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Bound to Outlast

A man in Accra in a plain white cloth draped over one shoulder sits side-on on a low wooden stool in a deep umber-black field between stepped clay-rose panels, drawing a bright green thread through the spine of a thick ledger on his lap, his other hand resting on its cover.

Satisfaction wasn’t finishing the register. It was knowing whose hands would open it next.

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On September 8, 2026, President Mahama swore in Ghana’s first Independent Fiscal Council, tasked with scrutinizing government spending before it goes wrong rather than explaining it after. It came nearly four years after Ghana defaulted and asked its own bondholders, many of them ordinary savers and pensioners, to accept less than they were owed.

In my hands, a new ledger, bound to outlast whoever’s in office. One hand is still stitching. The other has finally earned the right to rest.