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Kantanku Global Foundation supports needy children in Ghana
The Kantanku Global Foundation has donated some assorted clothing and footwear to some needy children in Kpasiri, a village in the Wa municipality in the Upper West region of Ghana.
The donation forms part of the foundation’s response to some pressing issues affecting the community, especially needy children.
The power of community proves that when people care and come together, change is more than possible.
Kantanku Global Foundation has taken up the challenge to create a more compassionate and community-focused environment to model the value of generosity and selflessness for the needy and more community-based supports in the areas of education, health care, shelter, food, sanitation, and basic essential needs to facilitate the successful growth of mankind.
Kpasiri is a farming community that is confronted with numerous socio-economic challenges that are common among developing communities in the region. Most people in the village fall into the poverty bracket, and they barely make ends meet.
The community is predominantly a farming community that cultivates on a small scale. Most youths, especially females, have resorted to migrating to urban centres to learn skilled apprenticeship training, mostly in sewing, but end up halfway due to financial constraints that could facilitate their daily transport to and fro, food, and utility expenses.
The only health facility in the village lacks equipment, making it difficult to access healthcare.
In a video message, the Founder of the Foundation, Mr. Emmauel Nana Marfo, said even with the scanty resources at the Foundation’s disposal, it will continue to provide comprehensive essential services such as emergency aid, food and water supplies, shelter, healthcare, sanitation, and education to the marginalised.
He thanked the donors for their immense contributions to showing care and love for the needy.
Mr. Marfo recounted that the Foundation has so far supported many lives in three regions in Ghana, such as the Upper West, Volta, and Greater Accra, at different humanitarian services on countless occasions and continues to impact the poorest of the poor for a better future.
According to him, many high-profile personalities, in their beginnings, encountered socio-economic challenges before they realised their enviable heights, and he called on all well-endowed people to support and engage in charity work for a prosperous future.
The Assembyman for Kpasiri Electoral Area, Hon. Saeed Abdul Rashid expressed gratitude for the benevolent gesture of the foundation in identifying the pressing needs of the community and responding to them.
He appeals to donors to support the foundation in other areas, especially healthcare equipment and agricultural technology training, to promote and address the wellbeing and welfare of the people in the community.
The parents of the beneficiaries were very grateful to the foundation for coming to their aid; adding the donation will go a long way to mitigate their challenges.
President John Dramani Mahama has commissioned four career diplomats as ambassador-designates to represent Ghana in four countries.
The commissioning ceremony took place on Friday, October 16, 2026.
The new envoys are Her Excellency Nana Antwiwaa Dodoo, Ambassador-Designate to Angola; His Excellency Louis Kwame Obeng, Ambassador-Designate to Qatar; Her Excellency Evelyn Korantemaa Ofosu-Amable, Ambassador-Designate to Israel; and His Excellency Jedidiah Reuben Adogla, Permanent Representative-Designate to Switzerland.
President Mahama charged them to advance Ghana’s national interests through strategic partnerships, economic diplomacy, investment mobilization, and expanded access to international markets.
He said Ghana’s diplomatic engagements must deliver tangible economic benefits, create jobs, and strengthen the country’s standing on the international stage.
The four envoys are career diplomats with over 27 years of experience.
On behalf of her colleagues, Her Excellency Nana Antwiwaa Dodoo thanked the President for the confidence reposed in them and pledged their commitment to emulate his leadership and deliver on the mandate given to them.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
The professor who spends his days exploring the intricacies of African languages found himself at the centre of a different kind of lesson on Friday, October 2, 2026. 
This time, there were no lecture notes, academic arguments or university classrooms. Instead, there was the weight of tradition, the rhythm of a community celebration and the solemnity of an oath at a royal palace.
Professor Ọbádélé Kambon, a full Professor of African Linguistics at the University of Ghana, was enstooled as Apagyahene and Sunsum Ɔsahene of Akuapem Mampong in the Eastern Region in a ceremony that brought academia and traditional authority together.
For the professor, the occasion was more than a new title. It was a moment that connected his academic interests in African languages and indigenous knowledge with the living traditions of an Akan community.
The day’s events unfolded through a series of customary observances. Kambon was first taken to the compounds of the Ɔkyeamehene and Gyasehene, where the preparations for his installation continued.
Then came the application of hyire, the white kaolin powder associated with traditional rites.
With the customary proceedings underway, the new chief was lifted onto the shoulders of celebrants and carried along the main thoroughfare of Akuapem Mampong.
The procession transformed the streets into a public stage for a ceremony rooted in the community’s traditional institutions.
There was something striking about the image, a university professor, accustomed to the measured language of academic discourse, being carried through the town in a display of traditional recognition.
Yet the celebration was not complete with the procession.
A ram was sacrificed at the Mamponghene’s compound before Kambon was taken to the palace, to swear the oath associated with his new offices.
The ceremony brought him formally into his roles as Apagyahene and Sunsum Ɔsahene.
Beyond the colourful proceedings, the titles themselves carry layers of historical meaning.
Kambon in his research explores the historical connections between Apagya and Akan political and military organisation.
Accounts cited in his work linked Apagya to an asafo, or military company, while historical writing traces an Apagya stool in Asante to the reign of Opoku Ware I in the eighteenth century.
These historical associations offer a glimpse into the institutions that have shaped Akan society over generations, although they do not automatically define the precise responsibilities of the office in Akuapem Mampong.
Kambon’s own professional life reflects a similar interest in preserving and examining African knowledge.
His work encompasses Akan language structure, naming practices across the Black world, proverbs and indigenous intellectual traditions.
Through Abibitumi, the platform he founded, he also promotes language learning, scholarship and cultural engagement.
But tradition was only one part of the story that day.
When the formal ceremony gave way to a reception, the occasion expanded into a celebration of three milestones: Kambon’s enstoolment, his promotion to full professor and his daughter Ama’s admission to the University of Ghana.
The gathering therefore carried a personal significance that went beyond the honours bestowed on one man. 
It celebrated professional advancement, the continuation of family aspirations and a connection to cultural heritage.
For a father, seeing a daughter gain admission to the same university where he holds a distinguished academic position offered another reason to celebrate.
For the professor, the moment placed family achievement alongside his own professional and traditional milestones.
Kambon had already established a place in the traditional life of Akuapem Mampɔn through an earlier installation as Banmuhene Kyidɔmhene, recorded in 2017.
His latest enstoolment adds another chapter to that relationship.
In Akuapem Mampɔn, the day brought together the university, the palace and the family table in one celebration. And for Kambon, the journey from the lecture room to the traditional procession showed how scholarship, cultural responsibility and family achievement could converge in a single memorable occasion.
By Enoch Ntiamoah Siaw
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