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I’m a journalist, but Ghanaians hold me to higher standards than the President
I have come to this point of writing this letter to you because, am convinced that if I don’t speak up for myself, no one would.
Four ways to transform Africa-Caribbean trade
Exactly one hundred years ago, the Black Star Line ceased sailing. The shipping venture was founded by Marcus Garvey to link Africa with its diaspora in the Americas. It was part of a wider vision of liberating peoples of African descent…
Ghana, a Bible thumping Finance Minister and a junk economy
Ghana is a classic case of a country – has a great history, ancestry and an undisputed place among the comity of nations. Ghana was at a point the shining star of Africa and all struggling peoples waking up to demand freedom from…
As Ghana’s economy struggles and country seeks IMF, company connected to Finance Minister…
Last week as Ghana was announcing its intention to seek help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to resuscitate its ailing economy brought down to its knees by mismanagement, bad governance, wastage and corruption, the company…
Ghana finally goes to IMF, after government obstinacy crumbles
The Ghanaian economy has barely been doing well, with the currency, the cedi, literally on life-support and doing badly against the US dollar. With inflation at an all-time high at almost 27 per cent and public debt almost at 80 per cent,…
Ghanaians paying VAT on other taxes, but are unaware
During the 2016 election campaign, the current Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia heralded a call – a move away from taxation to production, because, as he argued then, Ghanaians were being overtaxed.
He said, if voted into office, the…
Niger must cease the unjust persecution of investigative journalist Moussa Aksar
Journalism is no crime. Effectively, the work of journalists has been shown to have lighted the dark paths of nations, guided the steps of peoples and brought justice to the oppressed. It is therefore, depressing as one follows the…
The man JJ Rawlings
This article was first published in the Ashanti Independent, a sister paper of The Independent in May 1995 with the title, ‘The man JJ Rawlings: Yesterday and today’. The newspaper doesn’t exist anymore.
The article has been slightly…
Learning from the TB Pandemic
As countries around the world—from Kenya to Canada, South Africa to Sweden—relish the prospect of an unofficial transition of COVID-19 from pandemic to endemic and start to ease pandemic-related restrictions, many of us in the tuberculosis…
Meeting Ferdinand Ayite: Trials and tribulations of independent journalists in Africa
Africa is arguably one of the richest continents in the world. Endowed with precious minerals like gold, diamond, bauxite, iron ore, manganese, lithium, graphite, oil, among others, and yet it is always constrained economically, and so…