Accra

A sprawling exhibition at the Origins Centre challenges colonial narratives and reframes African cities as spaces of resilience, creativity and constant transformation

Africa Day is generally marked as a day for celebration, a day to rejoice at the steps taken by previous generations to fight against and eliminate the effects of colonialism,…

Budgets are rewritten in Washington and Brussels rather than in Harare, Accra or Nairobi

Novel writes queerness into a space where it’s forbidden and meanders through the unforgiving politics of Ghana, past and present

Ghana’s Afrochella, one of the continent’s biggest music festivals, is getting a new name but it remains a joyous showcase of sound

The current government is adhering to an old policy of appeasement of Western interests

African governments face civil unrest from people who are hungrier and poorer because of the pandemic, war in Ukraine, climate pressures on food systems and poor policy decisions

Good governance is not just about politicians, as Ghana’s elections demonstrate

The air force pilot and former president used extreme measures, including a coup, enforced ‘discipline’ through executions, ‘disappearances’ and floggings, but reintroduced…

His image was used to sell pineapples in Europe. But he knew nothing about it – and they got his name wrong

Sylvia Arthur founded the Library for Africa and the African Diaspora to house her collection and share it with other readers

"Maybe we see possibilities in each other’s countries that we don’t see in our own."

Celebrated Ghanaian photographer James Barnor continues his interview with Riason Naidoo, focusing on the later years of his career

The battle to eliminate fake pharmaceutical products is being stepped up

Samantha Reinders looks at the booming second-hand clothing industry in Ghana and feels conflicted about all the fuss over the West’s hand-me-downs.