The Darker Side of Ghana

About the Book

The motivation that drove Kofi Ali to embark on the writing of this book stemmed from the challenges he faced in his activism work. Equally, several West Africans have passionately appealed to Kofi Ali to put into writing his great ideas for generations to benefit from them, and this is just a response in honor to the appeals. The challenges of the modern day Ghana are fundamental issues that call for one-to-one understanding of the core issues. One big challenge is the confusion resulting from individuals assuming different meanings and interpretations of terminologies leading to endless arguments when serious issues are being discussed, normally ending up in frustration than solutions. Most West Africans have also developed the wrong habit of employing the locally adulterated and colloquial version of their formal national language to engage in serious discussion, while expecting others to understand them. Finally, words like culture, politics, institutions, tradition, and history are serious challenges when an average Ghanaian finds him or herself trying to make meaning out of the complications associated with the modern day Ghanaian side and the darker side of Ghana.

About the Author

Kofi Ali was born in the city of Accra, where he spent his early life. Like most Ghanaian youths in the 80’ frustrated out by the insecurity engulfing their country, he migrated to the then oil booming Nigeria where he studied to earn himself a Bsc. in Economics. He returned briefly to Ghana in the early 90’s before proceeding to the Gambia where he resided and served as a teacher for about seven years. He developed the habit of travelling across West Africa by land, which exposed him to the real challenges of the ordinary West African. This experience further assumed a real meaning when he got exposed to European wide life while studying for Master’s Degree in Business Administration in the Netherlands. Kofi Ali finally settled down in the UK to the opportunity of studying the master piece from which the foundation of the law establishing the modern state of Ghana was derived. The understanding of all the systems he has so far gone through has allowed him to develop the skill of putting the West African complicated challenged into a more practical form, than is imaginable to most of his contemporaries. Kofi Ali is now an activist. He is the founder of the Ghana Poor People Party and ECOWAS Citizens Right Advocate.