YOUNG POSITIVIST

YOUNG POSITIVIST WRITES. COVID-19 AND GHANA’S ELECTION 2020. At the beginning of 2020, things seemed promising. Many people had magnificent goals in mind to actualize. To them,  the year 2020 was the beginning of a new decade and so they had high hopes for it. But little did the world know that a disease which originated from a small geographical area would escalate to this level. Ghana has not been spared by this deadly invisible foe as the country moves towards its 8th electoral process under the fourth republic. In this piece, I discuss the deadly novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and election 2020 and the situation’s impact on the Ghanaian voter.  The world has not known much peace since the outbreak of this virus, and it has given world leaders restless nights and deep incubus. As you may be aware, this virus which first broke out in Wuhan, a province in China has now become a pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) led by its Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreye...

YOUNG POSITIVIST WRITES. ETHNICITY AS A WEAPON OF DESTRUCTION IN AFRICA.  Africa is a very beautiful continent endowed with rich resources both human and material wise. It is the second-largest continent in the world and the second-most populous continent, after Asia. Almost every natural resource that one can think of is existent on this very continent at the expense of other continents not having up to one-third of the resources that Africa has. The question that rolls in the minds of right-thinking members of society is that why is it that after all these numerous natural resources, Africa is considered as the poorest continent in the world? What could be the prime issue impoverishing the continent and leaving it in a long dark period? The problems could be many but I have chosen to talk about ethnicity, a delicate subject used as a weapon of destruction in Africa and how it has left the continent in its dark shade leading to the loss of millions of African lives and properties ...