We must also promptly put it on record that name-calling is perfectly in keeping with democratic political cultures all over the world, and Ghana cannot be the only exception. In other words, there are appropriate name-calling contexts or moments and inappropriate name-calling contexts or registers, rhetorically speaking. That is a vitriolic attack on all “Non-Atafo” and “Non-Apepefo/Mpepefo” bona fide citizens of the Democratic Republic of Ghana (DRG). You see, we live in the real world of the inescapably human; which is why it reeks of the inexcusably absurd for anybody to suggest that political name-calling is ultra vires. What is absolutely out-of-bounds is “Ashawo Ba,” as an electioneering Candidate John Agyekum-Kufuor once had occasion to tag the then-President Jerry John Rawlings.

Source: GhanaWeb September 12, 2020 11:37 UTC