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England Applied for Goals. Ghana Requested Additional Documentation…
Once upon a time, England came to the Gold Coast. They arrived in ships, carrying flags, maps, administrators, missionaries and the calm confidence of people who believed the world was simply waiting to be properly arranged by them. Eventually, they left.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup… or World War II in Disguise?
News Flash! News Flash! News Flash! Germany and Japan have both fallen, as America look on. Britain and France also advance with US backing. Italy, in classic fashion, managed to avoid the firefight altogether. Feels oddly familiar, doesn’t it? 1945….reimagined as a World Cup. Germany’s campaign ended not with a blitz,...
Sabalenka loses deciding set 6-0 to Pegula in Berlin
Aryna Sabalenka lost another deciding set without winning a game as an impressive Jessica Pegula beat the world number one to reach the Berlin Open final.
Living with water: Lessons from Netherlands
Few countries in the world have had to confront water as relentlessly as the Netherlands. Yet, despite living under conditions that would seem almost impossible, it has become one of the safest and most prosperous countries in the world. There is an important lesson there for Ghana. The Netherlands is a remarkably low-...
Lipstick, foundation and friendly hugs -How modern makeup is quietly changing Ghana’s hugging culture
There was a time when a hug in Ghana was simple. You met an old friend at church, a colleague after years apart, or a family member during a festive gathering. Arms opened, bodies leaned forward, and affection was exchanged without a second thought. Today, however, many hugs come with a silent calculation. Will my […]
Floods, filth and the cost of policy vacuum: Why Ghana cannot afford to ignore Zoomlion
Every rainy season, Ghanaians watch a familiar tragedy unfold. Streets become rivers. Drains overflow with plastic waste. Businesses shut down. Families lose property. In the worst cases, lives are lost. The floods that have recently hit parts of the country are not merely acts of nature. They are also symptoms of a de...
Oh Why, Honourable Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin?
If Afenyo-Markin refuses to apologise and retract these unfortunate remarks, he risks gradually eroding the respect many once held for him. Reputation, like constitutional authority, is not destroyed overnight; it declines slowly through repeated acts of recklessness. A statesman protects institutions even in disagreem...
Reconstruct, Don’t Refurbish: Terminal 2 and the high cost of policy misjudgement
Ghana’s aviation sector stands at a critical inflection point. At the centre of this moment is Terminal 2 of Accra International Airport, a facility long acknowledged to be outdated, inefficient, and structurally constrained. Yet, despite prior technical assessments and strategic decisions that led to the construction...
The Silent Killer From Home: When the pressure to send money costs African immigrants their lives
One moment, an undocumented Jamaican immigrant walked into a money transfer office to send 500 U.S. dollars to his sick mother back home. Days later, he was in handcuffs after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested him at his residence. Thousands of kilometers away in Toronto, a young Ghanaian inter...
Ghana’s energy challenges: ‘Déjà Vu’ all over again?
While government officials have often attributed recent outages to technical incidents, some critics suggest that these incidents may also point to deeper structural weaknesses within the power sector.
Why Africa’s best-educated remain the west’s lowest-paid
Somewhere in Kumasi in Ghana’s Ashanti region, a man in his early thirties has just sold a plot of land. In Enugu, a woman has taken a loan from her cooperative. In Nairobi, a family has pooled savings from three households. The destination is the same: a postgraduate programme at a British or North American […]
Tecco Mensah writes: Why football fans must look beyond statistics
In research, there are three main types: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods.