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The Weekly Brief · Issue 412
One Sunday email. Everything that moved in Ghana this week — decoded.
Written by a 23-person newsroom in Accra and read by 41,800 decision-makers across 89 countries, the Weekly Brief turns the week's cedi moves, cabinet decisions, cocoa futures, and Accra culture into a single, calm, 12-minute read. No spin. No hot takes. Just the reporting you'd build if you ran the desk yourself.
Anatomy of an issue
What lands in your inbox every Sunday.
Every Weekly Brief follows the same five-section rhythm. We started this format in 2017 and have refined it every quarter since — readers tell us it's the structure they look forward to.
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The Dateline
A two-paragraph editor's note naming the single most important story of the week and why it matters now. Written by the editor on duty, signed.
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Market Monday Recap
A full week of cedi moves, GSE index closes, cocoa and gold futures, and Bank of Ghana policy rates — in one table with our analyst's three-sentence read.
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Field Reporting
Two long-form dispatches (averaging 800 words) from our 14 correspondents across Accra, Kumasi, Tamale, Takoradi and Ho. Original reporting only — no rewrites of wire copy.
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04
Culture & Travel
One curated pick: a new Accra exhibition, a chef's opening, a heritage site reopening, or a weekend route in the Volta Region. Written for someone actually booking the flight.
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05
The Close
Three data points to watch next week, one chart, and the week's most-quoted Ghana stat on Twitter — with a link to the source. No promo. No upsell.
Kwame Asante-Boateng · Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Who writes this
A newsroom built for accuracy, not speed.
GhanaFilla was founded in March 2017 by award-winning Ghanaian-British journalist Kwame Asante-Boateng after a decade at the Financial Times and BBC Africa. The only Ghana-focused outlet to receive a 2023 CNN African Journalist of the Year nomination, the team is now 23 journalists, editors and data analysts — including 14 full-time field correspondents.
Our reporting has been cited by the World Bank, Bloomberg and The Economist in 47 published instances since 2021. The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre lists GhanaFilla as a recommended intelligence source for inbound investors. In 2024 we won the African Digital Media Award for Best Use of Data Journalism — for the Market Monday series that now anchors every Weekly Brief.
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The most disciplined English-language reporting on Ghana's economy. We cite them more than the wires.
— West Africa bureau chief, international news agency
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Listed among the 10 African media outlets doing real reporting.
— Harvard Business Review, 2023
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