delali adogla-bessa
@delalibessa.bsky.social
Ghanaian | Journalist
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Our faith’s pull towards solidarity
…Ghana should be doing Christianity better
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I just think maybe we can do this Christianity thing a little bit better... delalibessa.substack.com/p/our-faiths...
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As the country remembers the tragic August 6 helicopter crash, it is worth reflecting on how much value we place on the lives of Ghanaian citizens.
Some thoughts here: open.substack.com/pub/delalibe...
Some thoughts here: open.substack.com/pub/delalibe...
Every Ghanaian is on death row
...everything in Ghana is still trying to kill us
open.substack.com
August 9, 2026 at 12:13 PM
As the country remembers the tragic August 6 helicopter crash, it is worth reflecting on how much value we place on the lives of Ghanaian citizens.
Some thoughts here: open.substack.com/pub/delalibe...
Some thoughts here: open.substack.com/pub/delalibe...
I just think maybe we can do this Christianity thing a little bit better... delalibessa.substack.com/p/our-faiths...
Our faith’s pull towards solidarity
…Ghana should be doing Christianity better
delalibessa.substack.com
August 18, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I just think maybe we can do this Christianity thing a little bit better... delalibessa.substack.com/p/our-faiths...
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“It is offensive to my mother. It is offensive to my sisters and my girl child. It is offensive to all.”
Envisaged within the anti-LGBTQ framework, a charter being pushed by African legislators worryingly has much more in its sights. For @opendemocracy.net
www.opendemocracy.net/inside-afric...
Envisaged within the anti-LGBTQ framework, a charter being pushed by African legislators worryingly has much more in its sights. For @opendemocracy.net
www.opendemocracy.net/inside-afric...
Inside the African conference pushing for a continent-wide anti-LGBT charter
Legislators met in Ghana to advance a ‘family values’ charter that targets reproductive and LGBTQ rights
www.opendemocracy.net
June 25, 2026 at 11:32 AM
“It is offensive to my mother. It is offensive to my sisters and my girl child. It is offensive to all.”
Envisaged within the anti-LGBTQ framework, a charter being pushed by African legislators worryingly has much more in its sights. For @opendemocracy.net
www.opendemocracy.net/inside-afric...
Envisaged within the anti-LGBTQ framework, a charter being pushed by African legislators worryingly has much more in its sights. For @opendemocracy.net
www.opendemocracy.net/inside-afric...
As the country remembers the tragic August 6 helicopter crash, it is worth reflecting on how much value we place on the lives of Ghanaian citizens.
Some thoughts here: open.substack.com/pub/delalibe...
Some thoughts here: open.substack.com/pub/delalibe...
Every Ghanaian is on death row
...everything in Ghana is still trying to kill us
open.substack.com
August 9, 2026 at 12:13 PM
As the country remembers the tragic August 6 helicopter crash, it is worth reflecting on how much value we place on the lives of Ghanaian citizens.
Some thoughts here: open.substack.com/pub/delalibe...
Some thoughts here: open.substack.com/pub/delalibe...
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For @opendemocracy.net. Wrote an explainer on the partisan theatre surrounding Ghana's anti-LGBTQ bill.
The flip-flopping across the change in government makes it more apparent that the bill is a mere game for political actors, while peril ramps up for queer people.
The flip-flopping across the change in government makes it more apparent that the bill is a mere game for political actors, while peril ramps up for queer people.
Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ bill passes amid chaos as law’s backers call for recall
Contested vote throws into doubt future of law criminalising queer people, allies and parts of public health sector
www.opendemocracy.net
June 6, 2026 at 8:57 AM
For @opendemocracy.net. Wrote an explainer on the partisan theatre surrounding Ghana's anti-LGBTQ bill.
The flip-flopping across the change in government makes it more apparent that the bill is a mere game for political actors, while peril ramps up for queer people.
The flip-flopping across the change in government makes it more apparent that the bill is a mere game for political actors, while peril ramps up for queer people.
“It is offensive to my mother. It is offensive to my sisters and my girl child. It is offensive to all.”
Envisaged within the anti-LGBTQ framework, a charter being pushed by African legislators worryingly has much more in its sights. For @opendemocracy.net
www.opendemocracy.net/inside-afric...
Envisaged within the anti-LGBTQ framework, a charter being pushed by African legislators worryingly has much more in its sights. For @opendemocracy.net
www.opendemocracy.net/inside-afric...
Inside the African conference pushing for a continent-wide anti-LGBT charter
Legislators met in Ghana to advance a ‘family values’ charter that targets reproductive and LGBTQ rights
www.opendemocracy.net
June 25, 2026 at 11:32 AM
“It is offensive to my mother. It is offensive to my sisters and my girl child. It is offensive to all.”
Envisaged within the anti-LGBTQ framework, a charter being pushed by African legislators worryingly has much more in its sights. For @opendemocracy.net
www.opendemocracy.net/inside-afric...
Envisaged within the anti-LGBTQ framework, a charter being pushed by African legislators worryingly has much more in its sights. For @opendemocracy.net
www.opendemocracy.net/inside-afric...
