Social Issues

Alkians Aid has partnered the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme to offer free Health Insurance registration to residents in Accra. A budding Non-Governmental Organization , Alkians Aid, has partnered the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme , facilitators of the national health insurance intervention programme, to offer free Health...

For fans of comics, superheroes, and heroines, there’s a new badass heroine in town called Karmzah. Karmzah, a comic that portrays a person with cerebral palsy as a heroine was launched on Saturday, 6th October to coincide with the celebration of World CP Day worldwide. The Comic to be made...

I’ve been battling on various topics to focus my article on prior to this post and I can say, the sudden dismissal of about 150 plus young people from an International telecommunication company in Ghana caused me to share on the subject above. It is extremely overwhelming to hear...

“Ghana found itself in the same place in which the U.S. election stalled in the 2000 presidential elections. But instead of the unwillingness of the candidates to allow the system to proceed and the people to decide, Ghana honored democracy and its people.” (Jarreth Merz) Sometime last month (Ma5...

Thirty-eight percent (38%) of Ghanaians say job creation should be the priority of the next President, with 20% prioritizing Education and 14% choosing Health-care as their top area of concern. Other possible priorities were fighting corruption (11%), food/fuel prices (10%) and roads (7%). This national poll comes at a...

When Bono edited the Africa issue of Vanity Fair, it included an essay written by Kenyan Writer – Binyavanga Wainaina. Through that, they became aware of another piece he’d written for Granta a number of years ago called “How (Not) to Write About Africa.” Director Jesse Dylan and his...

Today, the whole world is celebrating International Women’s Day for the 101st time. The 1st Women’s Day was celebrated on March 19th, 1911. The whole idea to have a day dedicated to women was first established in Copenhagen in 1910 by Clara Zetkin. March 8th was chosen and kept...

The Reality of Her Day, Every Day… International Women’s Day Infographic – UN Foundation Today, the whole world is celebrating International Women’s Day for the 101st time. The 1st Women’s Day was celebrated on March 19th, 1911. The whole idea to have a day dedicated to women was first...

On February 12th, I left Accra en-route to Nairobi to work on a project by Blogging Ghana on Ethiopian Airways with a 3hr lay-over in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We touched down at Bole International Airport (formerly known as Haile Selassie I International Airport) at approximately 20:45 GMT+1 local time....