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As the World Cup kicks off on Thursday, African teams are ready to battle it out on the pitch. In part two of this AfricaLink podcast, we continue to ask the question: Is this the tournament where Africa goes all the way, and can the continent finally break the ultimate barrier and lift the trophy? Eddy Micah Jr. speaks to Abigail Sena, a sports analyst in Accra, and DW's Samson Omale in Lagos

Six chapters deep, and we still haven't touched the surface. From the streets of Lagos to the clubs of Accra, from Tema to the dance floors of Nima, this mix carries every wave, every vibe, every frequency that moves a crowd. So whether you're in your car, in your kitchen, at the beach, or right in the middle of the dance floor, just know: for the next hour, there's only one destination. Turn it up. Lock in. And let the music take you there

African teams are heading to the World Cup with bigger dreams than ever. The stage is set, the stakes are high, and Africa's finest are ready. Is this the tournament where Africa goes all the way, and can the continent finally break the ultimate barrier and lift the trophy? Eddy Micah Jr. speaks to Abigail Sena a sports analyst in Accra and DW's Samson Omale in Lagos.

"The future is very much embedded and designed in local realities."Are you interested in the involvement of informal settlements in the future of cities? What do you think about the importance of creative industries for urban futures? How can we create more ownership within our spaces? Interview with Carina Tenewaa Kanbi, a spatial practitioner. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, the role of the individuals and governance, informal settlements, creative industries, storytelling, and many more. Carina Tenewaa Kanbi is a spatial practitioner, ARUA Fellow and PhD researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand. Her doctoral work explores young West African creatives in Accra and Lagos. With master's degrees from Central Saint Martins (MA Cities) and the University of Amsterdam (MSc Migration & Ethnicity), she bridges urbanism, migration, and the arts to foster inclusive, just cities. Co-founder of Aya Editions and Edan, she champions regenerative design, cultural preservation, and creative cosmopolitanism across West Africa.Find out more about Carina through these links:Carina Tenewaa Kanbi at Cities WorkCarina Tenewaa Kanbi at the mobility Governance LabAya Editions websiteAya Academi websiteConnected episodes you might be interested in:No.027 - Interview with Richard Manasseh about city sound scapesNo.415R - Rethinking the contribution of creative economies in AfricaNo.416 - Interview with Raoul Rugamba about Kigali and Africa's creative industriesNo.435R - Governance of urban informal settlements in Africa: A scoping reviewWhat was the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@WTF4Cities⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wtf4cities.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ website where the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠shownotes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ are also available.I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.Episode generated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Descript⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ assistance (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠affiliate link⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠).Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lesfm ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠from ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay

A fatal accident involving a fuel tanker and two saloon cars has occurred on the Tema Motorway near the Ashaiman overhead bridge, triggering a fire

Mayor of Accra, Michael Kpakpo Allotey, has stated that unsafe and abandoned buildings will be demolished to prevent disasters and improve community safety. He also encouraged residents to report such structures through official hotlines for assessment and necessary action

Kweku Asante and other well meaning Ghanaians converge to discuss floods in Accra. Will the solutions last? What really is the problem?

The death toll from the collapsed building at North Industrial Area in Accra has risen to two after rescue teams recovered the final trapped victim from beneath the rubble

Hundreds of Ghanaians have returned home from South Africa following anti-migrant protests. In this episode of AfricaLink, we hear how a Ghanaian footballer called Fiifi was forced to leave South Africa for his safety, and the difficult road ahead. AfricaLink host Eddy Micah Jr. and DW's Isaac Kaledzi in Accra also unpack the wider tensions around migration, jobs, and xenophobia in South Africa.

The collapsed building at Avernor has been revealed to not have the requisite permit. Head of Public Affairs at A.M.A, Gilbert Nii Ankrah answers to why the Assembly did not catch this earlier.

Cette année, le défi d'obtenir un visa pour assister à la Coupe du monde en personne a pris une autre ampleur. L'administration Trump est en chasse contre l'immigration illégale à coup de restrictions de visas abruptes et le Ghana est le parfait exemple en Afrique des dommages collatéraux de cette politique. Un reportage de notre correspondante à Accra,  À l'été 2025, les visas étatsuniens avaient d'abord été complètement suspendus pour les Ghanéens, puis de nouveau autorisés en automne après que le Ghana avait accepté d'accueillir des expulsés des États-Unis. Mais les restrictions ont fait leur retour le 21 janvier concernant les visas d'immigration longs. Un groupe de 147 supporters des Black Stars a fait l'actualité mi-mai lorsque leurs visas ont été rejetés.  À lire aussiLes qualifiés pour la Coupe du Monde 2026: le Sénégal prêt à vaincre à nouveau la France? [7/10]

De Ghanese Kwasi Wiredu, die in 2022 overleed, was één van de grootste Afrikaanse filosofen van zijn generatie. Hij pleitte voor de dekolonisatie van het Afrikaanse denken en een ‘consensusmodel' voor postkoloniale Afrikaanse staten. Hij bestudeerde de filosofie onder de Akan, de grootste bevolkingsgroep in West-Afrika, waarin de vraag ‘wat maakt een biologisch mens tot een waarachtig persoon' centraal staat. Deze filosofie, waarin de gemeenschap leidend is, staat haaks op de meeste westerse filosofieën.  Presentator Nathan de Vries, zoon van een Ghanese vader, gaat aan de hand van zijn persoonlijke geschiedenis in gesprek met mensen die de filosofie van Wiredu goed kennen. Wat blijft van het gedachtegoed van Kwasi Wiredu? Nathan praat met:  -Akwasi, hiphopartiest en oprichter van Omroep Zwart; hij is van Ghanese afkomst.  -Nii Hammond, theatermaker en erfgoedonderzoeker Afrikaanse studies. Hij werd geboren in Ghana en groeide op in de hoofdstad Accra. Hij woont sinds zijn zesentwintigste in Nederland.  -Henk Haenen, een historicus die promoveerde op het Afrikaanse denken.   -Louise Müller, universitair docent Afrikaanse literatuur en media aan de universiteit Leiden. Ze studeerde af op de Akan filosofie en geschiedenis, en promoveerde op de Ashanti. De Ashantivormen een prominente subgroep van het Akan-volk.  

