Mahatma Gandhi’s statue has been removed from the University of Ghana, after claims that the Indian leader was racist. Mahatma Gandhi’s statue which was unveiled in 2016 by India’s former President Pranab Mukherjee, was removed after University of Ghana lecturers started off a petition in which they cited passages written by […]
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Born on April 24, 1827, Ghana’s Kwasi Boakye is the world’s first black engineer. The African-Dutch mining engineer was a prince of the Ashanti Empire and the eldest son of Kwaku Dua II, a king of the Ashanti kingdom. In 1837, along with his cousin Kwame Poku, the prince left […]
A Ghanaian teenager, who taught himself software programming, has designed a predictive analytics model using artificial intelligence to diagnose breast cancer. 19-year old Mustapha Diyanol Haqq from Kumasi, the capital of the country’s Ashanti Region, drew inspiration from “seeing how the big tech companies used innovation to solve some of […]
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About 24 young senior high school girls from Ghana are placing their country on the global map with their innovation that transforms banana and plantain stems into paper bags. The girls, from the Methodist Girls High School in Ghana’s Eastern Region, came up with the idea as an alternative to […]
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Famous for The Steve Harvey Show and his Miss Universe mishap in 2015, American comedian and actor, Steve Harvey, is in Ghana on vacation and for the ‘Year of Return.’ The comedian, alongside his family, will visit some selected tourist sites including castles where slaves were kept. This will expose […]
Alex Korankye, a father of one of the three kidnapped girls in western Ghana has rejected a police forensics investigation into body parts retrieved late last week. According to him, the police could not be trusted over the investigation and that the families were demanding an international probe. he said […]
United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described as a transformative experience the time spent in Ghana’s slave dungeon of coastal city of Cape Coast as part of her official visit to the West African country. Pelosi told lawmakers in an address on Wednesday that visiting the Cape Coast Castle located […]
