Why has Africawatch's February 2018 edition delayed

Emmanuel Obeng Opinion Feb - 17 - 2018 , 11:48 2 minutes read

As an ardent reader of the Pan-African magazine, Africawatch, I am confused as to why the magazine has not hit the newsstands after some media reports suggested it was targeting to discredit the government's flagship Free Senior High School (SHS) programme with its February 2018 edition.

In January this year, some media reports said the magazine was going to use its February 2018 edition to focus on the Free SHS programme and the magazine flatly denied any such plan and said it suspected some newspapers of doing the bidding of government to discredit the magazine.

After the denial, readers of the magazine expected it to hit the newsstands but over two weeks into the month of February 2018, the magazine is yet to come out tempting readers to believe that the earlier report was true.

Readers of the magazine and political observers were expecting the publishers of the magazine, to at least come out to explain why the delay just like they came out to deny the media report.

My checks have indicated that not even operators of newspapers and magazines hub at Orion Cinema in Accra have been alerted of the delay by the publishers of the magazine.

Vendors of newspapers and magazines do not equally have an idea of when the magazine will be out. Some of them think it is likely to hit the stands in the third week of February (February 19).

It was alleged that the magazine was going to shred the government's achievements in the educational sector in a leaked February edition.

Is the delay in coming out to suggest that the publishers were changing the contents of the edition because it was leaked?