“No More Wednesday Holidays?” — Why Ghana’s New Holiday Shift Feels Like A Plot Twist
I’ll be honest with you—I used to live for those random Wednesday holidays. You know the ones. You wake up, the sun is too bright, the streets are too quiet, and then it hits you: "Oh, today be Founders’ Day!"
Midweek holidays were the cheat codes of adulthood. You get two Mondays packed into one week: one for the grind, and the other for guilt-free laziness. I’d sleep till 9am, eat banku at 11, binge-watch a K-drama I swore I’d only watch “one episode” of, and then start worrying about work around 4:30pm. Glorious.
So when I heard the government wants to move all midweek holidays to Fridays (and weekend holidays to Mondays), I just sat there blinking at the screen like, “Wait… what?”
No offense, but I’m not sure if I should be grateful or grumpy.
I get it—productivity, business flow, alignment with the global workforce, blah blah. But hear me out.
In my experience, midweek holidays are like little sanity breaks. Life gets noisy. Work can feel like quicksand. And that one magical day in the middle? It resets you.
Fridays? Fridays already feel like holidays in Ghana. Let’s be honest. By 1pm, everyone’s spirit has already left the office. You’re checking out jollof prices, not your to-do list. And Mondays? Whew. Moving a Sunday holiday to Monday might sound sweet in theory—but will it really feel like a celebration when all you’re thinking about is Tuesday?
I could be wrong, but this move feels less about us and more about them. Like someone in a suit said, “Let’s streamline everything,” without thinking about how these random breaks affect real people—market women, nurses doing 12-hour shifts, students buried under assignments.
And don’t even get me started on the folks who work weekends. (Like, are they ever gonna feel a “real” holiday again?)
Scrolling through social media after the announcement, I saw mixed feelings. Some were excited—long weekends, more travel plans, more time to “go somewhere small.” Others were annoyed. One guy tweeted, “So midweek is now officially useless?” And I kinda felt that.
Here’s what I’ve noticed lately: we keep making changes for structure and order, but sometimes that order feels… hollow. It’s like putting everyone in the same box, even though we’re all different shapes.
I mean, what if people actually liked the randomness of holidays? What if some of us need a break that isn’t attached to a weekend? What if the weirdness of a Wednesday off is exactly what made it worth it?
I don’t know. Maybe I’m just too attached to my odd little routines.
Maybe I’ll grow to love these long weekends.
Maybe.
But I’ll still miss those sleepy Wednesday mornings—the ones that felt like the universe saying, “Breathe. Pause. Reset.”
So yeah. All holidays now shifting to Fridays and Mondays.
But here’s the question I’m stuck with:
Is making life more efficient always the same as making it better?
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