Leadership Archives - Thoughts of a New African

Theo Acheampong Selected As a Young Achiever by Newacrra Magazine

2 April 2015
Media, Writings

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 →

Neo-Elites and the Developmental State

26 March 2015
Writings

Dr Lloyd Amoah makes some compelling arguments in his paper titled “Lee Kuan Yew, Deng Xiaoping and Actualizing the Visions of African Independence” on how the neo-elite class can catalyse…Read more →

Socio-Economic and Governance Conditions in Ghana – The State of the Nation By IEA-Ghana

25 February 2015
Economics, Writings

Extract from the latest and damning IEA Report on the most important problems confronting the country. I dare say this is the ‘real’ state of the nation. Generally, the report…Read more →

Middle Class Activism, Regional Devolution and Cocoa Politics in the Gold Coast (Circa 1955)

21 February 2015
History, Writings

Extracts from The Times newspaper of 1955 (1) “Throughout the country the middle classes, men in the upper ranks of the law; the professions and education are instinctively against the…Read more →

GHANA’S MIDDLE CLASS, POLITICAL ACTIVISM AND ECONOMIC REFORMS

11 August 2014
Economics, History, Writings

Do you know that the French, Bolshevik and Chinese Revolutions were all led by discontented middle-class individuals? Middle-class status is defined by education, occupation and the ownership of assets. These…Read more →

Book Review: I speak of Ghana by Nana Awere Damoah

12 October 2013
Books, Writings

Nana’s latest write-up evoked within me nostalgic memories of growing up in Ghana in the 80s and 90s. Oh! How I miss Secondary School days with all the crappy food…Read more →

On Budget Deficits: US and Ghana

3 March 2013
Economics, Writings

So President Obama last night enacted wide-ranging $85 billion spending cuts in a bid to close the deficit. Total public debt in the US was approximately $11.822 trillion or about…Read more →

Ethiopian Airlines – A Successful Model of State-Owned African Airline?

19 October 2012
Economics, Writings

Ethiopian Airlines has been able to raise its own debt and finance its own expansion without government cash. It is the first carrier outside Japan to operate the new Boeing 787…Read more →

Leadership and economic growth: learning from the Brazilian example – By Temitope Adeyinka

31 August 2012
Economics, Writings

The economy of Brazil is bigger than the economy of all 54 African countries put together! Going a bit granular, Brazil's economy is 2 times bigger than the economy of the…Read more →

The Global Crime Against Public Health: Chinese API’s and Sub-standard medications

30 August 2012
Writings

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Reuters reports unregulated Chinese chemical companies are making active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). API producers and brokers indicate sub-standard drug ingredients are entering the global supply chain. Europe and US…Read more →