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A few years ago, I joined a seminar by One Ayindaa called  ENTERPRISE SATURDAY . The topic was HOW DO I MAKE MYSELF EMPLOYABLE THROUGH VALUE ADDITION? This followed the first Barcamp Ahanta in December 2019 , which was a partnership between GhanaThink and One Ayindaa . As Justice Baidoo puts it, One Ayindaa is a movement of young men and women of Ahanta. This was a year after we at GhanaThink had organized Jobcamps in the 10 regional capitals , and after the National Youth Employment Convening, the #YouthDeyJob & #Youth4Work hashtags were born. Here are a few key things around work readiness and job skills I shared - and now you have access to the same information. Adaptability & Ability to Learn Being able to adapt & fit into different environments, having an attitude of learning, ability to get up to speed to do different tasks and being smart are probably the most crucial things for one to be employable. Lots of young people are taught to take instructions and...

I have been following basketball more closely since I went to the USA in 2001 to continue my journey to MIT from Presec . During my 10 years in the US, I fell in love with the game of basketball. #ILoveThisGame . This love grew partly because I was unable to watch much football as a big sports fan. If you think I am talking about the NFL, you must be new here . Football, aka soccer, okay, I am about to talk about American sports so I would defer for now . I have blogged about  basketball  a lot. This time, let me tell you about NCAA basketball , even though March Madness is a couple of months past. I support the following colleges in the annual tournaments: Stanford, Syracuse, North Carolina (UNC) and UConn . From September 2001, I spent almost 12 months in Syracuse , New York with my dad who was working on his Post Doc at the time. I worked at a local grocery chain to get money for school, helped my dad with some side hustles and he taught me how to cook . He also was the...

I have always been solution driven , especially since I returned to Ghana in 2011. Oftentimes, we discuss the problems and challenges that we face, complaining, a lot. I decided many years ago that I want to be part of conversations that start from: “This is how we are going to solve this problem”. I stopped mostly listening to Ghanaian radio because it is full of complaints, bad news and not enough “What are we doing about this problem?” I want to see what I call Solution Radio . Some journalists like Bernard Avle have been driving more of that. One of the problems is air pollution. We at GhanaThink and others funded by Clean Air Fund are doing something about this. We have been working on a Clean Air Ghana project funded by Clean Air Fund.  The tagline for the #CleanAirGhana project was eventually chosen as Be Part of the Solution, not the Pollution. The key people involved in this were Gameli Adzaho, Patrick Keli Atitsogbui, Irene Dery, Daniel Prince Yakuba, Ruky Jane Azusong, ...