FEATURE

The depreciation of the Ghanaian Cedi has now become a perennial crisis. Overtime, we have come to the realization that the depreciation of the currency is structural and not necessarily due any form of mismanagement of the economy by the…
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“Man must live, not on bread alone…” That’s half of Matthew 4:4, according to Christ. And the Lord is right, isn’t he? There really is a lot — aside “every word that comes from Jehovah’s mouth,” of course — that, coupled with bread,…
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The Police and a section of the public have and continue to sell a lie that there is some offence or breach of law when journalists take photographs or film or record an event in a public place. They ignorantly or deliberately claim that…
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As a child travelling down southern Ghana from the north some two decades ago, I remember the colour of the White Volta as I crossed it at Yapei. It looked milky, very much like the colour of tea with a generous amount of milk. Recently,…
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Why are Nigeria’s universities in such a sorry state? Some would say it had to do with just one word: money. Sadly this is part of the reason. But not entirely. Nigeria’s universities have been under-funded for decades. Like a talented…
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For some people, traveling by air is fun and they wish to do it every day. As a travel blogger with over 200 flights, 800 hours in the air which translates into spending a full month in the skies, thoughts of dying in a plane crash send…
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” -Martin Luther King Jr. Apart from…
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The Akans say ‘wiase tetra no baanu baanu’, to wit ‘human beings live in pairs’. This is because by Ghanaian culture and tradition, the focus of life is to marry, have children and preserve the human race. Therefore for the Ghanaian,…
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Women and children are the ones most affected by the lack of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services (WASH). At the same time, access to WASH by women and children is a critical fulfilment of basic human rights and health needs. The basic…
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In the last couple of weeks, the issue of political vigilantism has been running. Are we the same people who are celebrating twenty-five years of the Fourth Republic? Are we the same people who at one point in time or the other stood…
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