Dakar, 27 October, 2008— Some of the biggest development and humanitarian NGOs are laying off staff or revising programmes for 2009 as their income streams flatten because of the global financial crisis. Fundraising experts of three of the world’s top NGOs – Oxfam GB, Save the Children UK and World Vision USA – said programme
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Last week, when he trudged a 100-meter alleyway in Abeka, the well-known suburb of Accra, a Ghana News Agency (GNA) reporter commended him for defying the scorching sun, almost as if to suggest that his presidential campaign competitors had been, somehow, inexplicably exempted from the tropical Ghanaian laws of Nature. Barely 24 hours later, he
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For the most part, I have carefully steered clear of the raging debate on the relevance or, for that matter, otioseness of the traditional Ghanaian institution of the monarchy. The disdain of Western-European colonizers for their African subjects – or more aptly, captives – precipitated the linguistic degradation of this primal and civilized institution into
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