Improving Our Public Discourse
In his “Our Democracy, Our Pride” Independence Day speech, the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in praising Ghana’s democracy, bemoaned the current state of our public discourse. Two statements from the speech illustrate this concern – a) “we still have a lot more to learn especially when it comes to the tolerance of opposing views” and b) “there is no danger of dissenting voices not being heard on any subject, even though we still have...