Students cheers from the stands during the celebrations for Ghana 65th Independence Day on March 6, 2022. The country gained independence on March 6, 1957. The author of this article recalls his boyhood celebrations — which involved uniforms, marching and a free bottle of soda. Nipah Dennis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Speaker of Ghana Parliament Alban Sumana Bagbin speaks at the Parliament House in Accra, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Ghana's parliament passed a highly controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill on Wednesday that could send some people to prison for more than a decade. Misper Apawu/AP hide caption
74-year-old Lenval Skiers at his home in Pan-African Village, in Asebu. Jude Lartey for NPR hide caption
Protests over the cost of living, like this one last November in Accra, have become increasingly frequent in Ghana. Police arrested 49 protesters on Thursday, during fresh demonstrations against the cost of living and the economic crisis gripping the country. Once an African success story, Ghana has become locked in a cycle of economic crisis and IMF bailouts. Ernest Ankomah/Getty Images hide caption
Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame of Ghana is the new chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities — the first African woman in that post. Asked to define disability, she says: "It is not the presence of the impairment, but it is the social and attitudinal barriers that are hindering our performance." Ernest Ankomah for NPR hide caption
A health worker vaccinates a Kenyan child with the world's first malaria vaccine. Kenya has given at least one dose to 300,000 children so far. Brian Ongoro/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
"Small," as he was widely known, played a homemade kologo (a 2-string lute)— with dog tags attached to the end for rattles. Marilena Umuhoza Delli for NPR hide caption
Three of the women who sing about their plight — and their hopes — on the album I've Forgotten Now Who I Used To Be. Their names are withheld to protect their physical safety because they have been accused of witchcraft. Marilena Umuhoza Delli hide caption
Ghana is the first country to receive a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the global COVAX program. Above: The vaccines are unloaded at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra on February 24. Nipah Dennis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
(Left to right) Tippy Tap, Oxfam hand-washing station and SolaWash Sian White, Joel Trotter, Richard Kwarteng hide caption
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (right) joins fellow Democrats from the House and Senate to propose new legislation to end excessive use of force by police. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Shadrack Frimpong accepts his Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award in Louisville on September 12. Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images hide caption
A statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi was installed on the University of Ghana campus in Accra, Ghana, in 2016. The statue has now been removed from its plinth. Christian Thompson/AP hide caption
First lady Melania Trump on her visit to Italy in 2017. This week she is taking her first solo trip as first lady, visiting four African countries over five days. Silvia Lore/NurPhoto/Getty Images hide caption
George Mwinnyaa on his visit to the slave castle at Cape Coast in his homeland of Ghana. The door leads to the cells where captives who were resistant were held prior to being sent over the ocean as slaves. Leslie Mwinnyaa hide caption
It's their nightly ritual: Herman Agbavor sits down with his 5-year-old son, Herbert, to go over his homework. Nana Kofi Acquah for NPR hide caption
Samuel-Richard Bogobley holds a GPS-enabled tablet to capture the location of one corner of an underwater clam "farm" belonging to Kofi Amatey, in pink, in Ghana's Volta River estuary. Tim McDonnell/for NPR hide caption
Owura Kwadwo Hottish illustrates a window of Microsoft Word using colored chalk on a blackboard for his students at the Betenase M/A Junior High School in Kumasi, Ghana. Frimpong Innocent hide caption
Owura Kwadwo Hottish illustrates a window of Microsoft Word using colored chalk on a blackboard. He uses it to teach computer skills to students at the Betenase M/A Junior High School in Kumasi, Ghana. Frimpong Innocent hide caption
A scene from Black Panther. The titular hero, played by Chadwick Boseman, is on the right. Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios/Getty Images hide caption
An operating room in a hospital in Ethiopia. arnitorfason/Getty Images hide caption
A computer-enhanced scan of a brain shows a hemorrhage due to hypertension. Scott Camazine/Science Source hide caption
Queen Elizabeth II dances with Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah at a ball in Accra, Ghana, in 1961. Central Press/Getty Images hide caption