# Postcolonial Writers Series

> moderated intellectual platform where African academics, writers, and thinkers reclaim the story of Africa — on African terms. 


## Posts

- [Moral Masquerade: Is Mayor Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi the Chief Enabler of Rape Culture at Obuasi Senior High Technical School?](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/moral-masquerade-is-mayor-richard-ofori-agyemang-boadi-the-chief-enabler-of-rape-culture-at-obuasi-senior-high-technical-school/): In this essay, I unapologetically confront the disgraceful failure of Ghana’s system in the Obuasi Senior High Technical School case.
- [Sanctifying Ecocide: Neoliberal Hymns, Sammy Gyamfi’s Pulpit, and Ghana’s Descent into Ruin](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/sanctifying-ecocide-neoliberal-hymns-sammy-gyamfis-pulpit-and-ghanas-descent-into-ruin/): Ghanaian leadership, much like their colonial predecessors, perpetuates a destructive legacy of exploitation and environmental devastation.
- [Obuasi Secondary Technical School: How a Nation Failed its Most Vulnerable Population—The Cornerstone of its Future](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/obuasi-secondary-technical-school-how-a-nation-failed-its-most-vulnerable-population-the-cornerstone-of-its-future/): This paper is an unflinching indictment of the Mahama administration, NDC officials—Mustapha Gbande, Asiedu Nketia, Fifi Fiavi Kwetey—the Gender Minister, the Education Ministry, the Ghana Education Service, the Vice President, and the First Lady.
- [Foreign-Funded NGOs in Ghana and Africa: Serpents in Saintly Disguise—Beware the Ides of March](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/foreign-funded-ngos-in-ghana-and-africa-serpents-in-saintly-disguise-beware-the-ides-of-march/): This paper delivers a ruthless critique of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Ghana, with IMANI-Center for Policy and Education as the focal point.
- [Hymns of Assurance, Deeds of Neglect: The Politics of Inaction Amid National Disasters](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/hymns-of-assurance-deeds-of-neglect-the-politics-of-inaction-amid-national-disasters/): In this commentary, I adopt the mantle of a “garbologist” to expose Ghana’s mounting crisis of filth and neglect.
- [Kofi Adams: Spare Ghana the Lies—Truth Always Catches Up](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/269-2/): This paper delivers a scathing critique of Kofi Adams, Minister for Sports, Yaw Ampofo Ankrah, former Director General of the National Sports Authority, and their network of cronies.
- [Defying Ghana’s Road Safety Laws: Where Is Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings When Leadership Falters?](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/defying-ghanas-road-safety-laws-where-is-flt-lt-jerry-john-rawlings-when-leadership-falters/): In this paper, I confront President John Dramani Mahama’s chronic indecisiveness on policy and law.
- [Online Scams: Has Ghana Become the Rabbit Hole of the 21st Century?](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/online-scams-has-ghana-become-the-rabbit-hole-of-the-21st-century/): The Federal Bureau of Investigation's recent arrest of 130 scammers at a Ghanaian cybercrime center—resulting in $10 million in losses, 89 victims, and the seizure of 300 devices—is a damning indictment of Ghana’s state apparatus and its leaders.
- [Archbishop Charles Agyinasare: Genuine Damascus Conversion or Just Another Public Relations Gimmick?](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/archbishop-charles-agyinasare-genuine-damascus-conversion-or-just-another-public-relations-gimmick/): In this essay, I subject Archbishop Charles Agyinasare’s credibility to rigorous scrutiny—not out of malice, but because his public persona masks a troubling opportunism.
- [NDC’s “Panic” over Bamba--Kwesi Botchway Jnr—A Charade Worthy of Contempt](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/ndcs-panic-over-bamba-kwesi-botchway-jnr-a-charade-worthy-of-contempt/): Wearing a suit, donning plastic eyeglasses, and stringing together a few sentences in English does not confer communication expertise—contrary to the image the New Patriotic Party (NPP) would have the nation accept.
- [What’s Eating Dr. Stephen Amoah? Bed Bugs, Nightmares, or a Looming EOCO Summon? ](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/whats-eating-dr-stephen-amoah-bed-bugs-nightmares-or-a-looming-eoco-summon/): The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has mastered the art of hollow slogans—branding itself as “technocratic,” “doyens of democracy,” “property-owning” millionaires, “God-fearing,” and “law-abiding,” yet consistently failing to explain or substantiate these claims (Gyampo, 2021; Boafo-Arthur, 2007).
- [Labadi Beach Demolition: When Official Spin Collapses into Farce](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/labadi-beach-demolition-when-official-spin-collapses-into-farce/): The Mahama government’s handling of the Labadi Beach demolition is a masterclass in narrative failure.
