So, Ghana Has a Maintenance Culture After All?!

Offlate, the airwaves have made serious effort to reduce reporting of politics, focusing instead--as CITI97.3 fm did last week -- on discussion of bad roads, and how Ghana's Road Fund.

Needless-to-say that a pot-hole-free Accra is a reflection of a maintenance culture that has reached near-perfection.

It is therefore very encouraging to see--as I saw this afternoon while at A&C Plaza in East Legon -- that workmen were fixing the streetlight there.

Long may it continue!

It [Ghana Telecom] Can Work in Ghana!

For a continent so used to being the cynosure of occasionally-Western (and Asian) cynics that feel every one of the 900 million members live on trees, it's very interesting to see that despite the culture of impunity that so-often characterises African nations, it is equally goo d to see that there can be a culture of maintenance--as is the case here, where erstwhile Ghana Telecom workers are maintaining the phone lines.