Post Tagged with: "Ghana"

What We Are Reading: Prose In Different Area Codes

by / on August 11, 2010, 12:34 am

PROSE: Salman Rushdie brings heavy guns against George Orwell and Hollywood in Outside the Whale. Chris Abani’s book is pulled off Florida’s summer reading list because of racy content. Read excerpts from Mark Twain’s autobiography, as well as Abdul Adan’s review of African Roar. Then Binyavanga Wainnaina writes a sequel to his famous viral piece, “How To Write About Africa.” Ngozi Achebe is Chinua [...]

Read more ›
Obama’s face of Africa that is too often overlooked.

Obama’s face of Africa that is too often overlooked.

by / on July 26, 2009, 10:08 am

The message, In 1985, around 85,000 people visited the tropical country; that number has now skyrocketed to around 600,000. In June of this year, the Ghana Tourist Board launched a promotional initiative with the aim of attracting 1 million annual visitors by the end of 2012.

Read more ›