Otto's Random Thoughts

It has occurred to me that the various national deportations in the USSR under Stalin as well as the earlier national operations during 1937...

The Progressive Peoples Party is running Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom as a third party candidate against the ruling NDC and the opposition NPP. The ...

In the last couple of days I have been talking to former students about the upcoming Ghanaian elections to try and get a feel for what will ...

Why do all the "hip" and very highly paid "progressive" professors in the US oppose sanctions against Israeli apartheid ...

It is only September and it has already gotten really hot. I don't want to think about what it is going to be like in December. Hopefull...

I found a new website dealing with the mass expulsion of ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe. It is called Ann's Films  and i...

I checked out one of the newer books in the library today. It is the same age as me whereas most of the books on the shelf are about a decad...

I just noticed a 2012 MA dissertation at Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands by M.A.C. Sprangers. The dissertation is titled Difference ...

As a general rule I think Nkrumah did more good for Ghana than any other leader. He may have been the most successful African leader of the ...

In honor of Founder's Day consider this an open thread on Nkrumah. Not that anybody will comment here, but just so that there is one thr...

Tomorrow is a holiday here in Ghana in honor of Kwame Nkrumah's birthday. Nkrumah was the first president of Ghana and he built much of ...

The government has assigned our department six young men and women performing their national service to assist us this year. One young man h...

I really should stop reading other blogs. It is quite apparent that everybody with a blog in Obrunistan is insane.

This morning after I had already found somebody to help me lug water from across the street the water came back on.

The electricity returned today. But, we still have no running water. Also why does the Mountain Dew imported here from Nigeria not taste any...

Today is day three running of no running water at home or at work. To make things even more difficult the electricity at both places went ou...

We still have no running water. I suspect it may be over a week or so before we do. I am not looking forward to hauling buckets of water eve...

Today it took me almost an hour at the bank to accomplish what normally takes only five minutes. There was a very high ratio of customers to...

I should know by now that when everything looks to be going well that something will come up. This time the water is out at the house again....

I really shouldn't celebrate the fact that American academia is now eating itself alive much like Stalin purged the Communist Party and ...