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February 5th, 2008

Football Comes Home to Ghana

Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 10:16 · Sub-Saharan Africa

For the past three weeks, soccer has come home—literally—and Ghanaians of all walks of life have not been immune to the excitement and ecstasy it has generated throughout the country. 1 comment · read »

September 28th, 2007

Ghana: Did God save the Akosombo Dam?

Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 12:57 · Sub-Saharan Africa

lingua → es

We start off this week’s review with Ghana’s electricity crisis, which started in August 2006, but has seen a considerable improvement almost a year later. Could it be because priests prayed for the Akosombo Dam to fill up? 0 comments · read »

July 9th, 2007

EXCLUSIVE!–>Interview with the Host of the BBC-Award-Winning Citi FM Breakfast Show

Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 22:02 · Sub-Saharan Africa

The Trials and Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...posts an exclusive interview he conducted of Bernard Avle, the host of the CITI Breakfast Show, which won the BBC Radio Award for "Best Interactive Show in Africa". Bernard Avle(left) He cuts a contemplative and tall figure. Be-spectacled with some degree of seriousness ... 0 comments · read »

July 3rd, 2007

Voices from Ghana: It's Not All About the Energy Crisis; Stanbic Takes Over Ghana's ADB?; New Currency Arrives

Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 08:18 · Sub-Saharan Africa

Ghana might be going through an energy crisis, but, somehow, that has not deterred both expatriate and Ghanaian bloggers from making surprisingly positive comments about the country in which they live in. We open this week’s reviews with two of such entries. The first is by a Ghanaian blogger Got ... 2 comments · read »

April 19th, 2007

Voices from Ghana: The Black Star of Africa Eclipsed by Energy Crisis; Ghana@50, So What?

Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 17:52 · Sub-Saharan Africa

The pomp and pageantry surrounding the celebrations of Ghana@50 may be over, but the analysis of what it means for Ghana has spawned a number of ruminations for both Ghanaian bloggers and those blogging about Ghana. Let’s start with a particularly interesting post by a Canadian blogger-couple A Canadian Couple Relishes ... 6 comments · read »

March 3rd, 2007

Ghana: Perspectives of Ghana at 50

Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 10:15 · South Korea , Ghana

lingua → zhs · zht · zht

Like most Sub-Saharan Africans, Ghanians use the English language—not only as a lingua franca, but also as the official language. They use English on top of many local languages—and dialects—spoken and heard throughout the country. It therefore comes as a little surprise that (young) Ghanaians might just fall a tad ... 0 comments · read »