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Chinua Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart to answer the way Europeans wrote about Africa. It sold more than 20 million copies
Published in 1958, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart told the story of Okonkwo and the Igbo village of…
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Ama Ata Aidoo was the first published female African dramatist. She never stopped arguing
Ama Ata Aidoo published The Dilemma of a Ghost in 1965, becoming the first published female African dramatist.…
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Two companies of men race into the bush to catch a live deer with their bare hands. This is Aboakyer
Every May in Winneba, two Asafo companies compete to catch a live bushbuck with their bare hands and…
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A teacher designed Ghana’s flag in 1957. Theodosia Okoh also ran Ghanaian hockey for decades
Theodosia Salome Okoh, a teacher and artist, designed the red, gold and green flag with a black star…
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Kaba and slit: the outfit Ghanaian women have worn to church, weddings and parliament for generations
The kaba and slit is a fitted blouse and wrap skirt cut from the same cloth. It has…
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Nobody wins the Jollof war, and that is why it never ends
Ghana and Nigeria have argued about jollof rice for years, and neither side will ever concede. The dish…
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Gye Nyame is on buses, walls and tattoos. What Adinkra symbols actually say
Adinkra symbols began as stamped mourning cloth among the Akan. Today Gye Nyame and Sankofa appear on currency-style…
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Funded on Kickstarter, shot in Accra, picked up by Ava DuVernay: how The Burial of Kojo reached Netflix
Blitz Bazawule raised money for his first feature on Kickstarter and shot it in Ghana. The Burial of…
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Two hunters, a spider and a king: the Bonwire legend behind kente cloth
Asante tradition says kente began when two men from Bonwire watched a spider spin its web. The cloth…
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A British governor asked to sit on the Golden Stool. Yaa Asantewaa answered with a war
In March 1900, Governor Frederick Hodgson demanded the Golden Stool, the soul of the Asante nation. Yaa Asantewaa,…