President Obama Visits Ghana and Cape Coast Castle

President Obama has made a visit to Ghana and the Cape Coast Castle, and delivered what analysts are calling the 'most challenging speech' by a US leader in Africa for decades.  Obama said that Africa could not...

In Ghana, children beg on streets for education

CAPE COAST, GHANA - If 10 year-old Sarah Anna could just find $12, her life would profoundly change. But in the fishermen's slums of this west African village, $12 is a fortune, and many families here simply...

Tragic toll of fishermens' lives "just part of life"

CAPE COAST, GHANA: Their dugout canoes haven't changed in centuries, and neither has the tragic toll of Ghanaian fishermen lost at sea every year. "If God wills we die, we die," Benjamin Atta told NowPublic in...

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