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By F.K.N. Olympio Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany – 15 April 2020. The consequences of loss of control – blame game here, conspiracy theories there. The novel corona virus originated from Wuhan in the Chinese province of Hubei – that is fact. The Chinese government downplayed early reports of infections including an unusual pneumonia accompanied by fever, headache, and dry, strenuous, repeated coughs without mucus. That is also a fact. The first reported death due to covid 19 also called Sars-Cov-2 by its scientific name occurred on the 11 of Jan. 2020. That is also widely known. That the Chinese first notified the World Health Organisation byRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 14 April, 2020 Last week, Morocco’s Industry minister in an email to Reuters announced that his country had ordered 500 ventilators which will be ready this week. According to the story which was also featured on Ghanaweb, “The North African kingdom has confirmed 1,431 cases of the novel coronavirus, including 105 deaths, and is seeking to raise the number of its intensive care beds to 3,000 from 1,640”. For at least 24 hours, that is, from the time Ghanaweb published the story at 10:30am on 12 April to 14 April by 01:00 GMT, there had been no comment onRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 4 April, 2020 COVID-19 has seared itself into our consciousness; sadly people are dying and more people are going to die – we should all know that by now. But the moral imperative to THINK and ACT soundly still appears totally lost on our leaders and public officials. Listen to the airwaves: 1) a USD10.1mn tax break for Zipline drones; 2) opening the Bank Hospital for VIPs and retracting after a public outcry; 3) not providing PPE for Korlebu staff; 4) the new ambulances have mobile ventilators; 5) use of chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine without any reference to the science or data;Read More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 1 April, 2020 From Homer’s Iliad through the Christian Bible, other sacred writings, and in many other faiths and cultures, we are assured that there is always divine intervention. Otherwise why bother to pray? The moral order always enjoined man to do the right thing. His actions must meet the salvific plan of the gods. Today, governments around the world are spending trillions they once made us believe they never had. As my mentor has observed: “Our governments simply did not have the right priorities and they must not be allowed to get away with that again”. Let usRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 30 March 2020 The only time I met Oko Dagadu, the veteran broadcaster, was an uplifting moment for minority languages anywhere in the world. The details. One early Homowo season in 2017, Alhaji Ahmed Salim Sowah, my preferred aide de camp at Radio Latenu 96.1MhZ accompanied me to North Ridge, Accra. We entered the home of Amatei Akuete, president of Ga Adangbe Council who succeeded the venerable KB Asante. The Ga Adangbe Council was founded as an independent think tank to promote Ga language and culture. Inside the house we also met Oko Dagadu, the legendary Ga language broadcaster/producerRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 26 March, 2020 History tells us that during the 1948 riots, colonial subjects directed protesters away from disrupting a polo match between Europeans and Africans. A group of our forebears were retreating from the Christiansborg Cross Roads demonstration where three ex servicemen had been shot, and this group angry at the colonialists got to the Old Polo Grounds opposite the Supreme Court building. There, Africans prevented their fellow subjects from disrupting the polo match. Were our educated forebears selfish, weak or brainwashed? No, they were educated, enlightened and principled. As a matter of fact, the Gold Coast intelligentsia, politicalRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 20 March, 2020 We met at Kibroth Hattaavah In a symbiotic palaver We are thriving as joint decision makers From a climate change crisis And we were hard As hard as air And we were so bold to lay down our lives We came in as a disease Like slay yeasts We infected thousands Like personae non gratae And we learned fast to be streetwise Our infamy was heavy But our aim was heaven We dug in steep And rallied deep And prayed to God with all of our might We had no science To cure our signs AndRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 13 March, 2020 The University of Ghana, Legon, has a proud history, but there is a widespread and persistent basic misunderstanding of its name. Legon, is a Ga village – it belongs to the people of La, Accra – where Lɛɛ, “a small kind of antelope” according to an old Ga dictionary, roamed its hills with its litter ahead of it. On account of this common sight, the indigenes called the environs between Okponglo and Achimota, Lɛɛgon, meaning antelope hill. The University of Ghana registry, Great Hall and Vice Chancellor’s residence are located on top of the hill calledRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 9 March, 2020 The 360-degree feedback system is fraught with serious problems, but many organizations still use it. Let us therefore present a review of the literature so that HR practitioners may be accordingly guided. Monalisa Mohapatra (2015) reviewed the scholarly work of 30 different authors about the 360-degree feedback spanning a period of 19 years, namely 1996 to 2015, and concluded that “Until and unless the process and the purpose of the implementation is clear to the people within the organization it will never be a success”. The literature shows clearly that where soft skills are being measuredRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 6 March, 2020 The Baba Yara Sports Stadium Friday saw a mixture of Ghana and ghana – nostalgia and some sub-par performances. Let us share our observations. National pledge – the president placed his right hand on his belly instead of his heart/left breast. A cameraman, was seen running in front of the president’s moving SUV, and later other cameramen ran through the president’s convoy while security personnel looked on. The resplendent police mounted squadron again escorted the president because we run a civilian administration and the police are designated for civilian duties. But then the parade inspection wasRead More →