There are Ghanaian engineers at NASA.
Ghanaian surgeons running hospital departments in London.
Ghanaian economists at the IMF and World Bank, some of them administering the very programs that have failed their home country.
Ghanaian mathematicians. Ghanaian architects. Ghanaian writers who have won international literary prizes.
Ghanaian tech entrepreneurs building companies that work.
When given access to resources, institutions, and an enabling environment, Ghanaians perform at the highest levels of every field.
This is not an argument that individual talent solves structural problems.
It is a refutation of the claim that the problem is the people.
The problem is never the people.
The people are everywhere.
The talent is everywhere.
The ambition is everywhere.
The capacity is everywhere.
What is not everywhere is the policy space, the institutional support, the geopolitical backing, the market access, and the freedom from externally imposed economic programs that systematically prevent the conversion of human capacity into collective industrial development.
The difference between a Ghanaian running a department at a London hospital and Ghana having a functioning public health system is not the Ghanaian.
It is everything around the Ghanaian.
NEURALINK MADE HIM THE FIRST PATIENT - NOW HE’S UNSTOPPABLE
21 months after becoming the first human to receive a Neuralink implant, Nolan Arbaugh isn’t just typing with his mind, he’s taking pre-calc, studying neuroscience, and launching a speaking career.
Paralyzed from the neck down after a diving accident, Nolan says the chip, nicknamed “Eve”, made the impossible not only possible, but normal.
He’s gone from hospital bed to tech conference keynote, with Fortune already cutting the check.
Neuralink doesn’t call him much anymore, he jokes it’s “once in a blue moon”, because now, others are joining the trial.
And as for Nolan? He’s building a brand, getting straight As, and teasing “big news” for 2026.
Not bad for a guy running on brainwaves.
Source: Teslarati, @ModdedQuad
We’re pleased to announce the 74 leading figures from the world of engineering and technology elected to our Fellowship at yesterday’s AGM. By joining the Fellowship, they will lend their unique capabilities to achieving the Academy’s overarching strategic goal to engineer better lives.
Meet them all: https://t.co/NUOo3MDYSz
#RAEngFellows #EngineeringBetterLives
Today is the greatest day of my life because I’ve finally accomplished what I always wanted to do which is giving these kids a chance to be great. Greatness starts with education and foundational education shouldn’t come with financial barriers.
Soldiers are trained to protect us and not to brutalizing the citizenry.
This incident happened yesterday at Bank of Ghana, Takoradi. A soldier using the back of his riffle to hit one of our members in the face.
Such act shouldn’t be tolerated!!!
@GhPoliceService
@mavivitoesna @AjimisanTimothy @Blue_Footy Kante likes to move the ball forward with great speed and doesn’t delay on ball. Unlike previously, we now play direct attacking football with less sideways and backward passes. He will be instrumental to this system.