Is Ghana selling its sovereignty and its northern neighbors? We've seen it all before: an African leader who knows how to talk the talk but willfully refuses to walk the walk. Some celebrate Ghana's President John Mahama for a series of much-needed social reforms in the country, including economic reforms in the cocoa-producing sector and prison reform that offers community service as an alternative to prison time. He is also praised on the world stage for pushing the international community to recognize the horrors of the European slave trade of African people, opening the door to possible reparations. But are these reforms a cover for a more sinister hidden agenda with the West that comes at the expense of the revolutionary northern neighbors of Ghana, the Sahel countries Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso? And if Ghana signs back door deals with the West and its allies, will it also cost the Ghanaian people their sovereignty?

Is Ghana selling its sovereignty and its northern neighbors? We've seen it all before: an African leader who knows how to talk the talk but willfully refuses to walk the walk. Some celebrate Ghana's President John Mahama for a series of much-needed social reforms in the country, including economic reforms in the cocoa-producing sector and prison reform that offers community service as an alternative to prison time. He is also praised on the world stage for pushing the international community to recognize the horrors of the European slave trade of African people, opening the door to possible reparations. But are these reforms a cover for a more sinister hidden agenda with the West that comes at the expense of the revolutionary northern neighbors of Ghana, the Sahel countries Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso? And if Ghana signs back door deals with the West and its allies, will it also cost the Ghanaian people their sovereignty?