Otto's Random Thoughts

This is a partial list of Corrective Labor Camps with Russian-German labor army conscripts employed as forced laborers in January 1945. The ...

I hope all of my half dozen readers in the US have a happy Thanksgiving. The weather is perfect this morning in Legon. I had koko for brea...

We are still having water problems. It has been out for two weeks now with the exception of two brief times during last Friday night and S...

Colonialism came to most of Africa fairly late. The map to the right is a map of European colonial and other holdings in Africa in 1885 be...

My good friend Walt Richmond has suggested that I include more pieces on African - US and African - European relations. I am not sure if m...

Today I had my last lecture and first final exam of the semester. So now I just have to grade exams. I have also almost finished revising ...

The earlier piece I put up by this band, Clown on a Rope, has proven to be very popular judging by my site meter. So here is the whole alb...

For the fourth day in a row there is no running water in  my bungalow. Last night I had to make an extra long trip to find an unlocked sto...

I am still revising my forced labor paper for Ho. I got some feedback from a colleague in California today that I will be incorporating. T...

Sorrow, Tears & Blood from the Vagabonds in Power album is one of the greatest songs to ever come out of Africa. This particular video...

Today I wrote up my final exam questions. On Wednesday we have to "moderate" them, what ever that means. It is some new directiv...

This is another very rare song from 1970. The original demo album only had 54 copies. The band never made a second album.

A rare, but awesome song from a band that cut one album that was not released until 24 years after it was recorded and in the meantime all...

The Red Hippie has a lot of great obscure rock and folk music from the 1960s and 1970s. Unfortunately, it does not  have anything from Afric...

I just saw these guys play at Alliance Francais tonight. They did a bang up job. I can really see that they have strong roots in the Kraut...

It seems that the term "radical" in the context of US academics means militant support for Israel's war against the indigeno...

I am still revising my paper for the forced labor conference in Ho. It is almost to a semi-readable state now. I figure by the time the co...

Today we had a special training session in the library. We in fact had it in the new state of the art computer lab that the Koreans built ...

Today I got two letters of recommendation for former students sent off to Europe. Although I didn't get the letters written, printed, ...

I finally finished typing up all 104 footnotes for my conference paper coming up in January. The working title is "Forced Labour in a...