‘A First Draft Is a First Draft’ Kuukuwa Manful’s First Draft
Ghanaian architect, Kuukuwa Manful, hopes her work re-evaluate the discourse and study of African architecture.
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Lesley Lokko Prepares for Venice What Africa as a Future Laboratory for Architecture Means
In curating the Biennale Architettura 2023 in Venice in May, Lesley Lokko is set to make history as the exhibition’s first Black architect. Lokko’s career as an architect has been eclectic but always revolving around the subject of Africa’s past, present and future.
A Quick History of Afrobeats Christian Adofo’s A Quick Ting on Afrobeats
A Quick Ting on Afrobeats hardly reflects on moral conundrums. Seemingly obsessed with Black pride and optimism, Adofo’s book embraces a positive outlook and perhaps this is the right attitude to afrobeats.
‘Africa Deserves a Formal Apology’ Nana Akufo-Addo Is Calling for Colonial Reparations
Ghana’s president has recently gone viral over a ‘reparations’ speech he gave on 02 August 2022 in Accra, Ghana. Read more.
‘Architecture Is About Ideas’ David Adjaye’s First Draft
For Ghanaian-British architect, Sir David Adjaye OBE, architecture is about much more than simply building. Read our interview.
‘Our People Are Our Greatest Asset’ Lucy Quist’s First Draft
Technologist and author of The Bold New Normal, Lucy Quist, was drawn to stories about complex social change from an early age. Read our interview.
Healing from Ghana Overcoming the Traumatic Years
I do not like asking for help because I’m afraid of getting the wrong kind. I do not like deceit because it reminds me of Ghana. Read more.
Wiredu’s Consensus Introducing Kwasi Wiredu’s Consensual Democracy
In a consensual democracy, ‘politics’ is everybody’s participatory responsibility, and Wiredu’s ideas force us to imagine the kind of societies in which diligent senses of careful responsibility could be realized. Read more.
‘I Can Never Get Bored of Writing About Sex’ Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s First Draft
Author of 'The Sex Lives of African Women' and co-founder of Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, will never stop writing about sex. Read our interview.
‘What We Read Lives in Our Heads’ Sangu Delle’s First Draft
Entrepreneur, investor and author of ‘Making Futures: Young Entrepreneurs in a Dynamic Africa’, Sangu Delle, thinks success is ‘overhyped’ and has been studying how people fail. Read our interview.