A trip to the motherland without my children taught all invaluable lessons. I was two steps out of the door of my hotel in Accra, Ghana when I felt like something was missing. I checked for my purse, ...

Until now, no “progressive” (one-party) people’s democracy has been complete without a) periodic elections in which 99.44% of the electorate enthusiastically vote in favor of a single list of ...

There are moments in the life of a nation when its strength is tested—not by the abundance of its resources, nor by the sophistication of its institutions, but by the unity of its people and the ...

Even after Ghana threw off the colonial yoke in 1957, its first president, Kwame Nkrumah, complained that it was not truly free. Rich countries still held it back, he said, and the imf was a ...

Nigeria’s self-proclaimed status as the ‘Giant of Africa’ is being questioned once again, and a recent example from Ghana highlights this reality. The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana ...

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