University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Charles Darwin University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Urban green spaces like parks with ...

Global Sisters Report is publishing a special series about how trash is managed in the world and how sisters are helping people affected by landfills. We start this project to mark the one-year ...

Savings from the association in Old Fadama have allowed residents to upgrade their homes from wood to concrete. Photo credit: Shack Dwellers International Salifu leads the chant: “Information!” “Power ...

A slum on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana, received major media attention in 2010 and 2011 when the outside world realized where computers go to die. In an area called Agbogbloshie, impoverished ...

Journal of Population Research, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2017), pp. 165-183 (19 pages) The impact of acculturation on health status has been a subject of debate for over three decades. In this exploratory ...

Seth Asare Okyere previously received funding from the Konosuke Matsushita Memorial (Panasonic) Foundation. He is currently part of a research team based in Japan that receives funding from the Japan ...

Ghana's biggest slum, Old Fadama, popularly referred to as Sodom and Gomorrah, was pulled down by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO). The ...

One Direction meant well when they tweeted about their visit to Ghana as part of their involvement with Comic Relief, a U.K. charity that sponsors Red Nose Day, a telethon that helps provide support ...

Throughout Africa and particularly in Ghana, there are concerns about malaria infection during pregnancy. This study aimed to investigate factors that influence malaria prevention and control ...

An informal trader at Kantamanto market. “Africa is people!” Three words, the central, frustrated and hopeful thesis of Chinua Achebe’s final compilation of essays. As I read his essays, I kept ...