This article considers rising youth unemployment in West Africa and the role of trade and migration in meeting this challenge. Lessons and opportunities can be drawn from the implementation of free movement protocols in West […]
Awhile ago, CNN reported about a Susu club—an old African savings system—that is helping women in rural Senegal generate capital for businesses and finance for their family needs. It also highlights how a private loan provider use […]
Throughout the world, becoming a flag bearer and then moving on to become President of a country does not come cheap. Beyond the key interest of competence, integrity and incorruptibility, becoming a President of any […]
Israel is really pushing hard to become an African Union (AU) member, with a recent call on the Ghanaian government to back its bid for an observer status, a position it lost in 2002 when […]
Fellow Africans, if you had access to this column last week, you must have seen, or read, the special tribute I penned for one of Africa’s greatest leaders of the 21stcentury, the former President of […]
A Book Review By Dikeogu Chukwumerije Segun Adeniyi’s latest book is no shrinking violet. It announces itself from the first glance, leaving the browser in no doubt as to what it is about. The cover […]
Comparing your lover to someone else with the aim of challenging him/her to adjust their behaviour is opening your relationship to sickness, which might even lead to its death. There is a saying: “The fastest […]
Archival illustration of the Christiansborg Castle. Danish National Museum As a Ghanaian archaeologist, I have been conducting research at Christiansborg Castle in Accra, Ghana. A UNESCO World Heritage site, the castle is a former seventeenth […]
When more than 500kg of marijuana disappeared from a police warehouse in Argentina, officers had an improbable explanation: it must have been eaten by mice. Senior officers, it seems, were not convinced, and eight members of staff have now […]
I see Prince Charles has come out against slavery. He was speaking in Ghana the other day and made no bones about his low opinion of the practice. “The appalling atrocity of the slave trade, […]
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