Nation Topics - Ghana | The Nation

An investigation by TomDispatch reveals the outlines of a secretive training program in the Middle East that is funded by Pentagon, and wholly at odds with Washington’s professed aims of supporting democratic reform.

Her name was Global South. His name was Washington Consensus. But his winning streak was running out and her star was rising.

African immigrant workers have been protesting mafia operations as well as nativist racism.

Obama's speech in Ghana neglected to mention structural barriers to African prosperity.

Just because President Obama possesses African heritage doesn't mean he couldn't learn a thing or two about the continent's history.

Ghanaians and other Africans are clamoring for a new direction in US Africa policy, one based in mutual interests and mutual respect.

Sweet Land of Liberty is a bold, if decidedly underdramatic, rewriting of civil rights history.

Once upon a time, this Catholic country prided itself that Italians were brava gente, good people and tolerant. No more.

Hip-hop star M.I.A. broadcasts the sound of those with one foot in the First World and the other in the global South.

The Third World was never imagined as a place but rather a project, one that was ultimately doomed by globalization--it awaits a resurrection.