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Accra
Bureau · 8 correspondents
Macro & Cedi
Banking & GSE
Parliament
Tech & Fintech
Nightlife & Music
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
Edition №1,847
Cedi ¢15.42 / $
GSE 4,128.66 +0.41%
Cocoa $8,940 / t +1.8%
About the Newsroom · Est. March 2017
An independent English-language briefing on Ghana, written from Accra by journalists who actually live here.
GhanaFilla was founded in March 2017 by the Ghanaian-British journalist Kwame Asante-Boateng with a single brief: report on Ghana — its economy, its culture, its contradictions — with the depth of a printed magazine and the frequency of a daily wire. Eight years on, the brief has not changed. The newsroom is 23 people strong, including 14 field correspondents based in Accra, Kumasi, Tamale, Takoradi and Ho, and we publish on average a 2,400-word piece every working day.
We are read by 182,000 people a month across 89 countries — from diaspora professionals remitting home from London and Atlanta, to fund managers in Nairobi and Lagos pricing Ghana's cedi, to first-time visitors planning a trip to Cape Coast. We are not a blog, not a wire service, not a diaspora lifestyle site. We are a briefing — and you can have it in your inbox every Sunday morning.
The Newsroom · Field Network
Fourteen correspondents, five bureau cities, one country read end-to-end.
Where reporting happens matters. GhanaFilla is one of the few English-language outlets covering Ghana with full-time staff in every regional capital we work from — not stringers dialled in from London.
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Kumasi
Bureau · 2 correspondents
Cocoa & Ashanti Trade
Chieftaincy & Land
Textiles & Kente
KNUST & Higher Ed
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Tamale
Bureau · 2 correspondents
Northern Politics
Agriculture & Shea
Dagbon & Chieftaincy
Islam & Civil Society
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Takoradi
Bureau · 1 correspondent
Oil, Gas & ENI
Port & Shipping
Fishing Economy
Western Region Politics
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Ho
Bureau · 1 correspondent
Volta Region
Tourism & Mt. Afadjato
Cross-border Trade (Togo)
Ewe Heritage
Plus six data analysts at the Accra headquarters and three editors overseeing the Weekly Brief newsletter and the Filla FM podcast.
A note from the founder
Why this publication exists.
— Kwame.
I started GhanaFilla in March 2017 out of a flat in Cantonments, Accra. I had been Africa editor at a London paper that asked me, in my fifth year, whether I'd cover "a Ghana thing" for one of its supplements. I said no, I would only cover Ghana. They declined. So I built a place that would.
Eight years later, the thing I am proudest of is not any single story. It is that we still pay our correspondents a full salary, in cedis, on time — that we have not had a single round of editorial layoffs, and that 95% of the people who joined the newsroom in 2017 are still here. Stability in West African digital media is, in 2025, an unfashionable boast. It is also the only honest basis on which to ask a reader to trust you.
The voice you find in GhanaFilla — curious, grounded, insider — is not a tagline. It is a working agreement the editors enforce every Monday morning. Curious means we ask the second question, the one after the press release ends. Grounded means every claim can be sourced to a document, a person, or a price ticker. Insider means we pick up the phone before we publish.
If you are a Ghanaian in the diaspora trying to understand whether your family's plot of land in Kasoa is still safely in their name — if you are a fund manager pricing the next Ghana cedi Eurobond — if you are a researcher writing a thesis on Dagbon chieftaincy — if you are simply someone who wants to read good, long, careful writing about one small West African country — then this is the place, and the Weekly Brief is the front door.
Kwame Asante-Boateng
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Editorial Standards
How GhanaFilla reports — and where the line is drawn.
Sourcing & fact-checking
Every piece of original reporting names its sources on the record unless the source has a documented safety reason to remain anonymous — in which case the reason is logged in our internal archive, not asserted. Two editors read each piece before publication; the second reader's name appears on the byline strip. Average article length is 2,400 words — roughly 3.6× the regional digital-media benchmark — because we do not publish a sentence we cannot stand behind.
Corrections & transparency
We publish corrections in a permanent, dated log at the foot of every corrected article and in a weekly corrections note in the Sunday Brief. We do not silently edit. If a piece is materially wrong, we say so, and we say when we got it right. The log has been public since January 2018.
Independence & the partisan line
GhanaFilla is not affiliated with the NPP, NDC, or any other political party; nor with the Office of the President, Parliament, or any ministry. We accept no political advertising, no government contracts, and no sponsored editorial. When we report on the governing party, we report with the same pressure we apply to the opposition — without endorsing either side. Our editorials, where we publish them, are signed and confined to the back page of the Brief.
Investment, health & travel — the disclaimers
We report on Ghana's economy and investment climate, but we are not licensed to give financial advice. We cover health and travel but are not a medical or visa service. Where an article implies an investment decision, a medical course, or a visa outcome, the appropriate legal disclaimer is appended at the foot of the page. If a reader is making a major financial, medical or migration decision, we urge them to consult a qualified practitioner licensed in their own jurisdiction — not us.
By the Numbers · Q3 2024
Six figures that define the scale, the stability, and the recognition.
182,000
monthly readers
Unique visitors across 89 countries, verified via Similarweb (Q3 2024).
6,400+
original articles
Long-form reports and briefings published since launch in March 2017.
41,800
newsletter subscribers
The Weekly Brief — delivered every Sunday morning, Accra time.
38%
avg. open rate
Across the Sunday Brief, against an industry benchmark of 21%.
23
staff & correspondents
Journalists, editors and data analysts on the Accra payroll in 2024.
2024
African Digital Media Award
"Best Use of Data Journalism" — for our Market Monday series on the cedi and cocoa.
Figures audited internally Q3 2024. Reported on a "one of the most-read Ghana outlets" basis, not a "largest" claim — there is no independent ranking of Ghana-focused English-language digital publishers as of Q4 2024.
Funding & Independence
Who pays for GhanaFilla.
GhanaFilla is funded by three revenue streams: display and programmatic advertising, a paid tier on the Weekly Brief, and bespoke research briefs commissioned by NGOs and embassies. In 2024, advertising accounted for 58% of revenue, subscriptions for 31%, commissioned research for 11%.
We accept no money from the NPP, the NDC, or any other registered Ghanaian political party. We accept no contracts from the Office of the President, Parliament, or any ministry of state. Sponsored editorial — content paid for by a third party — is labelled with a magenta Sponsored tag at the top of the article and is written to our editorial standards by our own reporters; the funder does not see the draft before publication.
We are a recommended intelligence source for inbound investors via the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC). In 2023, the Harvard Business Review included us in its list of "10 African media outlets doing real reporting." Our work has been cited by the World Bank, Bloomberg, and The Economist in 47 published instances since 2021.
GhanaFilla Media Ltd. is registered in Ghana (Reg. No. CG-0317-2017). Registered office: 12 Independence Avenue, Ridge, Accra, GA-183.
© 2017–2025 GhanaFilla Media Ltd. All original reporting is © its respective author. Reproduction requires written permission.