#ghana — Public Fediverse posts

Big-eyed Krokosua Squeaking #Frogs 🐸 make a shrieking sound 🔊 when frightened. They’re critically #endangered in #Ghana #WestAfrica due to #palmoil #deforestation. Help them survive #herpetology #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔☠️⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/15/krokosua-squeaking-frog-arthroleptis-krokosua/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Burger Highlife

https://amf.didiermary.fr/burger-highlife/

The first ever compilations focussing on the phenomenon of “Burger Highlife”, a crossover of West African melodies with synthesizers, disco and boogie that took over Ghanaian airwaves during the 1980’s and beyond.

The 1970s had witnessed an increased Western airtime and physical presence in Ghana introducing funk, soul and disco sounds [...]

#80smusic #90smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #Disco #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic

Dr. K. Gyasi’s Noble Kings – The Highlife Boss

https://amf.didiermary.fr/dr-gyasi-noble-kings-highlife-boss/

Highlife album released in 1975 on the Essiebons label, by Dr. K. Gyasi & his Noble Kings. Probably one of the best recorded Highlife there is from this period of time in Ghana. With Lead Vocals by Thomas Frimpong.

Thomas Frimpong (sometimes Frempong) was one of the most respected Highlife musicians Ghana has ever […]

#70smusic #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic

Essiebons Special 73-84

https://amf.didiermary.fr/essiebons-special-73-84/

In Ghana, few labels are as influential as Essiebons, the “Ghana Music Power House.” Founded by the producer and businessman Dick Essilfie-Bondzie, its catalog features sterling work from number of modern highlife legends.

For most of the 1970s Essilfie-Bondzie’s Dix and Essiebons labels were synonymous with the best in modern highlife, and his [...]

#70smusic #80smusic #Compilation #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic

#TheBlackArchives: "Deze zomer dreef er massaal dode vis in de Saramaccarivier. Het water is voor de dorpen langs de oever drinkwater, voedsel en inkomen tegelijk. Het onderzoek wijst naar een lek bij een goudwinningslocatie op een concessie van het Surinaamse staatsmijnbouwbedrijf Grassalco. Weer een rivier, weer een gemeenschap die de rekening betaalt voor grondstoffen waar ze zelf amper iets aan overhoudt.

Milieuonderzoeker #ErlanSleur strijdt al bijna twintig jaar tegen de vervuiling door goudwinning in #Suriname. Hij neemt zelf watermonsters, vliegt met drones over illegale mijnen en legt tijdens dit gesprek uit hoe het systeem in elkaar steekt: van de vergunning op papier tot het cyanide in de rivier. Naast hem schuiven milieuactivist Norris Bannafoo (Vereniging Saamaka Gemeenschappen) en Stanley Hubert Liauw-Angie (Organisatie van Inheemsen in Suriname, OIS) aan. Zij vertellen wat het betekent om te leven op de grond waar dit gebeurt. Het gesprek wordt gemodereerd door jorunalist Phaedra Haringsma, #MitchellEsajas van The Black Archives geeft een introductie.

Dit gesprek hoort bij de tentoonstelling Echoes of In*dependence, over de bevrijdingsbewegingen van #Suriname, #Congo, #Ghana en #Kaapverdië. De vlag veranderde in al deze landen, maar de winning van grondstoffen ging door: goud in Suriname en Ghana, coltan in Congo. Wat wél veranderde, is wie er nu aan meeverdient. Vanavond leggen we die lijn van 1975 naar nu, en onderzoeken we wat er vanuit Nederland te doen valt."

Online, YouTube, Facebook.

27.08.26
7.30pm-9pm (NL)
2.30PM-4PM (SR)

Aanmelden op: https://www.theblackarchives.nl/goudonline.html

TOEVOEGING:

Op 28 augustus organiseren betrokken en bezorgde Surinamers in de diaspora een protestactie waarbij een petitie overhandigd zal worden aan de ambassadeur van Suriname in Den Haag. Check deze link voor meer informatie: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db8e3JgItVd/?igsi=Mm12Z2dhenkyeTY0

Buari - Ku Ka Maria (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYOUNFFMPf0

Former athlete (silver & bronze medalist) who studied music in USA mid-60s.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/157218-Buari
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidiku_Buari

