The photographer Paul Strand’s Portraits of 1960s Ghana
With Kwame Nkrumah's support, Strand’s last major photographic project was of Ghana over three months between 1963 and 1964.
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Fifty Four Kingdoms
The apparel and accessory company, 54 Kingdoms, makes fashion with "a pan-Africanist sensibility." They thought the African Cup of Nations is a good place to start.
Making African celebrity culture
Considering the proximity of celebrity culture to how capitalism operates in Africa, why is it not given more serious attention?
The Historic Legacy of Ivor Wilks
A historian of Ghana, Ivor Wilks was crucial to the founding of African history as an academic discipline in the late 1950s and to its development over subsequent decades.
A Bronx Story: Ghana vs USA
The fate of World Cup draws has fostered an unlikely rivalry between Ghana and the United States.
Why is the Wall St Journal trash-talking Ghana’s Blackstars
Every four years, this Ghanaian-American writer has to brace herself for the predictable slew of American media reporting about Ghana.
When Maya Angelou lived in Africa
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of African Americans moved to Ghana and redefined their relationships to citizenship in the U.S. and their African identities.
Sex and the City meets Americanah
"An African City," the web series about five single women in Accra, Ghana.
Ghanaian preachers say the darndest things
The world, via American, is getting to know about how in Ghana the lines between religion and politics, and fact and fiction are often blurred.
The Komla Dumor I Knew
A contemporary of the late BBC journalist and newsreader remembers how their paths cross and Komla Dumor's lasting legacy.
Fokn Bois in a Dutch village
It is not clear what Ghanaian duo Fokn Bois, on tour in the Netherlands, was doing visiting a boring Dutch town, Liesbeth. But it turned out to be fun.
Ghanaians Like Catchphrases
From the entertaining, mundane and sometimes depressing events and revelations, five of the most important lessons we learned from this year.
Azonto Americana
The Ghanaian dance music craze has finally arrived in the United States after sweeping Europe and the continent. Will it catch on here?