CrowdScience listener George is showing Alex Lathbridge around a small, dark, and extremely hot shed, just outside the city of Accra in Ghana. Inside are row after row of shelves, stacked high with bulging grow-bags. And out of some of them, gorgeous cascades of oyster mushrooms are bursting into bloom. We're on George's mushroom farm, and he's noticed something interesting. Even though the conditions in his grow-shed are tightly controlled – they have exactly the same food, water, and light as each other – nevertheless, they respond differently. Some are more vigorous than others, some bloom quicker, others last longer, and some are more tolerant when the conditions change. And this got George wondering. Could ‘brainless' lifeforms like mushrooms, and plants, have different ‘personalities'? Do they experience the world differently, and live their lives differently from each other? Alex Lathbridge is on the case. He visits the PGRRI, the Plant Genetic Resources Research Centre, for a quick lesson on genetic variation in the plant world. Plants are all different at the genetic level, and it's those differences which can result in a tastier fruit, or a hardier crop. But would we call traits like these personality? In the Minimal Intelligence Lab in the University of Murcia in Spain, Paco Calvo thinks that we absolutely should. He studies plant intelligence, and points Alex to a whole host of examples of plants being smart in ways which might surprise you. Each one is an individual, and if we can only slow down enough to appreciate them properly, we'd be able to understand them better too. Back in Ghana, Alex meets plant physiologist Dr Acheampong Atta-Boateng, in the beautiful grounds of Aburi Botanical Gardens, to meet some of these plants for himself. And he discovers that there's a whole world of smart, resilient, and resourceful little organisms in the plant world, full of personality, if you know where to look. Who needs a brain!? Presenter: Alex Lathbridge Producer: Emily Knight Editor: Ben Motley(Photo: Drawing of a face and smiling eyes on a sunflower flower - stock photo- Credit: Jose A. Bernat Bacete via Getty Images)

Residents in parts of Accra are coming to terms with the devastating impact of recent rains, while more than 149 people, including 42 police officers, have been affected by the massive fire outbreak that swept through parts of Tudu.

NADMO cautions Accra residents to take weather alerts seriously, urging communities to stay informed and follow safety advisories.

A fierce fire has swept through parts of Makola Market in Accra, destroying several shops and goods worth tens of thousands of cedis

Greetings Glocal Citizens! Exiting news…according to the Million Podcasts database platform We're ranked #25 among change agent podcast thanks to listeners like you! In this week's change agent conversation we're visiting with Odile Tevie, co-founder and director of Nubuke Foundation, a visual arts and cultural institution, based in Accra and Wa in Ghana. In the early 2000's she set up and ran the Black Swan gallery in London introducing Ghanaian, Togolese and Nigerian artists into the diaspora. Under her vision and drive, Nubuke Foundation, set up in 2006, has become an internationally acknowledged arts institution whose robust and engaging programming calendar has been seminal in supporting the career of many of the mid-career Ghanaian artists and promising ones like Na Chainkua Reindorf, Isaac Opoku and Gideon Appah. Nubuke Foundation has become a creative community hub in the city of Accra, where informal learning programmes, talks, exhibitions, drama, spoken word etc. In Wa, the Foundation focuses on promoting strip weaving artisans and textile and fibre-based arts practice. As you'll hear our surround sound is the long story of the raining season in Ghan and it was well worth the rainy commute to have this conversatio with Odile. Where to find Odile? On LinkedIn On Instagram On Facebook What's Odile reading? African Women & Feminism by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí The 28th February House by Demi Letsa The Longest Week by Nick Page Other topics of interest: A bit about Tesano in Accra The Wa Upper West Region, Ghana Ghana A Portrait About the University of Applied Arts Vienna More about Ghana's Centers for National Culture About Sensibilités intellectuelles africaines in The Conversation What is the Myriad Alliance?Special Guest: Odile Tevie.

27 Mei 2026: Honderde burgers van Ghana daag by die OR Tambo-lughawe op om na Accra geherpatrieer word, maar 'n immigrasiebeampte sê daar is probleme met die lys van kandidate. Die Reserwebank se Monetêre Beleidkomitee besin oor rentekoerse – die meeste ekonome verwag 'n verhoging. Die Verkiesingskommissie stel sy veldtog vir vanjaar se plaaslike regeringsverkiesing op 4 November bekend.