#Ghana #70sMusic

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/wednesday-august-19-2026/

RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/117114900136753044

#Ghana appeals to #Russia to end "illegal recruitment" of its citizens for Moscow's invasion of #Ukraine

Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa: 62 Ghanaians have been killed and 15 missing

#UkraineWar

Roloway #Monkeys of #IvoryCoast, #Ghana are encircled by #palmoil, #mining and #poaching threats. Critically endangered, they’re the cute #primate you have never heard of 🙉 Fight back and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴💩🔥👎 #Boycott4Wildlife! @palmoildetectives https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/15/roloway-monkey-cercopithecus-roloway/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#Ghana said #russia promised to end “illegal recruitment” from the West #African nation to fight for #moscow in #Ukraine

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-17/ghana-and-russia-seek-to-end-illegal-recruitment-of-mercenaries

How slavery reparations could help make yearning to return to Africa a reality
By Natricia Duncan in Kingston

Right for people of African descent to return to continent is key pillar of global push for reparatory justice from colonisers

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/18/how-slavery-reparations-could-make-yearning-return-africa-reality

#Reparationsandreparativejustice #Jamaica #Ghana #Africa #Americas #Caribbean #Worldnews #TheGuardian #NatriciaDuncaninKingston

Illegal mining threatens Ghana’s first marine protected area https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/illegal-mining-threatens-ghanas-first-marine-protected-area/

#Ghana #marine #environment #mining

Slavery reparations: Why Ghana is leading the demand for compensation
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0j2r15dr1o

"He also wants individual institutions that benefited from the slave trade to be held accountable and pay compensation. Among these is the Church of England.

In the 18th Century, the Church's missionary wing ran plantations and owned hundreds of slaves, which helped fund its work across the Americas and beyond."

#Colonialism #Slavery #Reparations #Ghana

Die Spielerinnen Ghanas fordern ausstehende Prämienzahlungen. Auch andere Teams sind im Rahmen des Afrika-Cups 2026 im Konflikt mit Verbänden oder Sportministerien.

Der Kontinentalverband CAF gab kurz vor dem Turnier bekannt, dass das Preisgeld für den Titelgewinn auf 2 Millionen US-Dollar (ca. 1,7 Millionen Euro) erhöht wurde. Ob und wie viel von dem Geld tatsächlich bei den Spielerinnen […]

NATO fighters shoot down drone in north-east Latvia

Allied fighter jets have shot down a drone that entered Latvian airspace in Balvi region, in the north-east of the country, the National Armed Forces (NBS) said in the early hours of Friday, August 14th.

https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/14.08.2026-nato-fighters-shoot-down-drone-in-north-east-latvia.a658766/?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=links

#Ghana #News #NorthEast #GhanaNews #LatviaNews #Latvia

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Who else gets paid last for being patient?
#Ghana #Cocoa #Chocolate #EUDR #Deforestation #ClimateJustice #FoodSovereignty #WestAfrica #Agriculture #News #Journalism #Solidarity
The full piece → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/firesale-everything-blanche-must-go-also-the-uss-lincoln-is-an-awolfest?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Gold, which is driving the deforestation, faces no equivalent check.
So a man can do everything right for five years — plant, shade, weed, wait, refuse the mining money — and get paid less this year than last, while the pit at his fence line pays cash on Tuesday. That isn't a market failure. Somebody signed.
Ghana, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon just signed the Abuja Declaration to stop exporting raw beans and bargain as one bloc. First thing in this mess with teeth in it. #Ghana #Cocoa
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A bag of Ghanaian cocoa that once sold for GH¢3,625 now brings GH¢2,587 — about US$220, down from US$308. Meanwhile nearly 9,000 hectares of legally protected forest reserve have gone into illegal gold pits.
Brussels built a rule that demands GPS coordinates from a smallholder with patchy internet, exempted the actual bulldozer, delayed its own deadline twice, and calls that environmental policy. Cocoa is monitored for deforestation. #Ghana #Cocoa #Chocolate #EUDR #Deforestation
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News: #Palmoil workers in #Colombia, #Ghana, and #Indonesia exposed to hazardous #pesticides, including EU-banned #paraquat. Lack of protective gear poor safety puts lives and #health at risk. #HumanRights #Boycottpalmoil @palmoildetectives https://wp.me/pcFhgU-bHT?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer