Ghana / Afrika in Focus
Ghana In Focus aims to bring you the lowdown on Ghana including critique on the hot topics making waves in Ghana as well as buying property in Ghana, renting in Ghana especially in the capital, Accra. Also looking at building a property in Ghana and some of the things to look out for such as building materials and environmental factors. We will also be looking at land acquisition in Ghana, giving insight into issues like site plan, indenture, title and land certificate. Ghana In Focus aims to explore the numerous business and investment opportunities that exist in Ghana as well...
Afrika in Focus Special: Why the white man wants to destroy Nigeria
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The podcast presents a provocative thesis: that Nigeria's current challenges are not accidental failures, but the predictable outcome of a colonial project designed primarily to serve British economic and strategic interests rather than the welfare of the people living within its borders.
The story begins long before the creation of modern Nigeria. Before British colonial rule, the region consisted of numerous powerful and sophisticated kingdoms, empires and city-states, including the Oyo Empire in the west, the various Igbo societies in the east, the Sokoto Caliphate in the north, the Benin Kingdom...
Afrika in Focus Special: Europe on Fire - The End of Europe???
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Across France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal and parts of the Balkans, a growing sense of anger and frustration is visible on the streets. Protests, riots, political upheaval and public dissatisfaction have become recurring features of European life. While each country has its own unique problems, many of the underlying causes are remarkably similar. Beneath the surface lies a deeper question: are these merely temporary crises, or are they symptoms of a continent entering a period of historic decline?
For decades the European Union was presented as one of the greatest political...
Ghana in Focus --- Ghana, the IMF, and the Battle for Economic Sovereignty
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One of the most important economic debates in Ghana today concerns the country's long and often complicated relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Since independence in 1957, Ghana has entered numerous IMF programmes, leading many citizens to ask an increasingly difficult question: if IMF interventions are designed to solve economic problems, why has Ghana repeatedly found itself returning for assistance?
Supporters of the IMF argue that its programmes have often helped Ghana avoid deeper economic crises. They point to periods of high inflation, mounting debt, falling foreign reserves and currency instability...
Ghana in Focus === Why is Accra so Expensive???
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Across Africa, a growing debate is taking place on social media, YouTube, business forums and among diaspora communities. The question is simple but uncomfortable: why is Accra so expensive?
For many visitors, investors and even ordinary Ghanaians, the cost of living in Ghana's capital appears increasingly disconnected from the reality on the ground. Whether it is housing, transportation, school fees, hotel accommodation, restaurant prices, imported food, vehicles or basic consumer goods, Accra often appears to be priced at levels comparable to far more developed cities.
Yet when...
Ghana in Focus Special: Why Mahama and Ghana were right to reject United States health proposal
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The controversy surrounding John Dramani Mahama's rejection of a proposed United States health compact is about far more than healthcare funding. According to Mahama, Ghana rejected the proposal because it contained conditions that Cabinet considered unacceptable, including provisions relating to pathogen data, medical records, and limitations on the authority of Ghana's Food and Drugs Authority to inspect certain products supplied under the programme. He described the proposed arrangement as "humiliating" and said it was rejected in record time by Cabinet.
For many Africans, this issue touches a much deeper nerve.
<...Ghana in Focus Special: Why Mahama was WRONG to call for reform at the UN
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Across Africa, we continue to hear prominent leaders calling for reform of the United Nations. Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama and many others argue that Africa deserves permanent representation on the Security Council and should have a greater say in global affairs.
On the surface, this appears to be a reasonable demand.
Africa is home to more than a 2 billion people. It comprises fifty-four states. It possesses vast natural resources and immense human potential. Yet when the most important decisions are made within the United Nations Security Council, Africa...
Ghana in Focus Special: Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day - The Global Afrikan identity crisis.
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Kwame Nkrumah understood that the greatest battle for African liberation was not fought with guns or ballots — it was fought in the mind. He taught that African identity is not defined by geography or nationality, but by consciousness. His declaration, “I am not African because I was born in Africa, but because Africa was born in me,” was not poetic rhetoric; it was a blueprint for psychological emancipation. Nkrumah saw clearly that African disunity was being engineered, African identity confusion was manufactured, and African liberation would remain impossible without African unity.Â
To...
Ghana in Focus Special: Why REAL development in Ghana is difficult
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Ghana is often described as “the gateway to Africa,” a nation with immense potential, rich culture, global recognition, and a proud history. Yet despite these advantages, Ghana continues to lag behind countries such as Rwanda, Morocco, Namibia, Tanzania, Senegal, and Angola — nations that, in many cases, started with fewer resources, more severe conflict histories, or harsher economic conditions. The question is not whether Ghana has potential; the question is why Ghana consistently fails to convert potential into progress. The uncomfortable truth explored in this podcast is that Ghana’s development challenges are deeply rooted i...
