There are two prices on every piece of land in Ghana. One is written on the receipt. The other one shows up slowly, over the months after you have already started building, and by then it is far too late to negotiate. I have been a project manager and contractor for fifteen years now, working […]
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Ask a room of professionals in Accra what they do, and everyone will have an answer ready. “I’m a lawyer.” “I work in banking.” “I’m in HR.” “I do marketing.” The answers come quickly, and they are perfectly true. Now ask a different question: what do you want to be known for? Watch the room
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Akosua Frimpong was three weeks into her first job at a firm in Tema when a senior colleague leaned over her desk with some advice. “You should join a professional body,” he said. “Any one will do. Just get the letters after your name.” She joined the first one that came up in her search
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Esi and Nana Kwabena sat next to each other in the same lecture hall at the University of Ghana, Legon. They studied the same textbooks, passed the same exams, and graduated in the same year. They even joined the same bank in Accra on the same Monday morning, both of them nervous in their new
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