- [NDC’s Anti-Corruption Failure: A Crisis of Leadership](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/ndcs-anti-corruption-failure-a-crisis-of-leadership/): This commentary confronts a central malaise in Ghana: the selective application of the law and its corrosive impact on justice.
- [Postcolonial Ghana at a Crossroads: Losing the War on Corruption?](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/postcolonial-ghana-at-a-crossroads-losing-the-war-on-corruption/): Addressing Ghana’s most urgent issues is not an antagonistic exercise, but a scholarly imperative.
- [Insult Politics in Ghana’s 4th Republic: Unmasking the Roots of Verbal Warfare](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/insult-politics-in-ghanas-4th-republic-unmasking-the-roots-of-verbal-warfare/): This paper confronts the epidemic of media violence in contemporary Ghanaian politics.
- [Lavish Send-Off for Generals—While Retired Teachers Suffer in Silence](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/lavish-send-off-for-generals-while-retired-teachers-suffer-in-silence/): I begin this essay with a note of lamentation: If tears could mend a nation, I would weep a well for Ghana—a country that has lost the will to speak truth and instead crafts its own undoing.
- [24-Hour Economy: The Latest Political Gimmick Doomed to Crash and Burn ](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/24-hour-economy-the-latest-political-gimmick-doomed-to-crash-and-burn/): Campaign promises like the so-called "24-hour economy" are nothing more than desperate rhetoric—empty, convoluted phrases that quickly devolve into a modern-day Tower of Babel.
- [Ghanaian Scholarship Secretariat: Hotbed of Fraud and Financial Waste ](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/ghanaian-scholarship-secretariat-hotbed-of-fraud-and-financial-waste/): The entrenched fraud and waste at Ghana’s Scholarship Secretariat is a national scandal, perpetuated by politicians, policymakers, and the elite who exploit the system for personal gain (Asante & Ayee, 2021; MyJoyOnline, 2023).
- [Let Lordina Mahama Speak: Her English Is Just Fine—Focus on Service, Not Artificial Limitations in English ](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/let-lordina-mahama-speak-her-english-is-just-fine-focus-on-service-not-artificial-limitations-in-english/): In her incisive article, “The First Lady’s job is to serve the people, not to pass an English examination” (GhanaWeb, 2026), Victoria Hammah rightly asserts that Lordina Mahama’s primary duty is national service—not linguistic prowess.
- [Cocaine Politics in Ghana: Whataboutism and the Farce of (Im)moral Equivalencies](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/cocaine-politics-in-ghana-whataboutism-and-the-farce-of-immoral-equivalencies/): In this paper, I take a polemical stance to expose the absurdity and danger of narco-politics in Ghana, fueled by whataboutism and false moral equivalency over which government—National Democratic Congress (NDC) or New Patriotic Party (NPP)—interdicted more cocaine shipments (Daily Graphic, 2023; Citi Newsroom, 2024).
- [When Can Police Search Your Phone? Warrants, Exceptions, and Preventing Threats to Public Order](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/when-can-police-search-your-phone-warrants-exceptions-and-preventing-threats-to-public-order/): This essay interrogates whether Ghanaian police possess constitutional authority to search a suspect’s phone without a court warrant.
- [Ghanaian Cocaine Seizure in France: A Crime Abroad, Seen as Reparations at Home](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/ghanaian-cocaine-seizure-in-france-a-crime-abroad-seen-as-reparations-at-home/): A nation intent on its own moral collapse cannot be rescued by goodwill alone.
- [Ghana & South Africa: Reviving the Forgotten Bond of Siblinghood](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/ghana-south-africa-reviving-the-forgotten-bond-of-siblinghood/): In this article, I interrogate the enduring bond of siblinghood between Ghana and South Africa—a relationship far deeper than the sensationalist narratives advanced by “March and March” protestors and amplified by Western media would suggest (Adogamhe, 2008; Mbeki, 2012).
- [Election Promises in Ghanaian Politics: Delaying Problems, Not Delivering Solutions](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/election-promises-in-ghanaian-politics-delaying-problems-not-delivering-solutions/): In this essay, I interrogate a persistent pathology in Ghanaian politics: the ritualistic cycle of grand promises and symbolic delivery that surrounds every general election.
- [A Letter to President William Ruto: Africans Are Kin, Not Foreigners, in Kenya](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/a-letter-to-president-william-ruto-africans-are-kin-not-foreigners-in-kenya/): I hope this letter finds you well. I write with deep respect and concern for the future of Kenya and the continent.
