Centralized Decentralization: The Unseen Strings of Local Power in Tema

Centralised decentralisation: The strings we do not see, and what managing Tema has taught me about local power

1. A Conversation in Kigali The African Academy for Women in Political Leadership convened us in Kigali in the first week of August, 2026. 40 women from 28 countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Ministers, legislators, mayors, party leaders. I was one of two Ghanaians. We had come to learn particularly from Rwanda’s remarkable trajectory […]

By Karen Tei