The price of silence: How the tradition betrays rights in Northern Ghana

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• JACK TORONTO 5 months ago

  What an insightful piece! Until we as a people begin to move with the times and modernise the parts of our culture that are anachronistic and at odds with the current time and season, most of these issues raised would exponen ...
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  What an insightful piece! Until we as a people begin to move with the times and modernise the parts of our culture that are anachronistic and at odds with the current time and season, most of these issues raised would exponentially surge. I feel for these silent voices who have no one to take up the fight for them. We need to really look at the chieftaincy institution in Ghana, it has no place in our modern world. Either we modernise it and progress as a society, or bask in it and continue to behave as neanderthals.

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• Ghana Biya 5 months ago

  This article has made a lot of unproven allegations and others are out right lies.

  This article has made a lot of unproven allegations and others are out right lies.

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• ALHASSAN 5 months ago

  THE PRICE OF SILENCE
  SOME OF YOUR FACT-FINDINGS ARE NOT CORRECT FOR INSTANCE, “IN THE CONTEXT OF INHERITANCE AND PROPERTIES DAUGHTERS AND WIDOWS ARE EXCLUDED AND GENDER-BASED DENIAL OF INHERITANCE“MAYBE THE GROUP THAT Y ...
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  THE PRICE OF SILENCE
  SOME OF YOUR FACT-FINDINGS ARE NOT CORRECT FOR INSTANCE, “IN THE CONTEXT OF INHERITANCE AND PROPERTIES DAUGHTERS AND WIDOWS ARE EXCLUDED AND GENDER-BASED DENIAL OF INHERITANCE“MAYBE THE GROUP THAT YOU SELECTED YOUR RESEARCH ARE PRACTICING THAT. IN THAT, YOU CAN NOT CONCLUDE THAT NORTHERNERS PRACTICES GENDER BASED INHERITANCE OR DAUGHTERS AND WIDOWS ARE EXCLUDED INHERITANCE. GO BACK AND DO YOUR RESEARCH WELL
  IN MY TRIBE FOR INSTANCE, MY PARTRILINEAL AND MARTRILINEAL FAMILY CAN INHERIT MY PROPERTY OF COURSE THEY SHOULD NOT BE OLDER THEN ME.

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• YEN 5 months ago

  Where is the court System in the areas you are talking about. Lawyers who were born and bread in the areas you are talking about are all in Accra and Kumasi. These personnel do not want to have any thing to do with their own ...
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  Where is the court System in the areas you are talking about. Lawyers who were born and bread in the areas you are talking about are all in Accra and Kumasi. These personnel do not want to have any thing to do with their own areas how can they help to change things. The court system is often rattled in delays of attaining justice. What should be done is to fine a way to imbibe our customary laws with our new found colonial laws and see what works better for our use. These laws that are set in Accra are not even known by the educated people who are all involved involved in child marriages themselves.The author of this article needs to learn about local customary laws which will forever exist rather than relying on foreign laws that plays no role in our culture.YEN

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• THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE HERE: MOST GHANAIANS ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE HINTERLANDS BASED ON THEIR EXPERIENCE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT GOVERNTMENT IS THERE FOR THEIR INTERESTS SO IS IRRELEVANT TO THEIR DAILY LIVES 5 months ago

  There is a reason tradition is the fall back to for ordinary Ghanaians.Tradition is what kept communities alive, cohesive and functional long before Western civilisations encroached on Africa. To make matters worse most Afric ...
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  There is a reason tradition is the fall back to for ordinary Ghanaians.Tradition is what kept communities alive, cohesive and functional long before Western civilisations encroached on Africa. To make matters worse most Africans including Ghanaians have never seen Governments (based largely on Western values) as relevant to their existence.All over Africa, politicians have with good reason been perceived in the vast majority of cases as exceptionally corrupt, predatory,self-serving and completely indifferent to the plight of the ordinary people.As a well known African put it a few decades ago: Africans have come to see the so-called democratic electoral system of government as never serving their interests. AS LONG AS THIS VIEW IS HELD BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF THE PEOPLE THEN TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES,TRADITIONAL NORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE LIVES OF THE MAN AND WOMAN IN THE STREET

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