In the 1980s, flight lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings launched heritage tourism as a means to economic development in Ghana. Under his initiative, Ghana’s forts and castles—where enslaved Africans were forcibly put on slave ships to cross the Atlantic […]
GOOD OLD DECEMBER I know these colours well I have loved them since I was little They blended in a thousand hues and shades And made everything feel Christmassy In the old Decembers. But in […]
The number of cases of chronic kidney disease is on the increase worldwide and in Ghana. In Ghana about 13 out of every 100 people have some form of kidney disease. This means some almost […]
SEEING THROUGH AKUFO-ADDO’S CAPE COAST AIRPORT SCAM In Chapter 10, page 119 of his 2016 manifesto, Akufo-Addo made the specific pledge that within his four-year mandate he would (be) “upgrading all existing District Hospitals where […]
KWAMENA AHWOI’S WORKING WITH RAWLINGS – AMIDU’S CRITIQUE INTRODUCTION I have avoided reading books written by my former colleagues reporting on their observations or experiences in the Governments I served with them lest some contents […]
Hidden in Plain Sight Life is a kaleidoscope of many things – puzzles, paradoxes and perplexities included therein. The simple village farmer works the land in season, praying the rains will not fail. The farmer who […]
The tragedy of the Akufo-Addo administration is not only the collosal debt it has saddled Ghanaians with. It is not only the huge fiscal deficit he has created even before #COVID-19. It is not only […]
Having now read every word of Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi’s memoir, I find it hard not to believe that this isn’t a takedown of the NDC by the very people who fed and grew fat on […]
I did not intend to. Please, believe me. I was just being a responsible community member helping my people to get rid of those old women who we were told conspired with dark forces to cause […]
Continuation of Confessions of a Politician (Part 2) But we have all been lumped together to share equally the power to contribute. This process has culminated in simple minds having the same privilege as those who […]
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