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

Opinion

Harmattan

Disclaimer: "The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily...

Opinion

It Is Not Merely A Question of Common Sense

If there is, indeed, a Presidential Transition Act 845 on the governance books, as Prof. Ransford Gyampo is claiming,...

Opinion

Akufo-Addo Is No Pushover, Papa Kwesi Nduom

The owner and 2016 presidential candidate of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has every right to advise...

International

Oil Down, But Ends Year With Biggest Gain Since 2009

Oil prices have slumped since the summer of 2014 from above $100 a barrel Oil prices have slumped since the summer of...

Opinion

Bugri Naabu Cries Out For Justice 4

“There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute” (Ziggy...

Opinion

Achieving Your New Year Resolutions

I totally agree with what the great philisopher Socrates that , an unexamined life is not worth living . Whenever the...

International

Ban Ki-Moon Bids A Fond Farewell

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon joked that he feels like Cinderella, as he prepares to step down at midnight on 31...

International

Tyrus Wong, Artist Who Inspired Disney’s Bambi, Dead At 106

Tyrus Wong, the artist whose paintings became a visual inspiration for Disney’s animated classic Bambi, died Friday....

Politics

GIFEC Rolls Out 54 Sites To Extend Telephone Services To Rural Communities

The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) has rolled out 54 Rural Telephony Project (RTP) sites...

International

Deadly Blasts Rip Through Baghdad Market

Iraqis look at the aftermath following a double bomb attack in a busy market The attacks took place early Saturday...

International

Uganda Inflation Hits 5.7% From 4.6% Last Month

Uganda’s inflation rose to 5.7 percent year-on-year in December from 4.6 percent last month, the statistics office...

International

Andy Murray & Mo Farah Knighted In New Year Honours List

Andy Murray, Mo Farah, Lee Pearson, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katherine Grainger are all honoured British tennis champion...

International

China Announces Ban On Ivory Trade By End of 2017

China has announced a ban on all ivory trade and processing activities by the end of 2017. Conservation groups hailed...

Opinion

Harmattan Is As Deadly As Ebola

Accra, Dec. 30, GNA - According to the American English Language Dictionary: Fourth Edition. 2000, harmattan may have...

Opinion

‘As NPPists Dance To Onaapo, Mahama Rocks The Boat’

In questions of power, let no more he heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from the chains of the...

International

Libya Deport Dozens of Illegal African Migrants

Libyan authorities deported 157 illegal African migrants on Thursday. The migrants are mostly from Mali and were hoping...

Opinion

Mahama Can Sell Ghana—We Will Survive

To do obsequious sorrow; but to persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness; 'its unmanly...

Opinion

If The NDC Had Won The Elections

Banish that thought, the NDC winning the December 7, 2016 elections? Great calamity of unimaginable proportion would...

International

Some of Africa’s Currencies Struggled In 2016

From a fall in Zambia’s Kwacha blamed on halted mining production to a plummet of Nigeria’s naira due to a chronic...

Opinion

NPP Keeps On Contradicting Itself On The Activities Of Government After Elections

It is not for nothing that Ghana is largely considered the beacon of democracy in Africa. As such, the actions and...