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ONE: Ghana -- A Most Excellent Adventure

2012-05-17T17:25:18Z

Seeing the starving kids on television does not prepare you for seeing it up close and personal. Standing outside the door of the in-patient room we were about to enter I took a deep breath to still myself for what may lay on the the other side of the door.

Read more: HIV/AIDS, Ghana, ONE Campaign, Malnutrition, GAVI Alliance, ONE Moms, One Ghana Trip, ONE Ghana, Global Maternal Health, Global Children's Health, Maternal Health, Global Motherhood, Impact News

Ben Barber: Burning Old Computers Threatens Ghana's Health

2012-05-17T09:47:19Z

Not far from the heart of one of Africa's biggest cities, Accra, Ghana, black clouds of toxic smoke rise from an outdoor recycling operation that is converting America's used computers into copper, gold and other useful materials.

Read more: Toxic Chemicals, Recycling, Arsenic, Computers, Ghana, Pollution, Chromium, Agbogbloshie Market, Accra, E-Waste, Green News

Susan M. Blaustein: Mother's Day Challenges for Us All

2012-05-11T09:20:35Z

It will take a world -- a world of mothers, most likely -- rich ones, poor ones, all of them empowered, all speaking the truth -- to raise a universe of daughters and sons who know to treat each other with care and with respect.

Read more: Mother's Day, Mother's Day 2012, African Women, Women's Rights, HIV/AIDS, Kenya, Ghana, Women's Health, Millennium Cities Initiative, Global Motherhood, Maternal Health, Impact News

Katherine Marshall: Bishops And Extractive Industries: A Human Face Of Mining

2012-05-02T12:21:11Z

The potential coalition of leaders from different world regions and different religious traditions could do wonders for the extractive industry cause. They offer a special promise.

Read more: Extractive-Industries, Drc, Guatemala, Nigeria, Ghana, Extractive-Industries-Transparency-Initiative, Interfaith, Religion News

Atim Oton: American Design Students Service Learning with Kofi Boone in Ghana

2012-05-02T08:44:35Z

As a designer and educator who grew up in Nigeria, got educated in the US and the UK, I have valued the global experiences I have had. Design is a global practice and social design is a path that designers should engage in. It is our responsibility to make design relevant.

Read more: Global Mamas, Kofi Boone, Ghana, North Carolina State University School of Design, Bv-Fashion-and-Beauty, Fashion & Beauty, Black Voices News

Valerie Berset-Price: 'Borders Frequented by Trade Seldom Need Soldiers'

2012-05-01T18:34:16Z

It is true that when it comes to international business and cultural intelligence, I specialize in pointing out what our nation does wrong. Today, though, we will take a ride on the positive side of things because I was fed a lot of hope last week.

Read more: Thunderbird School of Global Management, Solar Energy, Oath of Ethics, U.S Commercial Services, Ghana, Zambia, Wind Energy, Africa, International Business, Cultural Intelligence, Nigeria, Border Patrol, Business News

Amy Graff: A Place in Ghana That's Nourishing Kids Back to Life

2012-04-27T20:44:14Z

Princess Marie Louise Hospital is an 86-year-old institution that specifically treats malnourished children and what I saw on my visit with the ONE Campaign today was astonishing.

Read more: Global Motherhood, Hunger, Charity, Africa, Ghana, Motherhood, Malnutrition, Malnourished Children, Hunger Charities, African Children, Global Financial Crisis, Impact News

Jeannine Jennings: Nurturing Entrepreneurs in Africa

2012-04-30T07:00:14Z

Entrepreneurship in Africa is on the rise. Savvy African small and midsize businesses are taking advantage of the worldwide social media explosion to drive growth.

Read more: Africa, Smarter Ideas, Jeannine Jennings, Ibm-Midmarket, Startups, Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Ghana, Information Technology, Bloovue, Dropifi, Motribe, Seda, Bblog-ibm20, Technology News

Kwei Quartey: Ghanaian Oil: Only for the 1 Percent?

