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The ‘FrontPage’ takes a bow: The End of an Era?

Last week, with the news that Joy FM was cancelling its longest-running talk show in Ghana’s broadcasting history, the Front Page, hosted by the irrepressible, Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, followers of the programme could not help but wonder if the cancellation marks the end of an era.

In this piece,  Dr.  Lloyd Amoah¹  and Kimathi Kuenyehia² , share their fond memories.

In its sixteen years, the FrontPage played with our emotions. It made us reflective. It made us laugh at ourselves and left us in tears sometimes. It made us believe in ourselves. In our country and its aspirations. And it caused us all to ask “why?” every Friday Morning.

If there ever was an emotional roller coaster, the FrontPage was its inventor. The one enduring value of the FrontPage was that it asked questions that lingered in your grey mass long after the show was over. In effect, it turned a very modern medium of communication into a blinding, penetrating flashlight that shone into the darkest corners of our national life. Read more...
 

KWAKU IS THE ONLY KNOWN AFRICAN JOURNALIST KNOWN TO HAVE EVER VISITED HAITI. READ KWAKU'S HAITI DIARY.