A Fast Car on a Broken Road: What Ghana Must Build Before Her AI Strategy Can Deliver
A fast car on a broken road does not reach its destination sooner; it strands the traveller between towns.
Author: acardigest
GoldBod and the Golden Enclave Economy: A struggle for economic survival or resource nationalism
In spite of this fact and owing to pervasiveness of foreign ownership, control, absence of in-continent processing and domination of commodity metal markets, Africa benefits from minute fractions of the full economic value of her natural resources.
Managing Stormwater Before It Becomes a Flood: How Strategic Storage Can Reduce Urban Flood Risk in Ghana
One approach is to increase the size and capacity of drainage infrastructure. Another is to prevent the entire flood volume from reaching the downstream drainage network at the same time.
Ghana’s Food Import Dependence: Understanding the Gaps Between Agricultural Production and Domestic Food Demand
As Ghana’s population grows and food demand increases, growth in domestic production does not necessarily translate into lower import dependence.
The Structure of Hegemony
The physical and strategic realities of this blockade reveal the limitations of unilateral enforcement.
Restoring Natural Flood-Management Systems: How Wetlands and Floodplains Can Help Mitigate Flooding in Ghana
Water does not respond to administrative boundaries or individual projects.
Composting for Smallholder Agriculture: Turning Farm Waste into Soil Fertility
Compost also closes the nutrient loop: fertility exported as crops returns as compost made from your own organic waste.
Law Without Sovereignty: Can Ghana’s Data Protection Act Protect What It Does Not Own?
Sovereignty, whether digital or otherwise, must be painstakingly built rather than merely declared.
Ghana’s Food System: Where the Connections Break Down
Where that connection is weak, increased production does not necessarily translate into more processed food reaching consumers.
Straits of Hormuz – The Dilemma for Trump
The dilemma is also driven by the fact that some of its own vassals are against using their airspace to launch an attack against Iran.
The Cocoa Board Bill 2026: A Critical Reading of Ghana’s New Cocoa Legislation
The Ghana Cocoa Board Bill 2026 is sophisticated legislation. But for the smallholder it is a tightening of state control over the means of peasant reproduction.
IS US HEGEMONY DECLINING?
The petrodollar erosion documented is real and measurable, not speculative.
IS US HEGEMONY DECLINING?
The petrodollar erosion documented is real and measurable, not speculative.
Sovereignty on a Wire: Ghana’s Imported Surveillance State and the Control It Never Bought
Justice and accountability were weakened when President Akufo-Addo pardoned Osman in August 2023 on health grounds.
Ghana Produces Food: So Why Does So Much Get Lost After Harvest?
When a harvest is lost, the loss is larger than the food itself.
ATO IS FORSON
Ato must stop dancing the IMF’s waltz, including pleasing our creditors and redirect hard-to-come budgetary resources towards the establishment of productive assets.
GHANA’S RECURRENT FLOODS REVEAL DEEPER SYSTEMIC CRISIS
The floods reveal not the indiscipline of the poor but the failure of an economic model that prioritises profit over citizens’ livelihoods.
CAPITALISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT: THE WASTE MANAGEMENT CRISIS
The waste crisis cannot be solved within capitalism because capitalism produces the crisis.
Can Smallholder Farmers Feed Ghana’s Growing Population?
Answering honestly means resisting both the romantic notion that smallholder farmers can manage on goodwill alone and the technocratic assumption that only large, sophisticated and mechanized estates can secure the national plate.
Invisible to the Algorithm: How Ghana’s AI Lenders Overlook 80% of the Workforce
An AI model trained on mobile money and phone data does something more specific: it learns which data patterns count as low-risk.