Ghana

A few days after the overthrow of the Convention People’s Party government of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s pioneer president, in a bloody coup d’état on February 24, 1966, our primary school teachers hurriedly organized a crash course on public demonstration for us.

In the early 1970s, one of the most pleasant drinking places in Accra was the terrace bar of the Continental Hotel. It was a very long terrace that overlooked, at the far end of the hotel, a bubbling mass of foamy water thrown into the air by the radiators of the cooling system.

On January 6, 2015, Mahmud Umar Muhammad bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih al-Dhuby, two Yemeni nationals held at Guantanamo Bay prison without charge for almost 14 years, were released for resettlement in Ghana.

We are voting to create a new society with a leadership that is competent and cannot be corrupted. We are voting for a leadership that will not steal. We are voting for a leadership that will not lie and cover-up.

When the news first flipped past my ears, as I lay half-awake in the early hours of the morning, I couldn't take it in.

“Ghana” mentioned in the same breath as “Guantanamo”? How possible?

They are Comrade Kwame Wiafe, a founding member of the Popular Party for Democracy and Development (PPDD) and the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), Comrade Kofi Duku, Secretary to Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, and Lt.

Ghana’s population, now close to 27 million, is projected to double to 60 million by 2050 before tapering off, the Daily Graphic reported recently. For some that is alarming news. For a forward-looking government in charge of a growing economy, it could be a promise of wealth.

Some footballers are good at the game but not too intelligent as persons.

Others are intelligent human beings but not too good at the game itself.

To be an intelligent footballer is thus a very rare combination.

Field trials of GMO cotton, genetically modified Bt cotton, have been going on in three northern areas in Ghana, according to a news report pub

Ghanaian citizens have so far prevented the passage of the Plant Breeders Bill, a UPOV-91-compliant law that would strip Ghanaian farmers of their rights to their own seeds.