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Tourism minister praises leading Ghanaian designers at Black Star Fashion Week
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Tourism minister praises leading Ghanaian designers at Black Star Fashion Week

Speaking at this year’s Black Star Fashion Week in Accra, which brought together industry players and fashion enthusiasts, Gomashie described their work as instrumental in showcasing Ghana’s creative talent and cultural identity. Other names cited by Gomashie include Duaba Serwa, Pistis Ghana, House of Paon and Abrantie the Gentleman, all of whom “continue to demonstrate the possibilities of Ghanaian design”, as well as weavers, models, stylists, photographers and entrepreneurs behind the industry, Gomashie’s statement coincides with an announcement by Black Star Experience coordinator Rex…

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Black Star Fashion Week: Stakeholders call for stronger IP protection for Ghana’s cultural products
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Black Star Fashion Week: Stakeholders call for stronger IP protection for Ghana’s cultural products

Stakeholders in Ghana’s creative arts and cultural industries have called for stronger intellectual property (IP) protection, fairer remuneration for traditional artisans and strategic investment to boost the global visibility and commercial value of indigenous Ghanaian products. Moderated by broadcaster Chrystal Kwame-Aryee, the panel featured Osei Bonsu Sarfo Kantanka, an author, historian and anthropologist; Dr Courage Besah-Adanu, Head of the Geographical Indications Unit at the Ghana Industrial Property Office; Andrew Ackah, President of the Advertising Association of Ghana; and Gideon…

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Black Star Fashion Week kicks off in Accra with Summit
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Black Star Fashion Week kicks off in Accra with Summit

The inaugural Black Star Fashion Week (BSFW) kicked off today with a summit at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra. Put together by the Rex Omar-led Black Star Experience and running under the theme: “Put Ghana On”, the initiative aims at charting a clearer path for Ghana’s fashion sector.

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Where to start with: John Berger
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Where to start with: John Berger

I have limited myself to books he assembled himself, which means I haven’t allowed myself to include anthologies, such as the excellent Understanding a Photograph, edited by Dyer, or Tom Overton’s collections Landscapes and Portraits, or the recent selection Across a Frontier, chosen by the similarly interdisciplinary critic, photographer and novelist Teju Cole. Henry Eliot edited the 2026 Bloomsbury reissues of John Berger’s work.

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Big briefs for men are back – and I couldn’t be happier
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Big briefs for men are back – and I couldn’t be happier

Jude Bellingham’s new Calvin Klein ad campaign is heartening in so many ways, but the first thing I noticed was the capacious underpants I have surprisingly strong feelings about underpants, or rather the celebrities who endorse them. Armani, H&M and Hugo Boss, but not Calvin Klein.

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‘We have kissed empty Mondays goodbye’ — Mbah on IPOB sit-at-home in Enugu
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‘We have kissed empty Mondays goodbye’ — Mbah on IPOB sit-at-home in Enugu

By Adegboyega Adeleye Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah says residents have overcome the fear that kept roads and communities quiet on Mondays during the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) sit-at-home campaign, pointing to security measures along key routes in the state. Mbah said the state deployed its “distress response squad” along the route, rather than setting up roadblocks, and asked residents of Nsukka, Enugu West and Enugu East to watch for changes around them.

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Rare Renaissance masterpiece hidden for 70 years could fetch £5m at auction
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Rare Renaissance masterpiece hidden for 70 years could fetch £5m at auction

Experts say Albrecht Altdorfer’s 1520 landscape is ‘one of the most exciting discoveries imaginable’ An exceptionally rare painting, described as one of the earliest landscapes in western art, goes on auction in London next month. It was completed around 1520 by Albrecht Altdorfer, who is widely regarded as Europe’s first pure landscape oil artist.

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All’s Fair season two review – am I delirious … or is this getting good?
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All’s Fair season two review – am I delirious … or is this getting good?

