Do we need a think-tank in Ghana?

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Agyeman. 10 years ago

We have a lot of educated Ghanaian fools on both sides of the atlantic and a thinks tank won't help.Look at the mess Ghana is in and tell me if you really think an intellectual class is capable of saving us from ourselves.

We have a lot of educated Ghanaian fools on both sides of the atlantic and a thinks tank won't help.Look at the mess Ghana is in and tell me if you really think an intellectual class is capable of saving us from ourselves.
william 10 years ago

Good idea but avoid party lobbyist like danquah busia institute parading as think tanks and avoid the likes of Ahoofe, a one-tenth-baked english p.hd holder!

Good idea but avoid party lobbyist like danquah busia institute parading as think tanks and avoid the likes of Ahoofe, a one-tenth-baked english p.hd holder!
Symbiosis 10 years ago

I agree with Agyeman and I really dont think that the situation is one in which Ghana needs the expertise of these deserters. With money, expertise can be bought from anywhere and from anybody who has it.

I rather think t ...
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I agree with Agyeman and I really dont think that the situation is one in which Ghana needs the expertise of these deserters. With money, expertise can be bought from anywhere and from anybody who has it.

I rather think that it is more of a situation in which these people now need Ghana to regain some sense of importance and native/racial pride.

There are few things more contemptible in the contemporary world than a gifted African - or for that matter any African, who ignores the deplorable circumstances of Africa. Then on the fickle pretext of seeking 'greener pastures', turns his/her back on the compelling need to resuscitate his/her own people from the crass conditions that we as a race of people find ourselves in.

The people who they have found it more rewarding to offer their expertise to, invariably show their characteristic ingratitude and bigotry sooner than later.

It is at such times, when these gifted Africans have either been used-up and misused or it is too late in their lives, that they begin to look towards or surreptitiously find their way back home.

As is evident, they often do not get the kind of grand-stand applause they expect on their 'grand return' home. It only at such times that they will wake up to the stark reality that material possessions are indeed worthless when it comes to being contrasted with personal and racial values, esteem and respect.

It is ok for such people to form a think-tank by which they can brainstorm on issues that they may wish to share with the poor country they had earlier abandoned. At this time they will again belatedly find out that the greater difficulty would be how to get the status quo to accept or employ their ideas.

Ghana is not in any dire shortage of ideas and appropriate expertise. What Ghana needs is the kind of people who can work towards getting rid of the kind of crooked and myopic civil servants, businessmen and politicians who have also colonized their country in the single pursuit of milking it dry to death for their selfish ends.

It does not seem to me that Ghanaian experts abroad, having become completely disoriented from the conditions at home, are the least qualified to handle the problems facing our country.
Asiwome 10 years ago

No one is willing to confront the spiritual crisis we face. This cannot be solved by science. Corruption exists everywhere, and Ghanaians are made more susceptible to corruption by social systems that do not encourage pride i ...
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No one is willing to confront the spiritual crisis we face. This cannot be solved by science. Corruption exists everywhere, and Ghanaians are made more susceptible to corruption by social systems that do not encourage pride in ourselves and our institutions. We are copycats and nullify our God-given qualities instead of improving them.
SETH NYAME ADAM 10 years ago

We already have an EWE KILLING & MURDER THINK TANK in Gana.This is sustained and managed by former EWE Army and Police officers,Kojo Tsikata, Kofi Awoonor,Rawlings,G.Lartey,Amedeka,Tekpor,Jandu, the Dzelokope mafia and co.

We already have an EWE KILLING & MURDER THINK TANK in Gana.This is sustained and managed by former EWE Army and Police officers,Kojo Tsikata, Kofi Awoonor,Rawlings,G.Lartey,Amedeka,Tekpor,Jandu, the Dzelokope mafia and co.
Gye Nyame 10 years ago

There are Ghanaian officials in and out of conferences in the West and other places, as well as taking courses in the most prestigious schools in the world. The problem is either those in power don't listen to them when they ...
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There are Ghanaian officials in and out of conferences in the West and other places, as well as taking courses in the most prestigious schools in the world. The problem is either those in power don't listen to them when they get back or they are all too corrupt, so love the status quo. I see it more as a character issue than a lack of knowledge.
Gadlfy 10 years ago

It is not doctorate degree. It is either doctorate or doctoral degree.

