Elizabeth Ohene

Editorials and Columns (1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986)

• They Also Serve Who Make Their Voices Heard

  Nigeria - Everybody's Pet Hate

  Nigeria After the Elections

  But the Melody Lingers On...

  September 12, 1983 issue

• Biya Comes Of Age: Tissue Rejection In Cameroon

  September 19, 1983 issue

• Revolution: On And Off Course?
  
  Educating Ghana The Cuban Way

  September 26, 1983 issue

• The Silent Drums?

  Ghana - Hunger For Sale

  October 3, 1983 issue

• IMF and Ghana

  October 10, 1983 issue

• Is the System to Blame?
  
  The Politics Of Cross River State
  
  Ghanaian Women - Backbone of Economy or Saboteurs?

  October 17, 1983 issue

• Bread, Guns, Butter and Bombs
  
  At the Obong's Palace
  

  Meeting An Ancient and Modern King in Calabar

  It's Official: Cedi is Devalued
  
  It's Official: Hunger at the Top
  
  Of Free Speech, Memories And Colleagues In Jail

  October 24, 1983 issue

• Comment - Lines on the Map
  
  Send In The Marines
  
  Yankees Don't Go Home
  
  The Fallen Angels Of The Revolution

  October 31, 1983 issue

• Which is the Voice of the People?

  November 7, 1983 issue

• Brave Men, Little Men
  
  What is the Alternative to Rawlings?
  
  "No Sir, I'm Not a Nigerian..."

  December 5, 1983 issue

• What is the Alternative to Rawlings? (A Deeper Probe)
  
  The Eternal Critic

  December 12, 1983 issue

• A Difficult Year Ends
  
  Government by Mob Action

  December 19/26, 1983 issue

Editorials and Columns (1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986)

• The Price of Survival
  
  What Help For Friends? - Nigeria - Ivory Coast Debt Crisis

  January 3, 1984 issue

• Africa's Day of Shame
  
  Ghana, Nigeria - the Unidentical Twins
  
  Are Soldiers Trained to Rule?

  January 9, 1984 issue

• Waiting for Confusion in Nigeria
  
  No Reprieve for the Dead

  January 16, 1984 issue

• An Unequal Equation
  
  Conversation With A 'Wanted' Businessman

  January 30, 1984 issue

• Of Anthems, Flags, Currencies and Nationhood
  
  Coping With The Dilemma Of The Press
  
  Umaru Dikko in a Crusade Against Military Regimes

  February 6, 1984 issue

• Facing up to the Military
  
  Ghana Exports Revolution to Upper Volta
  
  Apply the Same Yardstick to Soldiers and Politicians

  February 20, 1984 issue

• Futile Search for Freedom
  
  Ghana's Aimless Revolution

  February 27, 1984 issue

• A 27-Year Old Child
  
  Buhari must Drink His Own Medicine
  
  Oh No, Dr Secretary, You Aren't Going..?

  March 5, 1984 issue

• The Unfunny Show
  
  Playing War Games in Lagos

  March 19, 1984 issue

• Who are the Enemies?
  
  The Honeymoon Is Over?... More like an unconsummated marriage

  March 26, 1984 issue

• Guinea Is Dead, Long Live Guinea!

  April 2, 1984 issue

• The Sekou Toure Bubble Bursts
  
  Season for Uniformed Men

  April 9, 1984 issue

• Handling The Victory
  
  Nigeria: Trial By Ordeal?

  April 16, 1984 issue

• Libyan Terrorism Rears Its Ugly Head

  April 30, 1984 issue

• Mr Botha is Invited to Lunch
  
  On Assets Confiscation And Revolutions

  May 28, 1984 issue

• OAU - time to face reality
  
  Changing the Rules In Midstream

  June 4, 1984 issue

• With Such Friends...

  June 11, 1984 issue

• A More Confident Rawlings

  June 25, 1984 issue

• Can Guinea Teach Ghana And Nigeria?
  
  If The Cap Fits...

  July 2, 1984 issue

• Biya Must Stay The Course
  
  Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji's Foreign Account Saga

  July 9, 1984 issue

• An Indefensible Act
  
  What Secrets Has Dikko Got?

  July 16, 1984 issue

• The Great Con Game
  
  The Umaru Dikko Kidnap Affair: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

  July 23, 1984 issue

• Historic Moves In Liberia

  July 30, 1984 issue

• Colour And Numbers Role - Valco Agreement
  
  Indiscipline Breeds Indiscipline

  August 6, 1984 issue

• Ghana The Illusion Of Calm
  
  How To Hand Over To Yourself

  August 13, 1984 issue

• Whipping Nigeria Into Apathy - What Impact At The Games?
  
  
• Whose True Democracy?

August 20, 1984 issue

• Buhari's Unremitting Disaster
  
  If Britain Were An African Country

  August 27, 1984 issue

• Unpopular Justice: Ghana's Public Tribunal

  September 3, 1984 issue

• We Are One Year Old

  September 10, 1984 issue

• Challenges For President Doe
  
  Israel: The Friend Nigeria Cannot Acknowledge
  
  Cameroon: Which Way Out Of The Problems?

  September 17, 1984 issue

• What Next In Chad?
  
