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So, Ama Ata Aidoo is 80 years old. Yay!  I have met her just once. Well, I can’t really say I met her. She visited our school (Wesley Girls’ High School) one time when we put on a show of her play, The Dilemma of a Ghost. And I...

P Plunged headlong into this...unprepared Pushed to spend and expend...unbudgeted Pressed to take harsh steps...unplanned Propose and impose daytime curfew...unpleasant Pained to inflict daily austerity...unintentional There was panic in the pandemic ...at the sound of a virus A Aged and ageing ...all at risk of sliding down and out Ailing and failing limbs ...all wailing at the hanging clouds Action and reaction ...all...

“Imagine spending a month or so in a lock down with a partner you officially hate, essentially despise, primarily abhor, incredibly detest, and categorically dislike! It would be better to serve time in some unknown corona concentration camp, far away from your veritable nemesis than spend a month of...

“Your here is there and your there is never here yet.” In your haste you’ll create waste. You need to get closer to things to tell their true colours and form. For this, I agree. At least that is what most of us learnt. The content, though, very important, always...

If you’re running a small business, chances are you wear many caps under the sun. From accountant to sales person to marketer and beyond, it’s understandable that “make a crisis communications strategy” hasn’t made it to the top of your to-do list yet. But I’m here to make the...

From London to Lombardy, from Madrid to New York, from Lagos to my home city of Accra, streets are empty, businesses are shut and social activities curtailed. The cities are in lockdown. The deadly covid-19 has forced once buzzing cities to go quite like the cemetery in my hometown,...

…either we change or something will change us “These are not normal times.” Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo used these words when he addressed the nation on March 15, 2020 on the covid-19 global pandemic which had entered the country. Many other leaders and people across the world have used these same...

As COVID-19 crisscrosses Africa, and policymakers are implementing emergency responses, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has issued a clarion call to African governments: “In other countries,” he said in March, “we have seen how the virus actually accelerates after a certain tipping point, so the best advice...

Authorities need to do more to monitor and act on unfair business practices and criminal activities exploiting fears over the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic has opened the floodgates of unfair, misleading and abusive business practices, hitting consumers hard and leaving the most vulnerable ones more disadvantaged. Cases of price...

Zambia has become the latest African country looking for help to tackle its hefty debt burden this week as international lenders and analysts are warning the pandemic crisis could push many of the continent’s economies into debt distress. Below are four charts to show some economic and fiscal pressures faced...