Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana—when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor—in this penetrating

Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, you

An analysis of the trickster spider character from West African folklore, performance, and Ghanian politics. The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a decepti

As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic

Independent Africa explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of independence through the joint projects of nation-building, economic dev