For @opendemocracy.net. Wrote an explainer on the partisan theatre surrounding Ghana's anti-LGBTQ bill.
The flip-flopping across the change in government makes it more apparent that the bill is a mere game for political actors, while peril ramps up for queer people.
The flip-flopping across the change in government makes it more apparent that the bill is a mere game for political actors, while peril ramps up for queer people.
Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ bill passes amid chaos as law’s backers call for recall
Contested vote throws into doubt future of law criminalising queer people, allies and parts of public health sector
www.opendemocracy.net
June 6, 2026 at 8:57 AM
For @opendemocracy.net. Wrote an explainer on the partisan theatre surrounding Ghana's anti-LGBTQ bill.
The flip-flopping across the change in government makes it more apparent that the bill is a mere game for political actors, while peril ramps up for queer people.
The flip-flopping across the change in government makes it more apparent that the bill is a mere game for political actors, while peril ramps up for queer people.
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On the back of the UN vote recognising slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity' I wrote about how and why Ghana’s social justice efforts on the international stage ring hollow at home for its people. On the @labarijournal.com
labarijournal.com/ghanas-socia...
labarijournal.com/ghanas-socia...
Ghana’s Social Justice Efforts on the International Stage Ring Hollow at Home - The Labari Journal
Delali Adogla-Bessa writes that although Ghana scored a historic win at the UN, the celebration rings hollow when its own leaders fail the people they swore to serve.
labarijournal.com
March 26, 2026 at 8:37 AM
On the back of the UN vote recognising slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity' I wrote about how and why Ghana’s social justice efforts on the international stage ring hollow at home for its people. On the @labarijournal.com
labarijournal.com/ghanas-socia...
labarijournal.com/ghanas-socia...
Ermm @devilsitdpod.bsky.social, I'm starting to get worried. Any proof of life?
May 20, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Ermm @devilsitdpod.bsky.social, I'm starting to get worried. Any proof of life?
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Before I could even ask myself, “Gee I wonder what Robert would think—“
*opens Bluesky*
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*opens Bluesky*
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April 21, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Before I could even ask myself, “Gee I wonder what Robert would think—“
*opens Bluesky*
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*opens Bluesky*
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Ghana just kind of GETS America
Gang. GANG. Here's that Ghanian bootleg Cheers artwork you were looking for.
March 25, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Ghana just kind of GETS America
On the back of the UN vote recognising slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity' I wrote about how and why Ghana’s social justice efforts on the international stage ring hollow at home for its people. On the @labarijournal.com
labarijournal.com/ghanas-socia...
labarijournal.com/ghanas-socia...
Ghana’s Social Justice Efforts on the International Stage Ring Hollow at Home - The Labari Journal
Delali Adogla-Bessa writes that although Ghana scored a historic win at the UN, the celebration rings hollow when its own leaders fail the people they swore to serve.
labarijournal.com
March 26, 2026 at 8:37 AM
On the back of the UN vote recognising slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity' I wrote about how and why Ghana’s social justice efforts on the international stage ring hollow at home for its people. On the @labarijournal.com
labarijournal.com/ghanas-socia...
labarijournal.com/ghanas-socia...
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For openDemocracy, I looked into the threat of our poisonous gold rush on our medicinal plants which 70% of Ghanaians rely on.
We may be getting shiny forex now from galamsey but I promise we are losing so much more.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/glob...
We may be getting shiny forex now from galamsey but I promise we are losing so much more.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/glob...
Global gold prices have made Ghana richer. But at what cost
Vital medicinal plants, which some 70% of Ghanaians rely on due to high costs of private healthcare, are being lost to illegal gold mines.
www.opendemocracy.net
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
For openDemocracy, I looked into the threat of our poisonous gold rush on our medicinal plants which 70% of Ghanaians rely on.
We may be getting shiny forex now from galamsey but I promise we are losing so much more.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/glob...
We may be getting shiny forex now from galamsey but I promise we are losing so much more.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/glob...
The tragedy of our push seeking global recognition of the Slave Trade as the gravest crime against humanity is that it hasn't come on back of work to build a Ghana that would appreciate this kind of solidarity.
It is a shame that it is ringing hollow for most. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It is a shame that it is ringing hollow for most. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time for the UN to formally recognise the transatlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity | John Dramani Mahama
This is not about assigning collective guilt to present generations. But injustice does not simply fade with time – it requires deliberate effort to address and redress, says Ghana’s president, John D...
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2026 at 6:50 PM
The tragedy of our push seeking global recognition of the Slave Trade as the gravest crime against humanity is that it hasn't come on back of work to build a Ghana that would appreciate this kind of solidarity.
It is a shame that it is ringing hollow for most. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It is a shame that it is ringing hollow for most. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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All Protocol Observed | Welcome to Issue 233 of The Continent
This week, we meet an aspiring chef from Botswana. He was promised a job in a Russian hotel - only to end up in a remote military training camp, with dozens more Africans.