Afrika in Focus Special: New currency for Burkina Faso - Ibrahim Traore's push for monetary freedom and self determination
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For more than seven decades, West Africa’s monetary system has been shaped, constrained, and ultimately controlled by France through the CFA franc. This currency, born in the colonial era and maintained through post‑colonial dependency, has tied fourteen African nations to the French Treasury, the euro, and a monetary architecture designed outside African borders. In recent years, the political winds of the Sahel have shifted. Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger — united under the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) — have declared that political independence without monetary independence is an illusion. Their answer is...
Ghana in Focus Special --- Relationships, why it is wrong for Black women to marry outside of their race
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This episode explores one of the most emotionally charged and historically complex conversations in the African world: the relationship choices of Black women, especially when they choose partners outside the Black community. Inspired by the spirit of Dr. Umar’s African Emancipation Day message, the podcast does not shame individuals but instead asks a deeper, more uncomfortable question:Â
 How do the romantic choices of Black women intersect with history, trauma, cultural continuity, and the future of the Black community?Â
 The first major theme is historical memory. For Africa...
Ghana in Focus Special --- Relationships, why it is wrong for Black men to marry outside of their race
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This podcast explores one of the most urgent and uncomfortable conversations within the African diaspora: the relationship between Black love, Black family structure, and Black community survival. Inspired partly by Dr. Umar’s African Emancipation Day message, the episode examines why choosing partners within the community is not merely a romantic preference but a political, cultural, and economic strategy for collective survival. The summary below distills the core arguments across all segments.Â
The first segment establishes the central thesis: a community cannot sur...
Ghana in Focus ---- Chinese in Basic Schools? Not in Ghana’s Name.
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Ghana’s Ministry of Education has approved Chinese language for basic schools, and the decision has sparked deep concern among educators, parents, linguists, and cultural advocates. This summary argues that introducing Chinese at the foundational level is strategically unsound, educationally harmful, and culturally self‑erasing. The critique is not about geopolitics or hostility toward any nation; it is about policy coherence, child development, and national identity.Â
The first major issue is research. For decades, UNESCO, the African Union, and Ghana...
Afrika in Focus Special: Dr Umar Johnson @ Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March Part II
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In this dialogue, Dr. Umar Johnson presents a worldview in which Black identity is not simply a matter of appearance or social categorisation, but a spiritual, cultural, and metaphysical inheritance. He argues that Black skin represents more than pigmentation; for him, it is a birth right, a direct connection to divine origin, and a marker of a people with a unique historical and spiritual role. He frames Blackness as sacred, purposeful, and central to the destiny of African people worldwide.Â
He criticises the Abrahamic religions — Christianity, Islam, and...
Afrika in Focus Special: Dr Umar Johnson @ Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March Part I
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In his Emancipation & Reparations Day remarks, Dr. Umar Johnson centred two interconnected arguments: the importance of Black-on-Black relationships for community stability in the UK, and the strategic role of the African diaspora in shaping Africa’s future development. He framed both issues as essential pillars of global Black empowerment.Â
He began by emphasising that Black relationships are not merely personal choices but political acts within societies shaped by racism, economic exclusion, and cultural erasure. For Black people in the UK, he argued, relationships within the com...
Ghana in Focus Special: Accra under water - The REAL reason Accra floods
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Accra’s flooding is not a climate‑driven mystery; it is a predictable outcome of decades of human decisions. The city floods because its physical, administrative, and environmental foundations have been compromised. The recent floods are only the latest reminder that Accra is operating with a drainage system designed for a small colonial town, not a modern metropolis of more than five million people.Â
The roots of the crisis lie in historical planning failures. Colonial administrators built drainage for a population under 100,000. After independence, Accra expanded rapidly and horizontally. New n...
Afrikan Football Podcast - “Why Afrikans Play for Europe”
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Many of you would have seen many Afrikan footballers playing for European countries like England, Spain, France, Germany and Portugal in the world cup.
However, Afrikan‑heritage players representing European national teams is not a coincidence or a simple matter of personal choice. It is the product of colonial history, migration patterns, diaspora identity, football infrastructure inequality, and the failures of Afrikan football institutions. When you see Afrikan‑heritage players starring for England, France, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland or the Netherlands, you...
