When people discuss architecture in Ghana, attention often focuses on modern buildings: concrete houses, glass offices, shopping malls and ambitious urban developments. Yet across the country, another architectural tradition continues to offer lessons about how people have built and lived for generations. This is vernacular architecture. It is not uniquely Ghanaian. The term refers to …
When the High Court sentenced Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Wontumi, to 20 years' imprisonment over offences relating to mining activities on Akonta Mining's concession, the headlines understandably focused on the man and the punishment. But the real story is much bigger than Wontumi. Whether one agrees with the judgment or believes it should …
Ghana has intensified efforts to secure the election of Dr. Sylvia Ama Adusu as a Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) for the 2026–2035 term, with voting scheduled for June 18, 2026. If elected, Dr. Adusu would make history as the first African woman to serve on the Hamburg-based …
March is officially Women’s Month, with March 8 marking International Women’s Day — a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also serves as a call to action to accelerate gender equality. This year’s theme, “Give to Gain,” highlights the power of collective action: when we give, we …
In the face of tariffs, immigration curbs, reduced development funding and growing nationalism, conventional wisdom suggests Africa faces strong geopolitical headwinds. However, the apparent disorder may also present a significant upside for the continent. This emerged from a lively debate on the main stage on Day Two of Investing in African Mining Indaba, the largest …
Long before modern states claimed monopoly control over money, international trade depended on trusted systems that operated outside sovereign authority. In medieval Europe, merchants travelling between cities and kingdoms faced a familiar challenge. Transporting physical gold, much as today, was dangerous, inefficient, and vulnerable to theft, seizure, or political interference. In that environment, the Knights …
Large volumes of raw rubber produced in Ghana are being exported without processing, significantly undermining local manufacturing capacity and job creation, Chief Executive Officer of Yaeric Company Limited, Mr Eric Owusu, has revealed. Speaking during a visit by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) under its Regional Investment Roadshow of the Integrated Industrial and Manufacturing …
Geopolitical events steered the world’s attention to the mining sector in 2025, highlighting the persistent supply chain risks that the industry has largely overlooked for years. In 2026, all eyes are on how governments react to rising global tensions and mitigate those risks, says law firm White & Case LLP. According to its Mining & …
Mining companies around the world are increasingly expanding mineral extraction at existing sites rather than opening new mines, as global demand for critical minerals rises, driven largely by the clean energy transition, a new study has found. The research, published on January 22 in the Cell Press journal One Earth, shows that while the expansion …
The Bretton Woods institutions, and particularly the International Monetary Fund have a long and revealing history with economic novelty in the developing world. Their reactions are often misunderstood as ideological hostility or geopolitical bias. In reality, they are better explained as institutional reflex. The International Monetary Fund is not neutral in the abstract. It is …
