Security Blanket Your brimming eyes offer themselves in a silent plea to penetrate the Red haze and instantly dissolves my anger. You clamber into my lap and I cradle you as my heart Breaks for the one who calls me Mama. My child, I may be able to mend scraped…
Studying interactions on social media is akin to converging focus groups on very pertinent issues within our society. From business promotion to culture display, social media has become a platform for showcasing all things African. It therefore comes as no surprise that social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook are…
Editors Note: In this era of social media, we tend to be exposed to the highs and less so the lows. Besides providing an imbalanced story about human living and lives, it makes being in those depths (of fear, sadness, insufficiency, doubt, etc) lonely and isolating. Here at Circumspecte, we…
Editor’s Note: A friend shared this account from Christabel Steel-Dadzie, one of Ghana’s young changemakers and founder of the Ahaspora Young Professionals network. Reading it, I was aghast, but not surprised. I have encountered similar in Ghana (in a trotro/public mini-bus no less) and heard similar stories from other ladies.…
Can a Muslim man marry more than one? This seems to be a very easy enough question to answer today, and for many the answer is “Yes, a Muslim man has the right to marry up to four women”. Many are the young Muslim men who have exercised this right,…
Corruption becomes a way of life when it is perceived as a low risk, high reward venture. To make corruption a high risk, low reward venture requires strong laws and an almost draconian approach to the implementation of these laws. As mentioned in Part 1, both functions of proposing legislations…
In his annual 31st December message, former President Rawlings says “Ghana is saddled with some very negative images about corruption, some wrongly perceived, but some convincingly accurate,” while the king of Akyem Abuakwa describes the level of corruption in Ghana as “madness”. Similarly, Ghana’s catholic bishops noted in their New…
Editor’s Note: This article was initially written on Nov. 1. Since then, the ECOWAS held an extraordinary summit on Nov. 6 to push for civilian rule. On Nov. 17, Burkina Faso announced Michael Kafando as interim president. A former foreign minister and UN ambassador, Kafando is expected to oversee transition…
Ghanaian students who graduate from tertiary institutions are required by law under Act 426 of the 1992 constitution to do a one year national service to the country. The rationale behind the National Service Scheme (NSS) is to instill patriotism in citizens and help reduce graduate unemployment. National service postings…