Ghana

Last September a striking story stole the headlines of newspapers and media outlets all across Ghana. Samia Nkrumah, the daughter of the nation’s founding father, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, became the first female chairperson of a political party in the country’s

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One morning back in late May, I stumbled up the street to buy my morning paper. I opened the paper to find a headline that read: ‘8,000 Homos In Two Regions: Majority Infected With HIV/AIDS’. I looked up at my

Read the rest of A letter from Ghana – ‘Homos’ and Hysteria: reporting the gay debate in Africa – By Clair MacDougall »