A Touch of Nokoko

Columns (1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986)

• In The Shadow Of Death

  September 19, 1983 issue

• What's In A Colour?

  September 26, 1983 issue

• A Mole In The Home

  October 3, 1983 issue

• Humour As Food For Thought

  October 10, 1983 issue

• Scandal in the Family

  October 17, 1983 issue

• Calling a Spade a Shovel

  October 24, 1983 issue

• The Police - People We All Love To Hate

  October 31, 1983 issue

• For All It's Worth People Love The Show

  November 7, 1983 issue

• Checking Cheque Book Journalism

  December 5, 1983 issue

• Go Ye Forth... and Multiply

  December 12, 1983 issue

• Tarzan, John Wayne and Cornflakes

  December 19/26, 1983 issue

Columns (1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986)

• Agony of the Exiled

  January 3, 1984 issue

• Keeping the Lid Off

  January 9, 1984 issue

• What the Pheasants Said to the Hunters

  January 16, 1984

• For Crying Out Loud

  January 30, 1984 issue

• The Revolution Train

  February 6, 1984 issue

• The Uprooted - Coping with Boredom

  February 20, 1984 issue

• The Uprooted Child - Child's Play

  February 27, 1984 issue

• Not so Happy Anniversary

  March 5, 1984 issue

• Biting the Bullet Outside the Tunnel

  March 19, 1984 issue

• It's Elementary My Dear Professor

  March 26, 1984 issue

• Only Heavens Know

  April 2, 1984 issue

• Be A Sport, It's Only A Game

  April 9, 1984 issue

• Poles Apart

  April 16, 1984 issue

• Fit For Nothing

  April 30, 1984 issue

• A Doggerel for a Bitch

  May 28, 1984 issue

• Mr Apartheid Comes To Europe

  June 4, 1984 issue

• Question Of Power

  June 11, 1984 issue

• In Pursuit Of Peace... (of the Grave?)

  June 25, 1984 issue

• Marriage Cheats on the Prowl

  July 2, 1984 issue

• Eating Well To Live Long

  July 9, 1984 issue

• The Rag Trader's Headache

  July 16, 1984 issue

• Road To The White House

  July 23, 1984 issue

• Screw Up A Few, Win A Few

  July 30, 1984 issue

• Juju In African Politics

  August 6, 1984 issue

• Thanks For Ending Colonialism

  August 13, 1984 issue

• Name Dropping: Back To Gold Coast?

  August 20, 1984 issue

• The Jokes Of Politicians And Doctors

  August 27, 1984 issue

• Coping With The Nabobs Of Divinity

  September 3, 1984 issue

• Good Credit If You Play Your Cards Right

  September 10, 1984 issue

• Frankie Goes Where?

  September 17, 1984 issue

• You Want To Be A Traditional Ruler

  September 24, 1984 issue

• A Constitutional Approach To Problem Solving

  October 1, 1984 issue

• Airport Currency Probes

  October 8, 1984 issue

• On Keeping The Sabbath Day Shopping

  October 15, 1984 issue

• Reagan: Hundred Percent Genuine Parts

  October 22, 1984 issue

• The Rain In Spain... Job Seeker Headache

  October 29, 1984 issue

• Grappling With Sex Objects At Work

  November 5, 1984 issue

• Verily, Verily Heaven Help Us All

  November 12, 1984 issue

• Homework? They'd Be Better Off Playing

  November 19, 1984 issue

• Things Are Getting Better?

  November 26, 1984 issue

• The Riddle Of The Sphinx Beard

  December 3, 1984 issue

• The Cuban Samba Dance

  December 10, 1984 issue

Columns (1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986)

• Ghanaian Mentality Revisited

  January 21, 1985 issue

• Sterling Crisis At Home

  January 28, 1985 issue

• Spare The Rod

  February 4, 1985 issue

• Bingo! There's Madness In The Method

  February 11, 1985 issue

• A Licence To Leak

  February 18, 1985 issue

• Funerals - it's a RIP Off!

  April 22, 1985 issue

• Ex-Serviceman Sgt Boko Remembers World War 2

  May 13, 1985 issue

• Overcoming School Phobia

  May 20, 1985 issue

• War Games For Hard Up Forces

  May 27, 1985 issue

• Of Drinking And National Honours

  June 3, 1985 issue

• Why Can't A Woman...?

  June 17, 1985 issue

• How To Make A Million

  June 24, 1985 issue

• Junk Mail Special Edition

  July 1, 1985 issue

• You Cannot Be Serious

  July 15, 1985 issue

• Ghana: Past Perfect, Present Tense

  September 2, 1985 issue

• A Strange Encounter Of The Spirtual Kind

  September 9, 1985 issue

• What Idiagbon Told His Son Adekunle

  September 16, 1985 issue

• Dancing The Devaluation Hi-Life

  September 23, 1985 issue

• Memo: Immigrants Export Company

  September 30, 1985 issue

• Understanding The "Kiss Good Bye" Affair

  October 7, 1985 issue

• Low Standards In High Places

  October 14, 1985 issue

• Why The Applications Kept Rolling In

  November 25, 1985 issue

• Thinking Aloud

  December 2, 1985 issue

• Church Report: Passport To Heaven Or Hell

  December 9, 1985 issue

• Halley's Comet And All That

  December 16, 1985 issue

• Letters That Were Nearly Not Published In 1985

  December 23/30, 1985 issue

Columns (1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986)

• Why I Quit Heseltine Style

  January 20, 1986 issue

• The Sleeping Writers Wake Up (Part 1)

  January 27, 1986 issue

• The Sleeping Writers Wake Up (Part 2)

  February 3, 1986 issue

• And It Came To Pass In Ogykrom (Part 1)

  February 10, 1986 issue

• And It Came To Pass In Ogykrom (Part 2)

  February 17, 1986 issue

• Hello Ali Baba Long Live Arabella

  February 24, 1986 issue

• A Taste of Fresh Witches Brew

  March 10, 1986 issue

• "By by you go grow" - Letter To My Child

  March 17, 1986 issue

Kofi Akumanyi was columnist and Art Editor of Talking Drums. He was a former Features Editor of the Daily Graphic before the 31st December coup.