Policy just saved Achimota Forest. But culture must save the people – creatively

On a Tuesday morning in July, Ghana’s Minister for Lands and Natural Resources stood before a room of journalists and delivered a sentence that, just a year ago, seemed impossible: “The government’s priority is to protect the Achimota Forest.” With those eleven words, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah confirmed what environmentalists, civil society organisations, and ordinary […] ...