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Vibrant pop-up shop opens in Nutgrove Shopping Centre

Sahara boasts a wide range of woven baskets, lampshades and textiles inspired by Ghanaian culture

Dublin Live

Alogte Oho and His Sounds of Joy: O Yinne! review – the gospel truth, Ghanaian style

Frafra gospel meets vintage highlife on the troupe’s vibrant second album, recorded with producer Max Weissenfeldt

The Guardian - UK

Ama Ata Aidoo: Ghana's renowned feminist writer dies at 81

Ama Ata Aidoo, who is considered as one of the most-celebrated feminist writers of Africa, died on May 31, 2023 in Ghana. She was 81-years-old.

The Times of India

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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 woman

The Guardian - UK

Protesters clash with soldiers at Ghana gold mining town

The clashes come as hundreds remain trapped in mining pits, unable or unwilling to resurface out of fear of arrest.

Al Jazeera

Ghanaian writer and feminist Ama Ata Aidoo dies at 81

She was one of the continent’s best-known writers and inspired a generation of younger authors, artists and feminists.

Al Jazeera

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 say

The Guardian - UK

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Ghana and the IMF have struck a deal, but hard choices lie ahead

In mid-May 2023 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) finally approved a US$3 billion 36-month arrangement with Ghana. It immediately disbursed the first tranche of US$600 million.

The Conversation

A world of debt is in need of more flexibility

Recent headlines seem to augur a global debt crisis. The US is teetering on the precipice of a self-inflicted default. Egypt, Ghana, Pakistan, and other countries face grave financial difficulties. And the Chinese are delaying or hampering multilateral efforts to restructure low- and middle-income countries' debt.

Bangkok Post

Accra's market fires are devastating to informal traders - but they don't trust or understand what they're being told about managing risk

Ghana’s informal urban markets play a key role in the country’s economy. They employ more than 80% of the people who work in the informal sector. They create livelihoods for traders, give urban residents access to essential household products, and add value to the culture of urban life.

The Conversation

Larry Achiampong: Wayfinder review – a big-hearted meander through the immigrant experience

Poignant and inclusive, the British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong’s first major solo show roams through class, race and the English landscape, always circling back to his own family

The Guardian - UK

Musicians launch drive for more funding for arts in Africa

Performers from Ghana, Ethiopia and Tanzania have helped launch a five-year project to try to secure more funding for arts and culture, aiming to persuade African governments to allocate at least 1% of their budgets.

Reuters

Africa is getting renewed attention from Washington — and some African states are courting African Americans

Recent allegations by the U.S. ambassador to South Africa that the African nation gave ammunition and weapons to Russia in December 2022, amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, illustrate the complexity of U.S.-Africa relations.

The Conversation

How inflation made West Africa’s prized jollof rice a pricey meal

Inflation driven by economic instability, fallout from war in Ukraine and COVID have made jollof rice an expensive meal.

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The real cost of your chocolate habit: new research reveals the bittersweet truth of cocoa farming in Africa's forests

Chocolate sales have boomed in recent months. As the cost-of-living crisis bites, consumers are increasingly reaching for chocolate as a simple and affordable pleasure.

The Guardian - UK

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 Ghana

France 24

‘Ghana beyond aid’ no longer: West Africa’s former model student forced to turn to IMF

Formerly praised for its stability and good governance, Ghana has been facing a severe economic crisis since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. To prevent Accra from defaulting on its debt, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday approved a $3 billion loan in exchange…

The Times of India

Ghana footballers arrested in Kolkata on gangrape charges

KOLKATA: A young job seeker was allegedly pulled into a sex racket by a New Town woman and was forced to sleep with two Ghanaian footballers at a city guest house where she was gang raped by the duo. The two footballers and the woman were arrested by New Town…

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Grand infrastructure projects aren't a magic bullet for industrial development - insights from Ghana and Kenya

The African Union’s flagship Agenda 2063 initiative prioritises large-scale infrastructure development and promises to “link the continent by rail, road, sea and air”.

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I can't get enough of these incredible Ghanaian film posters

It's impossible to choose a favourite.

Wallpaper

V&A's Tropical Modernism: a vivid look at architecture culture in newly independent Ghana

Subtitled ‘Architecture and Power in West Africa’, V&A's 'Tropical Modernism' is a richly historical show at the 2023 Venice Biennale, perfectly aligned with the overarching theme of inclusion and exploration of modernism’s overlooked cultural impact

The Independent UK

Venice Architectural Biennale gives overdue voice to long-silenced Africa

Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving voices that have long been silenced a platform at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale

The Guardian - UK

The toxic landscape of colonialism: Venice’s Architecture Biennale spotlights Africa

Is the era of the elderly white male finally over? This year’s global extravaganza, boasting a Ghanaian-Scottish curator, features a huge number of exhibitors from Africa – and shows its vicious exploitation continues

The Independent UK

Curator of Africa-themed Venice Biennale denounces Italy's denial of visas to 3 Ghanaians

The curator of this year’s Venice Biennale on architecture has denounced Italy’s denial of visas to three Ghanaian men who worked with her on the main exhibition giving voice to Africans and the African diaspora

The Conversation

Venice architecture biennale: how pioneering Ghanaian architects reckoned with tropical modernism

As curator of the 2023 Venice architecture biennale, the Ghanaian-Scottish architect, Lesley Lokko, has chosen to highlight the African continent as “the laboratory of the future”.

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