Otto's Random Thoughts

Yesterday, I took a tro tro down to the start of Oxford Street in Osu and then walked to Osu Beach to see the Ocean. It was a great view, bu...

During the Second World War over 1.3 million Soviet citizens fought in the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS units. Over 1 million of these men...

George Fredrickson was before his death probably the foremost historian in the world on the comparative history of systems of racial exclusi...

I have now finished editing my piece, "Is there a Black Eurasia? Ghanaian and other Diasporic Populations in the USSR in Comparative Pe...

Sure enough everybody got electricity back, but me. Only my office remained without light and more importantly air conditioning and ceiling ...

Sunday the whole campus had no electricity. On Monday it was just the top floor of the department building where the faculty offices are loc...

It turns out that the AAUP was a very strong supporter of sanctions against the Republic of South Africa. During the 1980s they made no argu...

I see from a post on Mondoweiss that the official position of the AAUP is to reject BDS against Israel on the basis that an academic boycott...

Today I decided to bulk up my collection on Ghanaian and particular northern Ghanaian history. I bought three books on the subject. D.E.K....

One thing that people in the US don't have to contend with regularly is power outages. On Sunday the power went out at nine in the morni...

My last reader survey was a complete failure. It only got one comment and I have no idea who that person was. Of course it may be that he is...

Apparently the current position of the US left is that any and all military intervention is good if it has the support of international orga...

Today the AU, EU, and ECOWAS are meeting with the government of Mali in Bamako to discuss concrete plans for military intervention against t...

Last night I attended a party to welcome new fellows at Commonwealth Hall (Vandal City). The order as they call it which is led by a master ...

According to the official figures given by the Vice Chancellor the University of Ghana at Legon admitted 17,819 new students this academic y...

Secret Information      From the Crimean ASSR, as reported in a conversation on 2.IX-41 with the Peoples Commissar of Internal Affairs f...

I have expressed my moral opposition to the entity currently controlling northern Mali. However, I do not think that the current plans for m...

For some reason a number of the printed versions of the 26 August 1941 decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Council of...

I don't share much of my fellow Americans' hysteria over Islam or Sharia or even Islamic political movements. But, the entity in nor...

This is one of those blog posts that my mother loves.  But, she is right that I should be thankful for what I have and let go of my anger. I...