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There have been major demographic shifts in the profile of Ghana’s lawyers. Shutterstock

February 14, 2022

Transformation of Ghana’s legal profession. A return to Kwame Nkrumah’s vision?

Josephine Jarpa Dawuni, Howard University

The present state of legal education in Ghana cannot be discussed without understanding its beginings.

Conflicts between nomadic livestock farmers and crop farmers are common in Ghana. Stefan Heunis/AFP via Getty Images

April 14, 2021

Mixture of rules makes it hard to manage pastoralist conflict in Ghana

Dennis Penu, International Institute of Social Studies

Institutional problems make it difficult to satisfy livestock and crop farmers’ interests, already in contest over agricultural resources.

Conservative lawmakers in dozens of U.S. states have raised fears that Islamic fundamentalists want to impose Sharia on Americans. Reuters/David Ryder

April 8, 2019

Don’t blame Sharia for Islamic extremism – blame colonialism

Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz

There is no inherent tension between Islam and democratic values. Like any use of religion in politics, the application of Sharia as law depends on who is using it – and why.

Teens are questioning the suggestion that they can’t get their stories straight and that abusive behaviour is to be expected at their age. Here teens from the 1980s pose for a time capsule. Vintage Everyday

October 9, 2018

What young people can learn from the Kavanaugh hearings

Shauna Van Praagh, McGill University

Last week’s hearing with Brett Kavanaugh raised questions about how responsible we are for our youthful actions. A legal scholar says that youthful inexperience doesn’t let us off the hook.

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