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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 21 June, 2020 “He should come over here to ghana and see what we have to live with,” was my mentor’s response to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s comments on the growing problem of “anti-science bias” in the US during the “Learning Curve” podcast last week.  I have my battles, and my mentor has his, but sometimes they converge. Whether you are dealing with the stark illiterate or the so-called educated middle class– upwardly mobile, aspirational class; both most often have strange values and are often “impervious to reason”, to borrow my mentor’s term.  There are at least three reasons forRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 26 February, 2020 At the 70th anniversary lecture of Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) in November, Dr. Kweku Rockson, a former Rector of Ghana Institute of Journalism was given advance notice as speaker to define who a journalist is. Unfortunately, he dodged the question. But the reality is that just as the GJA was seeking clarity from an academic who obfuscated, undergraduate mass communication students in Ghana will always corner lecturers, and ask where to specialise. On Monday, Ms X, sitting alone in a classroom cornered me about whether she will be on the right path if she chooses Journalism.Read More →