In April, Ghanaian artist Bright Tetteh Ackwerh published a cartoon on his Facebook page titled, “We Dey Beg,” or “We are begging,” in honor of a recent campaign against illegal gold mining supported by Chinese companies, which has polluted local rivers. In...
When the machines arrived last winter, the villagers in Zamashegu were mesmerized. Then came the gambling. “For me what China is doing here is economic colonialism,” said Esther Armah, a prominent radio host and lecturer at Webster University in...
