The Bank of Ghana held the policy rate at 27% on Friday, but the forward markets are pricing something very different from the official line. Our Accra desk reads between the numbers — and asks what the cocoa windfall really buys.
Read the briefingA chronological stream readers return to daily — business, culture, travel, and data, without the noise of a homepage feed.
A six-month review of clearance times suggests the 14-day average target is holding, though importers of refrigerated goods tell a different story at the gate.
Inside the rehearsal rooms where Nana Tabi and the Otumfo ensemble are rebuilding the drum's role for a diaspora audience that wants the real thing, not the playlist version.
No resorts, no zip-lines — just the country's oldest mosque, the country's largest park, and the ecotourism cooperatives that want the visitors but not the influencer entourage.
Our weekly Market Monday series unpacks the correlation, why it probably doesn't last, and which three sectors are quietly net long on the back of it.
A dateline-style snapshot of the four indicators our desk tracks every Friday — drawn from the Market Monday series we have published weekly since 2019.
Source: Bank of Ghana, Ghana Stock Exchange, ICE Futures Europe · GhanaFilla Data Desk, 8 Nov 2024, 14:00 GMT.
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GhanaFilla began in March 2017 with one conviction: that the country our readers most want to understand deserves reporting measured in minutes spent on the ground, not minutes spent on a press release.
What you are reading now is the Briefing — our daily edition. The average article you find here runs 2,400 words, roughly 3.6 times the length of what passes for coverage elsewhere on the continent. It is filed by our 14 full-time correspondents in Accra, Kumasi, Tamale, Takoradi, and Ho, and then read by a second editor before it reaches you.
We do not chase the news cycle, and we do not amplify it. Where the broadcast stations get the headline, our job is to give you the next two paragraphs beneath it — the ones that explain why it matters for your portfolio, your diaspora remittance, your next trip, or your sense of what the country actually became this week.
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Editor-in-Chief, Accra · November 2024
Ghanaian music, food, and identity — read at length, filed from the field.
How a five-piece acoustic revival in Koforidua is selling out venues from Accra to Amsterdam without a single feature track.
Three cooks in London, Toronto, and Atlanta on what they had to invent when their mothers' recipes hit foreign kitchens — and what they brought home.
Twelve Ghanaians who came home from Washington, Lagos, and London between 2014 and 2019 — and the very different Ghana they are now raising children in.
Independent figures from Similarweb (Q3 2024), our newsletter platform, and the publicly stated citation records of the World Bank, Bloomberg, and The Economist.
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