- [P.N.D.C.L. 282 and Article 68: A Constitutional Blueprint for Presidential Excess and State Exploitation in Ghana?](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/p-n-d-c-l-282-and-article-68-a-constitutional-blueprint-for-presidential-excess-and-state-exploitation-in-ghana/): In this essay, I critically examine the Provisional National Defence Council Law (P.N.D.C.L.)
- [Cry, the Beloved Country: When Apartheid’s Victims Long for the Chains That Once Bound Them](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/cry-the-beloved-country-when-apartheids-victims-long-for-the-chains-that-once-bound-them/): Taking a spiritual and emotional hiatus from one’s homeland, only to return and confront its transformation, is not merely a personal journey but a civic duty.
- [Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams: From Pulpit to Punchline?](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/archbishop-nicholas-duncan-williams-from-pulpit-to-punchline/): In this essay, I interrogate a troubling norm that has taken root within Ghanaian society: the widespread belief that corporate pastors are above critique and thus entitled to subject the public to unfiltered absurdities (Asamoah-Gyadu, 2015; Gifford, 2015).
- [Exclusion by Design: Disabled Ghanaian Students, Segregated Schools, and Systemic Policy Neglect](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/exclusion-by-design-disabled-ghanaian-students-segregated-schools-and-systemic-policy-neglect/): In this publication, I interrogate a subject that is not only personally significant but also a litmus test for the ethical maturity of our nation: the treatment of disabled students within the Ghanaian education system.
- [When Nothing Works in Ghana: Empty Rhetoric Replaces Real Policy in a Dysfunctional Nation](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/when-nothing-works-in-ghana-empty-rhetoric-replaces-real-policy-in-a-dysfunctional-nation/): In this analysis, I take serious issue with the persistent failure to implement effective policy responses to the recurring floods in Accra, Ghana's capital.
- [What a Waste! The True Ghanaian Politician Under the Knife](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/what-a-waste-the-true-ghanaian-politician-under-the-knife/): In this publication, I engage directly with the Ghanaian political landscape, scrutinizing the conduct of politicians—predominantly men—and their female subordinates, whose approach to governance is defined by a penchant for extravagance and profligacy.
- [The “Death” of the Northern Regions](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/the-death-of-the-northern-regions/): In this publication, I use the term “death for two notations” to articulate both my profound disappointment in politicians from the Northern regions of Ghana—particularly in the era of the Fourth Republic—and my concern about the persistent material deprivation imposed on citizens of the North.
- [Sovereignty Sabotaged: Ghana’s Unfinished Liberation](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/sovereignty-sabotaged-ghanas-unfinished-liberation/): Contemporary Western influence over Ghana persists through insidious mechanisms: educational programs, financial loans, public accolades, and the perpetuation of unattainable promises (Nkrumah, 1965; Ake, 1981).
- [Phone Addiction in the Workplace: How Leadership Normalizes Employee Indiscipline](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/phone-addiction-in-the-workplace-how-leadership-normalizes-employee-indiscipline/): In this publication, I confront a dangerous and pervasive culture gripping the nation’s workplaces: employees’ unrestrained addiction to their phones and social media.
- [When Police Turn a Blind Eye to the Law: A Deadly Betrayal of Duty](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/when-police-turn-a-blind-eye-to-the-law-a-deadly-betrayal-of-duty/): In this publication, I address a recurring and deeply troubling issue that continues to claim human lives: the prevalence of road accidents occurring under the direct supervision of the Ghana Police Service’s Motor Traffic and Transportation Department.
- [The Illusion of Change in Ghanaian Democratic Politics](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/the-illusion-of-change-in-ghanaian-democratic-politics/): This publication examines the deception employed by Ghana's two major political parties, the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party, towards the public.
- [The Importation and Exportation of Cocaine to and from Ghana: Is the Lack of Narco-Effective Policies Turning Ghana into a Democratic Failed State?](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/the-importation-and-exportation-of-cocaine-to-and-from-ghana-is-the-lack-of-narco-effective-policies-turning-ghana-into-a-democratic-failed-state/): The Importation and Exportation of Cocaine to and from Ghana: Is the Lack of Narco-Effective Policies Turning Ghana into a Democratic Failed State?
- [Abahambe: What happened to Postcolonial Ghanaian Diplomacy of Solving Problems on the Quiet Side?](https://postcolonialwritersseries.com/abahambe-what-happened-to-postcolonial-ghanaian-diplomacy-of-solving-problems-on-the-quiet-side/): In this publication, I discuss the stereotypes and negative impressions of Black South Africans by their fellow Black Africans, particularly Ghanaian returnees and social commentators who characterize them as xenophobic.

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