Ghana President John Atta Mills is Dead

ACCRA, July 24 (Reuters) – Ghana’s President John Atta Mills has died unexpectedly, a presidential statement said, and an aide said his death occurred on Tuesday after he took ill on Monday night. The death of the president of the world’s No. 2 cocoa grower comes months before Mills was due to stand for re-election… Continue reading Ghana President John Atta Mills is Dead

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