Month: February 2018

Fallacies may lead to sub-optimal behaviour at the individual level, but that does not make them irrational. At the social level especially they provide some of the most rational explanations for seemingly irrational behaviour. Take the media industry in Nigeria, for example. It is common for journalists to have salary...

In a recent debate on Facebook about the propriety or otherwise of the highly indebted Ghanaian state building and running factories (something not on the immediate policy agenda but frequently demanded by the country’s residual Marxist intelligentsia), a number of my sparring partners brought up, as expected, the ascendant theory...

Should the government build factories? Or invest in business ventures? In Ghana?   It is one of the abiding mysteries of contemporary society that discomfort about government ownership and management of business ventures is seen as ideological, whilst support for the conduct is seen as “pragmatism”. The truth though is...

“Religious mindfulness” or “Religious mindedness” is a gift. It is a miraculous gift. Its possibility is an extraordinary mystery. If you are blessed with a religious mind, treasure it. It shall not always be as easy to acquire and cultivate as it apparently is today for many millions. Is “personal...