The report landed on President John Dramani Mahama’s desk on a Thursday, and within hours, Justice Minister Dominic Ayine was before journalists confirming what Ghana’s political class had debated for months: the government would accept the Constitution Review Committee’s recommendation…
A Constitutional Settlement With Unresolved Governance Tensions Ghana’s Supreme Court has delivered a unanimous ruling upholding the constitutionality of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959), while simultaneously affirming that the Attorney-General retains the constitutional authority to…
When a Kenyan industrial energy firm scores 87.5 points on B Lab’s rigorous B Impact Assessment, clearing the 80-point certification threshold, the result is more than a badge of corporate virtue. It is a data point in a live experiment:…
Ghana’s Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has staked out a governance position on artificial intelligence in the country’s classrooms, arguing that the technology must be subordinated to pedagogical goals rather than permitted to reshape learning outcomes by default. His remarks,…
When Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, received letters of credence from India’s new High Commissioner to Ghana, Surinder Bhagat, the ceremony produced more than diplomatic formality. Ablakwa announced that Accra and New Delhi have set a bilateral…
At its July 2026 congregation ceremonies, the University of Ghana conferred degrees on 1,884 students and issued a pointed institutional directive: that its graduates treat Artificial Intelligence not as a career accessory, but as a governance and development instrument with…
When the Bank of Ghana stopped financing the national budget, it marked more than a technical adjustment in public accounting. It signalled a structural reorientation of how Ghana manages the relationship between its central bank and its treasury, a relationship…
Ghana’s government has initiated procurement procedures for consultancy and feasibility studies on a proposed Green Digital City, a planned urban development intended to redistribute administrative and economic functions away from Accra. The central question this project raises is not whether…
The Bundled Product Model: A Governance and Market Structure Question A quiet but structurally significant shift is reordering retail financial services across sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, insurers are collapsing the traditional boundaries between savings vehicles, investment instruments and insurance protection…
A targeted diplomatic intervention by Accra has unlocked a bilateral agricultural trade dispute with Ouagadougou, restoring egg exports and tomato imports while setting in motion a formal governance architecture for managing future commercial frictions. A Quiet Disruption Along a Critical…
Kenya minted more dollar millionaires in 2026 even as ordinary households absorbed a punishing cost-of-living crisis, raising pointed questions about the structural drivers of wealth distribution across East Africa’s largest economy and what this bifurcation signals for regional economic integration…
When President John Dramani Mahama addressed citizens in the Volta Region on 17 July 2025, the central question hanging over his remarks was not whether Ghana should fight corruption, but whether its institutions can do so without becoming instruments of…
The nomination papers had barely been submitted before the question took shape in legal circles in Accra: what does it mean, institutionally, when a sitting president moves to expand the apex court by nearly seventeen percent in a single appointment…
The assassination of a provincial leader of South Africa’s March and March movement, and the South African state’s response to it, together expose a governance crisis that carries direct consequences for West African nations whose citizens are caught in the…
A Tournament Exit That Raises Institutional Questions Ghana exited the 2026 FIFA World Cup at the round of 32. The Black Stars competed, they fought, and they fell short. But behind Ernest Nuamah’s measured Instagram reflection lies a more pressing…
