News-making practices in private radio broadcasting in Ghana need a re-think.
Studying ancient African societies, like Great Zimbabwe, can reveal how communities dealt with disease and pandemics.
Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
Safe rural migration programmes are not a substitute for formal social protection. But they could buy governments some time.
A member of the South African National Defence Force hands out pamphlets informing township residents about COVID-19 in Johannesburg.
Kim Ludbrook/EPA-EFE
Instead of seeking to protect our health and stop the coronavirus epidemic by instituting totalitarian surveillance regimes, we should rather focus on empowering citizens.
Ghana’s forests require better care if cocoa farming is to be sustainable.
Wikimedia Commons
Stephen Appiah Takyi, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Owusu Amponsah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
The rising demand on the world market for cocoa has put pressure on Ghana’s forests.
An almost deserted highway in Accra
Delalli Adogla-Bessa/Citi FM
Director of Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project, Associate Professor at Africa Institute Sharjah & Associate Graduate Faculty, Rutgers University