In Ghana, we have a way of talking about land that sometimes gets us into trouble. We call something “cheap” when really we mean the price was lower than we expected, without stopping to ask why. I have been in the construction industry for fifteen years now, working across the Ashanti Region, Greater Accra, and […]
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You have probably met this person. Perhaps you have even been this person, for a season. Their LinkedIn headline reads: “Business Consultant | HR Specialist | Digital Marketing Expert | Project Manager | Real Estate Advisor | Motivational Speaker | Financial Planner.” Their business card has to be printed on both sides. Ask what they
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Ama Serwaa keeps a small folder on her laptop called “Memberships.” It holds nine years of receipts from a professional body she joined soon after her first job in Accra. One evening last month, she opened it, added up the numbers, and stared at the total for a while. Then she asked herself a question
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Araba keeps her membership certificate in a brown envelope in the bottom drawer of her wardrobe in Cape Coast. She is proud of it. She remembers the day she received it, the photographs, the congratulations from her mother, the quiet feeling that she had finally arrived. That was seven years ago. Since then, every January,
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