Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
In Ivory Coast, lêkê are the preferred footwear for amateur games and almost everything else. ELIAN PELTIER The wealthy pros of Ivory Coast’s national soccer team were resting in their luxury hotel, preparing for a match in Africa’s biggest tournament, when Yaya Camara sprinted onto a dusty lot and began fizzing one pass after another […]
More than 60 percent of French speakers now live in Africa. Despite growing resentment in France, Africans are contributing to the evolution and spread of the French language. ELIAN PELTIER French, by most estimates the world’s fifth most spoken language, is changing — perhaps not in the gilded hallways of the institution in Paris that […]
An initiative to train hairdressers in mental health counseling is providing relief to hundreds of clients in a region with the world’s least access to therapy. ELIAN PELTIER Joseline de Lima was wandering the dusty alleys of her working-class neighborhood in the capital of Togo one day last year, when a disturbing thought crossed her […]
…..where local dishes reign supreme KOFI AYIM On a typical Sunday, the Living Room restaurant, located in the enclaves of the rich and famous East Legon, bustles at the seams with revelers. The 20-year-old restaurant started as a modest retirement dream project together with a living room–type movie house, according to Mr. Charles Mainoo, the […]
Bee Arthur – the dynamic designer from Ghana whose signature blond tresses make her visible and recognizable everywhere she is present – took the fashion world by surprise back in 2001 when she won the KORA All Africa Fashion Award in Sun City, South Africa. The journey to this illustrious fashion designer and stylistic icon […]
Helen Williams, a wigmaker from Lagos, has entered the Guinness World Records by creating the world’s longest handmade wig. The wig measures an astounding 351.28 meters (1,152 ft 5 in) with Helen dedicating 11 days and over two million naira (£2,031; $2,493) to craft this remarkable wig. The GWR acknowledged her feat, by sharing on […]
Authorities in Gabon have launched a legal battle to get back a precious wooden mask used in secret ceremonies by the Fang ethnic group, which was brought to France in colonial times and sold at auction earlier this year for €4.2 million. Lawyers for the transitional government in Gabon, whose long-time president was overthrown in […]
As his newest sculptures fill Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, the Ghanaian artist is returning to his roots and thinking about his legacy. SIDDHARTHA MITTER It’s one of the great origin stories in contemporary art, a flash of instinct that would revolutionize a field. In 1998, El Anatsui was walking around Nsukka, Nigeria, and noticed a […]
HISHAM ALLAM The Egyptian government is clearing a vast area in Historic Cairo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, to make way for new main roads and flyover bridges, which it says will improve traffic flow in the sprawling, congested megacity. The developments are being pitched as part of an effort to modernize Egypt and connect […]
The AKAN people probably came from North Africa and very early on settled in the center of today’s Ghana. Around the middle of the 17th century, the AKAN were divided into a lot of small kingdoms, sometimes linked by alliances, sometimes subjected to bloody conflicts. A great man decided to unify this divided people; OSSEI […]