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COLUMNIST: KOFI THOMPSON

Beyond Investors: Shouldn’t We Make Ghana the African Green Home for Effective Altruism?

Beyond Investors: Shouldn’t We Make Ghana the African Green Home for Effective Altruism?

Jun 10, 2026 | Feature Article

Ghanafuor, here rsquo;s the question to ponder: In the AI era, with its nation-building tipping points, shouldn rsqu ...

Jun 9, 2026 | Feature Article

Ghanafuor, the question to ponder over in an AI era dominated by social media is: who guards the guardians of Ghana rsqu ...

Jun 8, 2026 | Feature Article

Ghanafuor the question to ponder over is: can Ghana build prosperity without sacrificing its democracy? Yes we can. Our ...

Jun 7, 2026 | Feature Article

Ghanafuor, symbolism matters. In the age of AI and viral social media posts, images travel faster than statutes, and wha ...

Jun 5, 2026 | Feature Article

Positive Money rsquo;s advocacy for central bank digital currencies has sharpened a debate that London and Brussels are ...

Jun 4, 2026 | Feature Article

Ghanafuor, should Ghana still be an IMF-tethered superpower in begging bowl diplomacy, when Kantanka rsquo;s formula cou ...

Jun 4, 2026 | Feature Article

Why are we flying Ghana rsquo;s worst land thieves abroad to sell Brand Ghana? It makes no sense. A private sector fu ...

Jun 3, 2026 | Feature Article

Who pays for the Sahel rsquo;s wars? Not just the jihadist commanders in the bush. Not just the separatist fighters in ...

Jun 3, 2026 | Feature Article

Ghanafuor, we have long mistaken extraction for development. Across mining towns, the pattern is ritualised: capital arr ...

Jun 3, 2026 | Feature Article

No application form. No bribe. No ldquo;connection man rdquo;. Just data, physics, and a timetable we ignore at our per ...

Jun 2, 2026 | Feature Article

The Shangri-La Dialogue was meant to be Asia rsquo;s forum for security, not sabre-rattling. Yet US Defence Secretary Pe ...

Jun 2, 2026 | Feature Article

Dear critical reader, it rsquo;s unfortunate that we happen to be living in an age where the loudest voices are rarely t ...

Jun 1, 2026 | Feature Article

Dear critical reader, if all African nations required mandatory exit visas before their citizens could travel to a siste ...

May 24, 2026 | Feature Article

Ghanafuor, in light of the tension resulting from the controversy surrounding the arrest and prosecution of Kwame Baffoe ...

May 20, 2026 | Feature Article

The latest Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan raise an urgent question: can Afr ...

May 20, 2026 | Feature Article

In the wake of President Trump rsquo;s state visit to China, and to avoid the consequences of the Thucydides Trap, China ...

May 19, 2026 | Feature Article

Dear critical reader, a workable path to defuse the Iran nuclear crisis at the core of the ongoing Iran war requires goo ...

Kofi Thompson
Kofi Thompson

Writer & activist for environmental justice & human rights. . More Born into a farming family, I speak truth to power to amplify the voices of victims of injustice.