Re-imagine Ghana with Hene Aku Kwapong, PhD: Listen to the people

How a former Dining Hall Prefect at Ghana’s oldest Catholic secondary school rose to shepherd souls across Accra, and what his story of quiet preparation might teach a nation obsessed with instant results.

A young entrepreneur walks into a bank to pitch for a loan. "So, um, our business is basically, like, doing really well, and, um, we think, you know, this loan will really, um, help us grow."

Few public institutions have had as profound an impact on Ghana's educational development as the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund).

Ask your grandmother what a bank is, and she will probably describe a building.

Ghana has repeatedly searched for a credible answer to one persistent question: how should the state determine the true value of imports without undermining legitimate international trade?

Recognition is not a soft skill; it is a leadership multiplier. There is a particular kind of employee every organisation depends on.

In an earlier piece for this column, I wrote about Ananse — the trickster who built webs not to trap flies, but to acquire stories, and with them, control over what the world came to believe.

The health of an economy is judged by macroeconomic variables, namely, GDP growth rate, unemployment rate, inflation rate, exchange rate, interest rate, national budget balance and trade balance.