Kakum’s Inconvenient Truth
What makes a forest worth saving? For the communities surrounding Kakum National Park in Ghana’s Central Region, the answer became…
3.5 Million Dollars for a Dictator’s Tomb: Is This Memorial Park Worth It?
What does it mean to transform the very symbol of oppression into a monument of liberation? This is the question…
How Tourism Erased Shai Hills, an Ancient Community
What price should a people really pay for conservation? This question reverberates through the granite peaks and ancient caves of…
Cedi Beads: The Ghanaian Art of Transforming Waste into Cultural Heritage
When did trash become treasure? For the Krobo people of Ghana’s Eastern Region, this transformation has been occurring for more…
Red Clay Studio: Rewriting the Rules of African Cultural Institutions
Can a Museum Built from Earth and Colonial Remnants Revolutionize Access to Art and Education? When artist Ibrahim Mahama inaugurated…
Nkyinkyim Museum: Telling Stories Beyond the Slave Castles
Ever wondered how it’d feel to look into the eyes of history and find yourself staring back? In the farmlands…
Adomi Bridge: Ghana’s Silver Lady
If you’ve driven from Accra to the Volta Region, you’ve crossed Ghana’s most stunning Adomi Bridge at Atimpoku. That gleaming…
The ‘Fake Mint’: When African Traders Scammed European Colonizers for Decades
What does it say about a fortress when it takes fifteen years to build, not because of engineering challenges, but…
How Christianity Nearly Destroyed Ghana’s Sacred Monkeys
What happens when the arrival of a new religion threatens to erase not just ancient beliefs, but an entire animal…
Asenema Waterfalls: A Historical and Cultural Landmark of Ghana
Ghana’s landscape is marked by numerous natural features that have shaped both the physical terrain and the cultural identity of…