02-Mar-09: The ace novelist/poet, Thomas Hardy, once hinted at “the voiceless ghost”, inferring that many accomplished people, having already honoured their duties to society, slacken, exhaust their inspiration in some way, or at least, firmly stop thinking.

02-Mar-09: The purpose of this piece is to carry the work of appraising Dr Bartels's book, The Persistence of Paradox, one-step further by poring over another central aspect of the book: the preservation of the Akan language.

02-Mar-09: The relentless energies of Sir Winston Churchill caught the public eye yet again in 1983, with the new edition of the 4 volumes of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.