Dr. Gifty Enyonam Ama Dake-Ketemepi

Blogs and Articles

Insights and reflections on education, quality management, and social development.

Community SafetyPolicingSocial transformation

SAFETY OR “I CATCH YOU”?

October 28, 2026

Five years ago, driving home at night with a friend and my son, a police vehicle cut dangerously across us metres from my house. I got out, frightened. The officer told me I had made an illegal U-turn on the motorway. We had not been on the motorway at all. I asked how he could drive that way in a residential area where children play; he could have killed someone. His answer has stayed with me ever since:

Child AbuseSex EducationGender

When the Safe Place Becomes the Hunting Ground

October 21, 2026

Parents hand their daughters to the school. The state hands them to the headmaster. A child is told, "This is the person who will keep you safe." And then the child learns that the person she was told to trust is the one she must fear. The law has an old phrase for this arrangement, in loco parentis: the school stands in the place of the parent. It is a phrase that describes trust before it describes authority.

Educational PolicyQuality AssuranceQuality

An Open Letter to GTEC: Ghana's Credential Crisis Is a Mirror - and an NQF Is the Frame

June 1, 2026

I write to you not in criticism, but in solidarity – and with a proposal. The campaign your Commission launched in 2025 to flush out fraudulent doctoral and professorial titles from Ghana's public life was necessary, courageous, and long overdue. When a presidential candidate cannot consistently state what subject his alleged PhD was written in – first claiming business management, then political science, in different televised interviews – something is profoundly broken. When a Deputy Minister of Health presents herself to the nation as a "Professor" by silently 'allegedly' dropping the word "Adjunct" from an appointment letter, the problem is not merely one of vanity. It is a problem of systemic fraud – and it reaches into every office, boardroom, and parliamentary chamber where credentials are used to confer authority.

Social developmentFeminism

Do Women Think? When Degrees Can't Cure Ignorance

February 11, 2026

"Do women think?" Let that marinate for a moment. This wasn't some random troll from the dark corners of the internet. This was a degree holder. A suit-and-tie-wearing, public-university-educated gentleman who looks intelligent and well-composed from the outside. He was taught by accomplished female academics at one of Ghana's well-known universities. Women who, presumably, used their thinking brains to grade his papers and sign off on his degree. The irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

Social development, Feminism, Growth

Affirmative Action Is Overdue Justice: “Not a Handout, a Hand Up”

February 3, 2026

Here's what struck me: how can someone advocate for gender equity while opposing one of the most effective tools for achieving it? This disconnect reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of what affirmative action actually is, and what merit really means. Affirmative action isn't a shortcut for the unqualified; it’s a corrective lens for a system that has been "merit-blind" to women’s contributions for centuries.

Corruption Social development

Beyond "God's Time": How Corruption, Poverty Mindset, and Religious Fatalism Are Sinking Ghana

December 9, 2025

These two conversations expose the cultural foundations that allow corruption to permeate every level of Ghanaian society: a poverty mindset that drives endless accumulation, and a fatalistic religiosity that replaces action with prayer.

Education Quality Education

Quantity vs. Quality: Has Free SHS Become Ghana's Educational Achilles' Heel?

November 27, 2025

On the Free SHS: The harsh reality is this: we've prioritised quantity at the altar of quality.

Social developmentGrowth

The Price of Silence: Why Ghana Needs Critical Voices Now More Than Ever

November 9, 2025

And we sit. We watch. We turn our faces away. Because speaking up isn't "the Ghanaian way."

Poem

The Ache of Loving Loudly in a Silent Room

November 4, 2025

But sometimes… they’re not there. Not in the crowd. Not in the moment. Not even in the silence after.