Month: January 2016

It has become fashionable to describe capitalism as a brute force that drives the lust for profit through all our fine sensibilities like a pig on heat during holy mass. Yet, contemplate the Ghanaian ‘public transport’ sector which is actually made up predominantly of privately owned vehicles, whose drivers have...

Now, if we accept, even if only hypothetically, that Democracy is a game played largely by elites among themselves, and that it is targeted at the Masses only reluctantly, because there is a need for a neutral arbiter, a role played by the Masses for little pay (ever seen a...

We have deluded ourselves long enough, but it is time to face the cold, brutal, fact. Democracy has never really been about the ‘MASSES’. Never has been, never is, and never shall be. Period. Democracy is the game of competition within the elite whereby the neutral arbiters – the so-called...

There is something banal about colonial evil. Take the memoirs of your typical imperialist of his time in the colonies, and there is likely to be enough there of the casual routine of stonemasonry, condiments, quinine tonic, petty linguistic discoveries, and annoying detail about minor fauna to leave every cell...

The reason why I find policy so intriguing is the way it forces us to become multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary (think across different subject matter) in order to understand even what looks like the simplest of things. But I also like how with a little more delving into, even the ‘simplest’...

Over the last five years, the turnover of Ghana’s financial industry has grown from $1.6 Billion to $3.5 Billion, and thus from 5% of the economy to 8% of the economy (in GDP terms). Comparatively, this is higher than the US financial industry’s 7.3% contribution to US economic output, but...