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Where you are born can literally shape who you become. If you are born in an egalitarian society like Norway, you are likely to grow up in a system that deliberately tries to reduce inequality and provide relatively high, broadly distributed living standards. If you are born in the United States, you are born into a capitalist system built around the idea that you can rise from the bottom to the top. They call it the American Dream. It does not mean the system is equal or tha

I did not want to comment on this whole KFC situation because, honestly, I could not come to a firm conclusion. Then I realized that perhaps I did not need a conclusion. I could simply ask a question. Because after all the thoughts I had about what happened, everything eventually came down to one question: WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO QUEUE FOR? So, a brief background to the whole event. KFC has been in Ghana for 15 years, having opened its first restaurant here in 2011. To mark t

I don’t know exactly where the Smock/Fugu/Batakari originated from in West Africa, but what I do know is that it has been worn ceremonially and traditionally by many ethnic groups across West Africa. In Ghana, it is deeply associated with the people of the northern parts of the country. Different ethnic groups have their own names, styles and ways of weaving it. The fabric used in making the Fugu is one of the defining traditional fabrics of northern Ghana, although you will

Let me tell you about Mr. Daniel Ameyaw, a man largely forgotten in our history. As news of the 1966 NLC coup which overthrew Dr. Kwame Nkrumah were reported, many Ghanaians abroad and in Ghana were jubilating. You could understand why there seemed to be a sense of joy among many people. Dr. Nkrumah had become increasingly unpopular, and amid the economic difficulties in the country, together with the introduction of increasingly authoritarian laws and restrictions, many Gh

Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Ghana, in a 5–2 majority decision, ruled that the delegate system used by political parties to elect their presidential and parliamentary candidates is unconstitutional. The Court ordered political parties to replace it with a system that allows all members in good standing to participate in the selection of presidential and parliamentary candidates. This verdict brought me a great deal of joy because I firmly believe that the delegate sys