33 Years On: Has Ghana’s democracy truly improved our lives?

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• Felicity Amponsah 1 week ago

  Good afternoon, Serwaa,
  
  What a beautifully written and thought-provoking article. Now that you have acquired knowledge, skills, and expertise in both broadcasting communication and the judicial platform, you are uniquely p ...
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  Good afternoon, Serwaa,
  
  What a beautifully written and thought-provoking article. Now that you have acquired knowledge, skills, and expertise in both broadcasting communication and the judicial platform, you are uniquely positioned to reach and influence citizens across our beautiful country, Ghana.
  
  How do you intend to utilize your platform and support efforts to help strengthen and improve Ghana’s democracy?

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• Test2 1 week ago

  100% RIGHT
  IT SEEMS GHANAIANS HAVE BECOME SLAVES TO THE CORRUPT GREEDY LYING SATANIC POLITICIANS
  IT SEEMS MANY POOR GHANAIANS ARE ILLETRATES AND HAVE BEEN TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY THE WICKED CORRUPT POLITICIANS
  GHANA HAS BEC ...
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  100% RIGHT
  IT SEEMS GHANAIANS HAVE BECOME SLAVES TO THE CORRUPT GREEDY LYING SATANIC POLITICIANS
  IT SEEMS MANY POOR GHANAIANS ARE ILLETRATES AND HAVE BEEN TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY THE WICKED CORRUPT POLITICIANS
  GHANA HAS BECOME A BACKWARD UNCIVILIZED STATE SINCE THE OVERTHROWN OF KWAME NKRUMAH BY THE UP NOW NPP GOVTS
  NO HOPE FOR GHANA

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• TRUTH 6 days ago

  Anyone who lived through the days before this would know at least there was peace of mind and less greed in the system. There were jobs people did not even want like the police service.
  
  Well, I still wish we get our act t ...
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  Anyone who lived through the days before this would know at least there was peace of mind and less greed in the system. There were jobs people did not even want like the police service.
  
  Well, I still wish we get our act together and develop Ghana for her people.
  
  I worry, the scavengers who seems to have no concept of nation wood could be let in again if things don't change quickly.
  
  Our President must start cracking the whip on those loose talkers in his government as they only make his work harder.

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• Nsia 6 days ago

  Much as I loved your insightful piece, I would like you to put in a right of information request to the Minister of Interior to give us raw data of how many Nigerians are living in Ghana. After all, it is his responsibility ...
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  Much as I loved your insightful piece, I would like you to put in a right of information request to the Minister of Interior to give us raw data of how many Nigerians are living in Ghana. After all, it is his responsibility to give them work permits or resident permit. It is a legimate question that none of our airy-fairy journalists ever bother to ask.,And, we expect you to do just that. Thanks!

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• Od 6 days ago

  The thousands of illegal immigrants who have flooded the system are a major cause of our problems. Everyone should go back and solve the problems of their countries of origin

  The thousands of illegal immigrants who have flooded the system are a major cause of our problems. Everyone should go back and solve the problems of their countries of origin

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• Nsia 5 days ago

  @Od, trouble is: none of our fanciful journalists ever puts the Minister of Interior into the hot seat by asking him tough questions about hordes of Nigerians living in Ghana. Do we owe Nigetians a living or what?
  Per UN pre ...
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  @Od, trouble is: none of our fanciful journalists ever puts the Minister of Interior into the hot seat by asking him tough questions about hordes of Nigerians living in Ghana. Do we owe Nigetians a living or what?
  Per UN prediction, Nigeria will have a population. of 450nmillion by 2050.
  Do we want 20 million Nigerians living amongst us in Ghana?
  And, their reason, they have bad governance in their country. How on earth does that concern us in Ghana?

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• Francis 3 days ago

  Well written. The answer to your question is a big no. Democracy has failed tremendously in Ghana. Ghana/Africa lack the structures/institutions for a vibrant democracy to flourish. Recycling government every 4 years is not e ...
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  Well written. The answer to your question is a big no. Democracy has failed tremendously in Ghana. Ghana/Africa lack the structures/institutions for a vibrant democracy to flourish. Recycling government every 4 years is not enough if the elected government cannot fulfill our basic needs.

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• Asem 2 days ago

  It exposes a lack of knowledge to use the word "democracy" in isolation of an adjective or prefix such as Western, socialist, neoliberal etc.
  
  The absence of any such label implies the surreptitious intention to mislead in ...
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  It exposes a lack of knowledge to use the word "democracy" in isolation of an adjective or prefix such as Western, socialist, neoliberal etc.
  
  The absence of any such label implies the surreptitious intention to mislead in any discourse or serious discussion on the subject of politics.
  
  More importantly, while overly promoting the positive substance and ideals of the true essence of pristine "democracy", our tyrannical oppressors have by a sleight of hand, assumed total patent control of the word to mean Western democracy - the most denigrated and abused form of that philosophy. Not surprisingly, our western-educated men of little knowledge and learning have, in their delusions of mental enslaverment, have gleefully lapped up and swallowed every morsel of this classic brainwashing stunt. Even local Professors of history and political science in our best universities still point to "our colonial masters" in candid reference to those villains, rogues and outright psychopaths who plundered, stole and murdered millions of Africans in an animalistic orgy that has made Adolph Hitler seem like a Sunday school teacher.

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• Asem 2 days ago

  @ Serwah Amihere
  
  Your article reveals signs of the more intelligent and newly awakened African intellectual. Keep it up. We desperately need that kind of salvation.
  
  I however reluctantly wish to add that since you are a ...
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  @ Serwah Amihere
  
  Your article reveals signs of the more intelligent and newly awakened African intellectual. Keep it up. We desperately need that kind of salvation.
  
  I however reluctantly wish to add that since you are a naturally beautiful woman, why do you adorn your image with such un-african beautification choices like the horse hair that you have draped on your head? Is it that you are not proud of - or you have no confidence in your God-given natural beauty? Show your natural African beauty and prove that you are above the hoi-poloi.

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