Afrikan Football Podcast ---- Review of Afrika at World Cup 26
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The 2026 World Cup will be remembered as a tournament where Afrikan football finally announced itself as a collective force, not just through one Cinderella run, but through multiple teams performing at a consistently high level. From Cape Verde’s near‑historic upset of Argentina to Morocco’s second consecutive quarter‑final, Afrika delivered its most complete World Cup showing to date.Â
Cape Verde – The Surprise Package of the Tournament
No Afrikan team captured global imagination like Cape Verde. Drawn against Argentina in the last...
Afrikan Football Podcast ---- last 32 review at the World Cup
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Africa entered the last‑32 knockout round with nine nations, each carrying the hopes of a continent. But knockout football is ruthless, and by the end of the round, only Morocco and Egypt remained standing. The story of how they survived — and how the other seven fell — reveals the evolution of African football: tactical growth, discipline, courage, and the painful margins that separate victory from elimination.
Morocco faced the Netherlands in a tense, tactical war. The Dutch dominated possession, but Morocco stayed compact, disciplined, and emotionally controlled. They slowed...
Afrikan Football Podcast --- Afrikan teams in the round of 32
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The 2026 FIFA World Cup has delivered a group stage unlike anything Afrika has ever witnessed. Nine Afrikan nations have marched into the Round of 32 with South Afrika just being eliminated in their last 32 match by co-hosts Canada — a record‑breaking achievement that signals a continental shift in football power. The world expected Morocco and Senegal. It did not expect Cape Verde, DR Congo, or Algeria. It did not expect Ivory Coast to rise again. It did not expect Ghana’s young generation to explode onto the global stage.Â
Now the knockout phase b...
Afrikan Football Podcast ==== Afrika at the 2026 World Cup
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 Africa’s ten representatives at the 2026 World Cup have now completed two rounds of fixtures, and the landscape has shifted significantly. Some teams have already secured their place in the Last 32, others remain firmly in contention, and a few face elimination. This updated assessment reflects the latest results, including Egypt’s qualification, Cape Verde’s impressive resilience, and Morocco’s early progression.Â
Morocco have become the first African team to secure their place in the Last 32. Their victory over Scotland, combined with their opening draw, leaves them on four points and...
Ghana in Focus - Business Opportunities in Ghana Part VI , Agro Processing
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Agro‑processing sits at the centre of Ghana’s economic future. It is the point where farming meets industry, where raw crops become high‑value products, and where Ghana can finally break the cycle of exporting raw materials and importing finished goods. Segments 1–10 outline a complete ecosystem of opportunity — from small‑scale manufacturing to juice production, cassava processing, rice milling, tomato transformation, dehydration, packaging, distribution, and export. Together, they form a blueprint for a new Ghanaian agro‑industrial economy.Â
Segment 1 establishes the foundation: agro‑processing is the engine of value‑addition. G...
Ghana in Focus ---- Business Opportunities in Ghana -- The Transport Sector
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Ghana’s transport sector remains one of the most dynamic, high‑demand, and opportunity‑rich spaces in the economy. Movement is constant — people, goods, workers, tourists, and business travellers all rely on a transport system that is fragmented, informal, and often inefficient. And where inefficiency exists, opportunity follows. Across eleven key areas, the transport sector offers multiple entry points for small, medium, and large investors who understand the market and can deliver reliability, safety, and consistency.Â
The first major opportunity is the Uber/Bolt ride‑hailing business, which has become the...
Afrikan Football Podcast Special: World Cup preview - Football, Power and Politics
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Africa enters the 2026 World Cup with ten nations — the largest representation in history — but the same structural challenges that have always shaped African football remain firmly in place. This episode breaks down every African team’s chances in the group stage, who can realistically reach the knockouts, and why, despite the talent, no African nation is positioned to win the World Cup under the current global football system.
The episode opens by setting the stakes: South Africa, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt, Cape Verde, Senegal, Algeria, DR Congo, and Ghana all arrive...
Afrika in Focus Special: From East Turkistan to Afrika: Parallel Struggles Against Domination
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The conversation with Salih Hudayar opens with a clear grounding in who he is and why his voice matters. Hudayar is the Prime Minister of the East Turkistan Government‑in‑Exile, a political leader shaped by displacement, war, and the struggle for national survival. Born in Xinjiang—what Uyghurs call East Turkistan—he fled as a child after his family faced persecution under Chinese rule. His journey took him through refugee life, migration to the United States, military service, and eventually political leadership. Today, he is one of the m...
Afrika in Focus Special: Why Afrikans in the UK MUST LEAVE!!