It is not doctorate degree. It is either doctorate or doctoral degree.
JONNY 10 years ago

BIG BRAINS INDEED! LOOK AT DANQUAH BUSIA INSTITUTE CALLING ITSELF A THINK TANK WHEN THEY ARE IN THE ACTUAL FACT PERPETRATING THEIR IDEOLOGY & PARTY MANIFESTO IN THAT INSTITUTE. GIVE US A BREAK WITH THIS THINK TANKING STUFF. W ...
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BIG BRAINS INDEED! LOOK AT DANQUAH BUSIA INSTITUTE CALLING ITSELF A THINK TANK WHEN THEY ARE IN THE ACTUAL FACT PERPETRATING THEIR IDEOLOGY & PARTY MANIFESTO IN THAT INSTITUTE. GIVE US A BREAK WITH THIS THINK TANKING STUFF. WILL IT PUT FOOD IN THE POCKETS OF ORDINARY GHANAIANS? .NONSENSE!
Danso TDOT 10 years ago

Kwesi Atta, I was taking you seriously until you mentioned Kojo Tamakloe (T) as a great contributor on this forum who may be useful for resource for your proposed think-think. Don't ever make that error again!

Kwesi Atta, I was taking you seriously until you mentioned Kojo Tamakloe (T) as a great contributor on this forum who may be useful for resource for your proposed think-think. Don't ever make that error again!
Ken Atta-Boakye 10 years ago

The idea is great. But it is not a question of people without the intellectual know-how. Some of our leaders are intellectually powerful. They just refuse to lead for fear that they may be booted out for not toeing party line ...
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The idea is great. But it is not a question of people without the intellectual know-how. Some of our leaders are intellectually powerful. They just refuse to lead for fear that they may be booted out for not toeing party lines and being enslaved to their parties. Even Justices appointed with overwhelming benefits including life salary give verdicts that set the nation on fire. There is lack of ethical character of leadership in the system. We need people with integrity and accountability spirit to lead. Let's pray for more Martin Amidus.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 years ago

Yes I am aware of the ultra-leftist ideas of Kojo T but that is the beauty of a think-tank to accommodate people of diverse views to be able to have a good balance and to churn quality ideas.

Yes I am aware of the ultra-leftist ideas of Kojo T but that is the beauty of a think-tank to accommodate people of diverse views to be able to have a good balance and to churn quality ideas.
Jose 10 years ago

Kwesi, you see the comments of Danso T is exatly what defines the NPP. Disagree or challenge them and become their enemy for life. How can such ppl be branded as democrats?

Kwesi, you see the comments of Danso T is exatly what defines the NPP. Disagree or challenge them and become their enemy for life. How can such ppl be branded as democrats?
Danso TDOT 10 years ago

Jose, what makes you think I support the NPP? Is it the akan Name? Mind you, every reasonable person on this forum knows Kojo T can't think let alone analyse an issue to even propose solution. The guy sees everything as Ewe ...
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Jose, what makes you think I support the NPP? Is it the akan Name? Mind you, every reasonable person on this forum knows Kojo T can't think let alone analyse an issue to even propose solution. The guy sees everything as Ewe vs Asante (he even think every akan sounding name must be an Asante), The man even think I am an Asante after reminding him on numerous occasions that I am from Kwahu.

That is the man Kojo Tamakloe for you! He's still operating from some cave in Hoehoe!
Osei 10 years ago

What Tsatu said is true but is a thousand times TRUE 0f Atuguba, that good for nothing and bribe taking judge who influenced some others with him with bribe money to vote the same way with him. Unlike the so called Kuffour ap ...
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What Tsatu said is true but is a thousand times TRUE 0f Atuguba, that good for nothing and bribe taking judge who influenced some others with him with bribe money to vote the same way with him. Unlike the so called Kuffour appointee who used his conscience to vote 50% of the petitioners pleas out. Tsatu is a maggot, so is Atuguba.
NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

Kwesi Atta..........we have always had think-tanks in and outside Ghana since time in memorial. Some stayed in Ghana, some are still living abroad and some have returned home, all with great ideas. But some of course, contrib ...
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Kwesi Atta..........we have always had think-tanks in and outside Ghana since time in memorial. Some stayed in Ghana, some are still living abroad and some have returned home, all with great ideas. But some of course, contribute to debates/articles with the 'big', 'big', English 'lingo' which makes a lot of sense but, has contributed NOTHING to the positive development of our dear nation.

