Just as human beings have the sense of forgetfulness, there is indeed the need for constant remembrance of what our great grand parents

did to make life easier for our contemporary days to have it smooth. Just as some walked barefooted in order to give their children the privilege of wearing ‘Louis Vuiton’ sneakers to swagger around the neighbourhod in the proud, my-dad-is-successful walks every day, others had sleepless nights incubating the architectural plans of their unborn babies in the luxurious Trassaco Valley.
These parents and stalwarts who laid their lives down in the days where the media was engulfed with threats and extreme danger, those extraordinaire writers whose replicas are difficult to settle on these days, those wordsmiths whose constructions makes you drop the lower lip to touch the tip of the chin, those fearless men whose publications made Ghanaians pant in care of their safety after their publications and those fathers who sacrificed their lives and that of their families for the common truth are the men I would want to pay tribute to.
Ghanaian media would have still been in the shallow, afraid-to-report kind of portrays and directed-by-government type of reportage if it had not been the sake of these pioneer journalists. Recent reporters and men in media in general, would not have had the chance of putting their last vocabulary in spaces on the prints and electronic media if these men were not brave to stand for the truth. These are the men who are known to be the pivots of democracy in Ghana. Ghana’s strongest eight proud stalwarts in journalism are;
1. Nana Kofi Coomson- The Chronicle
2. Kwesi Pratt Jnr- The Insight
3. Kwaku Baako Jnr- The Crusading Guide
4. Tommy Thompson- The Free Press
5. John Kugblenu- The Free Press
6. Charles Palmer Buckle-
7. Kabral Blay Amihere- The Independent
8. Eben Quarcoo

Author: Nana Kwesi Coomson