• 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.

• 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.

• Paul Emiljanowicz

Nkrumah’s written works and speeches reveal a selective encounter and appropriation of tools — in this case from Marxist thought — that were translated through Nkrumah’s traveling theory.

• Titilope F. Ajayi

Would white women in the US have supported #MeToo in the same way if it had been started by women elsewhere in the world?

• Vik Sohonie

The fate of World Cup draws has fostered an unlikely rivalry between Ghana and the United States.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

In 1971, Carlos Santana went to play in Ghana at a massive independence day concert. It felt like being at home.