This year’s Vancouver Folk Music Festival puts African women in the spotlight
Charlie Smith
July 16, 2025
Bab L’Bluz, Les Mamans du Congo x Rrobin, and the Zawoose Queens are all led by women.
Tag: Ghana
Detty December started as a Nigerian cultural moment. Now it’s spreading across the continent—and minting money
Staff
July 5, 2025
Locals and diasporic West Africans returning from overseas come together to create Detty December.
Kwame Akoto-Bamfo: the Ghanaian artist using work about slavery to find justice and healing
Staff
June 24, 2025
Akoto-Bamfo established the Nkyinkyim Museum, a non-governmental organization known as the “Ancestor Project”.
Stevie Wonder’s Ghanaian citizenship reflects long-standing links between African Americans and the continent
Staff
June 7, 2024
The global superstar’s desire for African citizenship took root during his tour of the continent in the 1970s.
U.S. Christian right has taken aim at LGBTIQ+ rights, sex education, and abortion in Africa—new book
Staff
May 20, 2024
According to author Haley McEwen, Christian pro-family campaigning in Africa today can be viewed as retooling colonial control mechanisms.
This year’s Vancouver Folk Music Festival puts African women in the spotlight
Charlie Smith
July 16, 2025
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.