CrowdScience listener Daniel in Accra, Ghana is an introvert. Or at least, he thinks he is. And he's worried that his preference for quiet spaces and lower social interaction might be holding him back in life. But what is introversion really? How do introverts and extroverts see the world differently? And is it better to be one or the other? Presenter Alex Lathbridge spends his working days talking to interesting people like Daniel. He loves meeting people, and talking to them too, yet he also thinks that deep down, he might be an introvert. To understand how and why people come to be introverted or extraverted, and what's happening in the brain, he pays a visit to neuroscientist Dr Thomas Tagoe from the University of Ghana Medical school, for a peek inside the mind. Turns out, introverts aren't shy, and definitely aren't anti-social either, despite what people might assume. The difference is more about how we process stimulation, and at what point we find it all a bit too much to process. Although sometimes it might feel like the world is built for the extraverts out there, Thomas offers some reassurance. There are huge benefits to being introverted too, and there's room in the world for all the different personality types to thrive. But how about in the workplace? Daniel is worried that his introversion could be holding him back at work. He feels like being good at your job is not always enough – you need to be able to network, charm people, and “work the room” if you want to succeed. So, Alex heads for the Methodist University of Ghana to meet Professor William Baah-Boateng, who has studied the effect of all the different personality types on their performance in the workplace. Is there a place for the introverts of this work to make their mark? Presenter: Alex Lathbridge Producer: Emily Knight Editor: Ben Motley  (Photo:A view of a woman's eye looking through a hole in some colorful paper-Stock Photo - Credit:PeopleImages via Getty Images)

In this episode Esther Armah and Myrna discuss her Emotional Justice framework.  In this conversation, they get into the courage that racial healing actually requires, and who it asks the most of. Esther is a journalist, playwright, and global emotional justice advocate joining us from Accra, Ghana.  Drawing on her encounters with Winnie Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Nchiki Biko — the widow of Steve Biko who famously refused to forgive the officers who murdered her husband at the TRC — Esther unpacks why reconciliation is not liberation language, why Nelson Mandela's message of forgiveness placed an impossible emotional burden on Black people, and what the emotional work of white people actually looks like. Myrna brings her own reckoning: years of fawning for white audiences, softening the language of colonial trauma, and what it finally cost her to name it. This is Part 1. Esther will be back. Esther Armah is a Ghanaian-British journalist, playwright, radio host, and creator of the Emotional Justice framework. She is the author of Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing. She joins this episode from Accra, Ghana. IN THIS EPISODE — How Esther's mother's broken silence about the 1966 Ghana coup gave birth to Emotional Justice — and the insight that "you cannot PhD your way out of untreated trauma" — What Winnie Mandela told Esther before she interviewed Desmond Tutu: listen to the women first — Nchiki Biko's refusal to forgive at the TRC, the murder of Steve Biko, and why her "no" cracked open a new understanding of racialized forgiveness — Why reconciliation bypasses justice and repair — and how Canada's TRC has replicated the same harm as South Africa's — Nelson Mandela's forgiveness narrative: a political act of its time, and why it seeded a dangerous legacy — The emotional work that belongs to white people — Intimate Reckoning, Emotional Patriarchy, and the difference between proximity to power and actual allyship — The language of whiteness: how all of us are taught to center whiteness, and the emotional work of letting it go — Myrna's own reckoning: years of fawning for white audiences and what it took to name it — The three Cs — Courage, Comfort, and Convenience — and how we each choose to contribute to or resist systems of harm — Why you cannot self-care your way towards liberation, and what communal care actually requires — Isolation vs. solitude — why hiding can be part of healing, and why isolation is the death of liberation — Wellness in the Face of Warfare: what it means to choose wellness when your health is considered a threat to whiteness   QUOTES "You cannot PhD your way out of untreated trauma. There is no amount of education that will replace the emotional work we all have to do." — Esther Armah   "Reconciliation is not liberation language. It is conciliatory language designed to sustain how whiteness comforts and soothes itself." — Esther Armah   "In Canada, your superpower is to mask your violence in polite neutrality and somehow describe it as no longer violence. We see that — because that's part of British whiteness." — Esther Armah   PEOPLE MENTIONED — Winnie Mandela — South African anti-apartheid activist — Archbishop Desmond Tutu — South African human rights leader — Nchiki Biko — widow of Steve Biko; her refusal to forgive at the TRC was pivotal to Esther's framework — Nelson Mandela — discussed in relation to racialized forgiveness — Resmaa Menakem — referenced by Myrna on having skin in the game — Kwame Nkrumah — first independent president of Ghana; quoted on political and economic liberation   RESOURCES Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing by Esther Armah - You can buy it here: https://www.amazon.ca/Emotional-Justice-Roadmap-Racial-Healing/dp/1523003367 estherarmah.com  https://www.theaiej.com/ myrnamccallum.co You can learn more about Myrna and her work at: www.myrnamccallum.ca

A passenger train travelling from Tema to Accra derailed near Avenor in Accra on Thursday morning after it collided with two stray cattle that had wandered onto the railway line, disrupting transport services and forcing commuters to abandon the journey and seek alternative means of travel.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast I'm back in Accra, back on the Continent, just in time to commemorate African Liberation Day--Africa Day 2026. Last year around this time, my guest and I were preparing for our respective sessions at AfroTalks 2025 @ University of Ghana-Legon where we shared stories and proposed solutions centering the theme "HOW?" aimed at fostering critical introspection, sustainable community impact, and the amplification of African stories by Africans. I shared insights taken from our Future of Work salon series and featured Glocal Citizens specifically engaged in impact-driven solutions for us by us. My guest, Dr. Ashley D. Milton was part of a duo presenting The Triangle Offensive Policy. She joins us a year later to share how her work has progressed and her consortium prepares to release the The State of the Africa Diaspora Report, a first-of-its-kind continental grounding document examining how Africa and its global diaspora connect across mobility, investment, culture, skills, governance, technology, and development systems. The report brings together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs, creatives, and community stakeholders across Africa and the diaspora to shape a more coordinated and regenerative future. As a strategist, researcher, and systems builder working at the intersection of Africa, its global diaspora, and the future of regenerative economic development she is the Founder and Managing Director of She Grows It™ (SGI), a Pan-African consulting and investment migration advisory firm. Ashley leads work across green infrastructure, trade and industry, tourism and hospitality, diaspora engagement, governance strategy, and emerging technology systems designed to support long-term African growth and resilience. She has advised on projects ranging from IFC EDGE green building certification and sustainable development strategy to diaspora policy frameworks, investment positioning, and institutional ecosystem development. Her work consistently centers one core question: how do we build systems that allow African people, businesses, and communities to thrive across generations? Where to find Dr. Ashley? The Africa Diaspora Report On LinkedIn On Instagram What's Ashley watching? The Eyes of Ghana When Malcolm Smiled a film by Glocal Citizen Muhammida el Muhajir Other topics of interest: Africa Day Accountability and the March 2026 UN Resolution How the US justifies it's denial of the gravest crime against humanity. Kwame Nkrumah, books on Pan-Africanism About the long history of smog in Los Angeles About FAMU, a top ranked HBCU About the book, White Malice by Susan Williams Nautilus Diving - DakarSpecial Guest: Ashley D. Milton.

