Socio-Political/Economy
The Wage Anchor: What Ghana’s Pay Deal Reveals About Its Fiscal Policy
A two-year settlement shows that fiscal discipline and labour peace can reinforce each other Every government that adjusts hard in
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Socio-Political/Economy
From Emergency Room to Blueprint: Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson’s Test
Eighteen months ago Ghana was a byword for sovereign distress: defaulted, restructured and dependent on the IMF. Today its finance
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Musings
The Republic of Loud Ignorance
“Reason has been replaced by insult, intellect by raw emotion, and curiosity by preconception.” — The Economist Ghana has always
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Reflections of a Maverick Citizen...
The City That Drinks Its Dead
Accra has been flooding since before independence. The water is not the problem. We are. There is a photograph that
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Fiction
THE DREAMS OF YESTERDAY: A DETOUR
As Pelley and I strolled along the sidewalk to a wooden bench near what was once my family’s pharmacy, I
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Reflections of a Maverick Citizen...
The Sunday Problem: On the collapse of values in Ghanaian public life and the particular tragedy of a nation that prays with extraordinary fervour and live with extraordinary impunity.
On Sunday or Friday morning, Ghana is magnificent. The streets fill early, the women in their kente and lace, the
11 Minute
Musings
The Press as Conscience
What does Ghanaian journalism owe to its people and what has it too often withheld? There is a comfortable lie
5 Minute
Musings
In Defense of My Happiness
It is a cold Monday evening, and I am making a case. Not to a judge, not to a jury
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Musings
New Media and the Non-Reading Public
There was a time, not very long ago, when the flow of public information followed a narrower path. News was
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Musings
The Gospel According to Shysters
There’s a special kind of madness that comes with living in a neighbourhood where everyone assumes your wallet was woven
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Book Reviews
Love, Loneliness, and the Chaos of Modern Womanhood: On Damilare Kuku’s Nearly All The Men in Lagos Are Mad
In Damilare Kuku’s Nearly All The Men in Lagos Are Mad, love is a battlefield fought in wigs, WhatsApp messages,
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Book Reviews
The Strange Elegance of Lolita
When Lolita was first published in America in 1958, it carried the scent of scandal like cheap perfume. Nabokov’s manuscript
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Reflections of a Maverick Citizen...
Discipline Without Violence…
In the span of a few weeks, Ghana’s public discourse was forced into a difficult reckoning about authority, discipline, and
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Book Reviews
“In the Dream, Everything Speaks”: Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and the Cost of Seeing Too Much
The first time I read The Famished Road, I didn’t really read it, I floated through it. I remember reaching
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Book Reviews
Becoming in Full: Aiwanose Odafen’s Fearless Debut
In Tomorrow I Become a Woman, Aiwanose Odafen’s luminous debut novel, the act of “becoming” is less a rite of
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