Ghana

A Quick History of Afrobeats Christian Adofo’s A Quick Ting on Afrobeats

Dami AjayiOctober 18, 2022

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.

GhanaOctober/November 2022

‘Africa Deserves a Formal Apology’ Nana Akufo-Addo Is Calling for Colonial Reparations

Wemi MoyelaAugust 11, 2022

Ghana’s president has recently gone viral over a ‘reparations’ speech he gave on 02 August 2022 in Accra, Ghana. Read more.

August/September 2022GhanaNews

‘Architecture Is About Ideas’ David Adjaye’s First Draft

David AdjayeJune 17, 2022

For Ghanaian-British architect, Sir David Adjaye OBE, architecture is about much more than simply building. Read our interview.

Best of 2022: First DraftFirst DraftGhanaInterviewsJune/July 2022United Kingdom

‘Our People Are Our Greatest Asset’ Lucy Quist’s First Draft

Lucy QuistMay 27, 2022

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.

April/May 2022First DraftGhanaInternational Women's Day - First DraftInterviews

Healing from Ghana Overcoming the Traumatic Years

Malik AdeoluFebruary 16, 2022

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.

February/March 2022GhanaThe Black Atlantic

Wiredu’s Consensus Introducing Kwasi Wiredu’s Consensual Democracy

Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ ṢóyẹmíJanuary 12, 2022

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.

December 21/January 22Ghana

‘I Can Never Get Bored of Writing About Sex’ Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s First Draft

Nana Darkoa SekyiamahDecember 17, 2021

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.

Best of 2021December 21/January 22First DraftGhanaInterviews

‘What We Read Lives in Our Heads’ Sangu Delle’s First Draft

Sangu DelleDecember 10, 2021

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.

December 21/January 22First DraftGhanaInterviews

Upon Mount Zion, There Shall Be Deliverance The Church and My Political Awakening

Eileen GbagboDecember 8, 2021

The church was where I had my political awakening. For nearly five years, weekly sermons, prayer sessions and testimonies, gave me an education, about being African in the UK, that I couldn’t get in school. Read more.

December 20/January 21GhanaThe Black AtlanticUnited Kingdom

Where Is Pan-Africanism Today? The Gains, Challenges and Prospects of Nkrumah’s United Africa

Ogechukwu OkonkwoDecember 6, 2021

Kwame Nkrumah envisioned pan-Africanism as a means of uniting and uplifting Africans across Africa and the diaspora but was ousted in 1966 before achieving his aim. Read more.

December 21/January 22GhanaLibya