Traditionally, universities have been seen as centers of knowledge creation, instruction, and preservation. But in a world that is changing quickly, a university's function must extend beyond the classroom, lecture hall, and exam room.
What if everything you think you know about your customer is wrong?
Ghana's engineers have graded eight sectors of the country's infrastructure, from the roads and power lines to the classrooms and clinics. The overall mark, a D3, is the same as a decade ago.
Ghana sits on an extraordinary, under-monetised endowment: gold, manganese, bauxite, diamonds, industrial minerals, oil and gas, cocoa, timber, cash crops and horticultural produce that together define the structural spine of the national economy.
Culture can do more than preserve identity. It can create demand, attract visitors, generate exports and drive spending across Ghana’s economy. The opportunity lies in turning cultural attention into transactions, local ownership and lasting prosperity.
Ghana has treated the Black Volta primarily as a water resource. It is time, as Ghanaians, we recognise it as an economic landscape capable of strengthening energy security, food production, rural enterprise, climate resilience and regional trade.
“A spider’s cobweb is not only its sleeping spring but also its food trap.” – African proverb
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