Profile of The New Ghana Black Stars Coach

Serbian Goran Stevanovic has been appointed coach of the 2010 World Cup quarter-finalists Ghana Black Stars. The 44-year-old would be unveiled to the Press on Wednesday January 12, 2011 Coach Goran Stevanovic replacing his fellow citizen Milovan Rajevac who led Ghana to the quarter-final at the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Below is… Continue reading Profile of The New Ghana Black Stars Coach

Africa Command: Opportunity for Engagement or the Militarization of U.S.-Africa Relations? Dr Wafula Okumu

 Background Until recently, Africa has not been strategically attractive to the U.S.  This is partly because U.S. interests in Africa had not been clearly defined and it had no bureaucratic structure to manage those almost nonexistent interests. For a long time, the strategic thinking has been that the U.S. has “no compelling interests in Africa”… Continue reading Africa Command: Opportunity for Engagement or the Militarization of U.S.-Africa Relations? Dr Wafula Okumu

Some field evidence on what Ghanaians think of the 4th Republican Constitution

I present the results of a survey that was conducted from February 22, 2010 to March 21, 2010. The purpose of the survey was to collate the views of Ghanaians everywhere on the 4th Republican Constitution. Survey respondents participated voluntarily by accessing a link that was placed on www. Ghanaweb.com and other chat rooms known… Continue reading Some field evidence on what Ghanaians think of the 4th Republican Constitution

Where Ghana Went Right: How one African country emerged intact from its post-colonial struggles, John Schram

John Schram, Senior fellow with the Queen’s Centre for International Relations, Former Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Liberia from 1994 to 1998. Early one December morning in 1965, a few months after my arrival in Ghana, I was jolted out of a tropical sleep by a pile of Daily Graphic newspapers whumping… Continue reading Where Ghana Went Right: How one African country emerged intact from its post-colonial struggles, John Schram