Accra, Ghana 2006. Image credit: Jonathan Ernst via World Bank Flickr (CC)

What is the Dangbe word for chameleon?

In an essay for Africa is a Country, I write about language preferences in Ghana and the stigmatisation of indigenous languages.

Illustration by serina.kitazono

Navigating Cape Town as a Ghanaian woman travelling solo.

I examine the intersections between race and gender during travel in an essay for gal-dem magazine.

Image credit: Accra dot alt

The Woman’s Buttocks and the Helpless Man – Reading Medikal’s lyric, “aboa, wo to nono”

For Aha Review, I examine the hypersexualized narratives of women in Ghanaian music especially hip-hop. 

Mapping Dar es Salaam through Poetry

For Habari Magazine, I examine the rise of spoken word poetry in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.