This is a sequel to the earlier satire about flooding in Accra where few drops of rains flooded certain parts […]
Accra Flooding: Ghana, The Masters of Acting Surprised At An Annual Event. Read Post »
Society
“Ghana’s constitution guarantees freedom of speech. The guarantee, it turns out, comes with an unwritten clause: it holds until someone in power decides it does not. An AI-generated image was enough to get someone arrested. A satirical jab at a judge became a matter for the state. A TikToker with a threat too far became the one case that actually qualified. Three incidents. Three different scales of offence. One consistent pattern: the line between satire and criminality in Ghana is not drawn by the law. It is drawn by whoever woke up offended. And the people drawing that line have been on both sides of the argument, depending entirely on which chair they were sitting in at the time.”
When Freedom of Speech Becomes Expensive Read Post »
Society
Thought process
A Ghanaian nurse went out on a motorbike to collect drugs for her facility and did not come back. She was a mother of two, married two weeks before the accident, the only health professional serving her community in Sissala West. On the same day she died, President Mahama was in Geneva asking the world to invest in resilient supply chains and local factories. She was the supply chain. She was the factory. She strapped the medical supplies to her back and became a one-woman logistics operation, and the road finished what the system started. This is a satire about the gap between what Ghana announces at the 79th World Health Assembly and what Ghana asks of its nurses on a Tuesday afternoon in the rain.
‘Execution’ In Line of Duty: A Satire Read Post »
Society
Ghana designed the welcome. Then Ghana had to redesign the welcome in ten days. On February 1, the Ministry of the Interior suspended the diaspora citizenship programme with a “strategic recalibration”—the administrative equivalent of a Ghanaian saying he’s coming, but he’s now going to shower. The DNA and $2,280 fee were dropped ten days later. They were there for ten days, then they were not. But for the Ghanaian man from Atlanta, his business registration still sits at the Registrar General’s Department, his land title at the Lands Commission, and a site plan was added “for clarity.” He calls Ghana home. The systems are just slothful.
Ghana’s Biggest Investors Drive a Luxury Car Called ‘Limbo’ Read Post »
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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 ECG finally explains the frequent lights outs over the past few weeks, and it’s nothing we have not heard before. “The outages are not dumsor, they are upgrades. The bills are not overcharged, they are corrections.” New ECG management, same old rabbit out of the hat.
ECG Upgrades In The Darkness And Promises Light At The End Of The Tunnel. Read Post »
Society
The proposal to monetise idiocy in Ghana is clean on paper. But in Ghana, discretion is the currency, and the person holding it can convert your idiocy into his lunch money. The handheld device does not change this. It just adds a layer of technology to the negotiation.
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
