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NPP Primaries Prophecy: When Prophets Spoke and Delegates Voted

NPP primaries prophecy began, as these things often do, with a Vision—and the Vision was very confident. Facebook believed. WhatsApp forwarded. Only the delegates missed the...

NPP Primaries Prophecy: When Vision Met the Ballot Box

NPP primaries prophecy reveals how political visions collide with democratic reality in Ghana. The NPP primaries prophecy began with a Vision. And it was very...

Scrolling but Broke: Life as a Digital Beggar in Ghana

Digital beggars in Ghana are easy to identify. You may owe your landlord, your tailor, and sometimes your conscience — but you never owe...

Landlord–Tenant Problems in Ghana: Rent Receipts, Broken Promises & the Republic of Uncommon Sense

Landlord–Tenant Problems in Ghana: Rent Receipts & Broken Promises Landlord–tenant problems in Ghana are so familiar they’ve become a national genre—part housing policy, part endurance...

Potholes in Ghana: The Real Kings of the Republic of Uncommon Sense

  Potholes in Ghana are the real kings of our republic — they don’t wear crowns, don’t contest elections, yet they humble convoys and swallow...

Detty December in Ghana: where budgets go to die with background music.

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Ken Ofori-Atta Extradition: When the Plane Refused to Land

The Ken Ofori-Atta extradition debate has become Ghana’s loudest public trial—long before evidence found its shoes. A satirical dispatch from the Republic of Uncommon Sense. Disclosure:...

Polygamy Fever Hits Ghana: Men Inspired, Women Perspiring, Ancestors Confused

Daddy Lumba Widow Saga: When One Court Ruling Sparked Polygamy Fever in Ghana In this satirical dispatch from the Republic of Uncommon Sense, we follow...

Political Satire: The Man Who Measures Development by Ribbon Lengths in Ghana

Illustration: Republic of Uncommon Sense Political Satire Ghana: The Ribbon-Length Minister By Jimmy Aglah...

When Common Sense Went Missing in Parliament

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Thieves of the Cathedral: The Man Who Arrived Quietly

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