  Let Them Wave Flags - Buhari

  September 24, 1984 issue

• Nigeria At 24 Nothing To Celebrate
  
  Liberia: The Short Reign Of An Unusual Minister

  October 1, 1984 issue

• Nine Wasted Months - Nigeria Prison Detentions
  
  Were Executions Meant To Improve Rawlings Image?

  October 8, 1984 issue

• Onus Of Proof On The Tribunals Nigeria
  
  Coping with Power
  
  After The Executions... The Unanswered Questions

  October 15, 1984 issue

• Recovering From Rawlings
  
  No Laughter Please, We Are Nigerians
  
  Waking Up To Disaster - Brighton IRA Assassination Attempt

  October 22, 1984 issue

• Who Is Afraid Of Politics? Nigeria's Military

  October 29, 1984 issue

• Feeding The Hungry On Revolution
  
  Overkill At The Tribunals

  November 5, 1984 issue

• America Chooses
  
  Does Nigerian Press Suffer From "Pull Him Down Syndrome"?

  November 12, 1984 issue

• Will The OAU Face Reality Finally?
  
  Liberia: One More Plot Uncovered By Doe
  
  Poles Apart: Comparison of the Polish and Ghanaian Political Experience

  November 19, 1984 issue

• Glib Denial Not Enough
  
  Executions? What Executions?
  
  A Kind Of Development

  November 26, 1984 issue

• Aid From The Needy
  
  PNDC: Government Of Part Timers

  December 3, 1984 issue

• Regional Problem Solving

  December 10, 1984 issue

Editorials and Columns (1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986)

• Transplant Of Foreign Organs

  January 21, 1985 issue

• Cameroon Land Of Plenty
  
  The Unexploded Myth

  January 28, 1985 issue

• Fighting Fair In Liberia

  February 4, 1985 issue

• Buhari's Handing Over Game

  February 11, 1985 issue

• Base Motives All

  February 18, 1985 issue

• Getting Used To Brutality

  March 11, 1985 issue

• From Whence Cometh Their Help
  
  Dikko - Catch 22

  April 1, 1985 issue

• London Knows Best
  
  Here Comes Trouble: Hannaniya

  April 22, 1985 issue

• Buhari Knows Best

  April 29, 1985 issue

• The Writing On The Wall

  May 13, 1985 issue

• The Exodus From Lagos

  May 20, 1985 issue

• Ask The People
  
  Tsikata Emerging From The Shadows

  May 27, 1985 issue

• The Killing Fields Of Ghana

  June 3, 1985 issue

• At Least The Facts Are Known

  June 17, 1985 issue

• Lest We Forget
  
  Ghana - Signs Of The Times

  June 24, 1985 issue

• Pounds, Shillings And Pence

  July 1, 1985 issue

• The Right To Choose

  July 8, 1985 issue

• A Gathering Of Pretenders

  July 15, 1985 issue

• Singing For Our Dinner
  
  Liberia's Minister Poet
  
  The Scranage-Sousoudis affair
  
  The Spectre Of The CIA In Ghana

  July 22, 1985 issue

• Spy Games

  August 5, 1985 issue

• Oath Of Silence

  August 12, 1985 issue

• Stones Versus Guns

  August 19, 1985 issue

• A Chance To Save Nigeria

  September 2, 1985 issue

• Avoid The Yes-Men

  September 9, 1985 issue

• Friends And Markets
  
  Once Upon A Coup
  
  Open Letter To Major-General Tunde Idiagbon

  September 16, 1985 issue

• Between Justice And Rights

  September 23, 1985 issue

• In The Public Interest

  September 30, 1985 issue

• Nigeria at 25 - A nation in a hurry

  October 7, 1985 issue

• Liberia Goes To The Polls
  
  The Sara Keays-Parkinson affair

  October 14, 1985 issue

• The Ties That Divide Us

  October 21, 1985 issue

• Good Men And Evil Systems
  
  Our Two Week Pause
  
  Must Beggars Be Insulted? St. Bob Went Marching In

  November 11, 1985 issue

• Licence To Kill

  November 25, 1985 issue

• Of Heroes And Traitors
  
  The spy swap - one for eight plus families

  December 2, 1985 issue

• The Waiting Game

  December 9, 1985 issue

• Between Westminster And The Elysee
  
  The Spy Drama: An Epilogue

  December 16, 1985 issue

• As The Year Ends

  December 23/30, 1985 issue

Editorials and Columns (1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986)

• The Bird The Hunter And The Tortoise

  January 13, 1986 issue

• Babangida Sets A Date

  January 20, 1986 issue

• 'Botchweynomics'

  January 27, 1986 issue

• Guilty Until Proved Innocent

  February 3, 1986 issue

• The Elusive Dream

  February 10, 1986 issue

• Playing The Game
  
  Mystery Death Of A Catholic Priest, Another Political Murder In Ghana

  February 17, 1986 issue

• Lessons From The East

  February 24, 1986 issue

• Power From The People

  March 3, 1986 issue

• The Contradictory Smiles

  March 10, 1986 issue

• Judge Not That Ye Be Not Judged

  March 17, 1986 issue

Elizabeth Ohene was Editor of Talking Drums. Previously she had been Editor of the Daily Graphic before the 31st December 1981 forced her into exile. After Talking Drums she would join the BBC African Service