From the classroom to the pavement: The quiet struggle of girls on Ghana’s streets

At Accra bustling Tema Station, a steady stream of cars, lorries and tro-tros flows past a young woman seated on the pavement beside plastic bowls filled with deep-red tomatoes. The midday sun beats down, heating the asphalt and casting long shadows around vendors

Gender-based violence – a silent nightmare of many women and girls 

Her incessant cries for help went unanswered over decades of marriage, as her husband turns the home into a boxing arena.  Amina (not her real name) couldn’t leave her marital home because her separation or divorce wasn’t just a failure, however, a break

The silent struggles: The hidden barrier to adolescent girls’ education and mental health

As Zuwera Alhassan walks briskly crashing the grass on her way through the path leading to the village borehole to fetch water that morning, she realized a sudden feeling of wetness, alerting her that it was that time of the month again.  She soon started thinking of the consequences that

Shifting from solid fuel to modern energy requires affordability and availability

Bringing up her five children alone, according to Esi Araba pushes her to cope and manage with the naked fire and the heat that emanates from the direct solid fuel, despite the attendant health hazards. Araba, within her 30s says she has engaged

Women are hiding their boyfriends online and there’s more than one reason why

Tawana Musvaburi’s 33,000 Instagram followers may feel like they know all about her life – but most don’t know what her partner looks like. There might be subtle signs she has a boyfriend, like the back of a head, or two clinking wine

Ghana’s 2025 Fisheries Reforms: Community efforts bring Volta’s fish back

When the fishing canoes of Adina and neighboring coastal communities began returning to shore in August, the scene resembled a festival.  Nets came in heavy with anchovies, small cod and other small pelagic species a striking contrast to the lean years’ locals had

Attacks on people like me happen every time my country has an election

Fresh trauma arrives with every election season in Tanzania for 42-year-old Mariam Staford. For most, the fiesta-like rallies and songs, along with the campaign messages, signal a chance for people to make their voice heard. But for those with albinism, they bring terror.

Justice without the Kill – Ghana edging towards abolitionism

As the world marks the World Day Against the Death Penalty, the European Union and its member States are resolute in their shared value of justice, human dignity, and the belief in rehabilitation. The day serves as an occasion to applaud Ghana’s progress

The little boy from Nkroful

From a tiny village in the Western part of the Gold Coast emerged a little boy who would grow up into a gaint for African independence and the voice for the oppressed. He personally did not bother about his ethnic roots because he

The return of slave descendants – Through the Door of No Return

In the land formerly called the Gold Coast, European castles lined up the shores like invading aliens. The castles were built as early as the fifteenth century and were used by the Portuguese, Dutch, Danes and British to imprison and ship out slaves