The Ghana Story library
Start with the story behind the place.
A growing, source-backed encyclopedia of Ghana told through people, culture, history and the places visitors can still experience today.
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85 stories
- Asante powerThe stool that was never meant to be sat on1 min listen
- ResistanceA governor asked for a seat, and a war followed1 min listen
- The Ghanaian coastThe coast that began with gold and became a global memory1 min listen
- Living heritageKente is a language before it is fashion1 min listen
- MusicHighlife: the soundtrack that became heritage1 min listen
- Ga memoryWhy a people celebrate by laughing at hunger1 min listen
- A global GhanaThe scholar who came to die in Accra1 min listen
- EnterpriseSix shillings, marmalade and a global women’s bank1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsNyame and Asase Yaa: the Sky Father and the Earth Mother1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsThe Old Woman and the Pestle: why the sky moved away2 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsHow Death Came: the goat, the sheep, and the message that arrived wrong1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsTano and Bia: the brothers and the stolen blessing1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsHow the Lesser Gods Came Down1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsWhy the Crab Has No Head1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsWhy the Lizard Nods1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsWhy the Bat Flies at Night1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsWhy the Sea Turtle Beats Its Breast1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsHow the Leopard Got Its Spots — and How the Antelope Kept Its Life1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsWhere the Wild Things Were Kept: how sickness and hardship got loose1 min listen
- Night StoriesHow Ananse Bought the Sky God's Stories2 min listen
- Night StoriesWhy Wisdom Is Scattered Through the World1 min listen
- Night StoriesAnanse and the Pot of Beans, or Why the Spider Is Bald1 min listen
- Night StoriesAnanse and the Talking Skull1 min listen
- Night StoriesAnanse and the Famine: how he came by his wife's grain1 min listen
- Night StoriesAnanse and the Grasshopper's Debt1 min listen
- Kingdoms, Rulers & ResistanceOkomfo Anokye's Sword1 min listen
- Kingdoms, Rulers & ResistanceThe Miracles of Okomfo Anokye1 min listen
- Kingdoms, Rulers & ResistanceThe Hundred Years of the Anglo-Asante Wars1 min listen
- Kingdoms, Rulers & ResistanceWhat a Stool Is1 min listen
- Kingdoms, Rulers & ResistanceThe Queen Mother1 min listen
- Peoples & NationsMawu-Lisa and the Vodun1 min listen
- Peoples & NationsThe Wall at Notsie: how the Ewe walked out backwards2 min listen
- Peoples & NationsNai: the sea that keeps Accra1 min listen
- Peoples & NationsThe Red Hunter and the Founding of Dagbon1 min listen
- Peoples & NationsKonkomba Tales: the python's blotches and the tortoise's shell2 min listen
- Peoples & NationsSavannah Tales from Navrongo: the Singing Calabash, Akansaare's Pact, the Trusting Hyena1 min listen
- Places & LandscapesNzulezu: the village the snail led to the water1 min listen
- Places & LandscapesThe Mountain and the Oracle: Amedzofe and the Volta highlands1 min listen
- Places & LandscapesThe River Takes Its Own: Volta water lore1 min listen
- Work, Trade & OwnershipBegho and the Gold Road1 min listen
- Work, Trade & OwnershipThe Weights: gold, proverbs, and the smallest sculptures in the world1 min listen
- Coast, Trade & MemoryElmina Castle2 min listen
- Coast, Trade & MemoryCape Coast Castle and the Door of No Return2 min listen
- Coast, Trade & MemoryAssin Manso and the Last Bath1 min listen
- Coast, Trade & MemorySalaga and the Inland Market1 min listen
- Places & LandscapesLarabanga and the Mystic Mosque1 min listen
- People, Independence & Pan-AfricanismThe Big Six and the Road to 19572 min listen
- Diaspora & ReturnThe Ones Who Came: Du Bois, Angelou, and Accra in the Sixties2 min listen
- Diaspora & ReturnThe Year of Return2 min listen
- Diaspora & ReturnPANAFEST and Emancipation Day1 min listen
- Living CultureAkwasidae: the kingdom, still running1 min listen
- Living CultureAboakyer: the deer hunt at Winneba1 min listen
- Night StoriesSasabonsam1 min listen
- Night StoriesMmoatia1 min listen
- Night StoriesObayifo1 min listen
- Night StoriesAdze1 min listen
- Night StoriesAsamando: the country of the ancestors2 min listen
- Diaspora & ReturnKwaku Ananse in the Americas1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsWhat Was in the Bag: how sickness, poverty and the wild animals got out2 min listen
- Kingdoms, Rulers & ResistanceOsei Tutu: the hostage who came back2 min listen
- Kingdoms, Rulers & ResistanceUnder the Kum Tree: how Kumasi got its name1 min listen
- Peoples & NationsNdewura Jakpa and the Making of Gonja2 min listen
- Living CultureKundum, and the Hunter Who Watched the Dwarfs Dance1 min listen
- Coast, Trade & MemoryThe Numbers, and What Is Owed2 min listen
- Living CultureDamba: horses, drums, and the Prophet's birthday in a Dagbamba month2 min listen
- Places & LandscapesThe Forest That Was Left Standing1 min listen
- Places & LandscapesThe Crocodile That Carried a Man1 min listen
- Places & LandscapesThe Hunter Who Found a Lake Where No Lake Should Be2 min listen
- Places & LandscapesThe River That Belongs to the Hippos1 min listen
- Places & LandscapesThe Monkeys They Bury1 min listen
- Living CultureThe King Who Lost a War and Gave His Name to a Cloth2 min listen
- Living CultureTwo Men Watched a Spider Work2 min listen
- Living CultureThe Companies2 min listen
- Kingdoms, Rulers & ResistanceThe Constitution That Was Written and Then Was Not Allowed1 min listen
- Coast, Trade & MemoryThe Broker of Anomabo1 min listen
- Diaspora & ReturnThe Boy Who Wrote Back1 min listen
- People, Independence & Pan-AfricanismThe Man Who Preached at the Castle for Fifty Years1 min listen
- Work, Trade & OwnershipSix Pods in a Pocket1 min listen
- Living CultureThe Women Who Paint the Walls1 min listen
- Places & LandscapesThe Hill That Answers1 min listen
- Places & LandscapesThe Fort the Sea Is Taking Back1 min listen
- Living CultureThe Opening of the Lagoon1 min listen
- Living CultureFiring the Guns at Ada1 min listen
- People, Independence & Pan-AfricanismThe Statue With No Head1 min listen
- Living CultureEfua Sutherland and the Spider on the Stage2 min listen