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Lesbians and prostitutes 1 Feb 2013 | 01:21 pm
Despite Ghana’s democratic credentials, as the locals like to call it, a particularly virulent strain of homophobia runs through Ghanaian society. This is revealed in the absurd newspaper story below ...
Dispatches from the frontline 30 Jan 2013 | 05:04 am
Last week in Mali, an excited crowd of journalists packed into rented 4x4’s to see what was happening at the frontline, hoping for signs of war and scenes of combat, craving the adrenaline rush of bei...
Mali's army feels vindicated 24 Jan 2013 | 03:53 am
"A couple of years ago there was an incident when a subordinate refused to obey the order of an officer. The officer was beside himself with anger, shouting, threatening to kill the guy, but the guy s...
Mali 20 Jan 2013 | 04:23 pm
As a journalist I know better than most people that TV news reflects only a small part of the full picture, and often a distorted one at that. Still, boarding a plane to Bamako this week, I was appreh...
Looking ahead, being better 8 Jan 2013 | 04:04 am
Here's to the start of a new year that began almost alcohol-free at a gay housewarming party in Amsterdam and promises change on different levels, hopefully for the good. My first new year's resolutio...
Untitled 9 Dec 2012 | 05:03 am
The funeral of John Atta Mills -- who, in keeping with a tested African tradition, had been trying to hide the gravity of his illness before he died -- propelled vice-president John Mahama into the ro...
White saviors, and black ones 1 Dec 2012 | 03:37 pm
This is one of the most depressing aspects of Accra: billboards and posters that promise redemption from clean-shaven pastors smiling benignly at the downtrodden flocks. All-night prayer events are he...
Findings 3 29 Nov 2012 | 02:40 am
Street traders selling scarves, key rings, vuvuzela's and other paraphernalia emblazoned with the faces of political leaders say business is booming ahead of presidential elections next week. Eleven p...
Gold mining in Ghana 28 Nov 2012 | 03:21 am
When I researched a story about the sudden, and as yet unexplained, influx of thousands of illegal Chinese in Ghana’s gold regions, I was invited to visit a long-established gold mine in the west of t...
Driving 11 Oct 2012 | 05:25 am
Dark clouds gathered in the eastern town of Ho last week, threatening to unleash a thunderstorm on a ruling party rally. A tempestuous wind blew them onward, and the rain came later, but when it arriv...