Download your copy here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
This week, we meet an aspiring chef from Botswana. He was promised a job in a Russian hotel - only to end up in a remote military training camp, with dozens more Africans.
Download your copy here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
March 20, 2026 at 8:16 PM
All Protocol Observed | Welcome to Issue 233 of The Continent
This week, we meet an aspiring chef from Botswana. He was promised a job in a Russian hotel - only to end up in a remote military training camp, with dozens more Africans.
Download your copy here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
This week, we meet an aspiring chef from Botswana. He was promised a job in a Russian hotel - only to end up in a remote military training camp, with dozens more Africans.
Download your copy here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
Now this is a story I'd like to hear
One of the first software projects I worked on professionally was cancelled abruptly when we discovered that the German ‘client’ was a front and the app was likely intended to be used for money laundering in Ghana.
Tell me a random fact about yourself that sounds fake but is 100% true.
March 5, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Now this is a story I'd like to hear
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Ghana marine life being wiped out by industrial trawlers
53% to 60% of industrial trawler landings in Ghana consist of bycatch, much of it prohibited under national law
Even juvenile fish are being obliterated destroying any chance of fish recovery
www.seafoodsource.com/news/environ...
53% to 60% of industrial trawler landings in Ghana consist of bycatch, much of it prohibited under national law
Even juvenile fish are being obliterated destroying any chance of fish recovery
www.seafoodsource.com/news/environ...
Despite reforms, Ghana’s illegal bycatch problem persists, EJF report finds
A new report from the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has reignited scrutiny of Ghana’s industrial trawl sector.
www.seafoodsource.com
March 4, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Ghana marine life being wiped out by industrial trawlers
53% to 60% of industrial trawler landings in Ghana consist of bycatch, much of it prohibited under national law
Even juvenile fish are being obliterated destroying any chance of fish recovery
www.seafoodsource.com/news/environ...
53% to 60% of industrial trawler landings in Ghana consist of bycatch, much of it prohibited under national law
Even juvenile fish are being obliterated destroying any chance of fish recovery
www.seafoodsource.com/news/environ...
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"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again".
Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means.
Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down.
news.sky.com/story/greens...
Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means.
Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down.
news.sky.com/story/greens...
Greens overtake Labour in sensational poll
The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party.
news.sky.com
March 3, 2026 at 7:25 AM
"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again".
Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means.
Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down.
news.sky.com/story/greens...
Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means.
Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down.
news.sky.com/story/greens...
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Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
www.nature.com
February 23, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Atleti. Smh.
With Real Madrid losing to Osasuna yesterday, Barcelona had the chance to regain top spot in La Liga.
And they took advantage.
A 3-0 win over Levante, with goals from Marc Bernal, Frenkie de Jong & Fermin Lopez puts Hansi Flick's side top.
And they took advantage.
A 3-0 win over Levante, with goals from Marc Bernal, Frenkie de Jong & Fermin Lopez puts Hansi Flick's side top.
February 22, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Atleti. Smh.
"We are in desperate need of an African foreign policy and diplomacy that articulates, organises, and advances the defence of African people."
In this week's issue of @thecontinent.org
Download your copy here: thecontinent.org
In this week's issue of @thecontinent.org
Download your copy here: thecontinent.org
February 22, 2026 at 11:35 AM
"We are in desperate need of an African foreign policy and diplomacy that articulates, organises, and advances the defence of African people."
In this week's issue of @thecontinent.org
Download your copy here: thecontinent.org
In this week's issue of @thecontinent.org
Download your copy here: thecontinent.org
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This week's @thecontinent.org is on 🔥🌋
All Protocol Observed | Welcome to Issue 229 of The Continent
🟠 Top Story: A new Western empire gathering pace. Last time, they had guns. Now they’ve got AI.
📥 Download your copy here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
🟠 Top Story: A new Western empire gathering pace. Last time, they had guns. Now they’ve got AI.
📥 Download your copy here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
February 22, 2026 at 7:57 AM
This week's @thecontinent.org is on 🔥🌋
While I admire the Ghana government's shift towards local processors, it is long overdue and a shame it has taken a crisis.
For ages, complaints from local processors about an unfair system were ignored by the government because it basically only wanted/needed shiny forex from abroad.
For ages, complaints from local processors about an unfair system were ignored by the government because it basically only wanted/needed shiny forex from abroad.
February 14, 2026 at 3:27 PM
While I admire the Ghana government's shift towards local processors, it is long overdue and a shame it has taken a crisis.
For ages, complaints from local processors about an unfair system were ignored by the government because it basically only wanted/needed shiny forex from abroad.
For ages, complaints from local processors about an unfair system were ignored by the government because it basically only wanted/needed shiny forex from abroad.
The transnational effects of Ghana's illegal gold mining environmental crisis feature in this week's issue of @thecontinent.org Full story here: thecontinent.org
February 13, 2026 at 10:50 PM
The transnational effects of Ghana's illegal gold mining environmental crisis feature in this week's issue of @thecontinent.org Full story here: thecontinent.org