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Send us Fan Mail Dr Hannah Brew is a portfolio GP who was diagnosed with the rare condition that causes muscle weakness, not long after starting work in the UK. She tells us how she navigated life with myasthenia gravis, the impact on her career choices and why we should all have more compassion when it comes to hidden disabilities.  This episode was recorded in February 2026 and edited by KAmo. ...

Send us Fan Mail  In February 2026, Michael Kwadwo Donkor joined our book club and left us inspired as we discussed Hold – a coming-of-age book that explores the role of women, attitudes to sexuality, mental health and the tension between culture and identity.  The book follows three teenage girls. Two live in a town near Kumasi, Ghana's Asante Region and are housemaids for a well-to-do famil...

Send us Fan Mail Edward Ofosu, a self-taught, mixed media artist based in Accra, who, in September and October 2025 staged his first solo in Accra, entitled ‘Rhythm of The Soul’ at the La Foundation For The Arts in Accra, Ghana. Edward has had two solo exhibitions in Ghana and four solo exhibition internationally. Edward employs a variety of artistic styles and uses a range of tools, including eve...

Send us Fan Mail Happy International Mother Language Day! Hear Maame Serwaa Piese who shares her regret at not teaching her children her Mother Tongue. She shares her reflections in Twi followed by an English translation. You’ll also hear from her niece Mirekua Ansah, who provides her perspective on why she has actively invested in ensuring her four children are fluent in their Mother Tongue. She...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to AKADi Magazine’s Connecting Communities Podcast where we explore stories through a Ghanaian lens and dive into conversations with Ghanaians on topics including culture, the arts and history, which hopefully will leave you with some food for thought. My name is Kofi Amo, editor of AKADi Magazine, and listen to my conversation with Richard Yeboah, a lifelong Hac...

Send us Fan Mail Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago takes us through her research journey of uncovering the remarkable stories of two 19th century Asante princes. Cousin brothers: Kwasi Boachi and Kwame Poku were both 10 years old when they migrated to the Netherlands in 1837 on the request of Asantehene Kwaku Dua I, Kwasi’s father and Kwame’s uncle. Boachi and Poku’s stories are both fascinating and tr...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year to all our esteemed followers and welcome to our first episode of 2026.  Kofi and I (Abena) thought we would use this opportunity to thank you for your support in 2025, reflect back on our podcasts from last year and look forward to some that you'll hear this year. We also shout out to some of our listeners. You may hear you name mentioned. Cheers! The music in...

Send us Fan Mail ‘The Eyes of Ghana’ is a powerful docufilm about preserving Ghana’s film heritage. Told primarily through 93-year-old cinematographer Reverend Chris Hesse, this story is one of hope, cultural preservation and is a call to action to us all. Reverend Hesse was Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s personal videographer, during his presidency and captured hundreds of hours of little-seen foota...

Send us Fan Mail Claudia George, an artist who creates under the name Claudia Zinski and works with batik, silks and canvas. In this episode, Claudia explains how her exhibition in Accra, entitled: The Meridian Love Affair Exhibition (13-18 November), will act as the foundation for greater research into exploring the origins of mas or masquerade in Ghana, and Trinidad, and its connection to UK car...

Send us Fan Mail Claudia George is an artist who creates under the name Claudia Zinski and works with batik, silks and canvas. In this episode, she talks about how art helped her to deal with the loss of her sibling and how she plans to showcase new work in Accra this month entitled: The Meridian Love Affair Exhibition (13-18 November). Find more details here: https://www.instagram.com/claudia.geo...

Send us Fan Mail Writer Uwati Okojie speaks about ‘Le Salon - Art of Conversation’ - a living exhibition by Le Tings (Harris Elliott) x Johnnie Sapong at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2025. She shares insights into a Ghanaian art activation at the 13th edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair at Somerset House in London in 2025. This installation was called: 'Le Salon - Art of Conve...

Send us Fan Mail To mark Black History Month UK, we caught up with pioneering architect Elsie Owusu who famously led renovations at Green Park Tube station the Supreme Court and has worked with award-winning artist Yinka Shonibare. This conversation looks at Elsie's early beginning, the fascinating story of her father and her architectural achievements. Read more about Tropical Modernism here...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to AKADi Magazine's Connecting Communities Podcast where we spotlight Ghanaians making transformative change in their communities. Listen to Omar F. Okai, dancer, choreographer, director and founder of the six-year Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs) - a platform that recognises the talents of Black British creatives involved in theatre - from the actors ri...

