Ghana

Do trees die and go to heaven? Or do they live on to haunt their human fellers, as a symbol of the environmental handprint that mankind makes wherever he roams? Artist Angela Palmer has filled Trafalgar Square with the jagged stumps of trees cut from …

Jollof Pot’s Albert Mensah-Tandoh speaking about the role food and cooking play in Ghanaian culture. Photography by Chris Osburn To highlight Cadbury Dairy Milk’s move to using Fairtrade cocoa from Ghana exclusively, Cadbury, the Underground Cookery School and Ghanaian catering company, Jollof Pot, threw a …

Image / Tanya N London has had it’s fill of fake nature (faketure?) in recent years: Abbas Kiarostami’s paper forest in the V&A in 2005, the grass verges on the Lyttleton flytower and Trafalgar Square, and the recent installation of Anselm Kiefer’s Palm Sunday at …

Image by dartar from the Londonist Flickr pool Sheepishness is… being made queen of an African tribe while maintaining anti-royalist sentiment. Which is exactly what happened to Liz Busch from Wimbledon who has been made queen of the Ewe tribe in Ghana, as recognition for …

As mentioned in our preview earlier this week, Divine Chocolate is celebrating its 10th anniversary with an exhibition of photographs from their worker co-owned Kuapa Kokoo cocoa farm in Ghana. The free exhibition is now open to the public (but sadly closes on the 9th) …

To celebrate their tenth year anniversary in the Fairtrade chocolate business, Divine Chocolate (co-owned by Kuapa Kokoo, a co-operative of 45,000 cocoa farmers in Ghana) is to host an exhibition of photographs which give insight into the lives of the Kuapa Kokoo farmers and follows …

Our own brave lads might be about to do battle with the mighty French in Paris (insert inappropriate Agincourt reference here), but even though there’s nothing on at Wembley this time around that’s no reason to miss out on some excellent live international footy this …