Browsing: Ghana

While on the campaign trail, Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama criticised now-former President Nana Akufo-Addo’s closeness to Western states. Akufo-Addo advocated for French troops to remain…

On this day (14 January) in 1965, Ghana welcomed the Argentine-born revolutionary Che Guevara (1928-67) during his three-month journey across Africa. Guevara’s mission was to forge…

According to the videos online, there was no mistaking it: the loudest roars of approval during Ghana’s president’s inauguration, John Mahama, were reserved for the visiting…

Western media paints US imperialism as an altruistic initiative to bring democracy to savages too simple-minded to know who their enemies are. But, sometimes, the truth…

As the Sahel trio of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger lead Africa’s decolonisation, some African leaders are moving in the opposite direction, surrendering our sovereignty to…

Here’s one African treasure the British could never get their thieving hands on. The Golden Stool is a sacred bit of furniture that’s been revered by…

This is the story of the legendary Queen Nanny of the Maroons. An African woman born in present-day Ghana, kidnapped and sold into slavery in Jamaica,…

Africa’s sorry predicament is not an accident, and its leaders play an integral role in subjugating the continent to the former colonial masters, according to Ghanaian…

Ghana’s getting its first female vice-president: Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, who was president-elect John Mahama’s running mate in the country’s Dec 7 election. It’s seen as a…

In Ghana, the recently concluded elections have seen the incumbent New Patriotic Party lose to the National Democratic Congress. But while this signals a shift in…