About
Analysis of Ghana’s industries, markets and cities, with the sums shown and the sources linked.
I’m Abubakar Mohammed Tayibu, an analyst based in Ghana. I write about how industries and cities work: what things cost, who pays, and what the published numbers do and don’t show. Cocoa is the first section. Logistics, retail, flooding, and energy in Ghana’s cities will follow.
Some of these pieces also appear in print. The versions here are the full ones, with every table, chart, source link and correction.
How the numbers work
- Every article says when its figures are as at. Prices, exchange rates and interest rates can move a long way in a week, so a figure without a date is not much use.
- What is measured is kept apart from what is inferred. Where an argument rests on a hypothesis rather than a published figure, the text says so.
- Figures that don’t reconcile are flagged, not smoothed over. Where two official sources disagree, both are given.
- Sources are linked, and every chart has a “Show the data” table and a CSV download so you can check the numbers yourself.
- Each section sets out its own conventions, for example how a bag of cocoa converts to tonnes, on its section page.
Corrections
Mistakes are corrected in the article itself, and each correction is listed with its date under “Corrections and updates” at the foot of the piece. Nothing is silently changed. If a whole piece is superseded, it stays online with a dated note at the top pointing to the newer one.
If you spot an error, please get in touch on LinkedIn: Abubakar Mohammed Tayibu.