Listener Ndanusa in Ghana, is gazing up at the stars, and wondering what keeps our universe in balance? Ndanusa knows a thing or two about the stars, and he knows that they use up hydrogen as they burn, and release helium. And he's wondering, is there something out there which does the opposite? Something that uses up helium, and produces hydrogen, to keep the universe in perfect, chemical equilibrium? Presenter Alex Lathbridge goes on a journey to answer his questions and delves into the blackness of deep space, the ancient origins of our universe, and the complex physics of the stars. He pops into the Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory, just outside Accra, where astrophysicist Dr Proven Adzri helps him peer into the earliest few seconds of our universe, and find out what set the stars burning. And at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Dr Linus Labik talks him through what's going on at the atomic level. And in the deep blackness of the night, up above the tree canopy of Kakum National Park, he takes a peek at the stars for himself. Local guides Chris and Kwabena explain how much meaning there is behind the stars in the night sky.

A tragic incident has claimed the lives of three individuals, including 19-year-old SHS graduate Florence Naa Kwarley, at Mahean-Ablekuma, a suburb of Accra. The victims were discovered dead in a room where they were sleeping, raising concerns over the use of generators in enclosed spaces

In The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars (Duke UP, 2025) Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, showing how the 1990s and 2000s conflicts between the Ga people and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches during the annual city-wide ban on drumming illuminates the inner workings of Ghanaian secularity and the importance of "traditional religions" to African urbanity. Goshadze shows how the drumming ban represents a reversal of the top-down model of noise regulation and illuminates the reality of Ghanaian secularity, in which the state unofficially collaborates with indigenous religious authorities to control sound. In so doing, Goshadze counters the tendency to push African “traditional religions” to the margins. The author, Mariam Goshadze, is an Assistant Professor in the Study of Religion at Leipzig University. The host, Elisa Prosperetti, is an Assistant Professor of African and global history at NIE/NTU in Singapore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars (Duke UP, 2025) Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, showing how the 1990s and 2000s conflicts between the Ga people and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches during the annual city-wide ban on drumming illuminates the inner workings of Ghanaian secularity and the importance of "traditional religions" to African urbanity. Goshadze shows how the drumming ban represents a reversal of the top-down model of noise regulation and illuminates the reality of Ghanaian secularity, in which the state unofficially collaborates with indigenous religious authorities to control sound. In so doing, Goshadze counters the tendency to push African “traditional religions” to the margins. The author, Mariam Goshadze, is an Assistant Professor in the Study of Religion at Leipzig University. The host, Elisa Prosperetti, is an Assistant Professor of African and global history at NIE/NTU in Singapore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-studies

In The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars (Duke UP, 2025) Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, showing how the 1990s and 2000s conflicts between the Ga people and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches during the annual city-wide ban on drumming illuminates the inner workings of Ghanaian secularity and the importance of "traditional religions" to African urbanity. Goshadze shows how the drumming ban represents a reversal of the top-down model of noise regulation and illuminates the reality of Ghanaian secularity, in which the state unofficially collaborates with indigenous religious authorities to control sound. In so doing, Goshadze counters the tendency to push African “traditional religions” to the margins. The author, Mariam Goshadze, is an Assistant Professor in the Study of Religion at Leipzig University. The host, Elisa Prosperetti, is an Assistant Professor of African and global history at NIE/NTU in Singapore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

In The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars (Duke UP, 2025) Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, showing how the 1990s and 2000s conflicts between the Ga people and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches during the annual city-wide ban on drumming illuminates the inner workings of Ghanaian secularity and the importance of "traditional religions" to African urbanity. Goshadze shows how the drumming ban represents a reversal of the top-down model of noise regulation and illuminates the reality of Ghanaian secularity, in which the state unofficially collaborates with indigenous religious authorities to control sound. In so doing, Goshadze counters the tendency to push African “traditional religions” to the margins. The author, Mariam Goshadze, is an Assistant Professor in the Study of Religion at Leipzig University. The host, Elisa Prosperetti, is an Assistant Professor of African and global history at NIE/NTU in Singapore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sound-studies

In The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars (Duke UP, 2025) Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, showing how the 1990s and 2000s conflicts between the Ga people and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches during the annual city-wide ban on drumming illuminates the inner workings of Ghanaian secularity and the importance of "traditional religions" to African urbanity. Goshadze shows how the drumming ban represents a reversal of the top-down model of noise regulation and illuminates the reality of Ghanaian secularity, in which the state unofficially collaborates with indigenous religious authorities to control sound. In so doing, Goshadze counters the tendency to push African “traditional religions” to the margins. The author, Mariam Goshadze, is an Assistant Professor in the Study of Religion at Leipzig University. The host, Elisa Prosperetti, is an Assistant Professor of African and global history at NIE/NTU in Singapore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

