Leadership, discipline and decisive interventions

During a recent talk at the Harvard Kennedy School, students asked me what it would take to turn African countries from consumers of digital and AI-driven technologies into producers. The answer, I told them, starts with heeding the right lessons from the mobile-money revolution.

“When a leader does not address a problem well, the problem becomes the leader, and the leader becomes the problem.” – African proverb

The next decade will be one of the most consequential periods for businesses across Africa.

There is a conversation about governance in Africa that we do not have often enough. We talk about elections, manifestos, budgets, infrastructure, economic growth, digitisation, public-sector reform and institutional performance.

Free Senior High School education is an important intervention in Ghana’s ambition to build a more prosperous and inclusive economy.

Activities in Ghana’s upstream oil sector have fallen sharply from initial expectations.

Executive Summary The Income Tax (Amendment) Act, 2026 (Act 1178) provides targeted relief to individual taxpayers and broadens access to Ghana’s presumptive tax regime for small businesses. The Act increases the annual tax-free threshold for resident individuals from GH¢5,880 to GH¢7,056 and raises the presumptive tax turnover threshold from GH¢500,000 to GH¢750,000.

Why does everyone want you to sign an NDA? Simple. Because you don’t know the Winklevosses.