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How Kwame Nkrumah's midnight speech set a tradition for marking the moment of liberation

As Ghana celebrates the 65th anniversary of its independence from Britain, it is worth revisiting the landmark speech Kwame Nkrumah delivered at midnight to mark the event of Ghana’s birth. Nkrumah had led a mass movement demanding self-government in the anticolonial struggle and was, with independence, poised to become the…

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Jeremie Frimpong hits post Celtic milestone as Bayer Leverkusen star earns first Netherlands call up

The 21-year old right-back was also eligible to play for Ghana and England but has decided to commit to the country of his birth.

Daily Record

Exiled writer Kakwenza Rukirabashaija sues Uganda

In tonight's edition: We speak to award-winning exiled Ugandan writer Kakwenza Rukirabashaija. The author has filed a case against Uganda at the East African Court of Justice. He says he was tortured over tweets in which he called the president's son obese and a curmudgeon. But first: nationals from Tunisia…

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A short story by Ghana's Ama Ata Aidoo offers a view of humanity's place in the world

In recent years, philosophers and other thinkers have been rethinking how we see humanity and its place in the world. One reason for this change in thinking has been climate change: it has made humans realise that our actions have large and irreversible consequences. Many ideologies, religions and philosophies see…

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"It never goes away", Chris Hughton exclusive as he lifts lid on his time at Newcastle United

The former Newcastle United boss looks ahead to this weekend's game against his other former club Brentford and also his successful tenure as Magpies boss

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Ghana's law on publication of false news is vague and easily abused – it should go

Ghana repealed its controversial criminal libel law two decades ago. Recent incidents have seen the Ghana Police Service use a different law to arrest and prosecute some media personalities. The law being used is Publication of False News under the Criminal Offences Act. Legal practitioner and media law lecturer Samuel…

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With cinemas closed, Ghana's hand-painted movie posters find homes abroad

With a flick of his brush, Ghanaian painter Daniel Anum Jasper armed actor Paul Newman with a pair of revolvers. Unfinished paintings of a bell-bottomed John Travolta and nunchuck-spinning Bruce Lee adorned the walls of his crammed Accra studio.

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Malian PM speaks to FRANCE 24, RFI after France withdraws troops

In tonight's edition: In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24 and its sister station Radio France Internationale (RFI), Mali's Prime Minister Choguel Maiga says that since 2012, French authorities have tried to divide his country by fueling autonomy claims in the north. And African countries weigh in on Russia's decision…

France 24

Emmanuel Dennis could make Nigeria return after talks ahead of World Cup play-off

Watford forward Emmanuel Dennis could play a role in Nigeria’s World Cup play-off against Ghana next month after holding clear-the-air talks with the president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

Evening Standard

West trains Africa forces as coastal nations fret attacks

At a training site in Ivory Coast, a Ghanaian officer says he has watched neighboring countries be overrun by jihadis for nearly 10 years, wondering if his country will be next

The Independent UK

‘I phoned the president of Ghana onstage in a pub’: how we made The Mark Thomas Comedy Product

‘It was a steep learning curve, from shouting abuse at a Tory MEP to chasing international arms dealers’

The Guardian - UK

Defying Ghana's lockdown rules wasn't simply stubborn: here's what was going on

Ghana imposed lockdowns in the Accra and Kumasi districts on 30 March 2020 to limit community transmission of the new coronavirus. But members of the public found ways to evade the restrictions, making them ineffective. People went about their daily lives as usual, where they could, and avoided checkpoints. Police…

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Ghana's debt makes development impossible: here are some solutions

By the year 2000, the government of Ghana had borrowed so much that the country was in debt distress. It then subscribed to the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Consequently, much of the country’s external debt of over US$4 billion was written…

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One trans woman’s fight against a bill that would criminalise Ghana’s LGBT+ community

It’s already illegal to be gay in Ghana and a new law could made LGBT+ advocacy punishable with 10 years in prison. Cooper Inveen meets a trans woman who is petrified about her future, but also defiant

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Finding cultural pride through football – why the African Cup NSW means so much to these women

The African Cup NSW is a long-running community tournament, but for the first time in 2021 — women were able to take centre stage.

France 24

EU-AU summit: Ghana's Akufo-Addo calls for 12-month transition in Mali

In a interview with FRANCE 24 at the EU-African Union summit in Brussels, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo said the French-led troop withdrawal from Mali required "new arrangements" in the regional fight against terrorism. Akufo-Addo, who is also the current chairman of West African bloc ECOWAS, demanded the departure of "foreign…

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The fighting spirit of young African footballers who migrate overseas

When Sadio Mané scored the decisive penalty to secure Senegal’s triumph over Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon, Isaak, a professional Ghanaian footballer in his late 20s, could not have been further away from the action. Watching the final online in his room in eastern Thailand, Isaak’s…

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Drug smugglers hid £3m of cocaine in luggage on flights from Ghana to UK

While some suitcases had hidden compartments, others had illicit narcotics stashed in packets of traditional African food mix

The Conversation

What Ghana can do to combat corruption: educate, prevent, enforce

Ghana’s finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, estimates that the country loses over US$4 billion annually to corruption: abuse of entrusted power for advancing private interests. The loss is about 20% of Ghana’s budget, reckons Richard Quason, deputy commissioner of Ghana’s Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice. This money could instead…

Evening Standard

Four jailed after trying to bring £3m of cocaine through Heathrow

Four members of a Ghanaian cocaine smuggling ring have been jailed for more than 28 years following a National Crime Agency investigation (NCA).

The Independent UK

After blow of Beijing, Olympians ask: What about Africa?

African representation has shriveled at the Winter Olympics

The Conversation

Une brève histoire des nations africaines aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver

Un nombre record de huit pays africains ont participé aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2018 à PyeongChang, en Corée du Sud. Aux jeux d'hiver de Pékin de 2022, actuellement en cours, l'Afrique est représentée par six athlètes issus de cinq pays : l'Érythrée, le Ghana, Madagascar, le Maroc et le…

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Transformation of Ghana's legal profession. A return to Kwame Nkrumah's vision?

Late last year the University of Ghana School of Law at Legon held a conference to discuss the future of legal education in Ghana. The keynote speaker, President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo called for a reform to meet the current and future needs of the country. His remarks came at a…

Radio France Internationale

Not just fancy moves: how Ghana’s DWP dance academy is transforming lives

When Ghanaian dancer and choreographer Laud Konadu teamed up with two of his friends Ernest Kwablah, aka Quables, and Nicholas Botchey, aka Afrobeast, to set up the Dance With A Purpose Academy (DWP) in 2017, they knew it was a huge gamble. But four years later, their decision is paying…

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