Durango, Accra, China och Svea är fast på planeten Mars. Deras raket är trasig och syret räcker inte så länge som det är tänkt. Del 5 av 5. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Kan Sydney på något sätt hjälpa sina kompisar?Hör femte och sista delen av den spännande rymdserien "Resan till Mars".Om serienResan till Mars är en spännande serie i fem delar för alla som gillar rymden och drömmer om att åka till andra planeter.Serien passar för ca 5-9 år.MedverkandeIdé och manus: Lova Eriksson och Roger DackegårdBerättare: Lova ErikssonRegi: Roger DackegårdLjudmix: Roger DackegårdSkådespelare: Rita Liljegren Victorin, John Österlund, Anna Åkerlund, Erik Roll, Lova Eriksson, Lova ErikssonIllustratör: Emily RyanProducent: Roger Dackegård, filtExekutiv producent: Dinah Ahl, Barnradion

On 9 May 2001, 127 people died and dozens more were injured at the Accra Stadium in Ghana.It is Africa's worst football stadium tragedy. The disaster happened at the end of a match between Asante Kotoko and Hearts of Oak. Police fired tear gas after angry fans threw chairs onto the pitch. It caused a stampede. Herbert Mensah was the Asante Kotoko chairman at the time and speaks to Jen Dale about his recollections of that day.This programme contains distressing details.Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by and curious about the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from how the Excel spreadsheet was developed, the creation of cartoon rabbit Miffy and how the sound barrier was broken.We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: the moment Reagan and Gorbachev met in Geneva, Haitian singer Emerante de Pradines' life and Omar Sharif's legendary movie entrance in Lawrence of Arabia.You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, like the invention of a stent which has saved lives around the world; the birth of the G7; and the meeting of Maldives' ministers underwater. We cover everything from World War Two and Cold War stories to Black History Month and our journeys into space.(Photo: Residents look at the empty Accra stadium after the stampede. Credit: Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images)

Why should citizens spend up to 11 hours travelling from Accra to Kumasi? Calls are growing for the Accra–Kumasi road to be made motorable while the expressway is still under construction. OB is urging the Minister for Roads and Highways, Hon. Kwame Governs Agbodza, to act urgently before the situation worsens

Det ser mörkt ut för de fyra astronauterna i rymdraketen. Hur de än gör så dras deras farkost allt närmre ett svart hål i rymden. Del3 av 5. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Om något hamnar inuti ett svart hål, så kan det aldrig mer komma ut. Durango, Accra, China och Svea vet faktiskt inte hur de ska lösa den här situationen.Om serienResan till Mars är en spännande serie i fem delar för alla som gillar rymden och drömmer om att åka till andra planeter.Serien passar för ca 5-9 år.MedverkandeIdé och manus: Lova Eriksson och Roger DackegårdBerättare: Lova ErikssonRegi: Roger DackegårdLjudmix: Roger DackegårdSkådespelare: Rita Liljegren Victorin, John Österlund, Anna Åkerlund, Erik Roll, Lova Eriksson, Lova ErikssonIllustratör: Emily RyanProducent: Roger Dackegård, filtExekutiv producent: Dinah Ahl, Barnradion

Preached at Love First Church Saturday Night Revival, The Qodesh, Accra. 02 May, 2026.

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te has finally visited Eswatini where his arrival had been expected since April. The state visit was cancelled last minute, and Taiwan blames China - saying Beijing applied pressure on African countries not to allow the plane carrying President Ching-te to use their airspace on the way to the Kingdom of Eswatini. We look at the significance of this visit and Taiwan's diplomatic ties to the Southern Africa kingdom.Also, we have a fire chat with Ghanian musician Stonebwoy, whose Accra-famous music festival known as BHIM is going global, headlining at the OVO Wembley Arena in London this August.Presenter : Charles Gitonga Producer: Rukia Bulle, Blessing Aderogba and Mark Wilberforce Technical Producer: Maxwell Onyango Senior Producer: Bella Twine Editors: Priyanka Sippy and Maryam Abdalla

Preached at Love First Church Saturday Night Revival, The Qodesh, Accra. 02 May, 2026.

EESI works hard to create opportunities for students, including through our Future Climate Leaders Scholarship program. Two-time scholarship recipient Sulaiman Mathew-Wilson is pursuing a bachelor's in environmental studies at Howard University. Sulaiman joined Daniel and Alison on the podcast to discuss his research on air pollution and environmental justice in Accra, Ghana.

Rymdraketen med Durango, Accra, China och Svea har börjat sin resa mot planeten Mars. Allt går bra, men plötsligt kommer ett meteoritregn! Del 2 av 5. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Hur ska de fyra astronauterna klara sig ur det här?Om serienResan till Mars är en spännande serie i fem delar för alla som gillar rymden och drömmer om att åka till andra planeter.Serien passar för ca 5-9 år.MedverkandeIdé och manus: Lova Eriksson och Roger DackegårdBerättare: Lova ErikssonRegi: Roger DackegårdLjudmix: Roger DackegårdSkådespelare: Rita Liljegren Victorin, John Österlund, Anna Åkerlund, Erik Roll, Lova Eriksson, Lova ErikssonIllustratör: Emily RyanProducent: Roger Dackegård, filtExekutiv producent: Dinah Ahl, Barnradion

