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Sold-Out Shows Signal Ghana Comedy’s Commercial Coming of Age
For years, the unspoken rule in Ghana's live entertainment industry was simple: if you wanted a packed auditorium, you booked a Nigerian comedian. Names...
Sarkodie Says Calling Music Not a Business Is Insulting
Ghanaian rap icon Sarkodie has taken aim at what he describes as a dismissive attitude toward music as a profession, arguing that treating the...
Afreximbank Turns African Storytelling Into a Tradable Global Asset
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has published an anthology of short fiction by 19 emerging writers from 16 countries across Africa and the Caribbean,...
KNUST Academic Makes Case for Visual Arts as Driver of Ghana’s Export Economy
A senior academic at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has urged government to treat Ghana's visual arts industry as a strategic...
Bee Arthur: Ghana’s Weavers Can Power the Creative Export Economy
Fashion designer and Ghana Culture Forum (GCF) Fashion Domain Leader Beatrice "Bee" Arthur has called for sustained, structured investment in Ghana's weaving traditions, arguing...
