In March or April of 1993, fresh from my transfer to London from Atlanta with Turner Broadcasting, I attended a party where a friend pointed out an animated woman dominating a conversation. “That’s ...

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene takes advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to buck a beauty trend. I recently took a major decision about my looks.

In our series of letters from African journalists, writer Elizabeth Ohene considers why bodies are not buried for months, sometimes years, in Ghana. This past week there was another one of those ...

That we are separated by Togo and Benin has never really mattered – we feel like we are neighbours.” – Elizabeth Ohene The ...