When Ghana announced that global streamer IShowSpeed would receive a Ghanaian passport following his Africa visit, the move was framed as cultural diplomacy. Millions of views. A surge of online attention. Ghana trending globally.
But in a country where youth unemployment, informal labor, and food insecurity remain persistent, the deeper question is this: can visibility translate into livelihoods, or does virality stop at the screen?
Featured photo: Chin Yu Chu, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
