In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of African Americans artists and intellectuals moved to Ghana as part of attempts to redefine their relationship to citizenship in the U.S. as well as their African identities.
The evidence of material on African cities does not inspire confidence. They are increasingly overcrowded with
"An African City," the web series about five single women in Accra, Ghana.
The world, via American, is getting to know about how in Ghana the lines between religion and politics, and fact and fiction are often blurred.
It’s Carnival time again! Besides being one of my favorite annual excuses to party (although I
A friend who knew I was once a broadcast journalist with Joy FM recently asked me
It is not clear what Ghanaian duo Fokn Bois, on tour in the Netherlands, was doing visiting a boring Dutch town, Liesbeth. But it turned out to be fun.
From the entertaining, mundane and sometimes depressing events and revelations, five of the most important lessons we learned from this year.
Few rappers on the continent have been as prolific as Sarkodie this year. The Ghanaian emcee
The Ghanaian dance music craze has finally arrived in the United States after sweeping Europe and the continent. Will it catch on here?
A short history of football, nation building and the consolidation of pan-African solidarity in 1960s Ghana.
Asamoah, who just achieved milestone of 150 Serie A appearances, is not shy about publicly sharing
Recognition of the contributions to the New York cultural landscape by African immigrants remains strangely absent from the average New Yorker’s frame of reference.
Ghana is currently experiencing a surge of contemporary performing and visual arts. Here are some notes
We could call this: The Afro-Trifecta, if you will. They are a lawyer, some sort of
The photos below (click to enlarge), offering a glimpse into the joy and optimism of the
A former student of Kofi Awoonor remembers the famed Ghanaian writer who was killed in a terror attack by Al Shabaab in Niairobi, Kenya.
The academic Ato Quayson remembers the celebrated Ghanaian poet and intellectual, Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013), who was murdered in a terror attack in Kenya.
Blitz the Ambassador talks to us about his new EP, 'The Warm Up,' ahead of his Brooklyn, NY, show tonight.
Considering James Town's weighty history, which played a huge part in shaping Ghana, it seems only right that when re-imagining a future Accra we start at the place where the city began.