Politics

Remembering Kweku Amafegha and the saga of OPL 245, By Osmund Agbo

He smiled, extended his hand and clasped mine firmly. “My name is Kweku,” he said, with the quiet assurance of a man entirely at ease in his own skin. The name struck me as familiar. I was certain I had heard it before, yet I could neither place the location nor summon the circumstances of our supposed acquaintance. I mentally ran through the catalogue of my Ghanaian friends and acquaintances and none was Kweku. For a fleeting moment, I wondered whether I was experiencing some peculiar déjà vu.