The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), led by Chief Executive Officer Simon Madjie, on September 24 co-hosted the U.S.-Ghana Executive Business Dialogue at the NASDAQ Headquarters in New York. The high-level engagement, held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), was organized in collaboration with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, AmCham Ghana,...
The set of facts we have before us are nothing short of extraordinary. Nine months! A mere gestation period for bringing forth new life, and President Mahama has already delivered a bouncing baby economic recovery that would make any midwife proud. If this were a ludo match, John Mahama’s dice has fallen on six, for...
Good grief! Here’s a chap who’s currently running the airwaves at Atlantis Radio, but whose journey to get there reads like someone who simply couldn’t be bothered with the conventional career ladder and decided to build his own zigzag staircase instead. Felix Kwame Amoako, ladies and gentlemen. A man who spent five years mastering the...
Inside the studio with Eyram Gbewonyo, the producer turning Accra into Africa’s most exciting music capital The beat drops at 2 AM in a dimly lit Accra studio, and suddenly the room is alive. Traditional Ghanaian percussion loops fold into themselves, spiraling through layers of electronic synthesis until you can’t tell where the highlife ends...
Ghana’s Vice-President, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, has pledged her government’s commitment to completing abandoned market projects across the country. She made the remarks during a visit to Kumasi, where she toured the Mamponteng Market site in the Kwabre East Municipality. The market, which has served the community for nearly 300 years, began undergoing an enhancement...
Photograph of Professor Opoku-Agyemang and Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II My dear readers, let us be absolutely clear — politics is not, as some gloomy Abena’s would have you believe, a dreary procession of dusty committees and PowerPoint slides. No! It is a rambunctious, harum-scarum, gloriously exhausting enterprise — a bit like being on a...
Kaboom! Into the hallowed chambers of Ghana’s judiciary has rolled a thunderous petition — not from a political warhorse but from a fiery citizen — demanding the removal of Supreme Court Justice Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi. The allegations? Misconduct, conflict of interest, and a suspicious dabbling in the combustible ambulance procurement case that once entangled none...
The casual observer, entranced by the pageantry of West African democracy, fails to perceive the deeper currents that govern political life in Ghana. What appears as mere electoral theatre masks a complex equilibrium of forces — ethnic, economic, and institutional — that would have been familiar to Nkrumah in his pragmatic moments or to Nyerere...
Civilisation endures not through institutional architecture alone, but through the transmission of meaning across generations. Among the Ewe of Ghana’s Volta Region, this transmission occurs at the loom. The kete, or kente cloth, represents more than textile craftsmanship — it embodies a philosophical system, encoding cultural memory in pattern and colour. The loom functions as...
The Paramount Chief of the Aflao Traditional Area, Torgbui Amenya Fiti V, has been officially unveiled as Patron of the upcoming Experience Volta Festival. The unveiling ceremony was held in Aflao, at the palace of Torgbui Amenya Fiti V, where other sub-chiefs, priests, festival organisers and the media gathered to mark the occasion. The festival...