Category: Arts and Culture

Photo Credit: Akosua Adoma Owusu The ‘obroni’ endearment is very wrong I recently read Halifu Osumare’s book ‘The Hiplife in Ghana’. Early on in the book, the author, an African-american woman recounts her experience some years ago in Ghana. Osumare had been referred to as “obroni” and she chose to lecture whoever called her that, […]

Graphic credit: Tina Magazine Dear Quartz Africa, to the many histories Afrobeats. Cheers. In order to counter The New Yorker feature on Afrobeats, the Quartz does something funnier. It takes a myth and invites us for a discussion. Naw, let it pass. To continuously attribute afrobeat to Fela is really disrespectful. It is disrespectful to […]

Consider this: you’re a company driver. one morning, whilst driving a company vehicle, a call comes through your phone, and you receive it. you’re still on the phone when you sight a ‘fine, fine lady’ (with a rather large derriere.) you follow with your eyes, and before you realize, there the vehicle was: in a gutter. You’re left with a dented vehicle, a burst tire and a brain racking itself for an explanation to give to your boss.

Photos: Accra: Portraits of a City, 4th March 2017- 1st April 2017, ANO, Osu. / Laurian R. Bowles (2015) Felicia Abban: Remembering the Woman in all the Portraits In the 1950s, an 18-year old Felicia Abban came to this gendered confluence of a national space called Accra. Married to Robert Abban the textile print merchant, she […]

Photo of Rock City (Credit: Rock City Empire) When a Tamale-based artiste won the popular song of the year category at the 2017 Ghana Music Awards, many Ghanaians were surprised. Their astonishment follows the fact that for the better part of two decades, Accra-based artistes have dominated mainstream Ghanaian music, with some contributions from Kumasi […]