Most of Ghana’s current population were not born when the country last won an AFCON title.
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Ghana’s recent Afcon record does not reflect its status as an African football powerhouse.
The renovated park has attracted thousands of visitors to its site.
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Attitudes towards Kwame Nkrumah have shifted from veneration to confrontation and destruction and, finally, to more subtle forms of remembrance.
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie (C) and Ghana’s founder and first President Kwame Nkrumah (L) during the formation of the Organisation of African Unity.
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The African Union compares well to other continental unions. It accomplishes more than the Commonwealth or the Francophonie.
An Indonesian military honour guard marks the 60th anniversary of the Asian-African Conference in Bandung in 2015.
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If a new non-alignment is to be achieved in Africa, the foreign military bases of the US, France, and China - and the Russian military presence - must be dismantled.
Kwame Nkrumah’s political legacy is struggling to stay afloat in Ghana.
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The recurrent bickering and fragmentation within the Nkrumahist parties raises doubt as to whether they can rise to the call by Ghanaian electorate.
Regina Twala in a rare photograph with her first husband Percy Kumalo, 1936.
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A powerful new book restores the writer and feminist politician to her rightful place in history.
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Ghana’s national museum has been reopened after being closed for seven years.
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki in 2017.
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Mbeki has successfully transitioned from being an old horse of South Africa’s governing ANC to a highly venerated and in-demand African elder statesman.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses an African Union summit in Addis Ababa via video in February 2022.
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Despite the benefits that could come from integration, many African countries remain wary of the process.
Flags of India and African countries at the 2015 India Africa Friendship Summit in New Delhi.
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A new book places the responsibility of African growth on its leaders, people, and civil society, while also recognising the role partners like India can play in achieving its goals.
Paulin Hountondji was the anointed enfant terrible of African philosophy.
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Hountondji both disrupted and shaped ideas on African philosophy. He is a grandfather of today’s decolonial movement.
The Black Stars were an extension of Nkrumah’s political ideology
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Ghanaian footballers chased migration to the US after the removal of Nkrumah as president.
Kwame Nkrumah’s vision still resonates with Ghanaians.
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Nkrumah’s rhetorical vision used the politics of the crowd to build a postcolonial community outside of the conscripts of colonialism.
There have been major demographic shifts in the profile of Ghana’s lawyers.
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The present state of legal education in Ghana cannot be discussed without understanding its beginings.
Patrice Lumumba, left, first Prime Minister of independent Congo in 1960. The CIA celebrated his death.
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Detailed accounts from original documents offer insights into the secret operations of the CIA in Africa.
Bernice A. King, daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, at a recent press conference preview the King Holiday observance in Atlanta, Georgia.
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King saw parallels between the anti-colonial movement in Africa and the civil rights struggle in the US.
Kwame Nkrumah favoured continental federalism but worked against its practice in Ghana.
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Ghana lost its federalism due to mistaken political choices and missed opportunities, suggesting that other federations in Africa might well be at similar risk.
Frantz Fanon.
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Fanon was brutally honest in his criticism of militants and Africa’s post-independence elites.
Inequality within countries is growing globally
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Ghanaian postcolonial intellectuals viewed terms such as development, neo-colonialism, self-reliance, and indigeneity as central to discussions of global inequalities.
The SWAT team of Ghana’s national security ministry.
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Ghanians fear that the country’s security services still bear the hallmarks of bad old practices.