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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
There is a phrase I have come to respect more than almost any other in this business, and it is one most people are afraid to say out loud. “Not yet.” In a culture where building your own...