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What Is Wrong with Us: Why we keep uprooting young trees because they have not yet become forests
We inherited some of our deepest national challenges over forty and fifty years, yet increasingly we expect governments to resolve them within single election cycles. Could our growing impatience with long term nation building be quietly trapping Africa in an endless journey of restarts, repeated disappointments, and c...
Small feet, busy roads: Why Ghana is failing its children every school morning
As a professional law student interning at the Madina magistrate court, I was one morning rushing to court because I was running late when I found myself driving behind a motorbike with a child about five years old, holding flimsily onto the shirt of the biker. He was wearing a helmet, but she wasn’t. This […]
The Cobra at the gate: When good intentions overrun the system
In Nunyãdume, the elders say: “When a man runs into the village shouting that a child is dying, you do not ask who will pay before you open the gate.”
Service before Uniform
Instead of relying primarily on periodic recruitment exercises, Ghana should establish a National Volunteer Corps that serves as the principal pathway into the security services. Under such a system, young men and women aspiring to wear the uniform would first volunteer in programmes that directly benefit their communi...
A call to unite behind our party and our flagbearer
I speak to you today not as a bystander to our recent contest, but as one who stood in it. Like Hon. Kennedy Agyapong, I offered myself to our delegates in the January primary, and like him, I did not emerge the winner. I therefore understand, perhaps better than most, the weight of disappointment that follows a hard-f...
Djokovic wins five-set epic to set up Sinner semi-final
Novak Djokovic produced an astonishing performance to beat Felix Auger-Aliassime in a five-set thriller lasting over five hours to set up a blockbuster Wimbledon semi-final against defending champion Jannik Sinner. Bidding for a record 25th Grand Slam title, having been tied with Margaret Court since the 2023 US Open,...
Beyond the shortcut: Is Ghana ready for the AI learning revolution?
The era of rote memorisation, commonly known in Ghana as "chew and pour", is a thing of the past. For decades, the education system has rewarded the ability to "chew" (memorise) facts, store them briefly, and "pour" them onto an exam paper. But in the age of the 4th Industrial Revolution, memory is a cheap commodity. A...
From screens to strategy: Is Ghana finally ready to close the digital divide for every child?
n an era where a child’s future is increasingly determined by their digital proficiency, a haunting question looms over Ghana’s education system: Will your child be left behind? For years, Ghana’s journey into Educational Technology (EdTech) has felt like a patchwork quilt with plenty of vibrant patches, but no single...
Why male victims of abuse remain silent
When people talk about domestic abuse, the image that often comes to mind is a woman as the victim and a man as the perpetrator. It is a reality reflected in many reported cases, but it has also created a difficult conversation around another group of victims, men who experience abuse but struggle to speak about it.
Emma Ankrah: Stop waiting for closure: Healing doesn’t need permission
We often carry the perception that painful chapters need proper endings, one final conversation, one honest apology, one explanation that finally makes sense of everything or one final intimate moment with a loved one. But what happens when that conversation or moment never comes?
The roads home haven’t changed, they are worse now
Recently, I went home. On my way, reality hit me in the face with the sudden force of a Catholic priest flinging holy water over a congregation. Nothing in the environment had significantly changed. If anything changed, it changed for the worse.
Why climate adaptation has become an economic imperative
Climate change is increasingly shaping economic activity, making climate adaptation an essential part of long-term planning for governments, businesses, and communities.