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Beyond the Drains: Psychology, urban governance, and Ghana’s preventable flood disasters
Disasters are increasingly becoming normalised in Ghana. Road crashes claim lives with disturbing regularity, market fires consume the investments and dreams of traders, and each rainy season arrives with a familiar fear: that floods will once again devastate communities across the country. The tears of traders in Agbo...
Divided mandates, shared crises: Institutional intersections in Ghana’s flood management
Across sub-Saharan Africa, urban flooding has evolved from a seasonal hydrological event into a persistent governance crisis. In Ghana, particularly within the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, flooding is no longer an occasional inconvenience but a recurring urban emergency with significant human, economic, environment...
Judge the Result, Not the Tool
When the result is outstanding, does it really matter whether AI played a role? What is surprising is that, after years of AI becoming part of everyday life, many people still seem late in appreciating what it is and what it is not.
If farming is profitable, why aren’t you farming? – The question that changed everything for National Best Youth Farmer
In 2015, during his national service in Kintampo in Ghana’s Bono East Region, 2025 National Best Youth Farmer Robben Asare found himself asking a thought-provoking question: how could young people build a future in a place where opportunities felt so limited?
The Elephant’s next march: Why Lawyer Clement Opoku Gyamfi (CiD) is the youth leader the NPP needs to rebuild for 2028
“When the mighty oak begins to lose its leaves, the wise gardener does not blame the wind alone; he examines the roots.” History has never been kind to political parties that mistake past glory for future victory. Across democracies, dominant parties have often discovered, sometimes painfully, that electoral success is...
Damirifa Dué and a Dollop of Oppression: A conversation on funerary practices in Ghana
My aunt’s husband is dead. He died on the night of May 13 at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. His death, according to my mother, was not really devastating. A few days before his death, my mother and all the other siblings of his wife had gone to visit him. He was unwell—something to do with a heart condition. After the...
Annual Flooding and Piss-Poor Leadership
Partisan robot alert: Don’t read further if you are a partisan robot who can’t think beyond the party you support! The most annoying comments about the perennial annual deadly flooding in Accra has come from our piss-poor ‘leaders’. This year, it came from President Mahama in London. I won’t repeat it, because I don’t...
Ghana calls for urgent political finance reforms to protect democracy across Africa
Deputy Minister for Finance Thomas Nyarko Ampem has called for urgent reforms to political financing across Africa, warning that the growing influence of money in politics is threatening democratic integrity, excluding competent leaders and eroding public trust in democratic institutions. Speaking at the opening of the...
Ghana football deserves better: A reckoning after the 2026 World Cup
Ghana's 2026 World Cup is over, and once the noise settles, what remains is a familiar truth. This country does not have a talent problem. It has a leadership problem, a captaincy problem, and a political interference problem.
Media experts advocate sustainable financing to strengthen journalism, democracy
Media and democracy experts have called for sustainable financing for journalism to strengthen information integrity and safeguard democracy in West Africa.
Ghanaian Youth under siege: The growing threat of online network marketing schemes
The youth constitute the backbone of every nation’s development agenda. Their energy, innovation, and productivity are essential ingredients for economic growth and social transformation. However, a growing phenomenon involving international online network marketing schemes is increasingly placing Ghanaian youth under...
Beyond Gold: Why Ghana must build strategic national reserves for the next global crisis
For countries like Ghana that depend heavily on imports and global supply chains, every geopolitical shock quickly becomes an economic shock.