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Nation buildings

24 February 2022

Architects are using their craft to give Ghana an optimistic narrative fit for the 21st century. Can they ‘ignite the ambition of a country’?

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Ghana is drilling for oil. Apartments are going up, the educated diaspora is returning and the government has a plan to avoid the “resource curse” seen in places such as Nigeria. In Accra the mood is optimistic and the…

Radio

Monocle on Design - Extra: David Adjaye in Accra

24 February 2022

We look at the work of Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye and the legacy he’s leaving in Accra.

Radio

Monocle on Design - Monocle Design Awards 2022

26 April 2022

We reflect on the 2022 edition of the Monocle Design Awards and meet some of this year’s winners, including Snøhetta, Limbo Accra, Anna O’Gorman and Dorte Mandrup.

Radio

Monocle on Design - Tropical Modernism

4 June 2013

Tropical Modernism in Ghana with our correspondent in Accra, Christopher Lord, Charles Correa gives us a tour of his life's work at London's RIBA and we sit down with Martha Thorne, executive director of the Pritzker Arc…

Radio

The Entrepreneurs, episode 78

10 April 2013

A visit to a brewery in Accra to see how the city's expanding middle class is developing a thirst for beer, we meet a family-run rollercoaster manufacturer in Italy with sights on China and Pyongyang, and investigate the…

Monocle Minute

Collective effort

25 January 2016

There’s a belief in the art world that west Africa’s art scene has the talent but lacks the infrastructure to support it. In Accra, Ghana, a number of foundations and nonprofits are flying the flag but getting artists seen…

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Expo 12: Airs apparent

17 March 2008

From Ulan Bator to Accra, there’s a global shortage of pilots – and schools to teach them. That’s why business has taken off at Moncton Flight College in New Brunswick, Canada. It’s home to 240 students who will one day be…

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Working overtime

20 June 2013

Keeping a city going isn’t simply about the trains running on time and the books being up to date. Spare a thought for city hall workers tackling earthquakes, a flood of human waste or a town overrun by feral monkeys.

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Material world

21 September 2017

A firm in a small Dutch town is dressing the women of west Africa – and business is better than ever.

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Media

16 September 2010

The entrepreneurs putting Africa on the app-map, the vinyl producer teaching everyone a lesson, and a visit to one of our favourite Honk Kong newsagents.

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Inside Russia Today

21 April 2022

A young journalist looks back on four years working for Russian state media.

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Choice cuts

27 April 2023

Our inventory of cultural unmissables includes a tense paella western, an original Ukrainian crime drama and a collection of top-grade South African sonics.

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Diplomacy

23 May 2013

Meet the decidedly unstuffy Panamanian ambassador in London and the US's man in Moscow.

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Americas

17 March 2009

How Google navigates geopolitics, why Mexicans are set to shrink, and why Atlantic City is betting on building more casinos. Plus, our Washington column looks at Obama's recruitment drive for new US ambassadors.

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Looking back, looking good

24 February 2022

For editor in chief Andrew Tuck, the 15th anniversary of the launch of this magazine is a chance to take stock and to find out ‘Whatever happened to...?’ those who featured in – and made – our first issue. (And also to pat…