I wasn’t going to say anything about the intern-politician drama because I’m done with women in politics. (An essay for another day.) But I’m uncomfortable with the way this argument is going. First, it was arrogant of the minister to speak the way she did to both the intern and the editor. She could’ve made … Continue reading
By speaking up in Parliament, Ernesto Yeboah was showing us how to take some of our power back. MPs knock on our doors, braid hair and pound fufu during election campaigns just to get our votes–and turn around and treat us as if we are their subjects. Ernesto was asserting his right as one of the employers of MPs. Imagine what a strong message we would’ve sent the governing class if we had rallied around him. What a magical moment if we had turned up the next day demanding a complete withdrawal of the plan. Continue reading
Dear Sir, This letter is overdue. You’ve been doing a lot of things I never thought you would. But I have been exercising supreme restraint in the hopes that no matter what you do, you will not go down the path your predecessor walked. The path that left many of us in rage and wondering … Continue reading
On April 2, 2019, under no pressure, the head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service, COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah told the media her team had located where the three kidnapped Takoradi girls are and that they were safe. The announcement triggered questions: why were we told when the girls were … Continue reading
As you read this, the Ghana Cedi has become fairly stable. The Cedi had been falling against major trading currencies such as the dollar since February 2019. As of March 15, it had depreciated by 8.4 percent against the dollar. A $750 million Standard Bank Bridge loan facility halted the decline. It hasn’t recovered fully … Continue reading
It’s impossible not to be surprised that the idea of building a national cathedral on public lands came from President Akufo-Addo, the same man who swore to protect the public purse. To do what the president intends to do, the State must demolish homes of judges and prime and historic properties at a cost to … Continue reading
Had it been someone else at the presidency who made the comment Louise Carol Donkor made about foot-soldiers, I doubt we would have such seen such visceral outrage. In fact, if a man had said the same thing, the people who took offence at her comment might have laughed or looked away. If a less … Continue reading
In the beginning, I too was awed by everything President Akufo-Addo said. Like the people who liked, shared and re-shared the video of his press conference with France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, I found him inspiring. But over a year after his inauguration, I still find him up in the clouds with his lofty rhetoric, and … Continue reading
Sometime in 2015, I banned my mother from talking to me about Ghana. Since I work as a journalist, I’m the go-to news source for my family and friends. Every day, I’m called upon to do three things: to affirm or deny something they heard on the news, provide more details of a particular story … Continue reading
For the first time since his swearing in, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo will meet and answer questions from journalists. It has taken the president six months to restart this age-old practice where presidents sit and answer wide-ranging questions about their performance members of the media. Nana Akuffo-Addo came to the presidency on a … Continue reading
