Author name: Sadiq

Tourism

Cape Coast: A Five-Year Reckoning

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The Year of Return brought a wave of visitors to Cape Coast that the city had never seen before. Hotels filled, tours sold out, and the castles became sites of pilgrimage for a global Black diaspora reconnecting with origin. Five years on, the picture is more complicated. The economic uplift is real but uneven. The emotional weight on local guides — many of whom retell histories of enslavement multiple times a day — is rarely discussed. This is a story about what tourism can and cannot do. About how a city holds the memory of one of history’s gravest crimes while also trying to build a future for the people who live there now.

Business

Why Waakye Matters: A National Love Letter

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Ask a Ghanaian where to find the best waakye and you will start an argument that may last a lifetime. Jamestown? Tema Station? A specific auntie in Kumasi who only sells until 11am? What makes waakye remarkable is not the recipe, beans, rice, leaves, time, but what it carries. It is one of the few foods that crosses every line in the country: north and south, rich and poor, old and young. This essay is part travelogue, part love letter — a celebration of a dish that quietly does the cultural work most national symbols only pretend to.

Culture, Entertainment, Tourism

Inside the African Cinema Boom

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African cinema is in the middle of a structural shift. Production budgets are climbing, streaming platforms are commissioning original series, and a generation of directors is being given resources their predecessors could only dream of. But the boom is uneven. Distribution remains a bottleneck. Talent retention is a constant fight against Hollywood and London. And the question of who actually owns African stories, and the IP they generate, has never been more urgent. We break down the business of the boom: who is winning, who is being left out, and what the next five years could look like.

Entertainment

Letters from Lanham: a Ghanaian-American story

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Lanham, Maryland is not the kind of place that makes the news. But for a generation of Ghanaian-Americans, it is a small, specific home, a place where jollof and crab cakes share the same fridge. This essay is a meditation on diaspora, on the particular grief and joy of being from two places at once, and on what we owe to both.

Waakye food
Culture, Diaspora, Tourism

The Road to Paga: An Unexpected Journey

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The road north from Accra is long, and most travellers never take it past Kumasi. That is a mistake. Paga, on the border with Burkina Faso, is famous for its sacred crocodile ponds. But the real story of the journey is everything in between, the towns, the food, the languages, the landscapes that shift as you climb the country. This is a travel essay for anyone who believes the best stories are the ones you find when you keep going.

Agriculture, Diaspora

Cocoa, Climate and Ghana’s Farmers

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Ghana is the world’s second-largest cocoa producer, and that fact shapes everything from foreign exchange policy to the price of a chocolate bar in Berlin. But on the farms themselves, the story is harder. Heat stress, irregular rainfall and aging trees are pushing yields down. Younger generations are leaving for the cities. The economics no longer add up the way they used to. We travelled through the Western and Ashanti regions to meet the farmers, cooperatives and agronomists trying to build a more resilient future for a crop that built modern Ghana.

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