It is all cooked in a single pot with rice and a tomato-based stew plus preferred meat, fish or poultry — very popular in West Africa — and it’s called Jollof rice. The tentacles of Jollof has spread beyond the borders of West Africa into all of Africa and thanks to emigration the star dish has successfully accomplished its global …

This is an attempt by TheAfricanDream.net to find out what people feel about #StopGalamseyNow by talking to Ghanaians in and out of the country. But before that, a little background: in April 2017 Yaw Osafo Marfo; the former Finance Minister of Ghana, who is now a Senior Minister in the Ghana Government (under President Akufo-Addo) granted TheAfricanDream.net an interview at …

Award winning movie Actress, script writer and Producer — Funke Akindele is set to grace the May 2017 special edition of Meets media. Funke Akindele came to limelight after featuring in popular United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) sponsored sitcom; I Need to Know, which ran from 1998 to 2002, she’s gone on to since then win prestigious awards in her …

Mahershala Ali and Viola Davis just capped a landmark year for diversity in the awards race of the Oscars 2017. Both performers took their first Oscar trophies in the supporting categories Sunday, marking the first time since the 2007 ceremony that more than one black actor has won a competitive Academy Award on the same night; Mahershala Ali triumphed for …

Celebrity beauty expert and Bluffa Jo Cosmetics creator, Beauty Maven Maisie Dunbar, once told her social media followers: “God sent me to Ghana for the 2015 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week” and that “Ghana chose her and she chose Ghana.” “I felt like I was home. I hadn’t been to Ghana in 35 years,” Dunbar recently said of her trip to …

The AfroXmas Music Festival will set the west African port city of Tema – located in Ghana – agog when Syphics Studios and MIMLife Records hosts the second edition come December 2016. AfroXmas venue goes back to the Chemu Secondary School Park near the Narh Bita hospital in Tema Community 7 this year. Artists expected to perform are multi-award-winning Mugeez …

A sc­holarship offer to high school scholars in Ghana has been instituted by the outreach arm of ­T­h­r­eads by Dreads known as  Thre­ads by Dreads Foundation. Christiana Afotey, o­w­­­­ner and designer of the fashion brand ­T­h­r­eads by Dreads informed TheAfricanDream.net of this development. In a conversation with TheAfricanDream.net Christiana Afotey said “each scholarship goes towards ­the winning candidate’s tuition costs for any University …

The New Nationalist; a news publication that has set itself on the path to promote national development in Ghana is now in circulation. TheAfricanDream.net discovered that the first edition was published on Wednesday April 13, 2016 in Ghana’s capital city of Accra. New Nationalist is a free news bulletin geared towards promoting development and developmental issues and stories about Ghana. According …

Koby Maxwell officially launched his latest studio album which is titled ‘The Album’ on the night of March 12, 2016, at the Friendship Center in Maryland USA. He was also joined by friends from the entertainment industry to celebrate the 59th independence of his nation Ghana while honoring women of African descent in the American Diaspora. The well-attended event offered …

Laurent Gbagbo, former Ivorian president on January 28, 2016 pleaded not guilty to four charges of crimes against ­humanity as his trial opened five years after post-­election violence ravaged his nation. Mr Gbagbo becomes the first former head of state to stand in the dock at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, in a case that will test the tribunal’s …