A professor at the University of Cape Coast has decried the state of tourism centres and facilities in the country, describing them as deathtraps rather than leisure centres. Professor Francis Eric Amuquandoh observed the poor nature of the roads leading to these places, poor maintenance of the facilities coupled with the neglect of ministries mandated … Read more
Deputy General Secretary in charge of operations of the NDC, Koku Anyidoho has stated that the NDC as a party is prepared to take possession and make money off the John Evans Atta Mills Presidential Library in Cape Coast. “It is a national asset, but if Government says for political reasons they don’t want it, … Read more
Ghana is set to host the first ever ‘Back to Africa’ Festival as part of an aggressive drive to encourage Africans in the Diaspora to visit the country to reconnect with their roots. The Ghana Tourism Authority in collaboration with the Adinkra Group of the United States of America would organise the pilgrimage under the … Read more
American footballer Colin Kaepernick took his incessant protests against racism to its climax when he posted a controversial message criticising America’s July 4 celebrations. The 29-year-old who famously protested police brutality to blacks in the US by refusing to stand during the national anthem in 2016, spent his Fourth of July holiday celebrating finding his “personal … Read more
Ghanaian-American novelist Yaa Gyasi is poised to make a huge splash in the literary world with her debut historical fiction novel Homegoing which has already earned her a $1-million advance from the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The novel was inspired by a trip to Ghana in 2009, her first since leaving the country as an … Read more
It may be that the results in what many see as Ghana’s closest ever election on 7 December could come down to a choice between sugary, fizzy drinks. On our tour through the battleground regions, we stopped off at a lively café in Cape Coast where customers joke with the shopkeeper. “Give me Akufo-Addo,” says … Read more
The Central Regional capital, Cape Coast is a fishing port and one of the most historical cities in Ghana, founded by the people of Oguaa and is situated on its south to the Gulf of Guinea. According to 2010 population census, Cape Coast had a settlement population of 169,894 people. Cape Coast is a humid … Read more
The Central Regional capital, Cape Coast is a fishing port and one of the most historical cities in Ghana, founded by the people of Oguaa and is situated on its south to the Gulf of Guinea. According to 2010 population census, Cape Coast had a settlement population of 169,894 people. Cape Coast is a humid … Read more
The Central Regional capital, Cape Coast is a fishing port and one of the most historical cities in Ghana, founded by the people of Oguaa and is situated on its south to the Gulf of Guinea. According to 2010 population census, Cape Coast had a settlement population of 169,894 people. Cape Coast is a humid … Read more
The last we saw of President George W. Bush in Africa, he was literally dancing into the sunset of his presidency, on this occasion with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Monrovia, Liberia, America’s only former colony on the continent. There was much to celebrate. Despite the fact that his legacy was already being defined by … Read more
Selling ourselves into 21st Century slavery; the regrettable story of ECG “WE HAD TRADED IN THE MARKET COMPETITIVELY PERFECT TILL YOU CAME, …AND CUT OUR RIBS, DRIED OUR COWS.” -(“EXPELLED” by Jared Angira, Kenyan Poet) A commonly accepted thesis is that the scramble for Africa from about 1885 until the beginning of World War I … Read more
The ‘notoriety’ of the name Ankaful, when mentioned, is enough to hijack someone’s thought to fixate on mental patients before further clarification could release them from such prejudice. The inclination to associate or think of mental illness or psychiatric patients when the town Ankaful is mentioned or vice versa is predominantly attributed to the presence … Read more