The Ghanaian government announced the new mandate on Friday, Oct. 24. The first attempt in the early 2000s failed.

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The debate about allowing high-school female students to keep long hair has re-emerged in Ghana. The immediate catalyst was a ...

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Northerners refuse to be classified as second-class citizens . We have come of age and demand recognition mdash; not as ...

In Ghana, our secondary schools have long been celebrated as spaces for learning, discipline, and the moulding of character. A recent statement by Education Minister Hon Haruna Iddrisu, boldly ...

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The issue of hair policies in Ghana’s public high schools has once again attracted national attention. The Minister of ...

If William E. Cross Jr’s Nigrescence Theory helps us understand why the crisis of identity exists among youth of African ...