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Imagining a new path: A case against the NPP-NDC duopoly

Mr Kofi Bentil’s decision to throw his weight behind the Vice President and flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the upcoming elections...

Did mate Bawumia sleep on the job for the driver to end up in the ditch?

 Ghana’s second most powerful man last Wednesday joined the ranks of the ubiquitous conductors on our commercial buses—trotro— to sell himself to Ghanaians ahead...

Bright Simons: Ghana’s Billion-Dollar “Timber Merchant” Deal to Protect Taxes

Yesterday, the President of Ghana announced that he has engaged the local affiliate of KPMG, one of the “Big Four” global professional services firms, to...

Where are our public intellectuals?

Aristotle considers Sophocles one of the greatest dramatists in the world and described one of his classics, King Oedipus, as...

Between E-levy errors & safety of journalists: the mess in govt’s response

The government in the last few days has been caught in a public relations nightmare over two issues it wished...

MANASSEH’S FOLDER: Context makes Elizabeth Ohene worse than the BBC

Context matters. That’s why Elizabeth Ohene decided to take on her former employers for producing what, in her view, was...

Samira Bawumia and the making of Ghanaian writers

When Abass Ibrahim stepped forward the third time for his letter, a wave of murmur erupted in one part of...

MANASSEH’S FOLDER: The Chief Justice Vs. the Progressive Judges

I completed the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) in June 2010. I had gone to journalism school after secondary school....

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