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Africans in the UK are reaching a breaking point, and the numbers prove it: more than 300,000 people left the UK last year, the highest emigration figure in modern British history. This isn’t panic. It isn’t emotion. It’s a rational response to a country that is visibly deteriorating. For many Africans who arrived in the last 10–15 years, the UK no longer resembles the land of opportunity they imagined. Instead, it has become a place of survival, exhaustion and diminishing returns.Â
The cost‑of‑living crisis has become a...
Afrika in Focus special: Afriphobia in South Afrika (Azania): Who benefits when Afrikans fight Afrikans?”
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This episode confronts one of the most painful and politically charged crises on the continent: the rise of Afriphobic violence in South Africa. It exposes why some Black South Africans are attacking fellow Africans instead of White people that still control land, capital, and the economic architecture inherited from apartheid. The episode argues that this violence is not random but rooted in apartheid’s psychological engineering, which isolated Black South Africans from the rest of the continent and fed them propaganda that dehumanised other Africans. When political freedom arrived in 1994, the psychological legacy re...
Afrika in Focus Special: The War on African Women's Hair: History, Identity & the Business of Insecurity
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The War on African Women's Hair: History, Identity & the Business of Insecurity exposes how white supremacy systematically targeted African hair as a means of domination, erasure, and long‑term psychological control. The episode argues that the assault on kinky, coily, nappy African hair was never cosmetic — it was a deliberate strategy to break identity, sever lineage, and impose European cultural authority across Africa and the diaspora.Â
The story begins before colonial contact, when African women's hair functioned as a sacred system of communication, spirituality, and social order. From Akan grooming rituals to Yo...
Afrika in Focus Special: PRINCE: The Greatest Musician of ALL TIME— Genius, Freedom and the Legacy that will NEVER die!
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Prince Rogers Nelson stands as the greatest musician of all time — not by myth, but by measurable mastery. A multi‑instrumentalist who played more than 20 instruments at a professional level, a producer who engineered his own sound, and a performer who fused funk, rock, soul, jazz, gospel, new wave, and electronic music into a single, unmistakable identity. Prince wasn’t just an artist; he was a one‑man creative ecosystem who reshaped the possibilities of Black musical excellence.Â
From the beginning, he operated with total autonomy. His debut For You (1978...
Ghana / Afrika in Focus Special: The Gravest Crime: Ghana, the UN, and the Future of Reparations
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In March 2026, Ghana reshaped global history by leading a landmark United Nations resolution that formally recognised the transatlantic trafficking and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans as “the gravest crime against humanity.” This was more than symbolic language — it was a political, legal, and moral rupture in the world’s understanding of African suffering and its ongoing consequences. With 123 nations voting in favour, the resolution forces the international community to confront the scale, duration, brutality, and structural legacy of a crime that built the modern world.Â
For Africans and the global di...
Ghana in Focus Special - The Black Church, saving souls or business enterprise??
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This episode of Ghana/Afrika In Focus examines the modern Black Church through a historical, economic, and sociological lens — arguing that its current form often functions less as a spiritual institution and more as a powerful business enterprise. Drawing on reporting such as the BBC’s findings that young people feel pressured to give money they do not have, the episode explores how financial expectations have become central to many church environments.Â
 The discussion traces how Christianity became embedded in African societies, challenging the idea that it is an indigenous African belief...
Ghana in Focus Special: Mahama at the UN: Why Recognising the Slave Trade as the Greatest Crime in Human History Matters Now!!
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This week marks a defining moment in modern history as Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama, prepares to address the United Nations with a landmark motion: the call for the formal recognition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade as the greatest crime in human history. For Ghana, Africa, and the entire global African diaspora, this is more than a diplomatic gesture — it is a bold act of historical truth‑telling and a demand for global accountability.Â
Ghana’s leadership is deeply symbolic. As the site of Cape Coast Castle, Elmina, and count...
Ghana in Focus Special: Why Ghana Must Invest in Solar‑Powered Cars — Not Imported EVs
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Ghana stands at an energy and industrial crossroads. The world is rushing toward electric vehicles, but blindly importing EVs would lock Ghana into deeper dependency, higher costs, and a foreign‑controlled future. Our electricity supply is still inconsistent, tariffs remain high, and the national grid cannot support millions of EVs.Â
Every imported EV drains wealth out of the country — batteries, software, motors, charging systems, spare parts — all manufactured abroad. EVs create no Ghanaian jobs, no Ghanaian expertise, and no Ghanaian industry.Â
Solar mobility offers a smarter, sovereign alternative. Ghana enjoys ab...
