The Ghana Academy of Arts And Sciences will host Mr. Yaw Nsarkoh, former Executive Vice President of Unilever Global Markets, in its Occasional Lecture 2025. Yaw Nsarkoh is expected to speak on why 30 years into Ghana’s Fourth Republic, deep inequalities and exclusion reveal that the country’s democratic system, described as a “Santa Claus Democracy”, has structurally failed to deliver genuine benefits to the majority, especially rural peasants. He argues in the following lecture synopsis that real transformation requires moving beyond neoliberal capitalism toward a truly participatory democracy, where the state acts on the will of the people to ensure shared prosperity and dignity.
