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  Kofi Yeboah Writes, In Matthew 16:15-16, Jesus Christ asked his disciples: “Who do you say I am?” and Peter answered correctly by declaring the divine identity of Jesus. In Cairo, Egypt, after meeting the participants of the ‘58 th Training Course for Young African Journalists’ for one week, I hereby play the character of Jesus but, unlike him, I turn the question in the opposite direction: “Who do I say you are?” I elect myself, as Peter did, to answer the question, thus, becoming both the examiner and the examined, but leaving the real assessment to whomsoever is marking the script. Although the participants who attended the training course were from different countries and cultures, it was obvious that three weeks of intellectual discourse and lively intercourse succeeded in dismantling whatever barriers that previously blocked their connection. The francophone participants Chadians are normally calm, polite and reserved, and in Nathan, those character traits are glar

Kofi Yeboah Writes From Cairo, Egypt is one of the foremost countries in which civilisation first began centuries ago, and on May 6, 2024, when I visited the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation, in Cairo, I could not agree more with that assertion. The National Geographic Society, based in Washington DC, affirms that “Civilisations first appeared in Mesopotamia (what is now Iraq) and later in Egypt”. The National Museum of a Egyptian Civilisation is a bridge that connects medieval and modern Egypt, with artifacts that are ancient in age but arrayed in a beautiful edifice that in itself is a tourism attraction. The inward and outward appeal of the museum, sitting on a 490,000 sq metre-land, is ample testimony of the deliberate plot driving tourism as the third largest revenue inflow in Egypt. The tourism sector in Egypt raked in $13 billion in the 2022-2023 fiscal year, the third largest revenue collection industry in the country. That makes a lot of sense, given the la

Kofi Yeboah Writes From Cairo, In the heart of Accra, at the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, the mortal remains of two distinguished persons are cleaved decades after their marriage celebrated both on earth and in heaven. The marriage between Ghana’s first president Kwame Nkrumah and Egyptian beauty, Fathia, caught the fancy of the nation, and even after ‘death did them part’ more than five decades ago, their mortal remains cleaved in the belly of the earth at the tourism enclave in Accra, still attract a large number of eyeballs. Nkrumah was a champion of African unity but for him to live that charge beyond imagination, by tying the nuptial knot with Fathia, is a masterstroke of the African unity agenda he enjoyed or enjoys huge applause for on earth and in the heavens. In Ghana, especially among rural folks, whenever a star appeared close to the moon, they were deemed to be the symbolic marriage between Nkrumah and Fathia, as people rushed outside to fix a gaze in the sky and exclai