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- Opinions5 Nov 2026Part 3: When women's pain becomes prime-time entertainment how Ghana's media turns private trauma, marital conflict and sexual violence into public spectacleFrom live broadcasts that turn marital disputes into public trials to the circulation of intimate images and sensational coverage of sexual abuse, the pursuit of audience attention can come at a devastating cost. When does reporting on people's suffering become another form of harm?
- Opinions5 Nov 2026Part 2: The journalist is broke, the business is booming who profits from Ghana's media industry while the people producing the news struggle to survive?Media organisations are expanding their brands, pursuing sponsorships, organising events and searching for new revenue. Yet journalists face low salaries, delayed payments, insecure contracts and inadequate welfare. What does it mean for press freedom when the people expected to hold power accountable struggle to secure their own livelihoods?
- Opinions5 Nov 2026Part 1: The fourth estate on sale? Who controls Ghana's newsrooms, why are stories being killed, and what happens when journalists censor themselves?Verified stories do not always reach the public. Advertisers, media owners, senior executives and politicians can exert pressure on editorial decisions, while journalists learn which subjects are too dangerous to pursue. Ghana has hundreds of broadcasting outlets. But who decides what the public gets to know?
- Opinions29 Oct 2026Displaced but Not Defeated: The young refugees finding their place at Dakar 2026 Six young athletes living in Kenya and Uganda will make history as members of the first Refugee Olympic Team at the Youth Olympic Games. As Dakar prepares to host the first Olympic sporting event on African soil, their journeys raise questions about belonging, opportunity and what it takes for displaced young people to pursue their ambitions.
- Opinions23 Oct 2026Five forms of online abuse against women in Ghana and what the law saysFrom intimate images shared without consent to sexual extortion and threats, Ghana's Cybersecurity Act, 2020 criminalises specific forms of online abuse. Here is what each offence means, what to save as evidence, and where to report.
- Opinions16 Oct 2026The sea is taking more than homes from Ketu South’s womenDecades of coastal erosion have taken the homes and livelihoods of Blekusu’s women. The sea defence project is under way, but who will restore what they have lost?
- Opinions15 Oct 2026Children's Rights Are Non-Negotiable: Inside The Gambia's Fight to Save Its FGM Ban - An Expert's PerspectiveTwo babies bled to death after FGM in The Gambia. Now its Supreme Court could be the first in the world to reverse an FGM ban.
- Opinions15 Oct 2026We Must All Be Feminists: A Call to ActionThirty years after Beijing, why gender equality still needs all of us not just women
- Opinions7 Oct 2026Trauma-aware reporting guide for GhanaFor newsrooms, bloggers, content creators and the public
- Opinions6 Oct 2026Lost in the System: Navigating Healthcare Bureaucracy in GhanaTwo hospitals, two realities and a lesson in what technology and proper management can fix
- Opinions5 Oct 2026The Freedom Our Media Industry Won't DiscussBetween Press Freedom Day and Mother's Day are the women who held up both. It is time we named what it cost them.
- Opinions5 Oct 2026The bear was right: an honest explainer on why feminism still mattersSay the word feminist at a family gathering and watch the room shift. Bridget Mensah strips it back to basics: from 50,000 femicides a year to the viral bear question, from Ghana's parliament to what happens when the men's team loses, why fairness still needs a name.
- Opinions5 Oct 2026This World Cup in 3 parts: borders, debts, and refereesImmigration, unpaid debts, and women referees are shaping the first 48-team World Cup.
- Opinions5 Oct 2026 A letter to Roxane, jama in Toronto and the price of a hydration breakFrom a grieving brother’s open letter to the goalkeeper whose mother nearly missed his big moment, this week’s World Cup notebook is for the women, the families and the fine print behind the football.
- Opinions5 Oct 2026 What Korea's Silent Revolution Should Be Telling Ghana and AfricaIn South Korea, women have stopped no marriage, no dating, no sex, no children. Called 4B, the movement has driven the world's lowest birth rate. Bridget Mensah asks: if young Ghanaian women are educated, exhausted and watching, is Africa really that different?
- Opinions5 Oct 2026 When women lie about who fathered their childrenMedical research shows male factors cause nearly half of infertility cases, yet African women carry 100% of the blame from rituals to remove curses to threats of a second wife. In her debut Her Space column, Bridget Mensah asks what drives women to lie about paternity when a whole system refuses to ask: what if his swimmers aren't swimming?
