Ghanaian rising star, Black Sherif has hit 100 million streams on Africa’s most expansive music streaming and download platform, Boomplay. The “Kwaku the Traveller” hitmaker becomes the first Ghanaian artiste to reach the 100 million streams milestone on Boomplay after having had a phenomenal run since last year. With this feat, Black Sherif joins …
Read More »Election 2024: Bawumia is our ‘golden opportunity’ – Kwamena Duncan to NPP delegates
Former Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan, has endorsed the candidature of Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to lead the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the next elections. The battle for who becomes the flagbearer of the NPP has begun as supporters of Vice President Dr. Bawumia and Trade Minister, Alan …
Read More »Inside the Akwasidae festival that celebrates the Golden Stool brought down from heaven
Over 300 years ago, Okomfo Anokye, the priest or traditional healer of the Ashanti empire, who was then a friend and advisor of Osei Tutu (the Ashanti king at the time), called a meeting of all the heads of each Ashanti clan. The agenda was to unite under one of …
Read More »The story of the golden bed that led to the dismissal of a minister in 1962
A Thursday, April 19, 1962, article in the Daily Graphic had the headline, “Edusei Removed from Office” but it turned out that this was not just a usual case of a government appointee being removed from office by way of a formality. “The appointment of Mr. Krobo Edusei as Minister …
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