Renewable Energy Can Compete at Market Price in Africa
Originally Posted By This is Africa By EDDIE O’CONNOR Developing adequate power supply for Africa is one of the great challenges of our time. The climate agreement in Paris in…Read more →
Entrepreneurship and Creativity
Rhetoric Versus Reality: Africa’s Middle Class Consumption Missing?
What happened to the oft-touted mantra that improving economies on the African continent will provide a paradise for consumer goods salesmen? It was the expectation that Africa’s burgeoning middle class will provide the…Read more →
Theo Acheampong Selected As a Young Achiever by Newacrra Magazine
Newaccra.com, a “leading success and personal development brand”, yesterday named me as a young achiever in its 2015 edition of the ‘Newaccra Achievers Report’. Many thanks to the Newaccra.com team…Read more →
Doing Business in Ghana in 2014 and beyond: Questions on my mind
Questions! Questions!! Questions!!! 1. What’s happened to our efforts to bring more inbound diasporan FDIs into the country? 2. Have we lost our competitive edge as the gateway to West…Read more →
The Effects of Trade Liberalization in Ghana
Happy New Year Everyone! My first post of 2014 was sparked by another on a colleague’s Facebook wall in response to his Ghanaweb Article on Ghana’s trade liberalization policy. I…Read more →
Drawing Parallels Between the North Sea and Ghana’s Oil Industry
This is how vision and strategic planning transformed Aberdeen, a once ‘sleepy’ fishing town into the oil capital of Europe and made many local entrepreneurs who actively participated in the…Read more →
Africa’s Economic Growth: A Fallacy of Numbers?
1. Introduction Only a decade ago, Africa’s socio-economic growth potential was confined to the doldrums and back alley of underdevelopment. Today, the international media continues to be abuzz with common memes such as…Read more →
Data in Development Planning: The Ghana Open Data Initiative
One positive thing I came across last week was the Ghana Open Data initiative. This initiative facilitated by the Ministry of Communications and spearheaded by the National Information Technology…Read more →
Technology, Innovation, Creativity, Entrepreneurship and the African Youth
Last week, I was astounded and inspired by the story of 15-year-old Kelvin Doe (aka DJ Focus) from Sierra Leone on YouTube. Within two weeks, the video has generated over…Read more →