Every election cycle in Ghana arrives with promises so ambitious they sound like folklore. Roads will be smooth. Hospitals will be staffed. The youth will find work. Four years later, the only thing anyone can confirm was delivered is the next set of promises.
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Politics
Ghana’s 24-hour economy sod cutting has officially begun. The shovels are working round the clock. The holes are coming along nicely. Bimbilla got its ceremony in April. Asesewa on May 5. Bawku West and Kassena-Nankana on May 8. Yendi on Tuesday. There are 261 districts in Ghana. All 261 are scheduled for a market. All 261 will first receive a photograph of a man in a hard hat pretending to dig. 1.9 million young Ghanaians are not working, not studying, not in training. The markets that will employ them will be ready in November 2028. The sod, at least, has never been late.
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Politics
Ghana has a new office to stop inflated public contracts. The Legal Division of the Ministry of Finance was already assigned this job. They lacked the specialised expertise. The solution, naturally, was not to train them. The solution was a new office, fully furnished with the usual government-issue sofas that nobody is allowed to sit on. It opens in January 2027. Eight months from now. In the meantime, the birds at the Legal Division remain at their desks. Hope remains the only currency we have left. And it is the hope that we have.
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Politics
When the Chairman of The Church of Pentecost declared that rivers are too polluted for baptism, Elder David Bobie Peter apparently didn’t get the memo. The Konongo church leader was arrested as the foreman of an illegal mining site at Akyem Morso—caught red-handed in a yellow T-shirt and white shorts after being dispatched by his boss, Mr. Appiah, to “confirm if the task force had arrived.” His cover story? Visiting his farm. The reality? Eight Chanfang machines, twelve water pumps, and the Kume River diverted from its natural course. As the church distances itself from galamsey, one elder chose the excavator over the altar—and walked straight into NAIMOS custody. The rivers weep brown. Julius Debrah wept clean tears for a government appointee. But nobody is laughing.
The Akosombo fire was on Wednesday. The AI hub was announced on Thursday. There was a generator at the launch venue. It has seen these announcements before. It will be here for the next one. The AI hub is an electricity power cannibal which needs consistent power supply to keep running. Now tell me. Is Ghana ready to sustain such a project with the bit size electricity supply?
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Politics, Technology
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.
When it rains in Accra, everything floats except our shame. Ghana officially declared war on floods but the rain keeps showing up anyway, flooding the same roads with the same official surprise every single year.
When It Rains, It Floods In Accra Without Fail Read Post »
Politics, Society
Sisyphus was condemned to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity. Every time he neared the summit, it rolled back down. In Ghanaian parlance — w’ani bɛ hu Canaan nanso wo nan ensi hɔ da. The Greeks called it divine punishment. Ghanaians call it an election cycle
The Myth of Sisyphus Was Always Ghanaians’ Living Reality Read Post »
Politics, Society
I was minding my business. I was not in Washington, not in Tel Aviv, not in Tehran. I was in Ghana, navigating fuel prices and watching the cedi perform gymnastics against the dollar. Then I woke up one morning and somebody had named a war Operation Epic Fury and sent Ghana the bill. Nobody called Ghana. Ghana picked up anyway.
Nobody Called Ghana: A Satirical Dispatch From Operation Epic Fury Read Post »
Global, Politics
