POSITIVIST Writes. The white Elephant at the University of Ghana The University of Ghana (UG) is the nation’s premier university and enviably one of the three Universities that was established in British West Africa in 1948. Formerly, UG was called the University College of the Gold Coast an affiliate college of the University of London which supervised its academic programmes and awarded degrees. The University was fully fleshed in 1961 and can currently boast of about 40,000 students. It is recalled that some few years ago, power crises bedevilled Ghana. The incessant power fluctuations dubbed ¬“Dumsor” literary translated as “light off and on” was a destructive daily occurrence thus subject to national discussions on several fronts. Dumsor under the administration of then President John Dramani Mahama was wild not to suggest that Ghana had not experienced power crises in some administration past. The concern is predominantly on the recurrence and frequency o...