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

Secret Service Spoke To Trump Campaign About 2nd Amendment Comment

A US Secret Service official confirms to CNN that the USSS has spoken to the Trump campaign regarding his Second...

Opinion

Can Development Be Sustainable?

Firstly, development can simply be defined as a process of growth. Traditional welfare economics had focused on incomes...

Opinion

Trust Your Struggles

Dedication - To my cousin, co-hustler and road manager; Joseph Ernest Buah. I am really struggling through my burning...

Opinion

Your Spiritual Food At Your Level

The human instinct pushes them to satisfy their hunger in anyway possible. They will go as often as they get hungry and...

Opinion

A Peep Into The Dungeon

“Prisoners who asked to see their lawyers were given solitary confinement instead. Complaints were ignored. Visits...

International

Polls Open In Test For Ruling Party

Zambians have started voting in presidential and parliamentary elections after a campaign marred by violence between...

Opinion

The Bawumia Project

The efforts by some elements on the other side of the political divide to dilute the Bawumia phenomenon in Ghanaian...

Opinion

Who Watches Over The Motor Way Slum Estate?

I can say without mincing words that the current unwelcomed development of make- shift housing springing up along the...

Opinion

Cape Coast Here Comes Boddooo

Simpa Panyin, you see what I told you? Bawumia has done his thing again. This time round he brought the Electoral...

Opinion

Melodious Messages Versus Melodic Material Promises And Gifts?

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, on 7th December 2016, the eligible Ghanaian electorates will go to the polls to...

Opinion

Beyond The Prophets Hometown

One allegation holds that some of the chieftains of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta are planning...

Opinion

Oh My Sisters, How Did We Manage To Descend Back To The Stone Age?

My earliest experience of the pain of death was as an aspect of some widowhood rites I witnessed a little over half a...

Opinion

Important Political Lessons From South Africa For Ghanaian Voters

About a week or few days ago, South Africa held its once in every 5 years municipal elections, and the results left the...

International

Ecuador Allows Sweden To Interview Assange In Its London Embassy

Sweden has made a formal request to interview Assange in Ecuador’s London Embassy in June, four years after the...

International

US Election Fraud Allegations Prompt Calls For Reform

Rights group in the US are calling for a return to a hand-counted paper balloting as a universal standard for elections...

International

Brazil Impress To Progress To the Quarter-Finals of Rio Olympics

Brazil reached the quarter-finals of Olympics men's football with an impressive 4-0 win against Denmark. Gabriel...

International

Donald Trump Accuses Obama of Being ‘founder of ISIl’

Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of founding the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group...

International

Police Arrest Man Scaling Trump Tower

New York police have arrested a man who tried to scale Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan using rope and suction cups....

International

Canada Police ‘kill Terror Suspect’

Police have shot dead a suspect in an anti-terror operation in the Canadian province of Ontario, media reports say. The...

International

Clinton Says Trump Incited Violence

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has said Donald Trump incited violence when he said gun rights...