Kwame Mensah

Kwame Mensah is a senior political correspondent based in Accra. With over a decade of experience covering Ghana's Parliament, elections, and government policy, he brings sharp analysis and deep sourcing to GhanaStar's political coverage. A graduate of the University of Ghana's School of Communication Studies, Kwame has previously reported for the Daily Graphic and Joy FM. He specializes in governance, public accountability, and West African geopolitics.

27296 Articles Joined March 2026

Articles by Kwame Mensah

International

Fifa To Study Expansion To 40 Or 48 Teams

Fifa has agreed to study options for expanding the World Cup to 40 or 48 teams for 2026 in greater detail, says council...

International

Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan Perform At Prince Tribute Concert

Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan have paid tribute to Prince at a four-hour memorial concert in Minnesota. The show began...

Politics

GCPP Forged My Signature – Subscriber Cries Out

The lady who was said to have endorsed the nomination forms for both the United Front Party and the Great Consolidated...

International

Israel Freezes Ties With Unesco For ‘denying Jewish Holy Sites’

Israel has frozen co-operation with the UN's cultural agency, accusing it of denying Judaism's connections to the...

Opinion

O Me Miserum!

I hope I got my Latin correct. The title for this essay comes from the Latin book I used while a student at Mfantsipim...

International

Snapchat Heads For Possible $25bn Flotation

Snap Inc, the owner of messaging app Snapchat, has moved a step closer to listing its shares on the stock market after...

International

Records Show Trump Hasn’t Sued A Newspaper For Libel In Decades

Donald Trump hasn't sued a newspaper for libel in three decades, despite the Republican presidential nominee repeatedly...

International

Thousands Throng Streets For Funeral Procession

Thousands of Thai mourners have lined the streets of Bangkok, as the body of King Bhumibol Adulyadej was moved from a...

Politics

Over 1,500 Killed Between January & September Through Road Accidents

Road accidents have claimed 1,579 lives between January and September this year. The national road safety action plan...

Opinion

Did The Greeks Loan It Out?

Please… don’t ask me how it got here and why of all places they chose Ghana,--the gold-rich West African nation....

Opinion

Things Fall Apart

The Christian good book makes it vivid in Jeremiah 6:16 (NKJV), Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look,...

Opinion

Positive Effects Of Social Media On The Youth

Social media, has both positive and negative benefit, but most people overlook the positive benefits and rather...

Opinion

The Public And Peaceful Order Responsibility Of The Electoral Commission

The Electoral Commission (EC), above all else, is an enabling public institution with a constitutional mandate to...

Opinion

The Debate On Fake Degrees And Fraudulent Journals

I delve into this debate not because I want to hold brief for either Dr. Prosper Yao Tsikata or Mr. Michael Yao Wodui...

International

U.S. Election: So Many P—Ies On Both Sides

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with CNN’s Christaine Amanpour made an humorous take on the...

Opinion

Hooliganism At Police Hq

The unprovoked brutality meted out to a dozen or so students, assemblymen and some executive officers of the New...

Opinion

Desperate Mahamas Plan B

It has become evidently clear that the National Destructive Company (NDC) which is managing corporate Ghana is on its...

Politics

Akufo-Addo Leaves For Germany, UK

The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left the shores of Ghana on...

Politics

NPP Polling Station Executives, Members Vow To Vote ‘skirt and Blouse’

Some 50 aggrieved members of the New Patriotic Party at Akropong Constituency in the Eastern Region have threatened to...

Politics

Nigeria’s Leader Gets Warning From Wife

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife has warned him that she may not back him at the next election unless he...