To the Rt. Hon. Kwasi Kwarteng, it's Mighty Congratulations, Mighty Mazel Tov, to the son of the soil, it's Mighty Yɛma wo akwaaba, with the Black Star at the centre, representing the Freedom of Africa!
One of the most distinguishing characteristics of this Black Star's meteoric career trajectory is his cool & calm, composed & collected, brilliant, down-to-earth dignity - he attended Eton, got a double first in Classics and History, at Trinity College, Cambridge, won the Browne Medal twice, bagged a PhD in economic history from the same University of Cambridge - all that and much more, still no Big Grammar or scorn dripping from his lips, as if he has to prove something, anything. True: it's only a little learning that's a dangerous thing.
Well, at least he has caught up with the grandfather of Kwame Anthony Appiah, namely, Sir Stafford Cripps who was Chancellor of the Exchequer during the post-war years,1947–50.
So, as history will now record, from the oblique and tenuous, via family tree connections to the more concrete, there's now this special, post-colonial relationship between Ghana and the British Treasury.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
This afternoon, watching the first half of Prime Minister Liz Truss' first House of Commons PMQs - Prime MInister's Questions Session - a very heated session indeed - with the opposition volatile and clearly on the warpath, all the questions so far have been about the economy, the economy, the economy. She says that she will make an announcement tomorrow about how the cost of the living burden will be lightened on the economically more disadvantaged citizens of the United Kingdom - and the key to these plans rests squarely in the hands of her trusted Chancellor of the Exchequer, our Kwasi Kwarteng. ( Of course, he's not going to stab her in the back - for whatever - with the express intention of taking over her job as Prime Minister - as in " Et tu, Brute? That piece of treachery would not be very British, British to the backbone, British to the breeches or just pure Black and Proud, British.
There's this less jubilant story of an "Interesting Rise of a West African in the UK, "namely Ryan Giggs, whose paternal grandfather is from Sierra Leone. They're going to have are-trial. Ryan is going to face a new jury….
Still, on the world sports scene, this good piece of news just came in: Sierra Leone's ( and the US's) Frances Tiafoe just beat Rafael Nadal in the US Open fourth round.
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