Observing African Excellence as Prelude to African Renaissance
Since March 2007, the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Ghana’s political independence has been conducted under the felicitous motto: “Championing African Excellence”. This focuses our mind on forward-looking ambition of the African Continent, which is to...
Ghana’s Feminist Movement Aspirations, Challenges, Achievements
The Path of Ghanaian gender politics – issues relating to gender hierarchies in the state, women’s status, influence in politics and social life – the relationship between the state and women’s organizations (which I refer to as Ghana’s feminist experience) ha...
Democratic Governance of Security Facing Up to Ghana’s Fragility
Ghana has recently shown a remarkable turnaround in terms of political stability and quality of governance. Arguably, though, nowhere has the transformation been more dramatic than in the quality of the security environment for individuals and the nation as a whole.Auth...
The Ghana Civil Service Engine for Development or Impediment?
The subject of our discussion is intriguing. It is an interrogation. There seems to be uncertainty, doubt as to what the Ghanaian Civil Service has been able to bring to the developmental effort. Or perhaps, instead of facilitating economic and infrastructural developme...
Ghana AT 50 Tribe or Nation?
Fifty years ago, on 6th March 1957, Ghana became independent. Apart from some four years before independence when the unity of this new nation was threatened by secessionist forces, questions about the identity of this country had been settled in the independence consti...