For my first @dazed commission, I wrote about a new wave of creatives championing a fashion culture unique to our West African nation fueled by Kantamanto, the largest secondhand market in Ghana.
Producer: Monique Hinds
Writer: @bryan_benjamin
Photographer: @iamkaptin
there is something incredibly satisfying about reading the first page of a book, and immediately something in your brain sits up and goes 'oh, i'm going to like this' — and then every subsequent page proves you right.
The solution isn’t collapsing entire communities. It’s enforcing planning laws, clearing waterways, and demolishing structures that obstruct drainage,whether they’re in Alajo, East Legon, Airport Hills, or anywhere else.
You’re stuck in traffic, your area is flooded and you’re getting home past 9 pm on a work night but you also believe we should speak politely to politicians because they are older people in authority. Haha
“I’ve had crushes on people i knew I shouldn’t and would never act on it so I just quietly got over it like an adult” should be a very mild take but a lot of people aren’t as honest and also like feeling better than others.
A minister went live on national television, visibly excited that he had finally found a “gotcha moment” against ordinary Ghanaians.
Why? Because a draft bill was published on the ministry’s official website, then quietly revised four different times through closed-door meetings without properly communicating any of those changes to the public.
After that, he confidently says: “The old bill is dead. You people are online criticizing a dead bill. You don’t have the updated bill.” As if secrecy, poor communication, and public confusion are achievements.
You are pushing 15 digital bills that will affect millions of citizens, businesses, creators, and young people, yet the public engagement has been chaotic from the beginning. Instead of transparency, accountability, and respect, citizens are being mocked on live TV for reacting to the only version they were officially given access to.
Leadership is not a game of catching citizens off guard. If people are confused, the failure is in communication, not in the public asking questions. This is not it.
Ghana is failing us.