Category: OPINION

A fast car on a broken road does not reach its destination sooner; it strands the traveller between towns.

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.

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.

The physical and strategic realities of this blockade reveal the limitations of unilateral enforcement.

Compost also closes the nutrient loop: fertility exported as crops returns as compost made from your own organic waste.

Sovereignty, whether digital or otherwise, must be painstakingly built rather than merely declared.

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 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.

Justice and accountability were weakened when President Akufo-Addo pardoned Osman in August 2023 on health grounds.

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.

The floods reveal not the indiscipline of the poor but the failure of an economic model that prioritises profit over citizens’ livelihoods.

The waste crisis cannot be solved within capitalism because capitalism produces the crisis.

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.

An AI model trained on mobile money and phone data does something more specific: it learns which data patterns count as low-risk.

As sons of farmers, what we require is a viable cocoa industry across the value chain which will afford us the opportunity to thrive and have our being.

Dr. Kwame Nkrumah warned that foreign investments can be detrimental when not targeted at local development; he argued that such investments, under neo-colonialism, widen the gap between the rich and the poor countries of the world.

The rampant violence, insecurity and looting of public funds in Senegal is a legacy of the neocolonial system that succeeded French colonialism.