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T ruth Is Truth: A Catholic Priest on Colonialism, African Religion and the Gods of Our Fathers Rev. Father Emmanuel Ahiatrogah on slavery, missionaries, respect and where the old powers went Featuring Rev. Father Emmanuel Ahiatrogah By Dufe Edor | Student Journalist, Filmmaker and Founder of Dufe Voice “Not admitting that is like deciding to forget a part of you.” It is not the answer many people expect from a Catholic priest who has just been asked whether his church was used to justify slavery and colonialism. Rev. Father Emmanuel Ahiatrogah gave it without flinching, and without surrendering his faith. At St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Adenta Frafraha, Accra, Dufe Voice put the hard questions to him: the history, the insults, the shrines, and what a priest really thinks of African traditional religion. What follows is his view as a Catholic priest. Readers will agree with some of it and disagree with the rest, and we welcome respectful responses in the comments. Two th...

  By Mary Frimpong Manso Guest essay, published by Dufe Voice,  My hand is on my sibling’s door. “Are you okay?” I ask, hearing the frustration in their voice after they have spoken rudely to someone who was trying to help them. I want to go in and make everything easier, but I pause: if I keep rescuing someone I love, will they ever learn to stand on their own? I think this is one of the difficult parts of loving someone. When it is your sibling, you naturally want to protect them. But what if the behaviour causing their problems is something they have been warned about many times? What if they keep disrespecting people, refuse correction, and then expect you to help whenever their actions have consequences? Would helping them still be an act of love, or would I simply be helping them continue the same behaviour? I did not always think about responsibility in this way. My own experience has taught me that sometimes people need support, but support does not mean doing everythi...

  A new community initiative targets a school block, a community center, and a polyclinic, with the celebration continuing on 2 January 2027 Author: Godsway Dufe Edor ACCRA, Ghana: The Fodome Hloma Pictures community officially launched DUNENYO ZA 2027, a new community development initiative, on Saturday, 10 October 2026, at the University of Ghana Pool Garden in Accra. The launch was held to raise awareness and mobilize support for the community's development priorities. The programme was chaired by Lawyer Agbakpe and brought together traditional and community representatives, public officials, and supporters of the Fodome Hloma community. A new initiative with three priorities Organisers presented DUNENYO ZA 2027 as a fresh start. It is a new initiative with a clear, three-point agenda: Completion of a basic school block Construction of a community center Advocacy for a polyclinic The polyclinic is, for now, a matter of advocacy. The community's immediate focus is on...

By Dufe Edor | Student Journalist, Filmmaker and Founder of Dufe Voice Long before Emmanuel Ahiatrogah thought about the priesthood, his grandfather was building a church. His father’s father was the contractor who put up the Catholic church in Asamankese, the one with the two towers. He died early, and the grandson never got to meet him. What Fr. Emmanuel knows of the man he learned from his own father: a Catholic, a builder, himself the descendant of Catholics. In that family, faith was handed down the way a trade is, from one generation to the next. Today Fr. Emmanuel is a Catholic diocesan priest. At St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Adenta Frafraha, Accra, Dufe Voice sat down with him to ask how he got there, and what the journey has asked of him along the way. Nobody at home was surprised The family he describes is staunchly Catholic. His mother came from another Christian denomination, but on his father’s side the line runs back through his grandfather and great-grandfa...