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• Ghana

  Student protests and the weakness of democracy in Ghana

  November 2019, by AFOTEY Prince Nii, BOB-MILLIAR George M., MACLEAN Lauren M.

  Hyper-partisan politics and shallow journalism obscured the implications of the protests at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
  On the morning of October 22, 2018, students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (known more by its acronym KNUST), the second (...)

• Ghana

  31 December 1981: How the “IMF baby” betrayed its parents

  8 February 2018, by YEEBO Zaya

  The 31 December 2018 revolution in Ghana was a political upheaval that promised and had the potential to deliver a Castro/Sankara type social and political revolution, but was wasted on the rubbish heap of personality power grab fuelled by the ambitions of one man, the collective theft of (...)

• Ghana

  Politics, human rights and the media in Ghana

  15 December 2017, by KARIKARI Kwame

  The most important developments in the Fourth Republic that have facilitated and expanded media freedom and free speech are the introduction of independent and private broadcasting, the end of state monopoly and control of broadcasting, and the arrival of the new communications technologies of (...)