“What would you want your coffin to look like?” It is an unusual question in many parts of the world. In Ghana, however, it opens the...
Ghana has announced plans to construct a state-of-the-art museum dedicated to the transatlantic enslavement, which will serve as the permanent repository for approximately 2,000 looted artefacts...
For many Africans, the phrase “mud hut” carries a familiar sting. It has long been used as shorthand for poverty, underdevelopment, and everything supposedly lacking in...
A stone sits quietly in a community in southeastern Ghana. To an outsider, it may appear ordinary. Yet for generations of Krobo and Shai people, it...
For one remarkable evening in Accra, Jeffrey Nortey proved that a single performer, armed with imagination, discipline, and a catalogue of unforgettable characters, could command one...
Ghana is building its first cinema space dedicated exclusively to African and diasporic cinema, a landmark cultural project that aims to do more than screen films:...
There is a tendency to look for history in monuments, official records, and museum collections. Yet some of the most revealing archives of a society can...
A faded family photograph. A discarded plastic bottle cap. The crowded bustle of a taxi rank. These are the kinds of objects and experiences many people...
There was a time when a Ghanaian proverb could determine whether you went home with a television set, a fan, or simply the pride of knowing...
Long before streaming platforms and multiplex cinemas reached African audiences, films arrived in many Ghanaian towns by pickup truck. A television is balanced in the back....
