The Market Under Anaesthesia
Commercial life is filled with such questions. They are rarely asked publicly because business language prefers confidence. But beneath the polished phrases, “alignment,” “stakeholder engagement,” “commercial review,” “strategic positioning”, human beings are measuring the day against fatigue.
ACCRA DRAINAGE SYSTEMS: A Forensic Engineering Audit, Urban Re-Planning Framework, and Maintenance-Culture Indictment
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 to decay. Abstract Accra’s recurring flooding is often discussed as an act of rain, but […]
03:49.A.M.- Notes from a Commercial Manager.
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 products and more about systems of movement—of goods, capital, information, pressure, and expectation. At Carmeuse, […]
When I Am Finally Put to Rest
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 the room first. Familiar faces arranged in unfamiliar silence. Some will sit upright, composed, as […]
The Mother Who Made Me: A Tribute to Victoria Erskine
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 the woman who bore me; she is the architect of my mind, the sculptor of […]
On Marriage and Fatherhood
Marriage and fatherhood are often spoken of as milestones, as though they are destinations one arrives at with applause in the background and certainty in hand. But the older I get, the less I think of them as achievements, and the more I think of them as disciplines—ways of being summoned out of oneself. Youth […]
Road Systems in Ghana and the Failure of Drainage: A Reflection on Accra’s Urban Logic
A road is never merely a road. To the hurried eye, it is asphalt, traffic, dust, and delay. But to the disciplined mind, a road is a civilizational statement. It tells us how a society understands movement, order, commerce, dignity, and time. In Ghana, and perhaps most vividly in Accra, the road system is not […]
On Physics, Mechanics, Astrophysics, and Structural Engineering
All structures begin with a question: What forces act here, and how will matter respond? Physics is the language in which that question is answered. Mechanics is its dialect of motion and force. Astrophysics expands the inquiry beyond Earth. Structural engineering applies the logic to steel, concrete, and space itself. At the foundation lies Newtonian […]
On the Architecture of My Belief
There are nights when belief feels less like certainty and more like inquiry. Religion, to me, has never been a simple inheritance. It has been a pattern I observe within myself—a recurring structure of thought that rises when logic reaches its horizon. I was introduced to faith as doctrine, as tradition, as communal rhythm. But […]
7:45 at Kotoka
The airport is a cathedral of systems. At 7:45 p.m., seated beneath the quiet hum of departures and arrivals, I find myself thinking about coordination—the invisible choreography that keeps aircraft aloft, markets liquid, and nations stitched together by rules most of us will never read. Airports are proof that human beings, at our best, can […]