Month: February 2016

There are 29 million chickens in Ghana. Of this number, only one in six are meant for the table, the rest lay eggs for sale. There are 7 hatcheries producing the chicks for rearing. Only three of them have the right breeds to produce their own eggs for hatching. The...

I have observed with some amusement, as the contest over religious freedoms and traditions rage on Ghanaian social media, that certain persons have tried, often futilely, to inject their own pet peeves into the whole affair. Some feverishly anti-God commentators have been taking pains to interject at every opportunity that...

I think I now better understand why even the most gifted science fiction writers tend to be so poor at predicting how the future shall *look*. Take Blade Runner. In the imagination of Ridley Scott, the world of 2019 has attained a level of artificial intelligence nearly indistinguishable from human...

[This post was originally made in April last year at the height of the controversy over Ghana’s decision to petition the ITLOS regarding its maritime dispute with the Ivory Coast.] Now that I have read the case dossier of the ongoing Ghana – Ivory Coast maritime dispute, and of course...

Ghana’s public debt has been galloping at a manic pace. But is at HIPC-unsustainable levels or not? Seems like a simple enough question. One only needs to check back on the thresholds used to qualify countries for the HIPC initiative when it was in vogue in 2000, compare them to...

A quick scan through history to re-examine some of the most memorable feats of human endeavour reveal an interesting trend. The most epic moments of disruption and creativity are typically shared by “small groups of people”. And the most formidable groups tend to be made up predominantly young persons entrusted...

The decline of the great religions mean that there are are fewer and fewer ‘universal truths’ in our world today, and what few pretenders there are lack the prestige and following of yesteryear’s great maxims. But if there is a maxim today worthy of the ‘universal truth’ status, it surely...

Try and work your mind around this. 1. The Government of Ghana (acting through its Ministry of Finance parastatal, Cocobod) goes to the international market and promises dealers of cocoa that it will produce x number of tons of the crop the following year. They forward-sell 70% of this quantity...

And, if I may ask, why do the Akans of Ghana still insist on calling the governments of this fascinating corner of West Africa, “Aban”? I ask because the origin of the word dates from our earliest encounters with the colonising Europeans when they managed, or at least influenced, our...