Prof. Kwesi Yankah writes: Giving me a haircut in my absence

Plantain and other food crops have been displayed in abundance, spilling over in markets and the banks of huge trucks.

Gas pumps have started responding to the falling price of crude oil, with driver and passenger beaming with smiles ahead of Christmas.

But I have also been weighing this against joining a ‘hair cut’ debate, which I suddenly realize is a metaphor, that moves Ghanaian barbers to the center stage of development economics.

The two ladies were visibly worried about a lousy haircut I had brought that Monday morning to the office

My unusual looks that day, had created a virtual drama in my little office facing the Legon post office

I kept wondering until I realized the entire debate in the past week or two is about the little returns of that thin man in the bank queue, wearing a fanciless hat and brittle grey hair.

It is this man’s returns that we have decided to earmark, to restructure our national debts