Sylvia Wynter’s work offers profound insight into the question of humanness. She questions our received conception of what it means to be human. Wynter argues that our current understanding of who we are is, first, an overrepresentation of an ethnoclass, the Western white bourgeois man. Wynter’s work is aimed at transcending European cognitive frameworks, she unravels how Eurocentric myths have positioned one genre of human as universal and standing in for all others. Continue reading ›
One may argue that James Town has become the expressive hub of Accra over the last five years. Through the annual CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival, artists from multiple disciplines and geographic locations across the world descend on James Town, meet and exchange with Ghana-based artists and audiences to create and exhibit new works.
After the recent Ghanaian elections, CNN published an article that angered a number of Ghanaians. In the piece, Ralph Ellis (reporting from Atlanta) and Stephanie Busari (reporting from Lagos) stated, “Oil reserves were discovered of the coast of Ghana in 2007, but Ghanains struggle to obtain food and day-to-day services. Rolling blackouts are common and citizens often stand in long line to obtain products.” This snippet was immortalized in a screenshot that circulated on social media. Gary Al-Smith, a Ghanaian journalist, started a hashtag #CNNGetItRight. Continue reading ›
Some folks have rightly observed that Ghanaians have become more ‘vocal’; they’re resolute in their demands for governmental accountability. Most have cited social media as the source for this reinvigorated sense of citizenship. Their observations are partly based on the following premise: social media, like Facebook and Twitter are democratic spaces where everyone has the opportunity (access) to express their opinions. Continue reading ›