Most of our people educated abroad came back and some became Presidents and politicians etc. Are we to refer to them as think-thanks? Don't forget they also shouted from afar of being capable of running our nation better than others. Well, the results are there to see.

My question is, what happens to the mind of our so-called think-thanks in the diaspora, on reaching our shores? I will tell you what happens.....they change! They get away with not paying taxes etc. and live with the belief that nothing will happen to them in our country. (Think about it).

Kwesi, our problem is NOT going to be solved by the so-called think-tanks made up of doctors, professors etc. etc......dazzling ideas on this forum or from any kind of platform......from overseas.

What we need is a STRONG selfless, patriotic, efficient and an honest leader with integrity and above all COMMON SENSE, who believes in LAW and ORDER..............To create STRONGER institutions run by people with the same attributes to implement LAW and ORDER! Because strong institutions are created by strong leaders with the above attributes. (And not as suggested by Obama).

And these attributes can be harnessed from OUR OWN society, for the development of our dear nation. By this I mean tapping into all aspects of human resource of our country to include elders, chiefs, farmers, fishermen, market women with COMMON SENSE, with innovative ideas to be part of the think-tanks.

Most important of all, all these ideas of the think-tanks will come to NOTHING if they are not physically implemented. We need people with the 'can-do' spirit to take the bull by the horn and get things done! PERIOD!

Our education system must be overhauled to reflect our African heritage and build from there. We CANNOT be like those we are going around mimicking their lifestyles and aping around like them; with the belief that we will become like them.
NEVER!!!!! We need to get back to the drawing board and get to know who we really are and the purpose of our human existence as Africans before we can go any further with OUR OWN development.

Why do we fail and deprive our OWN people of achieving higher education if they fail a language alien to their heritage, culture and traditions?
Why? Are we not human enough for our own good?

Kwesi what you also have to realize is that the Malaysians, Singaporeans, French, Germans, Chinese, Indians etc. educate themselves in their own 'lingos', hence their development in their own pace.

The diasporeans can only help if they are patriotic enough, are not going to behave like stooges to foreigners, are not going to impose themselves and look down on our own citizens just because they studied abroad. And above all have to rid themselves of their slave-mentality, in order to see good in their God created fellow Ghanaians.

And by that, I mean the educated illiterates who will for example, suggest we build flyovers to alleviate congestion on our roads, without assessing the courses of the congestion on our roads...........all because they are all over Europe and the U.S. (Think about it).

Ghana is for all Ghanaians and NOT for the few educated illiterates, who see no good in their OWN fellow Ghanaians they refer to as uneducated.
The solution is in OUR OWN hands.

Education is not only about acquiring knowledge by means of somebody else's 'lingo'; there is more to it than that........and I hope the so-called think-tanks from the diaspora will agree with me.

If not, we will be debating this same subject until thy Kingdom come and be chasing our own tails forever! (Please don;t take it wrongly).

Finally Kwesi Atta, we need Ghanaians to come over to help....not AFROPEANS!

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
Delli Babu. M.T 10 years ago

overnment should come forward to appreciate the Ghanian Diaspora, make a group who have succeaafully brought in FE favorably and support their plans to developand grow Ghanaian Youths. the largest problem among the Ghanian
y ...
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overnment should come forward to appreciate the Ghanian Diaspora, make a group who have succeaafully brought in FE favorably and support their plans to developand grow Ghanaian Youths. the largest problem among the Ghanian
youth is being misguided for vested interests
Ofori Quaah 10 years ago

HE WAS THEN THEIR HERO

Ghana Supreme Court declares Fast Track Courts illegal

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's Supreme Court on Monday declared the Fast Track Court unconstitutional, virtually putting on hold the trial of ...
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HE WAS THEN THEIR HERO

