AKADi Magazine

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Connecting Communities - an AKADi Magazine series that profiles Ghanaians making transformative change in their communities. In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to broadcaster, journalist and public speaker Henry Bonsu about being one of only a few Black people at the University of Oxford,  his career in journalism and the truth behind him being axed from BBC radio and...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Connecting Communities - an AKADi Magazine series that profiles Ghanaians making transformative change in their communities. Over the past couple of months, Abena Sɛwaa has been speaking to Ghanaians that have been involved in the rescue effort of students in Ukraine and to students that experienced the war first-hand. In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to Karina - a f...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Connecting Communities - an AKADi Magazine series that profiles Ghanaians making transformative change in their communities. In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to Prince - a Ghanaian Master's graduate who lives in Kharkiv in Ukraine up until the start of the war. He tells us about the days leading up to him fleeing Ukraine and how he got help in Hungary. Find out...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Connecting Communities - an AKADi Magazine series that profiles Ghanaians making transformative change in their communities. In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to Opoku Asare Berchie - a Ghanaian who was studying medicine in Ukraine up until the start of the war. He is also general secretary of the National Union of Ghanaian Students (NUGS). He tells us about the days...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Connecting Communities - an AKADi Magazine series that profiles Ghanaians making transformative change in their communities. In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to three Ghanaian students in Hungary who were integral in helping stranded students flee from Ukraine. Hear from Gabriel Asante, President of the Ghana Students Association  in Hungary (GASH), and Association m...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Connecting Communities - an AKADi Magazine series that profiles Ghanaians making transformative change in their communities. In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to Sarah Boateng who distributes reusable period pads made by bamboo fleece cotton to girls and young women in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The initiative is part of her wider goal to deliver qu...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Ghanaians Abroad  - an AKADi Magazine initiative designed to find at least one Ghanaian in each of the 195 UN-designated countries in the world. In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to Professor Dr  James Affram Adjaye, director and chair of Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine in Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany.   The transmission of Covid-19 to...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Connecting Communities - an AKADi Magazine series that profiles Ghanaians making transformative change in their communities. In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to actor, director and producer Ernest Abbeyquaye - an award-winning pioneer in TV, film and theatre, who since the early 60s and during his childhood, has had a talent for telling stories. He speaks to me about...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Ghanaians Abroad  - an AKADi Magazine initiative designed to find at least one Ghanaian in each of the 195 UN-designated countries in the world.     In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to Professor Dr James Affram Adjaye, director and chair of Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine in Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany, to find out more. https://www.u...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our Identity Issue – the audio segment of our 7th digital AKADi Magazine issue where we ask ‘what being Ghanaians means to you?' In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to  Comfort Arthur whose web series ‘I’m Living in Ghana Get Me Out of Here’ won Best Animation in the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2020.  She talks about how she developed her web-series with the hel...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our Identity Issue – the audio segment of our 7th digital AKADi Magazine issue where we ask ‘what being Ghanaians means to you?' In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa  speaks to polyglot Jemila who is fluent in Ga, was born and raised in Europe to Ghanaian parents but doesn’t feel full accepted in either cultural space. She explores how her linguistic proficiency informs he...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our Identity Issue – the audio segment of our 7th digital AKADi Magazine issue where we ask ‘what being Ghanaians means to you?' In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to author Mamle Kabu on the topic of biracial identity in her short stories: 'Colour Separation', 'Human Mathematics' and 'The End of Skill'. The music in this podcast is c...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our Identity Issue – the audio segment of our 7th digital AKADi Magazine issue where we ask ‘what being Ghanaians means to you?' In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to afro-expressionist artist Kojo Marfo about how his Akan culture informs his work. The music in this episode is made exclusively for @akadimag by @lekyekyeku and @superopongstarz is called 'Life...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our Identity Issue – the audio segment of our 7th digital AKADi Magazine issue where we ask ‘what being Ghanaians means to you?' In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to author Mamle Kabu on the topic of biracial identity growing up in Ghana with a German mother and Ghanaian father. The music in this podcast is called Nfitiase (Genesis) and is exclusively for AKADi M...

Send us Fan Mail On World Mental Health Day (10 October), Abena Sɛwaa speaks to one young man, who at only 23 years old, explains about his mental health journey and how his poems help him to make sense of his circumstances. The music in this podcast is called Nfitiase (Genesis) and is exclusively for AKADi Magazine. Nfitiase is created by percussionist @ericowusuofficial and producer Nir Tom Saba...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Connecting Communities – an AKADi Magazine series that profiles Ghanaians making transformative change in their communities. This is an extract from a MisBeee Writes blogpost about the history of Black hair read by poet La PoEsi.    The afrocomb dates back 6000 years, and engenders extraordinary symbolism, encompasses culture, politics and identity. This review is based...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our Identity Issue – the audio segment of our 7th digital magazine issues where we ask ‘what being Ghanaians means to you?'   PhD researcher Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński talks with Abena Sɛwaa about her forthcoming exhibition  (21 October 2021 - 6 March 2022)  at Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna) in Austria. The exhibition is based on documents and a book by Peter Altenberg abou...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Connecting Communities - an AKADi Magazine series that profiles Ghanaians making transformative change in their communities. This episode is a pre-recording of a Clubhouse discussion in August 2021 on the experiences of adults that migrated as children or teenagers - from their birth country to another. The discussion included special guest Abena Eyeson, author of ‘Look...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Connecting Communities - an AKADi Magazine series that profiles Ghanaians making transformative change in their communities. This episode is a pre-recording of a Clubhouse discussion in August 2021 on the experiences of adults that migrated as children or teenagers - from their birth country to another. The discussion included special guest Abena Eyeson, author of ‘Look...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Connecting Communities - an AKADi Magazine series that profiles Ghanaians making transformative change in their communities. In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to Comfort Arthur. She became the first Ghanaian in 16 years to win an Africa Movie Academy (AMA) Awards in the best animation category for her web series ‘I’m Living in Ghana, Get Me Out Of Here’. She talks abo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Climate Change Champions - an AKADi Magazine series that invites environmental activists to raise awareness of their work and highlight simple ways that we can protect our world. In this episode, Abena Sɛwaa speaks to Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, whose daughter Ella, died of a rare and severe form of asthma at only nine years old. Air pollution claimed her life. She late...