Afrika in Focus Special: “Oil, Currency Power, and Distraction: The Hidden Logic Behind the Iran Conflict”
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This episode of Afrika in Focus examines the Iran conflict through a Pan‑African, economic‑historical lens, arguing that the deeper drivers extend far beyond regime‑change narratives. The discussion begins with the petrodollar system, created in the 1970s when global oil was tied to the US dollar, giving America unmatched financial power.Â
Any nation that threatens to sell oil in other currencies becomes a strategic concern, and Iran — with its willingness to trade in euros, yuan, and barter systems — challenges the very foundation of dollar dominance.Â
The episode...
Ghana in Focus Independence Special: Why Ghanaians are Slaves in their own country
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Ghana celebrates independence every 6th March, yet beneath the flags and speeches lies a harder truth: political freedom was achieved in 1957, but economic freedom never followed.Â
The commanding heights of the Ghanaian economy—mining, oil, telecoms, banking, retail, construction, manufacturing, and even the cocoa value chain—are dominated by foreign nations and ethnic business groups. South African (White), British, American, Canadian, Chinese, Indian, Lebanese, Dutch, Swiss and Nigerian interests control the sectors that generate real wealth, while most Ghanaians remain wage‑earners in an economy they do  not own. This creates a modern...
Ghana in Focus Special: 60 years after the overthrow of Dr Kwame Nkrumah - Analysis and Reflection
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Sixty years after the 1966 overthrow of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president and one of Africa’s most influential Pan‑African thinkers, the echoes of that historic moment still shape the nation’s political identity, economic direction, and continental legacy. This podcast takes listeners on a deep, unflinching exploration of how a single coup d’état reshaped not only Ghana’s trajectory but also the broader African liberation project that Nkrumah championed.Â
Through thoughtful storytelling, expert interviews, archival reflections, and contemporary analysis, the series revisits the hopes, tensions, and global forces that co...
Ghana in Focus: Russian Sexual Predator luring Ghanaian girls
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This week we examine the uproar surrounding a Russian visitor who lured Ghanaian women to his room for sexual exploitation, using the incident to highlight deeper social and security concerns. We question how he knew Ghana was a place he could target, pointing to informal networks and the growing reality of sex tourism in parts of Africa, where some white men travel specifically to exploit vulnerable Ghanaian women and even record content for online platforms.Â
I explore the psychological legacy of colonialism, where some Ghanaian and African women equate whiteness with w...
Ghana in Focus Special: Ghana's Gold Dilemma
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We argue that Ghana stands at a historic crossroads as global gold prices reach record highs We outline a bold, multi‑pillar strategy:
Reclaiming Value Through Higher Royalties
Drawing inspiration from Nkrumah and Acheampong, I propose increasing gold royalty rates—potentially up to 50%—to ensure Ghana captures a fair share of the wealth extracted from its soil.
Accelerating Local Production and Value Addition
Ghana should expand responsible gold production, formalize small‑scale mining, eliminate galamsey, and build local refining and jewellery industrie...
Ghana in Focus Special: Why the NPP Flagbearer contest was a waste of time
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This special edition does a critical analysis on last wekends NPP's primaries.
The Core Issue: Policy, Not Personality --- my stance is that the NPP’s problem is not the individual leading the party, but the policy legacy the party carries into 2028.
Changing the flagbearer does not erase the public memory of the last administration’s outcomes, nor does it address the deeper structural issues within the party.
The Party’s Brand Has Been Damaged ---- I argue that the NPP bra...
Afrika in Focus: Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2025 Review - Why Racist Morocco Deserved to lose!!
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We review the just ended Afrika Cup of Nations:
Quality of Football ----- This AFCON delivered some of the best football the continent has showcased in years. The technical level was high, the tactical discipline was clear, and the intensity of knockout matches showed how far African teams have come in terms of game management. Even so‑called “smaller” nations demonstrated structure and confidence, while the traditional giants showed why they remain at the top.
Refereeing & VAR ----Â Refereeing became one of the major talking points...
Afrika in Focus Special: The war in D R Congo - “Blood, Minerals, and Power: Why your iPhone is the cause
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Few modern conflicts are as long, complex, or misunderstood as the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). From independence in 1960 to today’s M23 rebellion, Congo’s story is shaped by global interests, regional rivalries, and the minerals that fuel the modern world. This summary explores the roots and evolution of this war.
Born Into Crisis
Independence from Belgium in 1960 quickly spiralled into chaos: army mutinies, Belgian intervention, and Katanga’s attempted secession. Patrice Lumumba’s assassination in 1961 cemented a pattern of foreign interference and internal...
