AUTHOR: BRIGHT B. SIMONS

Ghanaian Politicians Are Not IMANI's Visceral Opponents, Rather Pompous Academics And Some Professionals

Aug 13, 2014 | Feature Article

Today, I am on the issue of think-tanks and IMANI. It is true that IMANI has often clashed with government officials. ...

Is the Cost of Innovation Falling?

Oct 30, 2012 | Feature Article

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. If the cost ...

Bright Simons brings the EU congratulatory tidings from the continent of Africa!

An African Ode To The Glorious European Union On Its Ascension To NOBELity – By ...

Oct 15, 2012 | Feature Article

Your Excellencies, the European Union, We salute you We bring, from the awed continent of Africa, presents. Gold, ...

Why "Green Fossils" Matter So Much To Africa's Energy Future

Oct 12, 2012 | Feature Article

The social and demographic policy dimensions of the strategic energy choices facing Africa are crucial. Examined clos ...

Outspoken Social Enterpreneur On Africa's Power Problems And Possible Solutions

Oct 6, 2012 | Feature Article

This is a guest post by Social Entrepreneur and Public Interest Researcher Bright Simons, inventor of the mPedigree an ...

Bright Simons: 'Both on a per-square mile and a per capita basis, Africa lags behind the global average in mineral production and reserves.'

Africa’s Fabulous Mineral Wealth That Isn’t ALL There – By Bright Simons

Sep 18, 2012 | Feature Article

So let's assume for one moment that you are an international corporate executive responsible for your company's emerging ...

African Lessons for the City-State of Facebook

May 30, 2012 | Feature Article

The heady winds of Facebook's IPO have left in their wake gnawing questions about the durability of the social network b ...

Africa's Chance to Leapfrog the West

Feb 12, 2012 | Feature Article

You've heard about the African Renaissance, right? The Aid Bosses, once the unquestioned successors in Africa to the joi ...

Bringing Medicine to Ghana's Masses (when they are already swimming in it?)

Oct 21, 2010 | Feature Article

In many parts of the developed world, the practice of medicine by relying on such tools as herbs, meditation, trance, ac ...

Human Security is National Security

Mar 2, 2010 | Feature Article

I can understand your mild discomfort with such a sweeping statement - that human security is national security I mean ...

Human Security is National Security

Mar 2, 2010 | Feature Article

I can understand your mild discomfort with such a sweeping statement - that human security is national security I mean ...

IMANI Report: "Integrated Aluminum" Fever - the allure of the white metal

Feb 8, 2010 | Feature Article

As national dreams go, none has been as compulsive in the case of Ghana as the desire of our most powerful leaders to re ...

WHO BETRAYED THE OSAGYEFO?

Sep 22, 2009 | Feature Article

Since Dr. Kwame Nkrumah s official election as the greatest African of all time, and even more so this year becau ...

YES WE CAN, BUT WILL WE?

Jul 20, 2009 | Feature Article

President Barack Obama has left. What did he leave us with? Did he pump us full of gas as in hysteric euphoria ...

GHANA: On the Cusp of an Oil Boom

May 1, 2009 | Feature Article

Attempts to produce commercial quantities of oil in Ghana date from the late 19th Century, and at regular intervals betw ...

Ghana Wrestles with Her Bretton Woods Suitors

Apr 27, 2009 | Feature Article

26 April 2009 It is true that the World Bank seems eager to lend money to Ghana. In recent statements, the Bank has hig ...

The New IMF-Ghana Entente

Apr 22, 2009 | Feature Article

The Honourable Minister of Finance and a high-powered five-person Ghanaian delegation are in Washington D.C. attending t ...

Bright B. Simons

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