2012-04-26T16:57:33Z

As Ghana feels its way along the path of oil production, a mood of fear and suspicion pervades a broad cross section of the Ghanaian citizenry that the deck is stacked against them.

Read more: Ghana, Occupy, Oil Industry, World News

David Weiss: Ghana -- the Gateway to Africa

2012-04-26T14:08:18Z

The Ghanaian people are rightly optimistic about their future, and that optimism can be felt throughout all levels of the country and its communities. It is a country on the move and a place to watch in the future.

Read more: Ghana, Economic Growth, Water and Sanitation, Emerging Markets, Ghana Development, World News

Dr. Orin Levine: Global Motherhood: Perils And Promise In Ghana

2012-04-26T14:05:45Z

In the United States, we can practically start planning our kids' birthdays from the day they come home from the hospital; deaths in childhood are quite rare. In Ghana, though, you can't take a child's fifth birthday for granted.

Read more: Child Mortality, Ghana Children, Pneumonia, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Diarrhea, Africa, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Ghana, Global Motherhood, Immunization, Infant Mortality, Parents, Ivac, Vaccines, Home News

Katharine McPhee: World Malaria Day: The Faces Behind The Numbers

2012-04-25T09:06:41Z

I recently went on a trip to multiple locations in Africa, where I learned that although I can't save the world, I can help save one life.

Read more: Usaid, President's Malaria Initiative, Burkina Faso, Malaria No More, Africa, Slidepollajax, Ghana, Malaria, Katharine McPhee, World Malaria Day, Smash, Impact News

Iginio Gagliardone: Are We Getting China-Africa Media Relations Wrong?

2012-04-23T15:22:23Z

While it is evident how China has been developing a distinctive domestic approach to the Internet and the role of media in society more generally, whether and how the ideas informing this approach are spreading is far less clear.

Read more: Ghana, Internet, Ethiopia, Censorship, Africa, Internet Censorship, China-Africa Relationship, Chinese Internet, Media Censorship, Chinese Censorship, World News

Aloe Blacc: My Journey Of Discovery In Ghana With Malaria No More UK

2012-04-19T19:00:00Z

Until a few weeks ago the thought of getting malaria had never crossed my mind as I'm fortunate to live in a US city where malaria is not a problem. Even when I travel to tropical areas like my parents' home country of Panama where mosquitoes eat me alive, I'm not worried as malaria is no longer present in that part of the country. This is a stark contrast to my recent trip with Malaria No More UK to Ghana, West Africa, where malaria affects the entire population of 24 million people and is a leading cause of death amongst young children. The charity has released a short film today about my trip - I went to learn as much as I could about malaria and the work happening to make sure every home in the country has a mosquito net by the end of this year.

Read more: UK Impact, Malaria No More, Ghana, Malaria, Aloe Blacc Malaria No More, Malaria Ghana, West Africa, Global Motherhood, Mosquitoes, Aloe Blacc, Home News

Dr David McNair: Cuts To Global Aid Are Unjustified - Even In The Current Climate

2012-04-04T19:00:00Z

New figures from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) show that global aid fell in 2011 for the first time in 14 years. The cut of nearly 3% will impede progress in reducing poverty and cost children's lives.

Read more: Overseas Aid, Poverty, UK Impact, Children, Africa, UK Politics, Ghana, Global Motherhood, Global Aid, Save the Children, Immunisation, Impact, Home News

Kwei Quartey: Oil Over Troubled Waters

2012-03-23T15:27:52Z

There is a multi-directional tug of war in Ghana's petroleum industry among the Ghanaian government, the multinational oil companies, the citizens of the country, and the environment.

Read more: Oil, Ghana, Jubilee Field, World News

Surprising Zambia To Face Ivory Coast In African Cup Of Nations Final

2012-02-08T13:40:09Z

BATA, Equatorial Guinea (AP) — Zambia reached the African Cup of Nations final for the first time since 1994, upsetting Ghana 1-0 Wednesday night to...

