During the Week of November 22nd The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on Africa held crucial hearings regarding US strategy in West Africa in Regards to Counterterrorism Operations. Some of the Results were rather interesting. The Testimony which was offered by Officials from the State Department,

“The problem with stereotyping is not that it is untrue; it is that it is often incomplete.” This is the truism that underlies what Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian writer, calls the danger of relying on the single story. The African story is not a single narrative laced with depressing vignettes of hunger-stricken children with shrivelled buttocks,

Following the publication of the first edition entitled The Situation of Ghanaian Students on Government Scholarships in the UK ( on ghanaweb and myjoyonline early on this month), there has been some reactions on the part of some of the institutions concerned to find solutions to the issues raised. The most profound intervention came from the H

As we seek to strengthen our democracy, it is important for us to ensure that the major players do what will motivate the citizens to continue allowing their taxes to be spent on them in the hope that their activities will yield benefits for the country. We have had occasion to take the Executive and Judicial arms of government to task over perceiv

"Ndugu, Kizungu mingi haitasaidia Afrika!" loosely translated to mean "Too much English will not save Africa!" That was 2007. I had made my presentation at a TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in Arusha when a Tanzanian "Wiseman" walked to me and uttered those coded words. At first, I thought he was not impressed with my English,

Since independence it has been part of every government's policy to explore Ghana's hydrocarbon deposits. Historically, exploration for oil and gas reserves in Ghana had been very limited due to the high risk nature of its terrain and low oil price environment in 2004 when the Kosmos /E.O group made initial contact with GNPC. Between 1898 to

While we wait, for positive response to the purgatory conditions, we will continue to accentuate the creeping deteriorating situations in the upper east, upper west, and the northern region. At the end of every farming season, our people harvest their crops that will last them, a couple of weeks,' maximum few months. So they try to help themselves

I listened to finance minister, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor's budget presentation – mostly with rapt attention. There were a few occasions when I felt myself dozing off, especially at those stages when he drifted into calling out numbers that meant nothing to me. All those numbers make my head swirl to the point of delirious dizziness. Blame it on poor edu

I've just become aware of a book which discusses one of the curses of our age: our inability, because of the Internet, to prevent people from reading things written about us which are not true. The book is entitled “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age”. It is by a man called Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and is published by Princet

I have read your reaction to my write-up on Kwesi Pratt should be the last person to pontificate on national affairs and I must confess I feel sorry for 'hitting you below the belt' by including your name among those I referred to as hypocrites. You are indeed like a brother to me and I am sorry for my choice of words and expressions to describe yo