The Rights of Nature Ghana Movement (RoNAG) has concluded its 2-year socio-legal study that explored how Ghana can recognize and protect the Rights of Nature (RoN) within its legal and governance systems. The study was titled ‘Assessing Legal Frameworks and Stakeholder Perspectives on Integrating the Rights of Nature into Ghana’s Environmental Governance’ funded […]
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When Compassion Becomes Commerce: A Growing Outcry Against Churches Profiting From Funerals
Sankofaonline Staff Writer Across Ghanaian communities at home and abroad, funerals are sacred. They are moments of collective grief, cultural duty, and deep respect for the departed. Yet a troubling practice, one that many families have whispered about for years, has now erupted into public debate after social media influencer […]
The Dangerous Myth of “Next of Kin”: Why Families Lose Everything When Assumptions Replace Law
In communities across the diaspora and back home, one quiet misunderstanding continues to destroy families, frozen bank accounts, and ignited conflicts long after a loved one has passed. It is the widespread belief that writing a child, spouse, or relative as next of kin automatically secures their inheritance. It sounds […]
Why the SIGA Guidance is a Triumph of Statecraft over Procedural Pedantry
By Raymond Ablorh The state is not a spectator in its own economy; it is the ultimate architect of its destiny. Thus, to suggest that the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA) errs by urging State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to patronise SIC Insurance PLC is to mistake the rules of the […]
There is a Ghana most citizens can see. And there is another Ghana that truly governs
The first is the constitutional republic we are taught to believe in. The one of elections, ministers, manifestos, parliamentary debates, judicial robes, public institutions, and official titles. The second is the republic beneath it. Unwritten. Unelected. Unaccountable. Yet often more powerful. It is governed not by law, but by networks. […]