Send us Fan Mail Anniwaa Buachie is an award-winning actor, filmmaker, audiobook narrator, who explains how she turned the story ‘Moon Over Aburi’ by award-winning poet and author Kwame Dawes into a film. That’s where I first met Anniwaa at the screening of ‘Moon Over Aburi’ at the London International Pan-African Film Festival in South London in 2024 - you’ll hear me refer to it as PAFF in the in...

Send us Fan Mail Africa Fashion Week London (AFWL) 2025 kicks off on 9 and 10 August bringing together seasoned and next generation designers from the Continent under one roof. Now in its 15th season, this annual catwalk and exhibition event is one of the world’s largest and longest-running showcases of African and African-inspired fashion & design. In this episode we speak to three Ghanaian d...

Send us Fan Mail Poet and author Nii Ayikwei Parkes joined our Book Club in June 2025 for our review of Tail of the Blue Bird - his 16-year-old crime novel which has an exciting twist.  This book is set in a fictitious village not far from Accra that becomes a crime scene with a difference that brings police and a pathologist to crack the case.  But this is no ordinary crime and we soon find out t...

Send us Fan Mail Poet and author Nii Ayikwei Parkes joined our Book Club in June 2025 for our review of Tail of the Blue Bird - his 16-year-old crime novel which has an exciting twist.  This book is set in a fictitious village not far from Accra that becomes a crime scene with a difference that brings police and a pathologist to crack the case.  But this is no ordinary crime and we soon find out t...

Send us Fan Mail Eugene Abeka-Donkor, the founder of RetroGhana - a social media platform on a mission to document, share and amplify Ghanaian music and the legends behind these iconic sounds. In this episode, Eugene tells us what inspired him to create RetroGhana, he explains what led to his collaboration with Ghanaian unisex clothing brand Ajabeng and we ask him which musical collaborations (wit...

Send us Fan Mail Listen  to Krystle Zara Appiah, author of the award-winning novel ‘Rootless’ and the first published author to join our book club session as a special guest.  We’ve been meeting every month since September 2024 where we read and review books by Ghanaian authors or books about Ghana.  If you haven’t read ‘Rootless’, get comfortable because you’re about to hear from some of our book...

Send us Fan Mail You’ve heard of Highlife greats such as CK Mann, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Ebo Taylor and Pat Thomas but what do you know about the producer behind some of their hit songs? We spoke to the family of the late Dick Essilfie-Bondzie - visionary music producer and the first to bring a vinyl record pressing factory on to West African soil - to find out more. If you follow our podcast or our...

Send us Fan Mail You’ve heard of Highlife greats such as CK Mann, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Ebo Taylor and Pat Thomas but what do you know about the producer behind some of their hit songs? We spoke to the family of the late Dick Essilfie-Bondzie - visionary music producer about his musical legacy, plans to archive all the songs under the Essiebons label and a project to create a new documentary about...

Send us Fan Mail The British High Commission in Ghana kicked off 2025 with its annual UK-Ghana Diaspora Networking Mixer. This year's mixer was a chance to capitalise on these economic ties and deepen connections between the two countries by linking the diaspora with relevant business and government partners, as well as celebrating the achievements of British Ghanaians.  We spoke to the three...

Send us Fan Mail The British High Commission in Ghana kicked off 2025 with its annual UK-Ghana Diaspora Networking Mixer. This year's mixer was a chance to capitalise on these economic ties and deepen connections between the two countries by linking the diaspora with relevant business and government partners, as well as celebrating the achievements of British Ghanaians.  We spoke to the three...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to another episode of AKADi Magazine's Connecting Communities podcast, produced by Kamo.     My name is Abena Sewaa, the editor of AKADi Magazine, and you were just listening to Stephen Barnabis, founder and operational manager of Project Zero, an organisation based in Waltham Forest, London, that engages young people in positive activities to promote social...

Send us Fan Mail London-based organisation Cultural Games Association (CGA) UK believes that education the next generation about the social, cultural and health benefits of traditional games played in  African and Caribbean could help to tackle the rise in anti-social behaviour among the youth. We went along to their launch in February 2024 to find out more and later spoke to representatives from...