James Barnor, ever young
Riason Naidoo talks to the curator and editor of a book and traveling exhibition about the work of the legendary, 90 year-old Ghanaian photographer.
Ghana
Witchcraft studies
The gendered nature of witchcraft accusations aimed at women who deviate from accepted social norms.
Ghana’s Rastas and the year of return
Ghana's government likes to advertise its "Year of Return" to welcome members of the African diaspora back to the country, but the first returnees, Ratafarians, are still fighting for their rights.
Architectural resistance
A collective of artists and architects are working to reimagine public space in abandoned property developments in Ghana's capital city.
Kwame Nkrumah’s Cold War
The author on why she felt compelled to write another book on Nkrumah. This time on Western powers smearing Nkrumah as a Communist.
Fighting rape culture in Ghana
A movement of young feminists are fighting back against patriarchy and rape culture in Afropop music in Ghana.
They’re our Black Stars. We have to support them
The last time Ghana's men's national football team won a tournament was thirty-seven years ago. The team is beginning to feel like yet another failing state institution.
Skin politics in northern Ghana
What we know about conflicts over chieftaincy in northern Ghana.
The crisis of Ghana’s fisheries
Ghana is facing widespread illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in its coastal waters causing economic hardship in fishing communities.
The complicated political legacy of Jerry Rawlings
Jerry Rawlings is widely cited by working class people as one of Ghana's best presidents. But his legacy is complicated by his association with political violence as a military dictator, and by his ushering in of neoliberalism.
Zombie statistics and poverty porn
Two sides of the same e-waste documentary.
The meaning of party politics in Ghana’s urban neighborhoods
Why do so many of the urban poor support John Mahama and Ghana's opposition National Democratic Congress?
Six myths about electronic waste in Agbogbloshie, Ghana
The documentary Welcome to Sodom gets most of its facts wrong about the so-called "largest electronic waste dump in the world."
The geo-politics of Malcolm X
Malcolm X is a powerful optic through which to understand America's post-war ascendance and expansion into the Middle East.
What is the Dangbe word for chameleon?
When it comes to language preferences in Ghana, indigenous languages suffer. It is a continental problem.
Sarkodie and the politics for ‘freedom-making’
Hiplife artist Sarkodie has proposed that what Ghana needs is a dictatorship. This is not inconsistent with his politics, rooted in promoting male success and a patriarchal vision of liberation.
Friday Black
The wild metaphors, stark imagery, and boundary-pushing hyperbole in Nana Kwame Agyei-Brenyah writing.
The politics of a coup d’etat
Race and geopolitics in the 1966 coup d'etat that overthrew Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana.
Magical realism in Accra
The film, "The Burial of Kojo," sparks a vital conversation about the intersections of heritage, politics, and spirituality in Ghana and in Africa at large.
The burden of being Nigerian
On xenophobia against Nigerians in Ghana.