Samuel Klu

Ghana music awards nominations controversy

Ghana Music Awards Turn Gɔbɛ: The 2026 TGMA Nominations Only Charter House Saw Coming.

Kwaw Kese called the TGMA nominations gobɛ, and I understood immediately. Not an insult. A description. The Board reviewed the full list for a week, considered the formal letters raising concerns about getting overlooked in nominations, and concluded it had been correct all along. This is not a music story. This is a country story.

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Entertainment
Ghana inflation cost of living 2026

The Number That Lies Softly: Ghana’s Inflation Is at a 27-Year Low and the Trotro Fares Just Threatened to Reach the Moon Too.

Ghana’s inflation is at 3.2 percent, the lowest in nearly three decades. The GPRTU issued a 48-hour ultimatum because petrol went up 15 percent in one pricing cycle. Both things are true. That is the problem.

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Politics, Society
Ghana football satire

The Black Stars Have No Coach. Fortunately, Every Ghanaian Is Qualified.

Otto Addo. Sacked. Effective immediately. I put the phone down. Picked it up again. Read it a second time. Not because I did not believe it — but because I was trying to identify the exact feeling. It was not surprise. Not relief either. The particular Ghanaian emotion of watching something inevitable arrive later than it had any right to.

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Sports
A robot or humanoid figure in a business suit sitting behind a large corporate desk in a sleek modern office. On the desk a stack of CVs and a nameplate that reads INTERVIEWER. The robot holds a pen and a clipboard. Its expression is neutral and evaluating. Opposite the desk an empty chair with a single CV on it. The office is pristine and cold — glass walls, blue corporate lighting, no warmth. The contrast between the cold algorithmic environment and the human document on the chair is the emotional centre of the image. Editorial illustration style. Bold flat colours. Satirical but not cartoonish. Aspect ratio 16:9.

When Your New Boss Is A Robot: A Satirical View To Being Interviewed By An Algorithm That May Have Heard Very Little of Ghana

The new interviewer does not know what Legon is. It does not know what a Ghanaian accent sounds like when it is being honest rather than performing. It does not know that the motorcycle outside the window is Accra being Accra and not a technical fault. It knows one thing with complete confidence: your score.

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Technology
Ghanaian movie formula

The Ghanaian Movies Formula: Same Movies, Different Titles

There is a specific kind of evening in Ghana that belongs entirely to the Ghanaian movie. The family assembled. The television on. Nobody surprised by what is about to happen. Because for thirty years the Ghanaian movie formula has always produced the same film. A satirical field guide to the formula we all grew up on — and why a whole generation quietly stopped watching.

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