Ghana Supreme Court declares Fast Track Courts illegal

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's Supreme Court on Monday declared the Fast Track Court unconstitutional, virtually putting on hold the trial of several former ministers and government officials for various offences. The Court, by a 5-4 majority, upheld a motion brought before it by Tsatsu Tsikata, former chief executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), challenging the constitutionality of the Fast Track Court (FTC). Chief Justice Edward Kwame Wiredu dissented along with Justices George Acquah, William Atuguba and Sophia A. B. Akuffo.

http://www.panapress.com/Ghana-Supreme-Court-declares-Fast-Track-Courts-illegal--13-455220-17-lang1-index.html
Kawaanopaado 10 years ago

We welcome our Diasporeans and their contributions to nation-building but one thing is sure. Our policy-makers at home will not give them political space because of their selfish and narrow interests. They are better off keep ...
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We welcome our Diasporeans and their contributions to nation-building but one thing is sure. Our policy-makers at home will not give them political space because of their selfish and narrow interests. They are better off keeping and backing off.
Ofori Quaah 10 years ago

Kwesi,
I have always thought that the purpose of sending pre-publication copies of your articles to friends is to enable them “critique” them and give you their opinion about your articles. In the past I have pointed out ...
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Kwesi,
I have always thought that the purpose of sending pre-publication copies of your articles to friends is to enable them “critique” them and give you their opinion about your articles. In the past I have pointed out a few omissions/errors and sometimes, the length of the article itself, for which Paa Kwesi Mintah has often descended on you. When you sent this particular one around, I went through it and came back to you within an hour, because I thought there were some inaccuracies that needed to be corrected. In particular, l pointed out the very personal conversation with Chris’s sister which I knew was not wholly true and asked that you took that out.

When I woke up early this morning, the first thing I wanted to do was to check Ghanaweb, which I don’t usually do. To my horror, it is all there! Chris and I have been like brothers since we met in secondary school fifty years ago. For the first time in all those years, this is the first time I have read something about Chris that I cannot share with him and I am hoping and praying that neither he nor any member of his family reads it!

Onua Pa Kwesi,
Thanks so much for sending the pre-publication copy of your interesting article. I have made a few corrections, highlighted in yellow. This time around I think the corrections are so serious that you need to make them BEFORE you send it off for publication. I am essentially a geophysicist/seismologist, NOT a nuclear physicist, with a background in Physics. What little nuclear physics I still remember comes from my undergraduate days.

Kofi Gharban actually developed a power management system which in those days, allowed power to be distributed to areas where it was needed most. For instance, back in the 1980s and to some extent even today, when workers went home about 5:30pm and immediately switched on the kettles, cookers and televisions among others, power consumption in places like London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool, shot right up to the roof. The system Kofi developed, which formed part of his dissertation, was such that it would switch power from rural areas and some towns where the consumption was light, to these heavy use centres. From about 8pm when people would have settled down for dinner, the power would be switched back to the areas from which it was derived. He installed it all over the world – China, Australia, much of Europe and South America.

Kofi did a straight PhD at Imperial, skipping the MSc in those days, but some of the colleges of the University of London used to have this "Diploma" that was awarded to everybody who completed a higher degree. Imperial still awards it (DIC).

I have made some correction on the Kofi Pro thing. I intended to send a copy to Kofi, but I cannot do so with the bit about his sister. That is a big NO NO! I have known Kofi for a very long time. We all have our shortcomings. I know he helped his folks in many ways, but that should be a family matter! I have therefore taken it out. Please, please, please take it out of the article. Kofi is still battling with various health problems. He can contribute to any discussion on any subject under the sun, but something like that hitting him like a bolt, could create a major health problem for him - a return of the stroke or even heart attack.

Personally, I think this Think Tank thing should be non-partisan, non-governmental, so that whichever government that is in power can benefit from it. You do not want the situation where it gets so close to a sitting government that the next government does not want to touch it.
Stay blessed
Bro Kobena Ebo
Ofori Quaah 10 years ago

Kwesi,
I have always thought that the purpose of sending pre-publication copies of your articles to friends is to enable them “critique” them and give you their opinion about your articles. In the past I have pointed out ...
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Kwesi,
I have always thought that the purpose of sending pre-publication copies of your articles to friends is to enable them “critique” them and give you their opinion about your articles. In the past I have pointed out a few omissions/errors and sometimes, the length of the article itself, for which Paa Kwesi Mintah has often descended on you. When you sent this particular one around, I went through it and came back to you within an hour, because I thought there were some inaccuracies that needed to be corrected. In particular, l pointed out the very personal conversation with Chris’s sister which I knew was not wholly true and asked that you took that out.

