Africa takes steps towards achieving food security after significant progress in eradicating extreme hunger and poverty
NAIROBI, (IPS) – A growing number of African countries are making significant progress towards eradicating extreme hunger and poverty. Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and South Africa are some of the countries that have made tremendous achievements towards achieving these goals. This has been reflected in a hunger-free score card geared towards measuring food security [...]
The last laugh: The Juju-Man and the Members of Parliament
The year 2011 ended with remarkable improvement in Africans’ discussion of their culture in relation to their progress. As the on-going enlightenment movement deepens, Africans are increasing discussing the enabling and the inhibiting aspects of their culture in relation to their advancement. Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI dropped in and enjoined Africans to tackle the [...]
Ghana’s First Lady and the pregnant African women
For the past years, the Ghana’s enlightenment movement have shown that rational choices are essential to how Africans distinguish and argue about their culture in relation to their progress. The enlightenment campaigners have identified cultural challenges – from the impact of witchcraft to developing policies from within the African culture – and raised their consequences [...]
The 2012 elections: The Juju-Marabou games begin
It doesn’t matter if Ghana’s 2012 general elections is a year away; campaigning of some sorts is underway. Democracy-crazy, everyday appears to be campaigning day. The mass media is charged. Character, development issues, policies and programmes jumble easily with foul language and the irrational juju-marabour spiritual predictions. The past veers into the present and the [...]
Toxic electronic waste contaminates surrounding area in Ghana
UXBRIDGE, Canada (IPS) – Mountains of hazardous waste grow by about 40 million tons every year. This waste, mostly from Europe and North America, is burned in developing countries like Ghana in a hazardous effort to recover valuable metals. A children’s school in Accra, Ghana’s capital, was recently found to be contaminated by lead, cadmium and [...]
Stigma surrounding breast cancer stalls prevention efforts in Ghana
ACCRA (IPS) – Mary Mingle thought she had a boil on her breast, so she bought some medication and tried to treat it at home. Two months later, bothered by persistent pain, she went to the doctor. There were eleven lumps in her breasts. She had first stage cancer, and her breasts, along with her uterus, [...]
Harmonizing the unrealistic education system
The mass failure of Junior High School students at this year’s national examination, a worsening trend over the past couple of years, has sent educationists, parents, the mass media and Accra scrambling for answers. Is it the quality of teachers? Is it lack of educational material? Is it the environment? Is it the nature of [...]
Kofi Busia: A stimulant for today’s democracy
Ghanaians are enjoying their 19-year-old democracy. Why not! They have spent most of their 54-year statehood in autocratic one-party systems and dictatorial military juntas. Freedoms, a very critical indicator of their democracy, are breaking out everywhere, wheeling the democratic tenets. One will never believe that this was a country where at some time people were gloomy, [...]
The President, God, and Progress
Let’s go into the mind of President John Atta Mills, a PHD in law, and envision with him, and his infatuation with God. In this imaginary Ghana, there are no ethnic problems, no sanitation plight and no vehicular accidents. Poverty is wiped out. God would be in such control that nobody would blame witchcraft, evil spirits [...]
The struggle to prevent import of counterfeit drugs in Ghana
ACCRA, (IPS) – Counterfeit medicines have flooded the market in Ghana and have even made their way into government hospitals as the country’s drug regulator struggles to control the importation of drugs. The president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana, Alex Dodoo, said the country’s Food and Drugs Board (FDB) is not a stringent regulator when [...]
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