A Private Accounting By Edan Amankwaa-Benneh Some nights, I am frightened not by what I have done, but by how persuasively I can explain it. The mind—especially a trained, analytical mind—is an accomplished defence counsel. It arranges facts, removes inconvenient
There are two ways to know death. One is intellectually: as biology, probability, philosophy and the inevitable conclusion of every human life. The other is personally: as a fact that has crossed the distance between abstraction and address. Death is
Life changes its pace without asking our permission. In youth, we move as though the road has been cleared specifically for us. Everything is urgent, everything is possible, and the body appears willing to follow the mind wherever it runs.
By Edan Amankwaa-Benneh Civil and Hydraulics Engineering Perspective | Accra, Ghana | June 2026 A city floods twice: first in its channels, then in its conscience. The water only exposes what planning, enforcement, maintenance, and civic discipline have already allowed
Commercial activity, at its highest level, is not selling.Selling is only the visible surface. Beneath it lies coordination, psychology, timing, logistics, negotiation, forecasting, diplomacy, endurance, and above all, trust. A Commercial Manager quickly realizes that the job is less about
There is a strange clarity in imagining one’s own funeral. Not the spectacle of it, the clothes, the crowd, the ceremony, but the voices. What remains when the body is quiet and only memory is allowed to speak. I imagine
Gratitude is the heartbeat of remembrance, and I remember. I remember the hands that first held me, the voice that first called me by name, and the unyielding spirit that shaped my own. My mother, Victoria Erskine, is not just