The reality of race: fieldwork experiences from Ghana
Millicent, one of the staff members of the hostel where I stayed, and I. By Marije Maliepaard Recently my Colombian friend and I were talking about being white in a country like…
Millicent, one of the staff members of the hostel where I stayed, and I. By Marije Maliepaard Recently my Colombian friend and I were talking about being white in a country like…
Door: Tessa Gruijs During my three months of fieldwork in Ghana for my Master’s research, together with a local NGO I tried to figure out how (future) primary…
Here is another set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.) forthcoming,…
Sipping my morning coffee in the corrosive speech of Bernard Avle, the radio host of Accra’s Citi FM Breakfast Show – a deliciously satirical commentary on salient socio-economic issues…
The next installment for the anthropologies issue on climate change comes from Douglas La Rose. La Rose is the regional coordinator for the Agency for Technical Cooperation and…
By Josh Lepawsky & Grace Akese On 20 June 2015 Ghanaian authorities, including military personnel, entered the infamous Old Fadama/Agbogbloshie site in Accra and began violently dispersing the…
Ghana began on the plane. It was 1am on my connection from Casablanca to Accra, and I was sitting next to a sleepy-eyed toddler and his mother, who…
To listen again to my discussion with Bernice Bennett about my current study on the social impact of DNA ancestry testing in the Americas, as well as related research into the…