From Glenn Close in pleather to naughty rumours about Bruno Mars, this legal drama is still absolutely ludicrous. For those of you who have blanked the first season from your mind, All’s Fair is the existentially terrible offering from Ryan Murphy’s increasingly manure-filled stable, starring Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts and, absolutely unaccountably, Glenn Close as the super-duper lawyers of an all-female California divorce firm.

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Warming UK seas could ‘fundamentally reshape marine ecosystems’ – report
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Warming UK seas could ‘fundamentally reshape marine ecosystems’ – report

Four-year study warns destabilised marine food webs could jeopardise food security by 2050 Warming seas around the UK and the wider north-east Atlantic could destabilise marine food webs, weaken ocean health and jeopardise food security by 2050, according to a four-year study. Scientists who projected the impact of climate breakdown on four key groups of marine life crucial to maintaining ocean ecosystems in the region said their results challenged assumptions that in middle latitudes, such as the UK, marine biodiversity was likely to increase across the board.

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TV tonight: how three rockstar chefs sparked a foodie revolution
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TV tonight: how three rockstar chefs sparked a foodie revolution

A riveting documentary following the rise of Marco Pierre White, Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal. In the 1980s, the culinary desert of the UK saw the rise of three difficult, brilliant chefs (Pierre White was joined by Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal) who triggered a foodie revolution.

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Ghana to establish 21,000-tonne grain storage facility in Upper West
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Ghana to establish 21,000-tonne grain storage facility in Upper West

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DMT Collateral Management to establish a 21,000-metric-tonne grain storage facility in the Upper West Region. Mr Opoku said the Ministry would support the implementation of the project and ensure that technical personnel, National Service personnel and Feed Ghana Brigadiers participated in the training programmes.

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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for Neapolitan mostaccioli, or spiced biscuits dipped in chocolate
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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for Neapolitan mostaccioli, or spiced biscuits dipped in chocolate

Halfway between a cake and a biscuit, with a throat-warming level of spice, these Italian treats have been around since medieval times, and only get better with age Established in 1982 by sisters Piera, Pina and Grazia Saverese, Pasticceria Savarese is a Neapolitan pastry shop in south-east Rome. She also recommended the diamond- or rombo-shaped mostaccioli, which are halfway between a cake and a biscuit and spiced in a way that warms the throat (they remind me of Yorkshire parkin biscuits); they are also completely covered in dark chocolate.

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Lab-grown meat was supposed to save the world. What happened?
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Lab-grown meat was supposed to save the world. What happened?

Not just any burger: a world-historic burger, made from cattle cells grown in a laboratory by Mark Post, a professor of vascular physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The burger had taken two years to produce and cost €250,000 (about £210,000 at the time), money furnished by the Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

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A Table for Fortune by William T Vollmann review – a hugely ambitious 3,000-page portrait of America’s decline
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A Table for Fortune by William T Vollmann review – a hugely ambitious 3,000-page portrait of America’s decline

This insider’s history of the CIA explores the last 50 years of US foreign policy with granular detail and mordant humour The 250th year of the American experiment seems to invite a reckoning. Though the CIA has been fertile ground for many great American novelists – Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer – Vollmann is perhaps the first to represent the culture and daily activities of the agency in granular detail.

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Kellogg’s admits snap, crackle and pop is quieter after uproar over Rice Krispies recipe change
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Kellogg’s admits snap, crackle and pop is quieter after uproar over Rice Krispies recipe change

Kellogg’s has told the BBC that the “snap, crackle and pop” sound in its Rice Krispies may be noticeably quieter after an uproar over the cereal giant’s recipe change. Extreme weather in Spain in 2022 and 2023 in particular had reduced availability of the types of rice the company uses for its breakfast cereals, the company said Rice Krispies, launched nearly a century ago, are sold around the world and come in variations such as vanilla and strawberry flavours in some markets alongside the widespread chocolate-flavoured Coco Pops version.

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