We Stand By Your Magazine
August 23, 2026
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Talking Drums
June 21, 1985
We are really overwhelmed and lost for words to express our sincere and warmest appreciation to your outfit for the wonderful work that you are doing.
The Talking Drums you would like to know is like manna from heaven to feed us in these days of general thirst and hunger for truth.
There is no gainsaying that the people of Ghana are now denied objective and analytical journalism through the barbaric use of arms, threats and censorship in suppressing all well-meaning contributions and criticisms in the few newspapers around.
Our hope and prayer is that not only we, who by virtue of our contacts will have the privilege of reading your magazine, but all the oppressed people of Ghana will have uninterrupted access to such magazines as their inalienable right and not a privilege.
It is most disheartening that in Ghana today those who should have defended the truth have, like Esau, disgracefully sold their professional birthright for cheap opportunistic gains to the shame and degradation of such a noble profession.
But thanks to the Almighty God we could still count on and point to modern-day Daniels, Shedrachs, Meshachs and Abednagos whose convictions for the truth in the teeth of acid criticisms and possible torture and humiliation, continue to be as firm as mount Zion.
More grease to your elbows. We stand behind you in the struggle to liberate our beloved country from the shackles of falsehood and revolutions of opportunism.
(Names Supplied),
University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana