The inconvenient truth about emotions: Assessing economic significance

Ghana’s cocoa sector is entering an important new phase in its financing architecture, with the establishment of Cocoa Capital PLC and the launch of a GH¢16.3 billion Domestic Cocoa Notes Programme providing a new platform for mobilising domestic capital for cocoa financing.

Following my address at the Africa Fintech and Banking Summit in Nairobi on 8th October 2026, it is clear that while Kenya remains Africa's undisputed fintech capital, the market narrative is fundamentally shifting.

A government can have capable ministers, experienced civil servants, and properly constituted institutions - and still struggle to govern coherently.

We spend an extraordinary amount of time building brands. Companies spend millions developing logos, campaigns, social media strategies, customer experiences and carefully crafted messages.

Writing principally for the economics profession, but in terms accessible to the informed general reader, the author contends that economics is best understood not as the study of prices but as the study of human welfare.

“In international relations, a nation’s strength lies not merely in the friends it keeps, but in its ability to pursue its national interests while preserving the freedom to choose its partners.” — Nana Okogyedom Adoofi I

 Your Work Computer Is Not Personal Property

For the past two weeks, I have highlighted several issues in physical security for bank branches, which are sometimes overlooked. This is the final edition but before I continue, let us summarise the core objectives of physical security.