Ghanaian Businessmen Urged to Reclaim Gold and Oil Resources

Take back our gold and oil: Why it’s time for Ghanaian businessmen to stop playing it safe and seize our resources

Walk into any high-class event, upscale restaurant in Accra on a Friday evening or a normal linkup of the big men, and you'll see them: successful Ghanaian businessmen in expensive suits, talking about their stock portfolios and real estate investments. Safe money, predictable returns. Meanwhile, somewhere in the world, a foreign company is extracting gold from Ghanaian soil, refining it, and making ten times what we are, and what we do is to watch on hopelessly, as if our fate does not lie i...

By Prince Adu-Owusu