Stigma and growing religious fundamentalism are preventing women from fully accessing a range of reproductive health services.
The absence of war does not necessarily imply peace for women. The binary opposites of war and peace obscure the continuum of violence women experience as a result of patriarchal gender structures.
Evictions in Accra have rendered a vulnerable population homeless and without a source of income. What has happened to the possibility of reconciling development with human rights?
Why is one of the most common gynaecological conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, schistosomiasis, misunderstood, under-researched and under-reported?
Most accounts of Agbogbloshie, the e-waste site in Accra, Ghana, persistently fail to sustain a proper conversation about how it and its counterparts across the global south operate.
New abolitionists often attribute trafficking in certain areas to ‘cultural attitudes’. In doing so, they not only explain away the legacies of European and American colonialism. They also falsely differentiate between exploitation in some ‘bad’ parts of the world and similar practices in their ow
In America and Ghana two men have recently faced the courts for abusing women patients and performing dangerous late-term abortions. These cases reveal the true impact of the lack of comprehensive reproductive health care, and accessible, legal, safe abortions.
There are contentious circumstances surrounding the building of a luxury hotel. These circumstances raise questions about the relation of West African corruption to West African culture. There are several versions of the story.
Some of West Africa's poorest countries observed from the vantage point of a Chinese import motorcycle: State competence cannot be built without the ability to tax; aid agencies' emphasis on bringing down tariff barriers and inward investment by tax-dodging multinationals predictably weakens state
