Evolution of mobile money

There is a tourism paradox unfolding in Ghana’s Volta Region almost every day, and now it is about Ho West.

A day before I was elected Chair of the Fairtrade Africa Board, I sat in a room in Accra with cocoa farmers, leaders of cocoa cooperative, traders, policymakers and other stakeholders in the cocoa space,

Sixty-nine years after you stood at the Old Polo Ground and declared that our beloved nation was free forever, we look at the Ghana we built in your absence, and our hearts bleed with shame.

Every human life eventually comes to an end. Yet some lives produce ideas, institutions and possibilities that continue long after the individual is gone.

Golda Naa Adaku Addo stopped measuring the problem and went upstream After 17 years measuring whether development interventions were working, Ghanaian strategist Golda Naa Adaku Addo went upstream, building a 12,000-acre farming enterprise while challenging the systems that keep women from controlling land, resources and economic power.

Wearing a vintage or original branded product often gives people a sense of pride and satisfaction. Many aspire to associate themselves with well-known brands, whether in clothing, shoes, medicines, cars, watches or other products. Owning a recognised brand can create a feeling of confidence, status, fulfilment and social acceptance.

Accra is a bustling city that never seems to sleep, operating almost 24/7 with a constant stream of business, social and entertainment activities. It is a city where you need to plan carefully just to keep up with its fast pace of life. The city is always on the move, leaving little time to slow down, do the things that truly make you happy, or simply pause and observe what is really happening around you.

Dear Madam Chairperson and Members,