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we have another installment of Glocal Citizens x Black Women in Real Estate collaboration--Borderless Building. Throughout the year, we're hosting conversations with BWRE members showcasing the personal and professional journeys of Black women in the real estate industry across tthe global. We're highlighting how Black women in the industry invest and structure value in/around land/property across global markets; and how we are offering valuable insight into the business/operational functions in the real estate industry to inspire a spirit of land stewardship. You'll hear this and more in this week's conversation. My guest, Nioki Doggett comes to us from the UK by way of her Bajan roots in Barbados. Throughout her career, she's helped institutional investors across the globe navigate complex real estate markets and find high-conviction opportunities, building the kind of trust that turns one-time conversations into decade-long partnerships. As Lead Business Development and Investor Relations Director for M&G Real Estate's European Platform, she drives capital growth and delivers tailored investment solutions for global institutional investors. Her work sits at the intersection of relationship management, market insight, and strategic advisory. Beyond her core role, Nioki is actively involved in shaping the broader real estate and investment community as a Committee Member of the INREV DDQ Committee, the Guild of Investment Managers, Ladies in Real Estate. She is a mentor at Chancerygate supporting real estate undergraduates entering the industry, and conference moderator and panel speaker on real estate and investment topics. Listen and learn more about how her deep expertise in real estate investment dynamics and global investor network spanning multiple markets and geographies are creating value where it counts. Where to find Nioki? On LinkedIn @ Ladies in Real Estate (LiRE) What's Nioki watching? Grey's Anatomy and other shows by Shonda Rhimes Apprentice UK Dragon's Den What's Nioki listening to? Bruno Mars Marvin Sapp Adele Olivia Dean Daniel Caesar Other topics of interest: About Black Women in Real Estate About Barbados now and Bajan roots Reading, Berkshire Royal Borough of WindsorSpecial Guest: Nioki Doggett.

From understanding why family members should never run your business unless they're your wife or daughters to learning the brutal truth that when you're not around your brother or cousin will undermine you saying oh because I'm the brother do this meanwhile it's not something you recommend and workers will be afraid to challenge them because he's the uncle of the CEO pulling your company down which is exactly why the owner of Wadiqa in Japan said if you live in this part of the world and you want your business to thrive don't work with family, the catfish farmer who sat with Japanese business owners and studied how Toyota Honda Suzuki Panasonic and Sony built generational companies where the structure was so solid that when one guy started it his son became boss his grandson became boss and the family has interests but the company survives for generations proving that culturally the ethics there are very different and he never heard of somebody say I'll not let my uncle work here in Japan but looking at Ghana he had to make that decision, the Christian entrepreneur who looks at his company as the property of the God he serves and has to manage it well so you can't fool around there and see him sitting down watching you destroy it because if you're not a Christian you will not understand but that's his concept and he doesn't waste time firing people who fool around, the business owner who admits the issue is founders have so much passion when they start but the people they hire don't have that passion and you have to get people who buy into your passion to grow your business because if that passion just stays with you and doesn't percolate to the other guys around you then when you're not around they can't move the business forward but if you're able to sell your passion into them or infuse your passion into them even if you're not around they know this is how this business should be moving, the aquaculture entrepreneur whose business started in 2023 not making profits yet but seeing revenues growing growing because he has a lot of assets being depreciated and depreciation is heavy making the cashfish business complicated when some people come and tell oh I started with 500 I made this amount of money but if you look at the cost variables you're going to buy fingerlings and if you don't buy good fingerlings you might lose them so give yourself maybe 5% mortality rate, the fish farmer who breaks down that feed is about 70% of your total cost of production and you can't reduce the price of feed because the company making the feed wants to make money and you don't control them so how do you make money when your feed cost is 70% leaving you with maybe 30% to play around with and you have to pay your workers and transport the feed to your farm, the processor who decided to dry and package fish instead of selling it fresh because when you feed it to a certain point somebody comes to buy and tells you I'm not going to buy it at one KG for 40 cedis I'll give you 30 cedis and if you say no he goes away and comes back a week later saying 30 cedis or even lower and you are buying feed to feed this fish so out of desperation some farmers sell and cry at night, the marketer who explains that people go to Makola and Kaneshie market to buy dried fish because it's a staple in our diet so if you dry and package you become more competitive and don't rely on point and kill people coming to buy your fish fresh because if they don't come you're in trouble and if they buy at a lower price your price realization is not that high, the strategic thinker who says before the four Ps of marketing you need to do research about what is the demand for your product where you are because if you're located in Kwintanpo and you want to sell in Accra you're in big trouble and consumer preferences are very different so you need to look at what do these people want and it may not even be beautiful packaging. Host: Derrick Abaitey

