Delali is a freelance journalist, researcher, and photographer based in Ghana. He has written on governance, health, education, the environment, the cocoa value chain, and film. Delali has produced work for The Continent, SWI Swissinfo, Africa is a Country, Equal Times, ADP Rethink Quarterly, UNESCO, Ubuntu Times and Omni Media. He has also carried out research work for organizations like UNESCO and the Africa Digital Rights Hub. Services offered include proofreading, blog post writing, photography, copy editing and field interviews.
Children learn to read and write more easily if they are first taught in their mother tongue. In Ghana, as in many African countries, that’s easier said than done.
African kids deserve to get into advanced sciences like astronomy or robotics, but official curricula often fail to teach even the basics and extra-curricular Stem champions need deep pockets to close the gaps.
Parts of the small community of Joma, near Ablekuma in the Greater Accra Region, present a portrait of a society on the fringes. This community has its peculiar fears. A number of them live within the buffer zone of a quarry. This means they are at the mercy of flying rocks when the quarry carries out its rock blasts.
A still from the 2018 Aferneto festival of the Mepe people in the Volta Region. Some of the totems convey a legacy of aggression.
A still from the 2018 Aferneto festival of the Mepe people in the Volta Region. A sub-chief of the Mepe war clan soaks in the appellations under gloomy skies as he is carried through the town.
A still from the 2018 Aferneto festival of the Mepe people in the Volta Region. A priestess appears to fall into a trance during the procession as she carries a totem.
A still from the 2018 Aferneto festival of the Mepe people in the Volta Region. A clan in the community hurls adulations towards its sub-chief.
Accra, Ghana • Social • 01 May 2024
About 1 million of Ghana’s 30 million population has a physical challenge. Many of such people have been left with the most difficult option possible when it comes to navigating the increasingly more congested urban centres. Sidewalks are cluttered with hawkers in some parts or poorly maintained... Read more