Imagine finishing work and, instead of driving home or squeezing into a crowded trotro, climbing into a canoe and paddling through a maze of mangroves. Deep...
As dawn breaks over the fishing town of Anomabu on Ghana’s Central Region coastline, the steady rhythm of drums begins to roll through the streets. Dancers...
The sound usually arrived before the masks did. Brass instruments echoed through the neighbourhood, drums gathered pace, and whispers spread from one compound to another: “The...
History often remembers the ships that carried Africans away. Far less attention is given to the ships that brought some of their descendants back. Walk through...
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...
“Imagine catching a lion every year.” That sentence alone changes the way many people understand Ghana’s famous Aboakyer Festival. Behind the colourful processions, dancing Asafo companies,...
As dawn breaks over Cape Coast, the streets begin to pulse with life. The sharp rhythm of fontomfrom drums echoes through the old fishing town while...
By mid-morning, the streets of Accra are already vibrating with drumbeats. Women wrapped in bright cloth move in groups through narrow lanes, children weave through the...
