How do we extricate death from life, culturally? Ghanaian culture has made Ghanaians obsessed with deaths and funerals.
Kofi Akosah-Sarpong
The Cultural Clash Over Life and Death
Old Leadership, New Leadership
African leadership, being heavily over burdened and scatterbrained, is part of the Old Leadership. For the past 50 years, Africa has been sorting itself up into categories of Old Leadership and New Leadership.
The Civility of Hand Washing
Globally, health experts say over 80 percent of diseases start from the hands. And if the hands aren’t cleaned and sanitized properly, diseases are transmitted into the larger society.
The Endless Dilemma of Atta Mills
For almost two years, since he became president, Mills have been dented from within his NDC than the main opposition, the National Patriotic Party (NPP).
G8/G20 Summit Preview: The Flowering of The African Century
Once again, Africa’s development affairs are coming up at the G8 and G20 summits to be held in Canada from June 25 to 27.
Emerging Accountability in West Africa
Whether in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea Bissau, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria or Mali, corruption saw the state helplessly spinning in mid air, gaping for accountability.
Understanding the Overloaded Police Service
Nowhere in Ghana’s budding democracy have any of its institutions being critically tested for fuller scrutiny than its police service.
Asantehene: Power and Self-Restraint
The Asantehene is by nature a liberal person and has been working to deepen Ghana’s budding democracy, but his Tuobodom utterances expose the fact that the unhelpful African Big Man syndrome is a developmental disease that has to be cured through rigorous rule of law, freedoms, democracy, and human rights.
The limits of Tandja’s stupidity
Tandja was mired in the African traditional superstitious belief that he is the only one chosen by God to rule Niger in a country of immense poverty where 61 percent live on less than US$1 a day and stuck in disturbing record of coups, assassinations and on-and-off rebellion by its nomadic Tuareg group.
The African Consensus
United States President Barack Obama’s November 6 visit to India has brought into the forefront the long-running issue of what development philosophy is appropriate for each developing region, especially Africa where there hasn’t been any clear-cut development philosophy.