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Ghana
Ghana is a West African nation bordering the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, sharing land borders with Côte d’Ivoire,…
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“I Am Where I’m Meant to Be”: Stevie Wonder’s Ghanaian Citizenship and the Diaspora’s Return
On May 13, 2024 — his 74th birthday — legendary musician and humanitarian Stevie Wonder stood at Jubilee House in Accra, draped…
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Ghana Empire
Wagadou, commonly known as the Ghana Empire, was a West African empire that existed from c. 300 until c. 1100.
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Make Ghana pan-African again
The 8 minute, 46 second cell phone video shot by a bystander of George Floyd’s murder by police in Minneapolis…
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How Black men are represented in painting
Photography Chris Cunningham. Courtesy of Dior.Art has long served as a vehicle for social change in Africa, with artists from across its…
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Coronavirus: Why Ghana has gone into mourning after mass funeral ban
Funerals in Ghana are well known to be elaborate affairs with specially designed coffinsIn our series of letters from African…
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Ashanti Empire
The Asante Empire (Asante Twi: Asanteman) was an Akan empire and kingdom from 1670 to 1957 in what is now…
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West Africa
West Africa is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries
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Ghana grants citizenship to over 100 African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans
As Osibisa’s “Welcome Home” played in the background, 126 African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans, dressed in colourful traditional costumes, became Ghana’s newest…
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Ghanaian Robotics Team Wins World Robofest Championship
Named Team Acrobot, the nine girls from the Methodist Girls’ High School in the Eastern Region of Ghana dominated the…
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Iddris Sandu: The tech genius behind Uber, Instagram and Snapchat
This unorthodox African tech prodigy is responsible for algorithms that made Uber, Instagram and Snapchat what they are today.
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Six myths about electronic waste in Ghana
Agbogbloshie is an urban area in Ghana’s capital Accra, housing a vegetable market, a scrap metal yard, a large slum,…
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Gandhi’s statue has finally been pulled down in Ghana
Two years after a statue of Mohandas ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi was erected at the University of Ghana campus, it has been…
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Four more ways the CIA has meddled in Africa
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a long history of involvement in African affairs, so Sunday’s reports that the…
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“We must unite now or perish” – President Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah’s speech at the founding of the OAU has since become a classic, even iconic. In front of…
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