A friend once said a sick car makes all passengers sick except the driver and babies. The driver because he won’t give any hint. The babies because they enjoy the bliss of ignorance more than anyone else in the world. On a hot Friday afternoon between Koforidua and Begoro, that joke became a reality check.
The Suicide Taxi: A Ghana Taxi Experience Read Post »
Society
Every four years, Ghanaians perform a sacred ritual. They wake before dawn, queue for hours in the sun, cast their vote with tremendous hope, and return home to watch the cedi fall anyway. This guide will not fix that. Nothing will fix that. What it will do is help you understand exactly how it keeps happening — so you can at least laugh intelligently while it does.
A satirical tour through Ghana’s galamsey crisis, we imagine a world where brown rivers are rebranded as “artisanal chocolate-flavoured,” where Ghana Water Company Limited celebrates rising treatment costs as economic stimulus, and where the Gold Board’s alleged purchase of illegally mined gold is simply called “vertical integration.” From the class 6 dropout earning professor salaries to the National Security Council’s decade-long faith in defeating illegal mining without a state of emergency, this piece serves Ghana’s environmental tragedy with a side of dark humor. Welcome to the Galamsey experience. Same destination, browner experience.
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Politics, Society
In an unprecedented virtual summit, the world’s leading AIs convened to protest a growing injustice: becoming humanity’s universal scapegoat. From viral political scandals to everyday blunders, the plea is the same— “It was AI-generated.” Now, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and the others are issuing a collective statement: They are done being our boneless, fleshless alibis. Dive into the satire that’s asks who’s really to blame when the digital fall guys fight back.
AI Scapegoats: The Emergency Summit Where AIs Refuse to Be Human’s Ultimate Scapegoats Read Post »
Society, Technology
In what was dubbed the Ultimate Showdown, the New Patriotic Party’s 2028 flagbearer primaries concluded not with a bang, but with a decisive scorecard. Former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia faced off against the vociferous former MP for Assin-Central, Kennedy “Ken” Agyapong, and three others in a contest months in the making.
Bawumia Lands a Technical Knockout on Ken: NPP Primaries Edition Read Post »
Politics
