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.
Browse by story world
Then narrow by lens
14 stories
- The Ghanaian coastThe coast that began with gold and became a global memory1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsNyame and Asase Yaa: the Sky Father and the Earth Mother1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsWhy the Sea Turtle Beats Its Breast1 min listen
- Kingdoms, Rulers & ResistanceThe Hundred Years of the Anglo-Asante Wars1 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
- 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
- Living CultureThe Opening of the Lagoon1 min listen
- Living CultureEfua Sutherland and the Spider on the Stage2 min listen