When I woke up early this morning, the first thing I wanted to do was to check Ghanaweb, which I don’t usually do. To my horror, it is all there! Chris and I have been like brothers since we met in secondary school fifty years ago. For the first time in all those years, this is the first time I have read something about Chris that I cannot share with him and I am hoping and praying that neither he nor any member of his family reads it!

Onua Pa Kwesi,
Thanks so much for sending the pre-publication copy of your interesting article. I have made a few corrections, highlighted in yellow. This time around I think the corrections are so serious that you need to make them BEFORE you send it off for publication. I am essentially a geophysicist/seismologist, NOT a nuclear physicist, with a background in Physics. What little nuclear physics I still remember comes from my undergraduate days.

Kofi Gharban actually developed a power management system which in those days, allowed power to be distributed to areas where it was needed most. For instance, back in the 1980s and to some extent even today, when workers went home about 5:30pm and immediately switched on the kettles, cookers and televisions among others, power consumption in places like London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool, shot right up to the roof. The system Kofi developed, which formed part of his dissertation, was such that it would switch power from rural areas and some towns where the consumption was light, to these heavy use centres. From about 8pm when people would have settled down for dinner, the power would be switched back to the areas from which it was derived. He installed it all over the world – China, Australia, much of Europe and South America.

Kofi did a straight PhD at Imperial, skipping the MSc in those days, but some of the colleges of the University of London used to have this "Diploma" that was awarded to everybody who completed a higher degree. Imperial still awards it (DIC).

I have made some correction on the Kofi Pro thing. I intended to send a copy to Kofi, but I cannot do so with the bit about his sister. That is a big NO NO! I have known Kofi for a very long time. We all have our shortcomings. I know he helped his folks in many ways, but that should be a family matter! I have therefore taken it out. Please, please, please take it out of the article. Kofi is still battling with various health problems. He can contribute to any discussion on any subject under the sun, but something like that hitting him like a bolt, could create a major health problem for him - a return of the stroke or even heart attack.

Personally, I think this Think Tank thing should be non-partisan, non-governmental, so that whichever government that is in power can benefit from it. You do not want the situation where it gets so close to a sitting government that the next government does not want to touch it.
Stay blessed
Bro Kobena Ebo
Ofori Quaah 10 years ago

Sorry,

Ihave had difficulty posting this!

Sorry,

Ihave had difficulty posting this!
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 years ago

I am sorry for disappointing you but I have taken note of your deep sentiments and next time, I will hold on to my article till I obtain your input before posting them. You see, I still suffer from being exuberant and button- ...
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I am sorry for disappointing you but I have taken note of your deep sentiments and next time, I will hold on to my article till I obtain your input before posting them. You see, I still suffer from being exuberant and button-happy with the computer, as I would have posted at the same time I serve you the copy. I shall change my modus operandi henceforth. Thanks a lot Big Bro Ofori Quaah.
Kobia Amenfi Oti Akenten 10 years ago

Zambia 0 Ghana 4! Yaanom y) akromfuor!

Zambia 0 Ghana 4! Yaanom y) akromfuor!
SERIOUS MIND 10 years ago

Your idea is excellent. You probably have stayed away from home too long to understand the frustration of dealing with weak-minded policy makers. First we must start from Parliament, down to the corridors of the state adminis ...
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Your idea is excellent. You probably have stayed away from home too long to understand the frustration of dealing with weak-minded policy makers. First we must start from Parliament, down to the corridors of the state administrators - these dumb policy makers will riducle and throw your suggestions into party dust bins. Partisanship is eating the last fiber of their brains. They dont know but will not include any brains from outside their party to address any issue to make sense. Just yesterday alone power went off and on ten times in some sections of the nation. Why ? They are unwilling to admit they dont know how to solve the problem but will not invite non partisan brains to help. As long as they recieve their bribe money and talk party dialogue all else is unimportant. I BLAME ATUGUBA'S SUPREME COURT.
Ofori Quaah 10 years ago

