In recent decades, the US-Africa relationship has disappointed both sides. Republican and Democratic US presidents alike have treated the continent with benign neglect, if not with outright contempt, and the United States has duly fallen behind China, India, and France in terms of overall trade with Africa.
Although Barack Obama,...
One of the programmes that I partook and has lingered in mind is a youth-dialogue with Mr. Bernard Avle about three years ago. On that day, the Nima-Maamobi library witnessed a lush appearance of the youth for a forum organised by a nascent organisation, Young Women Leaders Achievers Network....
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has hosted a virtual learning events, concluding a seven-year, US$41.6million U.S. government-funded Feed the Future Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement (ADVANCE II) activity.
During the event, participants discussed how the ADVANCE II activity aided in addressing and mitigating the stressors placed...
The post- independence failure of development banks in Ghana in the 1980s and 1990s meant that they all but disappeared from the development agenda. However, there are still a large number of development banks worldwide in countries such as Brazil, India and Chile that operate with various degrees of...
Like many other African countries, Ghana is still dearly paying for the unfortunate events of the 1970s. These events were generally characterised by chaotic military regimes, unsustainable debt accumulations the incessant appetite for state-run businesses with some being fallouts from Cold War machinations. The earlier socialist development agenda of...
There is no doubt, the late former president, Jerry John Rawlings was such a formidable force to reckon with on Ghana’s political landscape. He has been very influential in the socio-political as well as the socio-economic accounts of Ghana in the last forty years or so, particularly in this...
How do you ensure that the experience of your customer is worthwhile and sustainable? By keeping a keen eye on the experiences you deliver at your touchpoints. The experience you offer to customers plays out regularly as they pursue your journey from inception to the final stages. Key questions...
The 20th anniversary of the UN World Conference on Racism - held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001 - will be celebrated this August. There was much discussion at the conference about reparations to Africa for the trans-Atlantic slave trade, in which millions of Africans were captured to provide...
“Ghana could not have survived the Economic Recovery Program (ERPs) of the 1980s put in place by the ruling Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) without the strength of character and unwavering determination of Mr. Rawlings” – Naomi Chazan, 1983
Beginning 1983 under its Economic Recovery Program (ERP), the then Government...
The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ghana Health Service, has launched the COVID-19 Critical Case Management Training at the Ghana Infectious Disease Centre (GIDC) in Ga East, Greater Accra.
The U.S. government-funded training comes at a critical time, given the recent surge in...