west africa wins always

Burkina Faso's transitional government was appointed in November last year and given a year to redress some of the institutional rot that had settled under the 27-rule of Blaise Compaore. In his later years, after his regime had been shaken more than...

The state-owned Daily Graphic usually prints more than 60 pages a day, half of which are ads for cars and phone networks, as well as colorful full-page obituaries announced under the header 'Celebration of Life'. Founded in the days of the one-party...

Last week I received messages of concern and a phone call from my parents, who were on holiday but had for this occasion switched on their mobile phone to reach me all the way from France. In Accra, the grimy charmless city I've adopted as a temporary...

Despite Ghana’s democratic credentials, as the locals like to call it, a particularly virulent strain of homophobia runs through Ghanaian society. This is revealed in the absurd newspaper story below and in yesterday’s parliamentary interrogation of...