When foreign investors visit Suraj Wahab in the Ghanaian capital of Accra, where he manufactures energy-efficient stoves, he likes to point to a tree on the dusty roadside just outside his business’s building. He tells them that before investors were willing to back him, his company’s headquarters were housed in the shade of that very tree. There, he’d work in the dirt with his hands, molding household cooking stoves. Wahab’s company, Toyola Energy Limited, has grown out from under the shade and into a five-building main complex with eight other factories and distribution centers around the country. He used to make just five stoves a week. In 2010 his 150 employees could make 75,000. And if this week’s Copenhagen talks have a meaningful outcome, his business could really heat up. (more…)
So alarmingly shaky was the beginning of the out-of-control NDC government of John Evans Atta Mills that we members of NPP could not wait to register our concerns over the direction our nation was headed. Although those concerns formed the basis of our earlier criticism of the new government, critics had a point in arguing that we give the new administration enough time to settle in and begin the work of managing the affairs of our nation. (more…)
