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This article was originally drafted by Audu Liberty Oseni and the Centre for Democracy and Development for the newsletter “West Africa Insight” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Youth unemployment in West Africa has been attributed to low standard of education and training. Employers often lament […]

In light of the Great Land Rush, that the Lead Article alludes to, smaller stories are often overshadowed. The narrative often includes players such as multinational corporations, governments, local traditional authorities and the displaced small farmer. The picture is of a lone widen-faced farmer who suddenly finds that their informal, […]

What do bugs have to do with your food? Many of us do not think of that beyond the moment when we select and wash our fresh produce. What if I told you that the use of pesticides is linked to the increased need for ecological pollination services and fertilizer […]

  The death of Ghana’s President John Evans Atta Mills some weeks back presented a different test of how much Ghana’s democracy has matured. This West African nation ushered in democracy in 1992 and has since successfully held elections every four years. The way elections are conducted and the political […]

Ghana last won an Olympic medal in 1992 when its football team won bronze. Since then our results in football in the Olympics have not been impressive with the country missing the last two editions. The only other medals have been won in Boxing with the last in that field […]