Browsing: Ghana

While on a peacemaking mission to what was then North Vietnam on 24 February 1966, Ghana’s first post-independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah, received disturbing news. A group…

We explore the life of the great pan-African leader Kwame Nkrumah. After spending a year in a British colonial jail for organising a ‘positive action’ campaign…

Ghana has been named the second-safest country in Africa for 2025. The ranking – by Tanzania’s Altezza Travel – points to the West African country’s independent…

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,…