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Ghanaian influencer charged in New York for allegedly scamming lonely seniors

Mona Faiz Montrage – AKA Hajia4Reall – allegedly tricked victims into sending money overseas to the tune of more than $2m

The Guardian - US

Black and Bold Queens is a new children's book celebrating women in Ghana's history

A new children’s book, Black and Bold Queens: Women in Ghana’s History explores the lives of 16 notable female pioneers and leaders in the West African country, with a strong focus on the independence period of the 1950s and 1960s. It was written by Dr Nikitta Dede Adjirakor, a writer…

The Conversation

The World Talks - two farmers born 50 years and 5,000 miles apart bond over tomatoes

Welcome to This World Talks - an offshoot of our ground-breaking Britain Talks series, but this time around readers will have the chance to sign up and meet people from all over the globe.

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Ghana's main opposition party picks Mahama as 2024 presidential candidate

Ghana’s main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress, voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to retain former president, John Mahama, as its leader for the 2024 presidential election.

Reuters

Ghana school students talk about their social media addiction, and how it affects their use of English

Social media networks such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, YouTube and Instagram have been shown to have significantly transformed student behaviour. But the focus has been on students’ social behaviour. And on how the English language is being spoken because of social media use.

The Conversation

When Getty began losing her vision as a girl, she was told her life was over. Wrong!

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame says she could not imagine "what the future had in store." She faced sorrow — but ultimately triumphed. She is the new chair of the U.N. committee for disability rights.

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‘Simply outrageous’: Vegan passenger given fruit and nuts on 7,400km flight

Juanita Headley had been travelling from Accra, Ghana to London Heathrow with KLM

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Vegan passenger given fruit and nuts on 7,400km flight

Juanita Headley had been travelling from Accra, Ghana to London Heathrow with KLM

The Independent UK

Vegan slams 'joke' flight meal with fruits and nuts as hot meal on six-hour flight

Juanita Headley was handed pineapple pieces, a tangerine and a handful of nuts on her KLM flight from Ghana to London Heathrow and was outraged by the 'hot meal'

Daily Mirror

West Africa has a small weapons crisis – why some countries are better at dealing with it than others

Research has found that globally, small arms and light weapons increase the likelihood, intensity and longevity of conflict.

The Conversation

Vegan passenger given fruit and nuts on 7,400km flight

Juanita Headley had been travelling from Accra, Ghana to London Heathrow with KLM

The Independent UK

From the Deep: an underwater kingdom for enslaved people who died in the Atlantic

The pre-Afrofuturist mythology of Drexciya is explored in an immersive and ambitious new exhibition from Ayana V Jackson

The Guardian - US

Ghana’s regions: why creating new territories has caused problems

Ghana split four administrative regions between June 2017 and February 2019 to create six new ones. The process proceeded calmly in some regions, but was so contentious in others that the government had to deploy security forces to prevent clashes. Eventually, all six regions were created. The conflicts were unexpected.…

The Conversation

The big picture: a joyful expression of Ghanaian culture

Derrick Ofosu Boateng’s vibrant portraits grew out of a love of traditional and vintage clothing

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Right to Dream’s vision helps children reach potential in football and beyond

Tom Vernon started RTD in Ghana in 1999 and its reach has extended to FC Nordsjælland’s chase for the Danish Superliga

The Conversation

History classes help students develop curious minds -- but Ghana's teachers aren't equipped to nurture this

There are two camps when it comes to teaching children: one says teachers should focus on guiding students to find things out for themselves. This approach makes learning meaningful and prepares students to connect learning to the real world. It’s known as inquiry-based learning.

The Conversation

Accra: the Ga people's annual ban on noise restores a spiritual connection with the sea

Accra, Ghana’s capital, is a noisy cosmopolitan city of almost three million people. Its active nightlife, commercial markets and factories create a deafening mix of sound trails day and night. These synthetic sounds have practically drowned out the natural everyday sounds of Accra. And the most important of these is…

The Conversation

Amma Darko uses fiction to portray the real plight of women and street children in Ghana

Amma Darko is one of Ghana’s leading novelists, known for exploring gritty social issues and the lives of women. There is much to be unearthed in the childhood narrative of deprivation and danger that she tackles in her 2003 work Faceless.

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How dirty old used cars from the US and Europe carry on polluting ... in Africa – podcast

The typical car will go for its last drive sometime between its 10th and 15th year on Earth. At this point, the vast majority are sent to be recycled or sold for parts. But for a few autos, a second lease on life awaits, as a significant percentage are exported…

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Manchester United report: Ghanaian superstar set for £40m move, after Erik Ten Hag's "incredible potential" comment

Manchester United are being linked with a £40m move for a Ghanaian forward to bolster their numbers in attack

Al Jazeera

Cathedral of scandals: How a presidential promise divided Ghana

The $400m state-funded church has become hugely controversial in Ghana as the country struggles with an economic crisis.

The Conversation

Debt dangers in Africa: how defaults hurt people, and why forgiveness isn’t the answer

Public debt repayments in some African countries are at their highest levels since 1998. The Conversation Africa’s founding editor Caroline Southey talks to dean and economics professor Philippe Burger about the danger of debt problems some African countries face.

Radio France Internationale

Jojo Gronostay: capturing the close-up brutalism of the everyday

Photographer Jojo Gronostay presents his series "Brutalism" at the 104 cultural centre (Le Centquatre) in Paris. With this series of photos of used shoe heels, found in Accra, Ghana, which looks like a succession of monuments of brutalist architecture, Jojo Gronostay questions the economic, political and cultural exchanges between the…

The Conversation

Ghana's fishing industry has a 'golden seaweed' problem - how citizen science can help

Sargassum is a genus of brown seaweed. Over 300 species are distributed across the world in both temperate and tropical climates. The species fluitans and natans are unique because they spend their life cycle floating on the ocean, never attaching to the sea floor. Other seaweed species reproduce and begin…

The Conversation

Juvenile offenders in Ghana aren't prepared for rejoining society - how the system is failing them

Globally, about one million children are held in police custody annually; 410,000 of them are held in detention and remand centres. On any day, it is estimated, remand homes around the world hold about 160,000 to 250,000 children.

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