Leadership, Governance and Public Life

The outcome of the New Patriotic Party’s national executive elections, held at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi on Saturday, 3 October 2026, provides an opportunity to ask a question that is more important than who won the various positions: has the NPP really understood why it lost the 2024 general election? I am […]

Protecting Education from Politics and Measuring Whether Reform Actually Works In my previous article, I asked a deliberately uncomfortable question: Does Ghana really have an education system, or do we have successive governments running successive education programmes? That question leads naturally to another. Who should govern Ghana’s education architecture? The answer cannot simply be the

The Governance, Architecture and Politicisation of Education in Ghana Ghana has never lacked educational policies. What we appear to lack is something more fundamental: a stable, coherent and continuously improving national education system. This may sound like a provocative question, but it is one that we need to ask seriously. Since the beginning of the

The recent controversy surrounding comments made by the Chief Justice, Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, should concern every Ghanaian who cares about the independence and credibility of our democratic institutions. The issue is not simply whether the Chief Justice intended to make a political statement. It is whether, given the office he occupies, his choice of words

Today marks one year since Ghana lost eight of her own, dedicated government officials, a party leader, and military personnel, in a helicopter crash that fell out of a clear sky and into the heart of a nation. They were travelling from Accra to Obuasi for a programme connected to the fight against illegal mining.

I have already written about the wisdom in Robert Greene’s first law of power, the counsel to avoid making a superior feel threatened by your talent. There is genuine strategic value in restraint, and I still believe that. But there is a version of this principle that worries me, not the individual practising discretion in

Robert Greene’s first law of power counsels restraint. Never outshine the master. Let those above you feel secure in their position, because a superior who feels threatened by your talent will rarely reward it. More often, they will find a way to punish it. There is real wisdom in that observation, and I will not

Power does not create character. It reveals it. Give authority to a person of genuine character and you will see service, patience, and the courage to make difficult decisions for the good of others. Give the same authority to a person who was never prepared to carry it, and you will see something else entirely:

Leadership is built on influence, not intimidation. Yet one of the greatest mistakes some leaders make is believing that people who fear them are loyal to them. They mistake silence for respect, obedience for commitment, and compliance for trust. These are not the same. Fear can make people follow instructions. Only trust makes people follow

Entrepreneurs deserve recognition for the role they play in society. They identify opportunities where others see obstacles. They take risks that many people are unwilling to take. They invest their savings, endure uncertainty, create products and services, and, perhaps most importantly, create jobs. Every thriving business began as someone’s idea. Without entrepreneurs, many communities would