Fellow Ghanaians: How long will we keep overlooking illegal mining?

Fellow Ghanaians, It's over a week now since our nation was struck by a tragedy that…

Fellow Ghanaians: This is a democracy, not a police state

Fellow Ghanaians, Last week, as we mourned, many of us woke up to the troubling news…

Ghana’s constitution is not a colonial appendix

Broni Wewu: Somewhere in London this week, in a mahogany room lined with portraits of dead…

When the Talking Drum Changed Hands: Paid advocacy, and the fate of Ghana’s democracy

There is a story our elders tell about a talking drum that once belonged to the…

Squinting, Sunlight, and the Untapped Billion-Dollar Sunglasses Industry in Africa

Walk down any street in Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, or Dakar, and you’ll notice a common sight:…

Bright Simons: Why Ghana’s galamsey problem remains unsolvable in the current political culture

I had initially decided not to write about why illegal small-scale mining, or galamsey, cannot be solved…

Loyalty programmes in Ghana: The next frontier in customer retention

In today’s increasingly digital economy, customer loyalty is no longer earned by good service alone, it…

Bright Atter: “No refunds” by retailers is just a scarecrow

The informal economy in Ghana is not simply a peripheral device of the nation's economic structure;…

The Mercator map – a colonial lie that shrank Africa, then divided it

The 1569 Mercator map did not merely misrepresent Africa’s size—it mutilated its dignity and incapacitated its…

Ghana Airforce Helicopter Crash – An urgent call for an assessment of Ghana’s entire Aviation health

The recent Ghana Air Force (GAF) helicopter crash, which claimed the lives of eight distinguished Ghanaians,…