Plenty has been said, and rightfully so, about the violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6. Politicians are grappling with issues of legal and moral accountability. But the horrific events also touch on a critical contradiction of modern societies: The Internet’s role as an instrument of democracy’s...
Concerns that developing nations will be pushed to the end of the vaccine roll-out queue
Calls to suspend IP laws to incentivise vaccine production
The Gulf has pushed ahead while Latin America lags behind in vaccine rollout
COVAX Facility designed to counter vaccine nationalism
A growing number of countries around the world...
The 2019 report of the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) has put out some stark statistics which have to be looked into to be addressed appropriately.
The report notes that as many as 7.7 million working Ghanaians, representing 70% of the country’s over 11 million active labour force, are non-active...
Armin Laschet’s victory in the election to lead Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) puts him in pole-position to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel later this year. But the leadership contest was more about differences in tone and style than substance. From a policy standpoint, it makes no difference.
Currently the minister-president...
In celebrating the liberation from Donald Trump’s misrule, we must not forget that Trump’s presidency embodied the raw politics of US white supremacy. He often spoke like a segregationist Southern governor of the 1960s; and, after losing the 2020 election, like a secessionist senator on the eve of the...
Thinking 'outside-in' can be a daunting prospect for the average business. First of all, imagine how much hassle you go through to drive your processes towards planned outcomes and the additional effort required to move the product to the end-user. For service-based businesses, you have even more tasks to...
COVID numbers. Testing positive, recovery, deaths. Numbers dominate the story of this pandemic. We have gathered around television screens to listen to President Akufo-Addo’s regular address, during which his ritual of revealing the numbers often drew sighs of relief that Ghana was nowhere near the devastating death tolls and...
Africa’s fastest growing streaming and television platform, Wi-flix and Ghana’s leading media conglomerate, Media General have announced a partnership that will see subscribers of Wi-flix enjoy exclusive content from Media General brands on Wi-flix.
The partnership is part of Wi-flix’s bold content strategy to offer subscribers diverse content and exciting...
Africa is not poor, yet Africa has piqued the interests of economists for the last half century and there is a good number of academic literature on why Africa is poor. This is because for the resources available to Africa, both natural and human capital potential, the continent has...
It starts with a ‘sound premise’. And then the price action takes over.
On May 26, 2010, Warren Buffett was interviewed by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC). In transcripts released in 2016, we see that the FCIC asked Buffett several questions regarding what he thought caused the housing and...