https://culturegossip.com/waakye-history/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-02T20:30:00+00:00 The red colour of waakye comes from dried sorghum leaves. How a northern dish became Accra’s favourite breakfast https://culturegossip.com/kenkey-ga-fante/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-02T19:00:00+00:00 Ga kenkey or Fante kenkey? The fermented maize ball that divides Ghana’s coast https://culturegossip.com/azonto-dance/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-02T17:30:00+00:00 Ironing, washing, praying: the everyday moves of Azonto, the Ghanaian dance that crossed the world in 2011 https://culturegossip.com/afrochella-afrofuture/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-02T16:00:00+00:00 Coachella sued, so Afrochella became AfroFuture. How Accra’s December festival kept its crowd https://culturegossip.com/batakari-smock-independence/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-02T14:30:00+00:00 When Nkrumah declared independence at midnight in 1957, he wore a northern smock. The story of the batakari https://culturegossip.com/the-boy-kumasenu-1952/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-02T13:00:00+00:00 Ghana’s first feature film was shot in 1950 with a non-professional cast. The Boy Kumasenu reached Venice and the BAFTAs https://culturegossip.com/asafo-flags-fante/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-02T11:30:00+00:00 The Fante warrior companies painted insults to their rivals on flags. Now museums collect them https://culturegossip.com/kwahu-easter-paragliding/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-02T10:00:00+00:00 Every Easter, people jump off a mountain in Kwahu. How paragliding became part of Ghana’s biggest holiday party https://culturegossip.com/lionheart-oscar-disqualification/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-02T08:30:00+00:00 Nigeria’s first Oscar entry was disqualified for having too much English. English is Nigeria’s official language https://culturegossip.com/dancing-pallbearers-coffin-dance/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-02T07:00:00+00:00 The world laughed at the coffin dance in 2020. In Ghana, the pallbearers were running a serious business https://culturegossip.com/african-wax-print-history/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-01T20:30:00+00:00 The “African print” on your kaba started as a Dutch copy of Indonesian batik https://culturegossip.com/king-of-boys/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-01T19:00:00+00:00 Eniola Salami, the businesswoman who runs Lagos crime: why King of Boys became Nollywood’s favourite gangster story https://culturegossip.com/hogbetsotso-festival/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-01T17:30:00+00:00 They walked out of Notsie backwards so their footprints pointed the wrong way. The story behind Hogbetsotso https://culturegossip.com/akwasidae-festival/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-01T16:00:00+00:00 Every 42 days, the Asantehene sits in state at Manhyia. How the Akwasidae festival keeps the Asante calendar https://culturegossip.com/ozwald-boateng-savile-row/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-01T14:30:00+00:00 At 28, Ozwald Boateng became the youngest tailor ever to open on Savile Row. His father came from Ghana https://culturegossip.com/the-woman-king-agojie/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-01T13:00:00+00:00 The Woman King made the women warriors of Dahomey famous in Hollywood. The real history is more complicated https://culturegossip.com/things-fall-apart-achebe/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-01T11:30:00+00:00 Chinua Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart to answer the way Europeans wrote about Africa. It sold more than 20 million copies https://culturegossip.com/ama-ata-aidoo/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-01T10:00:00+00:00 Ama Ata Aidoo was the first published female African dramatist. She never stopped arguing https://culturegossip.com/aboakyer-festival-winneba/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-01T08:30:00+00:00 Two companies of men race into the bush to catch a live deer with their bare hands. This is Aboakyer https://culturegossip.com/theodosia-okoh-ghana-flag/ CultureGossip.com en 2026-10-01T07:00:00+00:00 A teacher designed Ghana’s flag in 1957. Theodosia Okoh also ran Ghanaian hockey for decades