Serious Mind,
You are right about the mind set of our policy makers. I rememeber back in the late 1980s, one of our school mates took Dr Gharban's invention that Kwesi wrote about all the way to the top echelons of the Elect ...
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Serious Mind,
You are right about the mind set of our policy makers. I rememeber back in the late 1980s, one of our school mates took Dr Gharban's invention that Kwesi wrote about all the way to the top echelons of the Electricity Corporation of Ghana. He even proposed a way of literally "seeing" everybody's level of consumption by a pressing a button, at a control centre.

Electricity Corporation has cash problems because there are milions of users who do not pay any bills because of fraudulent connections, mostly by junior staff of the corporation. This system was aimed at cutting down as much of that as possible. But they were not interested. Some people obviously benefit from it! In the end the few users who pay their biills faithfully continue to carry along the "free users".

I can write a book about my seventeen years of woes back in Ghana!

Some of us have decided to help our old secondary schools and quietly assist our village schools with books and other educational materials, construction of libraries, etc, and hope that these small gestures will brighten "little corners of Ghana."
Benash, NJ. 10 years ago

Thanks so much Mr. Ofori Quaah and I strongly support your way to go to help Mother Ghana. I'm currently doing the same, just this past summer I shipped books to my town's local library.
You've said it all in your response t ...
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Thanks so much Mr. Ofori Quaah and I strongly support your way to go to help Mother Ghana. I'm currently doing the same, just this past summer I shipped books to my town's local library.
You've said it all in your response to the writer of this article. Our so-called leaders be it at companies or corporations are not ready to change for the better nor accept new ideas and innovations that will improved upon our lives.
Germany with less sunlight or daylight has more solar panels that creates energy that can serve the whole of Ghana and our leaders are just sitting down and scratching their heads.
Paa Kwesi Mintah 10 years ago

Cousin, I noticed you're on a babble spree and I'm too busy to spend my little break reading your outmoded ideas based on fantasy. But here I come, wielding my critique axe.

Why do you always propose this outrageous Minist ...
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Cousin, I noticed you're on a babble spree and I'm too busy to spend my little break reading your outmoded ideas based on fantasy. But here I come, wielding my critique axe.

Why do you always propose this outrageous Ministry of Diaspora Affairs? What are the various Ghana Embassies for? And what makes you a runaway from Ghana so valuable you deserve a whole Ministry to cater to your selfish needs? Do you pay income taxes to the govt of Ghana or Zambia? Think again and stop these lame proposals you occasionally spew out.

Your think tank idea is a non starter and I'll be punching holes in it soon, so get ready.

Cousin, perhaps you've heard about Think Tanks that exist elsewhere in the developed world and think such a setup can be replicated for the benefit of Ghana. Wrong. It'll never work!

I'll ask you to spend some time to find out about the numerous Think Tanks in the developed world and what they do.

I can fill you in on some of their functions. They all influence govt policy at the highest levels through lobbying, education and dissemination of research.

Think Thanks are far from "talk shop", as you may wrongly perceive them to be. The people they employ conduct thorough research of issues, examine social implications and responsiveness of ideas by sample polling; as well as publish papers for a target audience.

Your average Ghanaian does not possess such aptitude for painstaking research. Ours is the rapid results by-heart method of alleviating symptoms by throwing money on problems by acquiring loans.

Do you think the unsanitary conditions in Ghana needs a Think Tank policy suggestion or solution? NO. Common sense is what's lacking.

Ghana has one of the worst overbloated bureaucracies in the world. We have numerous ministries and titled bosses and their deputies and at all levels. Most are well-educated and know what can work for our nation. Yet they're all paralyzed by the culture of corruption. They're all willing participants in such immoral permissiveness that renders the governance system useless. Their primary objective is to acquire as much power and $$$ to entrench themselves socially to meet family obligations.

Any suggestions from any quarters to right the wrongs will upset the apple cart and such suggestions will not be welcomed.

