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standplaatswereld , May 15th, 2016
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…
standplaatswereld , April 14th, 2016
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…
John Postill , January 30th, 2016
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,…
Pauline Destree , October 23rd, 2015
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…
Ryan , September 3rd, 2015
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…
guestauth0r , June 23rd, 2015
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…
Jana Gerold Michelle Engeler , April 16th, 2015
Only recently, debates on global mobility of people consider the movement from economically richer to poorer countries, even though this trend increases from year to year. People do…
Sarah Abel , May 17th, 2014
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…
Sarah Abel , May 2nd, 2014
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…