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After NDC Congress: Can new executives lead party to victory in 2024?
The aftermath of the recent NDC National Delegates Congress has underscored the demand by the delegates for the party to change its direction if they are to wrestle power from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2024 election.
Dinner with Moussa Aksar, the journalist watching over the soul of Niger
Working as a journalist in most countries in Africa is an extreme sport. Especially working as an investigative journalist puts one in more precarious situations than can be imagined, and one of Niger’s journalists who has to face so many…
The morbid joke by the South African High Commission in Accra
Today is November 1, 2022. I have just returned from the South African visa processing centre in Accra – managed by VFS Global, a company that handles visa application processes for some countries around the world.
My acceptance speech at the Welles Prize event
I had hoped that I would have been able to join you in New York for this exceptional occasion, but as always and as is common with journalists like me in this part of the world, I have not been able to afford it.
The threat of galamsey to Ghana’s gold value addition efforts
On Wednesday October 5, 2022, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo held two meetings in Kumasi on the phenomenon of illegal artisanal (small scale) mining, popularly known as galamsey.
Galamsey must be seen as existential threat to Ghana
The horrifying images of the disturbing phenomena of illegal mining known as galamsey that is practically suffocating Ghana didn’t start today. But has now reached dimensions that makes the threat an existential one.
I’m a journalist, but Ghanaians hold me to higher standards than the President
I have come to this point of writing this letter to you because, am convinced that if I don’t speak up for myself, no one would.
Four ways to transform Africa-Caribbean trade
Exactly one hundred years ago, the Black Star Line ceased sailing. The shipping venture was founded by Marcus Garvey to link Africa with its diaspora in the Americas. It was part of a wider vision of liberating peoples of African descent…
Ghana, a Bible thumping Finance Minister and a junk economy
Ghana is a classic case of a country – has a great history, ancestry and an undisputed place among the comity of nations. Ghana was at a point the shining star of Africa and all struggling peoples waking up to demand freedom from…
As Ghana’s economy struggles and country seeks IMF, company connected to Finance Minister…
Last week as Ghana was announcing its intention to seek help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to resuscitate its ailing economy brought down to its knees by mismanagement, bad governance, wastage and corruption, the company…