's Toli: Trend-surfing Alacrity

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1 A juicy piece of news. 2. The latest word or gossip. 3. The talk of the town, typically a salacious or risque tale of intrigue, corruption or foolishness. Ga language, Ghana, West Africa). Monday, October 13, 2014. For years I've resisted writing anything about Liberia or Sierra Leone. Too painful, too raw, too soon. The pen keeps calling however. I figured Liberia and Sierra Leone deserved a couple of decades of peace and quiet but, as they say, 'Tings deh happen. Expect some toli. Think War on Terror.

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Koranteng's Toli: The Wound Part I (Ghana Elections 2008)

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1 A juicy piece of news. 2. The latest word or gossip. 3. The talk of the town, typically a salacious or risque tale of intrigue, corruption or foolishness. Ga language, Ghana, West Africa). Thursday, January 01, 2009. The Wound Part I (Ghana Elections 2008). Let's start with this: they almost killed my uncle. My mother was the one who received the phone call from her brother telling her to come quickly, that they were killing him, that she should bring help. I don't know what my 10 year old cousin, my u...

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Koranteng's Toli: Render / Rendition

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1 A juicy piece of news. 2. The latest word or gossip. 3. The talk of the town, typically a salacious or risque tale of intrigue, corruption or foolishness. Ga language, Ghana, West Africa). Wednesday, December 10, 2014. I've been thinking about the verb render and its euphemistic use by 'intelligence' folks. Ionesco loved such words intended to obscure. Render, when used in the context of extraordinary rendition. Seemingly refers to the "provide to" sense of the verb. They used techniques, after all, th...

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Koranteng's Toli: Erustication and The Italian Job

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1 A juicy piece of news. 2. The latest word or gossip. 3. The talk of the town, typically a salacious or risque tale of intrigue, corruption or foolishness. Ga language, Ghana, West Africa). Sunday, July 10, 2005. Erustication and The Italian Job. Yria or similar by the US. Government for the purposes of torture and intelligence "extraction". This program was instituted by the CIA in the 1990s and pursued with increased vigour after September 11th. Being subject to erustication. Are all about hysteria an...

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Koranteng's Toli: Doctor Simbo

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1 A juicy piece of news. 2. The latest word or gossip. 3. The talk of the town, typically a salacious or risque tale of intrigue, corruption or foolishness. Ga language, Ghana, West Africa). Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Prosecutor: And who was Doctor Simbo? The working title was. Close Encounters Of The Murderous Kind. And the first entry. Of the planned series was in that vein but, once encountered, I felt that he deserved the eponymous treatment, let me know how it fits. Witness: He was a Ghanaian. The rai...