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• Ghana: LGBT+

  Idris Elba and Naomi Campbell sign letter backing gay rights in Ghana

  1 March 2021, by AKINWOTU Emmanuel, PARVEEN Nazia

  Group of 67 high-profile Brits of African origin say they are ‘deeply disturbed’ by recent closure of LGBTQ+ centre in Accra

  Some of the UK’s most prominent people of Ghanaian heritage have joined together to condemn their former homeland for its stance on gay rights in what will be seen as an extraordinary show of diaspora power.

  The influential names in fashion, film and media, including Idris Elba and the Vogue editor-in-chief, Edward Enninful, have signed an open letter in support of Ghana’s LGBTQ+ (...)

• Epidemics, pandemics (health, Ghana)

  Pandemic: Ghana’s much praised COVID-19 strategy has gone awry. Here is why

  26 July 2020, by QUAKYI Nana Kofi

  In its early days, Ghana’s COVID-19 response was heralded as a success story. Its perspective was captured in a statement by Ghana’s president when he announced Africa’s first lockdown on 28 March:
  We know how to bring the economy back to life. What we do not know is how to bring people back to (...)

• Ghana

  Student protests and the weakness of democracy in Ghana

  November 2019, by AFOTEY Prince Nii, BOB-MILLIAR George M., MACLEAN Lauren M.

  Hyper-partisan politics and shallow journalism obscured the implications of the protests at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
  On the morning of October 22, 2018, students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (known more by its acronym KNUST), the second (...)

• Ghana

  31 December 1981: How the “IMF baby” betrayed its parents

  8 February 2018, by YEEBO Zaya

  The 31 December 2018 revolution in Ghana was a political upheaval that promised and had the potential to deliver a Castro/Sankara type social and political revolution, but was wasted on the rubbish heap of personality power grab fuelled by the ambitions of one man, the collective theft of (...)

• Ghana: LGBT+

  Ghana: Campaigners demand decriminalisation of homosexuality after spike in anti-LGBT violence

  8 January 2018, by BUTCHER Ryan

  ’The Ghanaian government should work to address the stigma that subjects people to violence in their own homes, the place where they should feel safest’
  Human rights campaigners are calling for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Ghana after a new report found violence towards LGBT people (...)

• Ghana

  Politics, human rights and the media in Ghana

  15 December 2017, by KARIKARI Kwame

  The most important developments in the Fourth Republic that have facilitated and expanded media freedom and free speech are the introduction of independent and private broadcasting, the end of state monopoly and control of broadcasting, and the arrival of the new communications technologies of (...)