Centerstage Africa

OccupyGhana has received formal communication from one of its founding leaders, Nenyi George Andah, of his decision to contest parliamentary primaries, and hopefully, the parliamentary elections. This comes at a time when Ghanaians have to grapple with extreme discomfort, lowered productivity, the ever-rising rate of inflation, absolutely inexplicable power cuts, a continuous loss of their purchasing power, limited access to essential services such as quality education and healthcare, and poor quality of service provided by utility companies among others, and with many companies and entrepreneurs being driven out of business. OccupyGhana has, since its inception, been fighting for good governance, good leadership direction and proper economic management to ensure that Ghana develops to its true social and economic potentials. OccupyGhana firmly believes a lack of good leadership is Ghana's biggest problem. Good institutions are important, but we need strong leaders to build ...

Let us pause and consider this: Positive Signs for the future Entrepreneurship Development Continuous ICT Growth Younger CEOs & Business Owners Demand for Quality Education Mobile Telephone Penetration Massive infrastructural development That is how the future is envisioned by some budding young entrepreneurs here in Ghana. It is a truism that with focused vision and effective planning, the above will be realized. One such young change makers is Solomon Elorm Allavi, an IT-savvy entrepreneur with passion for agribusiness and youth entrepreneurship. He established and manages a startup company under the trade name Syecomp Business Services in Accra, Ghana. The company which is almost two years in operation strives to implement market-driven information and communication technology (ICT) solutions to address the limited access to marketing outlets for smallholder farmers and other stakeholders in the agricultural value chain from the farm-gate to the market. With over 60% ...

My name is Raindolf Owusu and I was born in the capital city of Accra in Ghana. I come from a family of eight and I am the fourth born out of six siblings. One special Sunday in the year 2001 after an exhausting day at church we arrived home and to our surprise, our father brought home a computer. The bad news was that it was bought solely for my elder siblings and we the younger ones were not allowed to utilize it. We were only allowed to touch it but with adult supervision. I spent most of my time observing how the computer worked, mostly when my elder siblings were playing games like Prince of Persia or where using Power DVD to watch a movie. The computer was a Compaq Pentium one desktop with one gigabyte hard disk space. I was eleven years old then and I was fascinated by it. We were warned not to use it, but I wasn’t a fan of rules and regulations. So at night when everyone was asleep, I go to the hall to play around with the PC. After a few months I got fascinated with game...