‘We’re Going to Stand Up’: Queer Literature is Booming in Africa
Even in countries where homophobia is pervasive and same-sex relationships are illegal, authors are pushing boundaries, finding an audience and winning awards.
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African and Caribbean nations agree move to seek reparations for slavery
African Union and Caricom members establish global reparations fund and call for formal apologies from European nationsA global movement to seek reparations for slavery has been forged during a summit in Ghana this week, with the African Union partneri…
Ending TB Is Within Reach — So Why Are Millions Still Dying?
Tuberculosis has passed Covid as the top infectious disease killer, despite new medicines and better diagnostic tools.
London church unveils artwork to commemorate African-born abolitionist
Che Lovelace paintings in St James’s church are first permanent art commission to honour Quobna Ottobah CugoanoA permanent artwork to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the baptism of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, one of Britain’s most important abolitioni…
Tuesday Briefing: What to Expect as the U.N. Meets
Plus, lessons from Singapore on cooling a city.
Will Ghana’s gas gamble perpetuate a cycle of fossil-fuel related debt?
West African country is enduring hard times – and critics say plan to import liquefied natural gas will only make things worseJohn Gakpo has milled corn to make kenkey – a cornmeal dumpling and Ghana’s staple food – in a dimly lit wooden shack in a sub…
Ghana abolishes death penalty, with expected reprieve for 176 condemned prisoners
Country joins growing list of African nations free of capital punishment, but execution remains for high treasonGhana has become the 29th country in Africa to abolish the death penalty in a move hailed by human rights activists.The decision means that …
Author Ama Ata Aidoo, ‘an inspiration to feminists everywhere’, dies aged 81
The Ghanaian playwright and novelist, who also served as her country’s education minister, focused on the modern African womanThe Ghanaian writer and academic Ama Ata Aidoo, whose work focused on the modern African woman, has died aged 81.Ata Aidoo, wh…
Stop dumping your cast-offs on us, Ghanaian clothes traders tell EU
With 100 tonnes of clothing from the west discarded every day in Accra, ‘fast fashion’ brands must be forced to help pay for the choking textile waste they create, environmentalists sayA group of secondhand clothes dealers from Ghana have visited Bruss…
Cocoa planting is destroying protected forests in west Africa, study finds
Global trade in chocolate, worth more than $1tn a year, is leading to widespread deforestation in Ivory Coast and GhanaThe world’s hunger for chocolate is a major cause of the destruction of protected forests in west Africa, scientists have said.Satell…