The China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) connected two teams of SAIS International Development Program students to organizations in Africa for their 2015-2016 practicum course. In this guest post, the team of students who consulted for the Ogun-Guangdong Free Trade Zone in Nigeria reflect on their […]
The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party Nana Akufo-Addo has described President John Mahama’s ‘evidence-based’ State of the Nation Address as an embarrassing exercise in mediocrity. According to him, the act of calling out names of the supposed beneficiaries of government interventions undermines the seriousness that must be attached to the state of the nation
The Most Reverend Charles Palmer Buckle, Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra has stated that lesbians and homosexuals are all children of God whose basic human rights must be respected by all. According to him, the human rights of all gays must not be abused but added that the Catholic Church is against the practice of homosexuality
By Mokin (da grand Dada of da dance) It looks as if the cheapest kind of music genre in GH (Ghana) now is reggae dancehall. A day doesn’t pass without one hearing or seeing posters, promos and attractive advertisement of a yet to be released song; or even released songs, but the question to be
Ghanaian Fulanis have stated that they have had enough of the labeling and distortion of their true identity. The ethnic group has been in the news for all the wrong reasons for several years now. They have been accused of rape, armed robbery and destruction of farms among other heinous crimes but Fulanis in Ghana
Ghanaian Reggae artist Blakk Rasta performed at a private birthday bash for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in Harare Zimbabwe. The artist who was invited personally by the President for whom he has written a song says he had a great time in the presence of Robert Mugabe. He was speaking pidgin” he said, ‘Oh you
The Ashanti Regional Police commander DCOP Nathan Kofi Boakye has closed down the Jamase Police Station in the Kwabere East District of Ashanti Region after community members attacked the police Irate residents of the area went on rampage venting their spleen on police officers on duty at the station after the police restrained tried restraining
Two unidentified men believed to be armed robbers have shot a police officer at Navrongo in the Upper East region of Ghana. Corporal Gordon Pwatirah was shot four times in the back when he reportedly resisted attempts by the gang to snatch his motorcycle from him on the Bolgatanga-Navrongo Highway. The Upper East Regional Police
President John Mahama will on Thursday, February 25, deliver his fourth State of the Nation Address to parliament in accordance with Article 67 of the 1992 Constitution. This was announced on the floor of Parliament by Majority Leader Alban Bagbin. This will be Mr Mahama’s last state of the nation address before his first term
Embattled national chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Paul Afoko has revealed that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo snubbed efforts by the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to intervene in his “illegal” suspension. According to Mr. Afoko, the Asantehene attempted to resolve the party’s issues relating to his suspension but was ignored. Mr. Afoko and two
