Colours of Ghana
Using Instagram as a medium, Derrick Boateng sprays his subjects with colours as vibrant as Ghana itself
Curating urban cool
Urban youth culture has always had a strong influence on fashion. Evolving with each generation, embracing local and global politics, usually challenging, always exciting, blink and you’ve missed it, writes Tash Morgan-Etty.
Bukom’s boxing brilliance
Despite being a popular tourist spot, Accra’s historic seaside district of Jamestown is dusty, densely populated, and largely deprived. Yet it has yielded many of Africa’s best boxers, writes Tash Morgan-Etty
A brief history of Ghanaian music
The music of Ghana, for the first time since the 1970s, is again beginning to reach an international audience
Ussher Fort
After years of planning, and two years of development, the Ussher Fort Slave Museum and Documentary Centre has opened in Old Accra. Kweku Addo-Atuah takes a tour
Noldor Residency
The art incubator’s founder chats about its inception, achievements, and exciting plans for its expansion.
The Slum Studio: From fashion waste to wearable art
Multimedia artist Sel Kolfiga examines the charm, colour, chaos, and contradictions of Kantamanto.
This Ghanaian designer is Gucci
Ghanaian fashion illustrator and designer Steve French is going places. And fast. He has worked with Vlisco & Co, Studio 189, and Amsterdam’s International Fashion Week. He’s dressed Deborah Vanessa, Lydia Forson, Efya, and global fashion icon Naomi Campbell. In 2019 French won a coveted Gucci Fellowship and is currently working directly with the preeminent label’s design team. We caught up with him in Rome.
EAT: Mix Design Hub
The ‘Mix’ moniker makes sense. It is described as an ‘architectural manifestation of culture, cuisine and innovative office design’. This four-storey building is located in the hip zone of Osu in the streets around Ako Adjei Park contains co-working spaces, a gallery, an events space and a restaurant.
Jamestown Coffee: Coffee & culture
Jamestown Coffee started life as a coffee roastery, but with the recent opening of a café, ambitions are brewing far beyond an exceptional cup of coffee
ONIPA: Bright future
In teaming up with musician and producer Tom Excell, K.O.G. (Kweku of Ghana) has created one of the most exciting Afro futurist sensations
Waving flags
Patrick Tagoe-Turkson has been reassessing the Asafo flag art, but it’s his work with found items such as upcycled flip-flops and nature art that has garnered attention around the world