These dispatches follow a single thread: that outcomes — in politics, in sport, in technology, in war — are determined not by individuals but by the systems that individuals inhabit. How those systems are designed, who owns them, and whether institutions remember their own obligations. Written from Accra, looking outward.
In late December 2025, a US military transport aircraft landed repeatedly at a small airstrip near Ghana's border with Burkina Faso. Nobody cleared it. Nobody briefed local authorities. Nobody explained it afterward. What that silence revealed about Ghana's security posture deserves more than a news cycle.
Read dispatch →The second Italy-Africa Summit has just concluded. The Piano Mattei is no longer a declaration of intent — it is a financing architecture, a project pipeline, and an expanding invitation. The question is who is positioned to respond.
Read dispatch →Over 1,400 Africans have fought in Russia's war in Ukraine. At least 22% are confirmed dead. The recruitment pipelines are designed systems — videos in Twi, Igbo, and Pidgin targeting home audiences. What happens when survivors return to a region already under insurgent pressure?
Read dispatch →Since late November 2025, a contractor-operated Gulfstream V has been flying near-daily surveillance missions from Accra over northeast Nigeria. Ghana is now the functional replacement for Air Base 201 in Agadez. Does Ghana have a framework for what that means?
Read dispatch →Across Africa, institutional IT programmes train people who leave, procure systems nobody can maintain, and declare success by counting certificates rather than capability retained. The problem is not investment — it is governance.
Read dispatch →The sticker price of a technology system is rarely its actual cost. In Ghana's public and private sector, the failure to account for total cost of ownership — maintenance, training, integration, institutional inertia — is where most IT investments go to die.
Read dispatch →Sadio Mané's leadership in Senegal's AFCON 2025 final victory over Morocco was real. But Pape Thiaw created the conditions for it. When the manager ordered his players off the pitch after a controversial penalty, he changed the game — not by design, but by disrupting Morocco's momentum at the decisive moment.
Read dispatch →Kudus at West Ham is doing things that should make Ghana managers lose sleep with envy. The talent is visible. What's missing is the structural context — the midfield relationships, the pressing triggers, the positional clarity — that would let him replicate it in Black Stars colours.
Read dispatch →Ivory Coast sacked their manager mid-tournament, lost their opening group game, and won the tournament on home soil. That is not a story about resilience. It is a story about the structural depth of a squad with enough embedded tactical understanding to outlast a leadership crisis.
Read dispatch →Every Ghana World Cup cycle begins with the same debate about individual quality and ends with the same structural questions unanswered. A tactical and organisational blueprint for a Black Stars programme that builds on principles rather than personnel.
Read dispatch →In the 91st minute of USA vs Algeria at the 2010 World Cup, Tim Howard threw to Landon Donovan and set in motion one of the most precise counter-attacking sequences in tournament history. That moment was not instinct. It was habit. And Ghana's goalkeepers have yet to learn it.
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