• Fiifi Anaman

In 1957, three months after Ghanaian independence, the world’s most celebrated footballer came to Accra to teach. What Stanley Matthews left behind changed Ghanaian football forever.

• Olaoluwa Olowu

In Ghana, women boxers continue to pursue the sport despite the economic hardship and institutional inequalities they face in and out of the ring.

• Fiifi Anaman

Under the leadership of the president of the Ghana Football Association, the country’s football has become a study in contradiction, combining administrative modernization with competitive decline.

• Adwoa A. Fofie

Illegal gold mining is poisoning Ghana’s soil and rivers, seeping into its crops and seafood, and turning the national food system into a long-term public health crisis.

• Kuukuwa Manful

A constitutional challenge over religious practice reveals the unresolved colonial and postcolonial politics of Ghana’s mission-founded secondary schools.

• Ayisha Osori

By placing Kwame Nkrumah at the center of a global Black political network, Howard W. French reveals how the promise of pan-African emancipation was narrowed — and what its failure still costs Africa and the diaspora.

• Rachel Etter-Phoya

From colonial accounting tricks to modern tax havens, Nkrumah understood how capital escapes, and why political independence was never enough.

• Yaw Asare

On his latest EP, Kwame Brenya turns a failed migration into musical testimony — offering a biting critique of ECOWAS, broken borders, and the everyday collapse of pan-African ideals.

• Gyekye Tanoh

On the podcast, we explore: How did Ghana go from Nkrumah’s radical vision to neoliberal entrenchment? Gyekye Tanoh unpacks the forces behind its political stability, deepening inequality, and the fractures shaping its future.

• Ernest Harsch

Ghana’s election has brought another handover between the country’s two main parties. Yet behind the scenes lies a flawed system where wealth can buy political office.

• Manasseh Azure Awuni

As Ghana heads to the polls, its democratic promise fades amid economic turmoil, corruption, and disillusionment, leaving voters to choose between two flawed options.

• Delali Adogla-Bessa

The protests against illegal mining in Ghana are revealing how the country's political class still fears an engaged citizenry.

• Kim M. Reynolds

While many diasporans speculate romantically about the people we were or could have been, is that speculation mutual?

• Fiifi Anaman

It happened in 1969. But just how did he world’s greatest, richest and most sought-after footballer at the time, end up in Ghana?

• Anakwa Dwamena

Looking back at 20 years of research-based practice in Ghana, Jesse Weaver Shipley’s latest exhibition blurs the distinction between political rebels and artists.

• Yao Graham

New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today.

• Fiifi Anaman

No one should be surprised at Ghana's Afcon exit.

• Maher Mezahi

Up next in the African Five-a-side podcast, we name our central defender, and explain how Ghana's first president boycotted the 1966 FIFA World Cup and won two Afcons.

• Jean Allman
• Benjamin Talton

A project - helmed by historians Benjamin Talton and Jean Allman - to archive post-independence African revolutions, including Kwame Nkrumah's personal and professional papers.

• Selorm Quist

For many African immigrants in the United States, being seen as Black doesn’t necessarily equate to seeing oneself as Black.