If our paid leadership at all levels of governance cannot manage the cleanliness of our dear nation, then we cannot be amenable to Think Thank suggestion.

Foreign Think Tanks however influence Ghana in many ways. Their influence comes along with the loans offered by institutions such as Bretton Woods, IMF, World Bank, etc. Even the US Millenium Devt grant is the result of a foreign Think Tank research and influence.

Not all Think Tanks are political in nature. Some are financed by corporations with their own agenda to influence and win a big market share.

If our institutions of higher learning in Ghana do not have any recognized body of research, it should give you a clue of our inability to research and derive solutions.

Your over-reliance on people with academic letters is misplaced. Dr & PhD's do not possess the wherewithal to solve any of our numerous problems. We need selfless people with common sense and dedication. Ghana is already saddled with these Dr types at every position of leadership and authority and look at miserable results we have.

Cousin, please know that this is a public forum so cut out the private stuff. There are things about our relatives that may shed light on some of your articles but I hold back on those. Keep the personal stuff out. You know what I mean.

BTW, you wrote:

"Council of State, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences( GAAS), among other noble institutions in Ghana?"

All those institutions you mentioned are junk and ignoble. They're nothing but crony back scratching committees.

Saaalute from forehead to waist, with a thundering foot stomp amid wild cheering applause, whaaaaaaam.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 years ago

In Germany during the time of Otto von Bismark, they had a think-tank called jurismonopol, made up mostly of experts from the legal profession.

In Germany during the time of Otto von Bismark, they had a think-tank called jurismonopol, made up mostly of experts from the legal profession.
NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

We are talking about Ghana! And NOT about Germany! What happened there worked there............. That is the problem with you educated illiterates, turned Afropeans..............

You always believe we can easily solve our ...
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We are talking about Ghana! And NOT about Germany! What happened there worked there............. That is the problem with you educated illiterates, turned Afropeans..............

You always believe we can easily solve our problems and develop our country Ghana, by simply implementing other peoples' ideas here in Ghana.
I'm afraid to say that, it is only an utopia derived from the 'quick-fix' and the 'microwave' way of thinking by you lot.

Why not go tap into the minds of our wise men from our villages, townships and cities to see how best we can process, analyze, learn from and correct OUR OWN mistakes to benefit OUR OWN people.............. as done everywhere else in the developed worlds.

The best way to learn depends on how WE approach it in OUR OWN way. What works for one does not necessarily work for all.

I don't believe we can just copy other peoples' experiences (good or bad) in THEIR ENVIRONMENT to solve our problems.......................

We don't seem to get it! The era of Otto von whatever's think-tanks of legal experts would not necessarily work here in Ghana! WE have to think of OUR OWN and develop OUR OWN and make it work for us...............

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOR EVER!
THE AUDITOR 10 years ago

I CONSIDER THIS A WONDERFUL IDEA AND THE EARLIER WE START THE BETTER. SUGGEST YOU CREATE A SEPERATE WEBSITE FOR SUCH GROUP, SUGGEST CRITERIA FOR CONSIDERATION OF POTENTIAL MEMBERS, AFFILIATES ETC AND THE BUSINESS MODEL AND /O ...
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I CONSIDER THIS A WONDERFUL IDEA AND THE EARLIER WE START THE BETTER. SUGGEST YOU CREATE A SEPERATE WEBSITE FOR SUCH GROUP, SUGGEST CRITERIA FOR CONSIDERATION OF POTENTIAL MEMBERS, AFFILIATES ETC AND THE BUSINESS MODEL AND /OR TOPICS TO BE COVERED.

HAVING SAID THE ABOVE, WHILE ITS IMPORTANT THAT THE GROUP IS DRIVEN BY ITS DIASPOREAN CHARACTER, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT LOCAL RESIDENTS ARE NOT EXCLUDED JUST BY REASON OF THEIR ADDRESS OR THAT ONCE YOU RETURN HOME, YOU CAN NO LONGER MAKE A CONTRIBUTION.

SO THE BALL IS IN YOUR COURT !!
AFRICAN-CENTER.com 10 years ago

A good idea that is long overdue.
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A good idea that is long overdue.
www.african-center.com/en/welcome.html

Do we need a think-tank in Ghana?

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