Ghana

Kwame Nkrumah’s ideological successors win Ghana’s elections

December 12, 2024 By Dennis Laumann

The left-wing National Democratic Congress scored a massive win, sending John Mahama back to the presidency.

Alphaeus Hunton: A life devoted to equality, liberation, and internationalism

February 26, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky

As an architect of the early struggle for African-American equality and Black liberation in Africa, Hunton was committed to exposing the links between Jim Crow and imperialism.

Demand for inquiry into France’s role in assassination of African leader

February 26, 2013 By Emile Schepers

On Feb. 13, a member of the French Chamber of Deputies tabled a motion to begin a parliamentary investigation of the assassination of Captain Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso, in 1987.

Romney’s hedge fund pals hoping to shape foreign policy

October 26, 2012 By Emile Schepers

The seizure in the Ghanaian port of Tema of an Argentine ship may serve as a warning of Mitt Romney's entanglement with sleazy "vulture fund capitalists."

Today in labor history: W.E.B. Du Bois dies in Ghana

August 27, 2012 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1963 on the eve of the historic March on Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois died in Ghana.