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Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Ghana in Focus highlights two key aspects of the President of Ghana's address to the United Nations Assembly in New York. The president demanded that reparations be paid by the Western nations who made huge profits from the so called Transatlantic Slave Trade. He cites that the present day economic and social reality of Afrika is mainly due to the...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Afrika in Focus celebrates the 50th anniversary of  a genre of music that has become a global phenomenon. We detail the origins of Hip hop/Rap by giving a different take on the narrative given. We then explain how Hip-hop in contemporary times started in the urban areas of Black America as an art form of music that had as its core message about the hars...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Ghana in Focus looks at Scientific Nkrumahism on the light of the anniversary of his birth. We highlight what scientific Nkrumahism is and how this concept was a key part of Nkrumah's 7-year economic development plan and nation building agenda. We also explain the manifestation of scientific Nkrumahism to the industrialisation agenda and nation bui...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Afrika in Focus explains why the French MUST leave Afrika in the light of 5 Uprisings in French speaking Afrika. We start by detailing the significance of Afrika to France and why France needs Afrika, her resources and her land for its economic and genetic survival. We detail step by step the nefarious colonial agreement that was imposed on 14 Afrikan c...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode of Afrika in Focus looks at the politically charged issue of migration. Over the last few years there have been harrowing accounts of Afrikan people crossing the Sahara into transit points in Northern Afrika only to be either captured by wicked Arab gangs and sold in to enslavement as we see in Libya or drowning in dingy boats in the Mediterranean in the h...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Afrika in Focus examines the life and legacy of one of the greatest Afrikans that ever lived, Marcus Mosiah Garvey. We examine the importance of Garvey to the Afrikan world in terms of his beliefs and ideology. We explain what this belief was based on and how that belief became an Ideology known as Garveyism which at its peak attracted 5 million members...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode of Afrika in Focus looks at the current uprising in Niger.  We start by analysing the root cause of the uprising in Niger, the third French speaking country to stage an uprising. We explain the nefarious way how the French have enslaved their former colonies by impoverishing them and stealing a combined amount of over 1.5 Trillion Euros a year from them. W...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Afrika in Focus is a special looking at the issue of reparations and reparatory justice. We explain what reparations and repertory justice is. We detail the work done by the global reparations movement in getting the issue of reparations into the mainstream. We critique the 5 significant events that have happened in the last year to address the issue of...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Afrika in Focus examines the recent Russia-Afrika summit held in St Petersburg. We explain why it is a waste of time for Afrikan leaders to attend the summit. We advise the reasons behind Russia having this summit with Afrikan leaders including meeting its own security and national interests. We state some of the geo-political and geo-economic reasons f...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode of Ghana in Focus is an analysis on the hottest topic in Ghana this week namely corruption in Ghana in the guise of the outrageous Cecilia Dappah affair. We start by advising that corruption is endemic in Ghana and has become a cancer in every facet of Ghanaian society. We then analyse the outrageous and scandalous notion of a minister of state hoarding US...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode asks the question if Afrikans in the UK have anything to celebrate as it marks the 75th anniversary of contemporary migration of Afrikan people into the UK with the advent of The Empire Windrush landing in Tilbury Docks in June 1948. We explain that the arrival of the 'Windrush' generation in 1948 DID NOT signify the genesis of Afrikan life in th...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Ghana in Focus concludes our series for now,  looking at tourism in Ghana.  This week we shine the light on the Volta region of Ghana and the fantastic renovated Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park. We take you on a journey through the scenic and picturesque Volta Region highlighting several places to see and visit. We then focus on the newly refurbished Kwame...

Send us Fan Mail This weeks edition of Ghana in focus looks at the issue of the passing of the anti LGBTQ bill. This week parliament in Ghana voted unanimously to pass the anti LGBTQ bill making it illegal to practise, promote and engage in homosexual activity in Ghana. We discuss how despite threats by the West that the Ghanaian parliament was able to pass this bill. We discuss the implications o...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Afrika in Focus looks at the uprising in France in the wake of the assassination of a young Algerian boy by a White French police officer. We start by giving a historical overview of how France became a global player.  We explain how the French were deeply involved in the enslavement of Afrikan people and made huge fortunes in the process. We also expla...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Ghana in Focus continues our series looking at Tourism in Ghana.  This week we feature the vast Northern Region of Ghana. We take you on journey through the vast Northern Region and highlight some key sites for you to visit. The biggest city in Northern Ghana is Tamale with its eclectic mix of African traditional and Islamic influenced culture and archi...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Ghana in Focus continues our series looking at tourism in Ghana. We take a look at the second city of Ghana and cultural centre , Kumasi. Kumasi is a 5 hour drive from the capital Accra and about 45 minutes by plane. We give a lowdown on some of the MUST SEE places to visit during your stay in Kumasi including a MUST see visit to the Akwasidae grand dur...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition  of Ghana in Focus highlights the alarming trend of Ghanaian nurses leaving Ghana in search of greener pastures. We examine the critical factors that is making highly qualified and competent Ghanaian nurses leave Ghana for the UK. We analyse the role of the UK in actively poaching Ghanaian nurses due to their own shortages. We argue that both the NPP and N...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode of Ghana in Focus poses the question to ship or not to ship? With increasing numbers of Africans from the diaspora making Ghana their home, we look at the shipping issue. Shipping things to Ghana can be very expensive especially if you decide to ship everything to Ghana, We give examples of the cost of shipping goods from the UK and give the base average c...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's edition of Ghana in Focus we analyse the President of Ghana's address to the nation.  In this address he looked at two specific issues namely COVID 19 and the deal with the IMF. We state that as a result of this address ALL of the remaining COVID 19 restrictions that had been put in place particularly for arrivals at the airport have been removed.  For exa...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Afrika in Focus poses the suggestion why Afrika must unite by any means necessary.  Firstly we take a look at a couple of other stories. Ghana has reached a board level agreement with the IMF to obtain a US$3 billion bailout over the next 3 years in an attempt to balance its books.  We maintain that Ghana did not need to go to the  IMF and warn of some...

Send us Fan Mail The week's edition looks at a disturbing trend of why some Afrikans from the Diaspora are leaving Ghana. The Year of Return was an initiative aimed at promoting Ghana to the Afrikan diaspora. As a result of this imitative tens of thousands of Afrikans from the diaspora came to Ghana with many others settling and doing business in Ghana. However for some, the decision to settl...

Send us Fan Mail  This week's edition of Afrika in Focus looks at the coronation of King Charles III and asserts that King Charles is NOT King for us as African people. We state how the UK media's narrative of the coronation gives a false impression of togetherness and unity. We state how the Royal family's wealth was founded on the foundation of buying and selling Afrikan people. A...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Ghana in Focus  looks at the lot of Ghanaian workers in the light of May Day which is a holiday in Ghana. Our emphasis is on Ghanaian workers who work in the public sector and informal sector. We examine some of the key issues affecting Ghanaian workers such as remuneration, women's rights, working conditions and access to pension. We also provide...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Ghana in Focus looks at the effects of Ghana entering into certain conditionality's in order to get a miserly US$3 Billion from the IMF. We start by asserting that this money is NOT the solution to Ghana's long term financial predicament. We also re emphasis why Ghana DOES NOT NEED this paltry bailout and indeed it is an insult and an aberrati...

Send us Fan Mail This week's edition of Ghana in Focus, analyses the current power situation in the country after the latest round of power cuts known as Dumsor, in the country. We begin by giving an overview of the power situation in Ghana and the main characters including the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). We explain the importance of power generation to the country's industrial d...