The currency politics: Is it new?

One of the biggest failures in our education system is that we stopped teaching history. People keep saying we can only know where we are going if we know where we are coming from. Today, most of Ghana’s youth do not know what happened in 1990, let alone in the 1960s and 1970s. Let’s take a trip down memory lane to 1969, when Prof. Kofi Busia became Prime Minister of Ghana. He had policies that overvalued the local currency and embarked on large expansion programmes without the resources to ...

By Isaac Yeboah