- Opinions5 Oct 2026Building bridges & navigating polarisation: A PR professional's call to tell the stories that matterWe’ve become experts at building bridges between brands and consumers, but forgotten how to build bridges between human beings. This World PR Day 2025, PR professional Bridget Mensah asks: where are Africa’s communicators while 7 million Congolese are displaced and 38,000 women report sexual violence in three months?
- Opinions5 Oct 2026Ghana's working mothers betrayed behind fancy labour laws!As Ghana marks Workers' Day, its maternal protection system Labour Act 651, ILO Conventions 103 and 183 looks strong on paper. In reality, working mothers report a motherhood penalty of passed-over promotions, symbolic breastfeeding hours and no creche, despite a GHS 19.97 minimum wage.
- Opinions5 Oct 2026Dear Sis, I Was Red Bed 3She went in with a headache and became "red bed 3" a hypertensive emergency at 207/120. After 18 years living with high blood pressure, Bridget Mensah found herself surrounded by women in crisis at Ga East Municipal Hospital and learned how short the distance is between a routine day and a red column.
- Opinions5 Oct 2026 She Is a Woman. That Does Not Make Her a Feminist.When a High Court judge ruled that Joana Quaye deserved less because she was "physically attractive and capable of remarrying," it took Nana Oye Bampoe Addo to call it what it was. But why do we assume every woman in power would have? Representation is presence. Feminism is practice.
- Opinions5 Oct 2026The Woman Who Held the Microphone FirstRosalind Koramah Amoh has spent thirty years being the only woman in the room. She made sure the next generation never has to be.
- Opinions5 Oct 2026 Fifteen Years of Truth-Telling: Why UN Women Deserves Our GratitudeAs UN Women marks 15 years, Bridget Mensah reflects on how its data, research and consistency give feminist writers credible evidence, hope and solidarity in a world that still demands women prove their oppression is real.
- Opinions5 Oct 2026 Ghana's maternal mortality crisis: when access to care is not enoughAlmost three Ghanaian women die every day from pregnancy and childbirth 986 deaths in 2024, 965 in 2025. With 98% attending antenatal care, Bridget Mensah asks why reaching the clinic is not enough to save their lives.
- Opinions5 Oct 2026 Joana Quaye was listed as co-founder of her ex-husband's company. He went on television and said she contributed nothing.He said on TV she contributed nothing. Court records say she co-founded Quick Credit in 2011 and her shares were secretly transferred. As Richard Nii Armah Quaye (RNAQ) keeps the Bugatti, private jet and Trassacco estate, Joana Quaye was awarded GHS 300,000 and told she is still attractive enough to remarry.
- Opinions1 Oct 2026How African governments can lead the way on ending child marriage Sold for $8.65 to buy a week's food, Thandi* was 14 when she became a wife and mother. Her story is not unique it is the reality for millions of African girls failed by plural legal systems and empty promises.
- Opinions1 Oct 2026The invisible patients: Why families fighting cancer alongside their loved ones need our help too They are called caregivers, but they are patients too. Hypervigilant, exhausted, broke, and grieving with nowhere to grieve; this is the trauma families carry when the hospital doors close.
- Opinions1 Oct 2026 When early detection becomes a cruel promise: What they don't tell you about surviving cancerFinding cancer early is only half the battle. In a system where scanners don't work, results go missing and treatment depends on your bank balance, early detection can become the cruellest promise of all.
- Opinions28 Sept 2026She Flew to the Moon, They Made Sandwich JokesChristina Koch became the first woman in history to leave low Earth orbit. The TikTok comment section responded exactly as you would expect, which is precisely the point.
- Opinions17 Sept 2026Ghana's reporting on sexual abuse still blames the child, not the crimeGhana's coverage of sexual abuse too often turns scrutiny towards children instead of the adults and institutions responsible. The Bole Senior High School case shows how deeply victim blaming remains embedded in public conversation, and why newsrooms need to rethink how they report sexual violence, consent and power.
- Opinions17 Sept 2026Beyond compliance: why procurement, not policy, will decide women's place in Ghana's supply chainsLaws set the floor. Procurement sets the ceiling. Ahead of CSW71, Ghana must decide if its biggest buyers will keep excluding the women who already carry its trade.
- Opinions17 Sept 2026Who taught you to shrink? And who are you teaching not to?From an aunty plaiting hair to a For You page, Ghanaian girls are still being taught to take up less space. And the data shows us exactly what that costs.
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