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Strengthening Advocacy for Locally Manufactured Vaccines Africa’s Path to Overcoming Emerging and Endemic Diseases

Prioritising local vaccine manufacturing, distribution and rollout remains crucial to addressing some of the challenges that are faced by the African continent’s health systems....

Kwesi Yankah Writes: A Season of Vanishing Genitals

In the past three weeks, fear and panic have gripped parts of Ghana. A legend of vanishing male genitals has been circulating, with a...

Brights Simons Writes: The Owners of Ghana Card Come Swinging

It was almost sundown today when word came of a valiant attempt to counter our recent essay on how Ghana’s national Identity (ID) Card...

Bright Simons Writes: No, Ghana Card is NOT “for” Ghana; it is RIPPING OFF Ghana

This is a fairly long essay, so here is the quick take for those too busy to read. Ghana Card’s main technology asset base...

Kwesi Yankah Writes: To a Woman of Courage: Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Today, I extend Happy Birthday greetings to a colleague and Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. This salutation, though, comes with...

Kwesi Yankah Writes: Thank God the Network is Down

Suddenly, a strange creature appears on our planet that spins the universe on its fingers and claims credit for all we do. They call...

Kwesi Yankah Writes: DC Kwame Kwakye in Pictures [EXCLUSIVE]

Following my last post, I present below a sample feedback I have received on Ghana’s folk hero, Kwame Kwakye, and more pictures of our...

Kwesi Yankah Writes: Celebrating Verandah Boys in Governance

"I have been a silent student of ‘language in governance’ for a while now, beginning from the revolutionary period when Rawlings’ PNDC formed a...

Kwesi Yankah Writes: Our Parliament and Abrofosem

Our celebration of the International Mother Tongue Day continues. Today, I present another thematic area in my keynote address at the University of Ghana....

Kwesi Yankah Writes: Mother Tongue and Ghana’s Presidents

21st February, International Mother Tongue Day. I spent the day at Ghana’s premier University of Ghana, honoring an invitation by the School of Languages to give a...

Togbe Afede Writes: Bank of Ghana’s 1% Rate Cut is a Big Joke!

The Bank of Ghana Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on Monday, January 29, 2024, announced a cut in the key policy rate of 100 basis...

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