This is just to inform you of the shock I had after reading through your weekly magazine, the Talking Drums. I am a Ghanaian boy at the age of 21. I just completed my sixth form and rendering my service to the nation. I am very interested in reading magazines and newspapers, especially those with blacks as editors. I greatly enjoyed reading your articles in the Daily Graphic some few years back, when you were in Ghana. I was therefore shocked when I heard that you had left the country to live in London.

On seeing the December 19/26 1983 issue of the Talking Drums, I thought I had an opportunity to read once again a good magazine fully edited by my Elizabeth Ohene, but I was shocked after reading it. I just don’t know whether it is just because of frustration on your part that makes you publish such a useless work.

I wish you were in the country to see the development after three years in office of the PNDC. I am sure by now the so-called enemies of the revolution and refugees in exile will surely be ashamed of themselves. To be frank, the PNDC is proving to be the best government the country has ever had. Things have greatly changed during the past three years. People like you should not be allowed to fall into the traps of the true enemies of Ghanaians (the corrupt old politicians and the so- called businessmen).

You should re-think your role, change your attitude and come back to contribute towards the new process. Your opposition will have no effect on the government at all. You are rather wasting your time in a foreign country. You can never become British; you always remain Ghanaian and remember, home is home.

Concerned Admirer,

Owusu Adu Kwabena, Accra, Ghana