Tag: Political parties

Author: Dr. John Osae-Kwapong, Democracy and Development Fellow, CDD-Ghana, and Project Director, the Democracy Project Political parties have an interesting history in Ghana. Military interventions during the post-independence era always resulted ...

A new nationwide poll conducted by Global InfoAnalytics following the government’s decision to cut producer prices for cocoa has revealed a nuanced and, in some respects, unexpected public response. Writing ...

Author: Dr. John Osae-Kwapong, Democracy and Development Fellow, CDD-Ghana, and Project Director, the Democracy Project The National Democratic Congress (NDC) held a primary for the upcoming Ayawaso East by-election last Saturday. ...

The decision by the New Patriotic Party to initiate internal processes to expel Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng has once again drawn national attention to the long-standing practice of sacking party ...

A Fellow of the Centre for Democratic Development Ghana, Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, has cautioned that political parties which abandon intellectual rigor and moral restraint place their long term survival ...

A Fellow of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Dr Ohene Aku Kwapong, has thrown his weight behind the recommendations of the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC), describing the report ...

Author: Dr. John Osae-Kwapong, Democracy and Development Fellow, CDD-Ghana, and Project Director, the Democracy Project Political parties play an important role in a democracy. In addition to serving as the organizing ...

Beninese Grammy-winning singer, Angelique Kidjo, has opened up on why she avoids making songs that praise or promote politicians and political parties.  The global music icon, known for her activism ...

The United Party Plus (UP Plus), led by Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, has reignited debate over Ghana’s enduring two-party dominance. Emerging from the rebranded Movement for Change (MfC), the new ...

The Executive Director of Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), the local chapter for Transparency International, Madam Mary Awelana Addah, has called for national action against the growing monetization of elections in ...