From understanding that danger and opportunity are the same word in Japanese to learning why the brutal truth about entrepreneurship in Ghana is that you can have all the knowledge about risk management from working in top corporate jobs in Japan and South Africa managing billions in assets but nobody will listen to you when you say this is how you should consider risk because you need to let your life shine and people will see what is actually happening to you proving that actions speak louder than credentials, the former head of research and senior portfolio manager at Mazi asset management in South Africa who moved to Ghana in 2021 after working many years in corporate making very very good money because his aim was capital accumulation knowing he wanted to set up something back home but needed the financial foundation first, the investment expert who breaks down the rule of 72 explaining that if the interest rate is 24% you divide 72 by 24 to get 3 which means your money will double in three years if you invest in an asset giving you 24% per annum and reinvest the interest proving that when Ghana treasury bill rates were about 30% people could have doubled their money if they knew this but for lack of knowledge my people perish, the financial literacy advocate who reveals the mistake people make in Ghana is putting all their money in the bank thinking they have 2 million in savings when actually that deposit is a liability for the bank which uses your money to invest in Ghana government funds getting 25% to 30% return while the spread is so high they pay their workers and get their fault checks and you get peanuts from interest while they are living on your savings, the reality that banks bring pretty ladies when they want you to borrow money to buy your house because they understand the rule of 72 and know your debt will double after a season but when it's time for collection they bring much more men to collect their money and if you're not able to pay they take away your house and you are in trouble, the wisdom that if you go to his village in Bocancere people don't understand finance proving that financial education should be paramount in our country and everything is confined to Accra but we need to be more practical with the teaching of economics and finance, the careful expert who has rules and has to be careful whatever he says because it's not like he's recommending for anybody to go and buy this or that so privately he can talk to his friends saying this looks interesting you can do this but in a forum like this if you say this company is good somebody will go and buy then lose money and he's going to be in trouble like a false prophecy, the portfolio manager who admits you don't get it right all the time and just wants to be right maybe 51% or 52% of the time and his client will make money because if he buys Sony and Panasonic in consumer electronics but forgets about Samsung and Samsung goes high while Sony stays there he loses relatively and the client is going to be upset asking why didn't you buy Samsung why did you stay with Sony, the entrepreneur whose balance sheet now is about 12 million Ghana cedis but if he actually looks at the money invested it's about two million plus dollars because he worked for very good companies was paid very well and saved a lot of money so when he was coming back to Ghana his plan was ready with his business plan ready knowing what he was going to do with projected returns everything on his computer. Host: Derrick Abaitey

durée : 00:03:44 - Le 18/20 : un jour dans le monde - par : Guillaume Auda - Le Ghana a refusé un accord sanitaire proposé par Washington, qui conditionnait une aide américaine à un partage sensible de données de santé. À Accra, le gouvernement juge le dispositif trop déséquilibré et trop intrusif. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

durée : 00:03:44 - InterNational - par : Guillaume Auda - Le Ghana a refusé un accord sanitaire proposé par Washington, qui conditionnait une aide américaine à un partage sensible de données de santé. À Accra, le gouvernement juge le dispositif trop déséquilibré et trop intrusif. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

1:25 Telling the truth is becoming more complicated—and more costly. Across the country and around the world, journalists are facing growing pressure for simply doing their jobs, and in the midst of it all, student journalists are stepping into an increasingly fraught landscape. What does it mean to pursue the truth when the stakes feel higher than ever? And how is this next generation navigating a profession where the risks are no longer abstract, but immediate? Here are FBO's Nico Berlin and Roma Carter with more.12:03 What does Tulsa have in common with cosmopolitan destinations such as Buenos Aires, Berlin, Accra, Shanghai, and Sydney? Each city is home to a New York University Global Network University campus. FBO's Zaakirah Muhammad has details.23:23 What does it mean to live in a place that was never meant to feel like home? Across the country, extended stay hotels have become a last resort for individuals and families navigating housing instability. Behind those doors are stories often overlooked; of stress, isolation, resilience, and the quiet toll that instability takes on mental health. For those living on the margins, where access to care is limited and community can feel out of reach, how do people cope–and what support truly exists? This quick hit is a segment from a special episode of Focus: Black Oklahoma, which is part of a larger quarterly effort from Oklahoma media addressing mental health. Find the rest of the quarterly stories and more coverage from Tulsa Flyer, the Oklahoma Eagle, KOSU, La Semana, and the frontier at tulsaflyer.org.27:42 Trauma doesn't just live in our memories—it lives in the body. For many Black people, generations of stress, survival, and systemic harm are carried in muscle, breath, and nervous systems long after the moment has passed. Somatic therapy asks a different kind of healing question: not just what happened to you, but what is your body still holding? Alana Mbanza explores somatic therapy and why reconnecting with the Black body is a powerful, and often overlooked, path toward restoration and wholeness.35:47 In her memoir, Trying My Hardest, Stephanie Janet turns her real life medical trauma into a complex story addressing maternal health, chronic illness, grief, and resilience. Stephanie–speaker, author, and founder of the nonprofit The Mighty Heart Warrior Project, sat down with FBO's Quraysh Ali Lansana to discuss her new text and ways the book may spark conversations that matter.42:40 We're honored to spotlight the work of a Tulsa treasure—Chief Egunwale Amusan whose scholarship and storytelling are reshaping how we understand this city's past and present. His powerful book, America's Black Wall Street: The Untold Story of Broken Treaties, Black Resistance, Political Fear, and Sacred Ground, goes beyond the headlines to reveal the deeper forces that shaped Greenwood's rise, the brutal assault it endured, and the enduring legacy of resistance and resilience that still radiates from this sacred terrain. Here's FBO's G. Vickers.Focus: Black Oklahoma is produced in partnership with KOSU Radio & Tri-City Collective. Additional support is provided by the Commemoration Fund & Press Forward. Our theme music is by Moffett Music.Focus: Black Oklahoma's executive producers are Quraysh Ali Lansana & Bracken Klar. Our associate producers are Jesse Ulrich, & Naomi Agnew. Our production interns are Alexander Evans, Roma Carter, Jess Grimes, & Anna Wilson.You can visit us online at KOSU.org or FocusBlackOklahoma.com & on YouTube @TriCityCollectiveOK.You can follow us on Instagram @FocusBlackOK & on Facebook at Facebook.com/FocusBlackOK.You can hear Focus: Black Oklahoma on demand at KOSU.org, the NPR app, NPR.org, or wherever you get your podcasts.https://linktr.ee/focusblackok

