Browsing: Ghana

O’koko landed on my Instagram ‘For You’ page posing amongst the heaps and mounds that were the Ghanaian landfill in clothing that I assumed he had created himself: tote bags constructed of many discarded bags, jackets covered in a patchwork of pieces of discarded shoes, and sneakers combined to form shoulder bags, for example. Moving…

Ghana may have one of the most valuable and least systematically exploited tourism marketing assets in the world: people with enormous global audiences voluntarily choosing to associate themselves with Ghana. This is not the usual celebrity endorsement where a destination pays a famous person to appear in an advertisement, pose beside a hotel or read…

In December 1978, China it shifted from a communist, isolated society to an open-market-driven state, and in 2001 became a member of the WTO to join globalisation. Under various communist leaders, each had their own masterplan to bring China to the top in world economics and as a powerhouse to be reckoned with. The visions…