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COLUMNIST: FUSEINI ABDULAI BRAIMAH

When School Becomes a Business: Where Should Ghana Draw the Line?

When School Becomes a Business: Where Should Ghana Draw the Line?

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There is a question Ghana has been reluctant to ask. When does a school stop being primarily an institution of learni ...

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When the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) announced that it had increased its stake in Soci eacut ...

Oct 2, 2026 | Feature Article

There is something deeply troubling about what religion is gradually becoming in parts of our society. The mosque was ...

Oct 2, 2026 | Feature Article

A parent receives a school bill. He looks at the figure. He sighs. Then he pays. But the school fee is rarely the rea ...

Sep 29, 2026 | Feature Article

There is something increasingly troubling about the way some Christian and Muslim preachers speak about God. Listen t ...

Sep 27, 2026 | Feature Article

A child should not need a new set of textbooks every year when the same books can serve younger siblings. There is so ...

Sep 25, 2026 | Feature Article

Yesterday was a bad day. A very sad day. A parent needed GH cent;6,000 to settle his child 39;s school fees. He had ...

Sep 24, 2026 | Feature Article

There was once a powerful soothsayer in Kumbungu. People came from far and near to consult him. Some travelled long d ...

Sep 22, 2026 | Feature Article

Understanding Tamattu rsquo;: Tamattu? consists of two separate acts of worship: ?Umrah Yo ...

Sep 21, 2026 | Feature Article

Why Success Can Leave You with Nobody to Celebrate It With There is something nobody tells you when ...

Sep 20, 2026 | Feature Article

As Ghana approaches another annual pension indexation exercise, the attention of more than 260,000 pensioners will on ...

Sep 20, 2026 | Feature Article

There is a question that African citizens ought to ask more frequently: Why do some countries seem to transform thems ...

Sep 15, 2026 | Feature Article

Every year, when Ghanaian Muslims prepare to travel to Makkah for Hajj, an old argument resurfaces in some Christian ...

Sep 11, 2026 | Feature Article

A friend recently sent me a remarkable piece about William Green, the American labour leader who rose from the coal m ...

Sep 9, 2026 | Feature Article

There is nothing wrong with wanting money. Money feeds us. Money educates our children. Money pays hospital bills. ...

Sep 8, 2026 | Feature Article

The GH cent;60,000 vs GH cent;21.77 controversy, the betrayal of workers and why Ghana urgently needs one fair system ...

Sep 6, 2026 | Feature Article

There are days when we wish we could reach into the sky, grab the hands of the clock, and turn them backwards. Five year ...

Fuseini Abdulai Braimah
Fuseini Abdulai Braimah

Ghanaian essayist and information provider whose writings weave research, history and lived experience into thought-provoking commentary. . More Fuseini Abdulai Braimah, popularly known to everyone as Fussie (or Fuzzy). Born in April 1955, I completed Tamale Secondary School in 1974. Started work as a pupil teacher, worked with Social Security & National Insurance Trust in Yendi, Social Security Bank in Tamale and Tarkwa (brief stint), Northern Regional Development Corporation (NRDC), and University for Development Studies Library in Tamale. I also worked briefly with the British Council Outreach Programme in Tamale. Studied "Application of ICT in Libraries" with the Millennium College, London. Was privileged to be sponsored by the NICHE Project of the Dutch Government to undergo training in Information Literacy Skills at ITHOCA, Centurion, South Africa, after which I undertook an educational tour of some libraries in The Netherlands, which took me to Maastricht, Amsterdam, The Hague, and Leiden. I have a passion for teaching and writing. In the past, I wrote for the Northern Advocate, the Statesman and BBC Focus on Africa Magazine. Now retired, I proofread Undergrad and Graduate theses and articles for refereed journals, as well as assist researchers find material for literature reviews. My specialty is Citations Management.