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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Wednesday 21 October, 2020 Lesley Lokko, the renowned Scottish-Ghanaian architecture academic, has announced plans of relocating from New York to Accra “to set up an independent school of architecture”.  She resigned from the Bernard and Anne Spitzer school of architecture at the City College of New York, primarily because she says she “lacked the tools to both process and deflect” how the “‘problem woman of colour’ scenario” manifests in America.  We welcome her back home to Accra, and respectfully ask her to ready herself for the multiple battles she will face. A few are listed below for our collectiveRead More →

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By Isaac Ato MensahAccra – Monday 21 September, 2020 Reading the transcript of the “Fellow Ghanaians” address “No. 17”, delivered Sunday makes one see clearly that our society is run largely on presumption, anecdote and superstition. It is obvious that when you have jettisoned scientific methodology, but active Coronavirus cases have gone down, then only Providence has spared this nation, not withstanding the effusions of POTROG and his advisors. If you drink Mahogany juice regularly in ghana for one year with the aim of preventing malaria, and you do not contract malaria, it does not necessarily mean that Mahogany juice prevents malaria. Period. And anyoneRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Friday 31 July, 2020 Today is Eid Ul Adha – the willingness of prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ismail in obedience to God’s command. “Eid Mubarak” greetings to all Muslims and all people of goodwill. Today more than ever, we at writersghana.com have been receiving calls to stop writing because some people are being exposed. “It is better to obey God rather than men”; that is the clearest Eid message. In the Christian bible, there are several other references to obedience to God including when three young men refused to worship Baal in defiance of the orders ofRead More →