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Investment In Ghana Government Treasury Bills By Non-Resident Ghanaians

The Bank of Ghana’s attention has been drawn to certain misconceptions to the effect that non-resident Ghanaians/Ghanaian investors cannot invest in Government of Ghana Treasury Bills. (more…)

Agyemang, Katakyie Kwame Opoku

In recent times many a politician across the political divide in Ghana have expressed concern about the governing style of Prof. Mills, vis-à-vis the severe economic hardship, corruption, mismanagement and indiscipline among the youth and thus have in one way or the other, made ‘uncomplimentary’ remarks about Prof. Mills in particular and the NDC as a whole. (more…)

By Marlon Anipa

And it came to past that Fiifi (Atta-Mills) the President of Ghana got an invitation from the Queen to come for a visit to England. After all the banquets and carriage rides and what not, Fiifi finally got the quiet moment he has craved all day in order to have a one on one chat with Her Majesty.  After the usual small talk, Fiifi quickly popped the question (no silly, not that question). He asked her the secret of her success. (more…)

How one African country emerged intact from its post-colonial struggles

by John Schram |

From the July 2010 issue of The Walrus

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Willis D. Vaughn/National Geographic/Getty ImagesPresident Kwame Nkrumah at a meeting of chiefs, Berekum, Ghana, September 1960

Early one December morning in 1965, a few months after my arrival in Ghana, I was jolted out of a tropical sleep by a pile of Daily Graphic newspapers whumping onto the concrete floor of my small room.The first frenzy of rejoicing at Nkrumah’s demise soon wore off. Ghana’s coffers were bare. Where Nkrumah was said to have wept upon hearing there was no money left to finish the Volta River project, we at the university cried as our hall residence tables were cleared of Milo, Ovaltine, and Maggi sauce. We were being forced to join the masses in losing the small luxuries most Ghanaians now saw as the stuff of life: Norwegian sardines, Argentine corned beef, American Uncle Ben’s rice.

“What are those for, Atinga?” I called out groggily to Atinga Naga, the residence cleaner, as he stood at the door, several more such loads balanced in his arms.

“You’ll see!”

And indeed I did. Within minutes came an eruption of shouts, rubber flip-flopped footsteps, and slamming screen doors — unusual noises amid the staid gentlemanliness of Legon Hall, my University of Ghana residence. I leaped up and joined the swarm now flying from bathroom to bathroom, where we found our worst fears realized: the country, in its ninth year of independence, had run out of toilet paper. The new Ghana on which I had staked my future was in crisis. (more…)

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

       In the wake of Nana Akufo-Addo’s landslide reelection victory as the New Patriotic Party’s flagbearer for Election 2012, heated discussions have swirled around the candidate’s supposedly dismal performance in his “home region” in Election 2008. The tendency has been for the less critical of discussants to point to former President Kufuor’s commanding support in the Asante Region during the three times that he ran for the presidency as the basis of sound comparative analysis. (more…)

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

       I have been trying to recover from what may aptly be described as a post-NPP-primary traumatic syndrome. And in this process, I am also seriously taking stock of what my ideological and sympathetic association with Ghana’s most democratic political assembly has meant for both my spiritual and psychological edification, as well as the greater development of our beloved country at large. (more…)

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

       The unconscionable stampeding of the presiding judge in the trial of the alleged suspects in the murder of Ya-Na Yakubu Andani by frustrated functionaries of the ruling National Democratic Congress, recalls another equally painful episode in Ghana’s postcolonial history some 50 years ago. (more…)

The announcement by over 500 defectors from the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) into the camp of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), that the defectors had stolen at least two ballot boxes from the Tain constituency, in the Brong-Ahafo Region, on the instructions of local NDC party leaders in 2008, comes as rather pedestrian. Needless to say, it was always known that like most democracies, both advanced and fledgling, Ghana’s Election 2008 was anything but perfect. (more…)

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

        I just finished reading Peter Kojo Apisawu’s interpretive report on the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) allegedly submitted by the U. S. Department of State to the United States’ House of Representatives, or the U. S. Congress, and can arrive at only one definitive conclusion – and it is that the reporter is a far better pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) propagandist than both Mr. Richard Quashigah, the official NDC propaganda secretary, and Deputy Information Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa (See “Ghana’s Judiciary Is Corrupt – U. S. State Department” Ghanaweb.com 8/24/10). (more…)

       In a recent call-in to the Accra-based Radio Gold’s current affairs program “Alhaji and Alhaji,” the former National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) parliamentary majority leader was reported to have asked the “Minority group in Parliament [to be] grateful for the fact that President Mills…includes them in decision-making” and public projects” (See “Bagbin: Minority Must Thank God That Prez. Mills Involves Them In Decision-Making” PeaceFmOnline 7/25/10). (more…)