Ghana

Astronomy needs expensive things, and lots of them. You might remember that astronomers almost literally turned the…

Ghana has plenty of water. So why do its people buy plastic pouches from street vendors? Shaun Raviv investigates.

We all know we should recycle our electronics, but we don't really know what happens after we drop them off at the…

In European cultures, we cremate our dead or bury them in a simple pine box. But coffins are a lot fancier in Ghana,…

Everyone loves a good Terminator, particularly those fly-by-night movie studios whose livelihoods come from…

Screw The Hunger Games, I can't wait for the Ghanaian science fiction flick 2016. It's basically Alien, Predator,…

We've previously expressed our love for the hand-painted mobile cinema posters of Ghana, many of which took extreme…

It all started when a passenger on a Ghana-bound United flight out of D.C.'s Dulles Airport decided to recline his…

The Ghanaian carpenter Paa Joe is a master coffin carver. Which sounds sort of boring, until you see his coffins,…

We desperately hope that the computers which we ship to developing countries will be genuinely beneficial to locals,…

In the days when mobile cinemas first came to Ghana, local artists were commissioned to paint posters promoting the…

Some people in Ghana are doing more than just spamming us. Case in point: a kid named Prince Dzuckey of the Takoradi…