Read more: Zambia Soccer, Zambia, Soccer, Ghana, Ghana Soccer, Emmanuel Mayuka, African Cup of Nations, Black Stars, Ap, Sports News

Kwei Quartey: Occupy Nigeria

2012-01-23T18:51:52Z

Nigerians took their cue from the Arab spring and Occupy Wall Street, establishing Occupy Nigeria in protest against the gas price jump.

Read more: Corruption, Ghana, Occupy Nigeria, Nigeria, Fuel Prices, Occupy Movement, Nigeria Protests Subsidy Cut, Nigeria Protests, Oil Nigeria, Oil, Nigeria Oil, World News

Karen Curley: Sanitation in Ghana: A Disaster or a Challenge?

2012-01-18T11:52:32Z

Accra is the capital of Ghana and is a modern city, yet there is garbage all over. There are many reasons for this.

Read more: Malaria, Ghana, Cholera, Garbage, Disease, Sanitation, Slidepollajax, World News

J. Branson: You Never Know Who Will You Be Faced With Meeting

2012-01-08T19:01:30Z

You never know whom you are going to meet, but you should know who you are when you meet them.

After a day of reflection in Accra questioning whether...

Read more: Bono, Kofi Annan, One, Ghana, Of Rags, Usaid, Accra, Impact News

Vogue Editor Mentors African Designers

2012-01-05T12:25:40Z

When Franca Sozzani, editor of Vogue Italia, visited the Huffington Post offices last month she revealed that her proudest professional moment was pub...

Read more: Franca Sozzani Africa Trip, VOGUE Italia, Italian Vogue, African Fashion, Ghana, Hair-Beauty, Franca Sozzani Vogue Italia, Black Issue, Franca Sozzani, Black Voices News

Liz Ricketts: Educated Expectations Ask

2011-12-20T15:52:12Z

Questions are the currency of students. That isn't new. What is new is the expectation students have that they can locate answers online in Google tim...

Read more: Sidwell Friends, Ghana, Fashion, Of Rags, Of Rags Clothing, Ghana of Rags, Circle Connection Program, Video, Impact News

Kwei Quartey: Food of the Gods

2011-12-06T15:31:36Z

Sub-Saharan Africa produces 70-74 percent of the world's cocoa beans. Should anything wipe out the cocoa crop from either of these producer nations, there is no other country that could quickly take up the slack.

Read more: Fair Trade, Foreign Policy in Focus, Kraft, Child Labor, Ghana Cocoa Board, Cadbury, Labor Rights, Theobrama, Africa, Ghana, Hershey's, Cocoa, Ghana Cocoa Labor, Impact News

Mark Canavera: Not in our name: African human rights activists reject UK aid conditionality

2011-11-29T15:45:50Z

An oft-told African proverb (whose precise culture of origin often changes with the teller) asserts that "When elephants fight, the grass suffers." Pu...

Read more: Uganda Gay Rights, Foreign Aid, LGBT Issues, Zanzibar Gay Rights, United Kingdom, Homosexual Rights, World News, Zanzibar, LGBT Politics, UK Government, Anti-Homosexuality Bill, African Activists, Africa, Tanzania, LGBT Equality, Malawi, Social Change, Social Action, Ghana, Gay Activism, Social Activism, Lgbt, Homosexuality, Africa Lgbt, Human Rights, Aid Conditionality, Malawi Gay Rights, Africa Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Uganda, Tanzania Gay Rights, Humanitarian Assistance, Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill, Ghana Gays, World News

WATCH: Most Bizarre Trailer Ever?

2011-11-15T09:25:24Z

We'll admit that we're not totally up to date on our Ghanaian cinema, but there's no way that "2016" isn't winning movie of the year.

It has every...

Read more: Ghana, 2016, Video, Urlesque, Ghana 2016 Movie Trailer, Movie Trailers, Funny Videos, 2016 Ghana Movie Trailer, Comedy News