Kehinde returns to vividly recounts his 2-week journey through West Africa's complex landscape from the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora in Accra, Ghana to the Convention for Afrikan People in Banjul, Gambia. Friend of the pod, newly minted Dr Erika Brown, joins to discuss the 3,000km trip. From harrowing slave castles in Ghana to border crossings that can take hours Kehinde's personal reflections offer a raw, unfiltered view on what it truly means to witness disparities of wealth, infrastructure, and opportunity firsthand—and how these scars shape the collective psyche of the continent. Before they get into the conversation Erika catches Kehinde up on what has happened since he has been away, discussing the recent media stories of femicide in the US and the pitfalls of financial literacy. Find out more about the Convention of Afrikan People https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/ Follow Erika at the Broke-ish podcast https://brokeish.com/  Support the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora: https://loatad.org/  Join Harambee OBU: www.blackunity.org.uk  Written and hosted by: Kehinde Andrews Edited by: Kadiri Andrews Artwork by: Assata Andrews

« Des migrants refoulés des États-Unis découvrent de nouvelles réalités en RDC, titre Africanews. Ils ont passé les cinq derniers jours enfermés dans un hôtel de la capitale Kinshasa : ce n'est pas tout à fait ce à quoi s'attendait un groupe de Latino-Américains, lorsqu'ils ont demandé l'asile aux États-Unis. » « Gabriela, raconte Africanews, une Colombienne de Trente ans, raconte leur calvaire : "je ne voulais pas aller au Congo. J'ai peur, je ne connais pas la langue", explique-t-elle. Elle n'a découvert sa destination que la veille de leur expulsion des États-Unis. » Africanews ajoute : « Laissés pour compte par la politique de l'immigration de Donald Trump, les migrants passent leurs journées sur leurs téléphones portables, à essayer de contacter leurs familles. Aucun d'entre eux ne parle le français, la langue officielle de la RDC. » À lire aussiRDC: à la rencontre des migrants expulsés des États-Unis Trajet menotté Jeune Afrique a également rencontré les premiers migrants expulsés des États-Unis vers la République démocratique du Congo. « Arrivés à Kinshasa il y a cinq jours, ils sont les premiers expulsés de Donald Trump vers la RDC, dernier d'une longue liste de pays à avoir noué avec les États-Unis un accord de sous-traitance migratoire autorisant l'envoi de ressortissants originaires de pays tiers ». « Ce type de partenariat, souligne Jeune Afrique, est devenu un outil diplomatique majeur pour Washington sur le continent africain ». Ces migrants ont raconté le voyage de 27 heures pour arriver à Kinshasa. « Deux de nos interlocuteurs, raconte Jeune Afrique, expliquent avoir passé ce trajet menottés aux pieds et aux mains, pendant les nombreuses étapes du voyage, d'Alexandria, dans l'état de Louisiane, en passant par Dakar et Accra ». Quelles perspectives ont-ils aujourd'hui ? Jeune Afrique a recueilli leurs témoignages : « Ils affirment qu'ils n'ont que sept jours pour trancher entre les deux options qui s'offrent à eux : rester en RDC, pays dans lequel ils n'ont aucune attache et dont ils ne parlent pas l'une des langues nationales, ou rentrer dans leur pays d'origine, en dépit des risques que certains assurent encourir et qui ont été confirmés, dans plusieurs cas, devant des cours de justice américaines ». « C'est une expulsion indirecte, accuse une jeune migrante. Ils nous envoient dans un autre pays pour que là-bas, on nous renvoie chez nous. » Augmentation des frais de scolarité À la Une également, l'inquiétude des étudiants africains en France. C'est Afrik.com qui se saisit du sujet : « La hausse spectaculaire des frais de scolarité des étrangers non européens en France (…) Dès la rentrée prochaine, les tarifs passeront à près de 2 900 euros par an en licence, et avoisineront les quatre mille euros en master, contre des montants jusque-là largement inférieurs. » Afrik.com nous explique que « jusqu'à présent, de nombreuses universités françaises appliquaient des exonérations importantes, réduisant considérablement l'impact des frais différenciés ». Mais, « désormais, ces dérogations seront fortement encadrées ». Quel est, dans cette affaire, l'objectif des autorités françaises ? « À terme, explique Afrik.com, cette hausse devrait permettre de générer plusieurs centaines de millions d'euros supplémentaires. Ce qui offre de nouvelles marges de manœuvre financière aux universités françaises ».   Mais la mesure passe mal du côté des syndicats étudiants qui dénoncent « une mesure qu'ils jugent socialement injuste, et potentiellement excluante pour les étudiants issus de pays en développement ». Selon eux, « l'augmentation des frais risque d'aggraver la précarité d'une population déjà fragile, confrontée à des coûts de vie élevés en France ». La France qui, au total, « accueille plus de 430 000 étudiants étrangers ». Pour le continent africain, « le Maroc demeure le principal pays d'origine ». L'Algérie, elle, « enregistre une croissance notable ». Quant à l'Afrique subsaharienne, elle se distingue, nous dit Afrik.com, par une « augmentation particulièrement marquée du nombre d'étudiants en France ». Le Sénégal notamment, symbolise cette « tendance » à la hausse. À lire aussiFrance: l'université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne augmentera les frais d'inscription pour certains étrangers

Preached at First Love Church Experience Service , Accra, Ghana. 12 th April 2026

Preached at First Love Church Experience Service , Accra, Ghana. 12 th April 2026

Preached at First Love Church Experience Service , Accra, Ghana. 05th April 2026

Preached at First Love Church Experience Service , Accra, Ghana. 05th April 2026