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Jan 16, 2025 | msn.com | Mark Wilberforce

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Jan 16, 2025 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Mark Wilberforce

Ghanaian music legend and saxophonist Teddy Osei, who founded the Afro-rock band Osibisa, has died aged 88. The talented drummer and vocalist passed away in London on Tuesday. He was "an important voice in music and culture, and he will be missed, but never forgotten," the statement read. Osei rose to acclaim as the leader of Osibisa, where his boundless creativity as a multi-instrumentalist never conformed to a single genre.

Nov 9, 2024 | yahoo.com | Mark Wilberforce

Known as Buz Stop Boys, a group of mostly young professionals and tradespeople are driving a new wave of civic responsibility in Ghana, picking up brooms and shovels to clean up the mounds of rubbish that are an eyesore in cities and towns across the country. Their initiative has won the admiration of local celebrities and politicians - and even caught the attention of some UK teenagers who flew to the capital, Accra, to join the clean-up.

Oct 19, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Mark Wilberforce |Favour Nunoo

Water from a polluted river in Ghana was so thick and discoloured that an artist was able to use it as paint to depict the environmental devastation caused by the illegal gold mining that has spread like wildfire in the resource-rich West African state. Mercury is increasingly being used to extract gold by miners digging on a massive scale in forests and farms, degrading land and polluting rivers to such an extent that the charity WaterAid has called it "ecocide".

May 4, 2024 | newssniffer.co.uk | Mark Wilberforce

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-africa-68652291 Version 93 of 94. By Mark Wilberforce BBC News, London The sold-out show had the cream of Ghana's talent in the British capital, to the delight of fans. Facebook Twitter ShareView more share optionsShare this postCopy this linkRead more about these links. Copy this link