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Entertainment Afro Nation: the festival that took Afrobeats from Portugal’s beaches to Ghana and America Afro Nation launched in Portimão, Portugal, in 2019 as one of the biggest festivals dedicated to Afrobeats and related sounds. It followed with an edition in Ghana that December and later expanded to other countries, drawing tens of thousands of fans. Profile Akwasi Frimpong: Ghana’s skeleton racer who went from Kumasi to the Winter Olympics Akwasi Frimpong, born in Ghana and raised partly in the Netherlands, became the first Ghanaian to compete in skeleton at the Winter Olympics, at Pyeongchang in 2018. In 2020 he became the first African to win an elite skeleton race sanctioned by USA Bobsled and Skeleton. Celebrity Buzz Tariq Lamptey: the Chelsea academy flyer who chose Ghana Tariq Lamptey, born in London to Ghanaian parents, played for England at youth level before switching to Ghana in 2022 and appearing at the Qatar World Cup. After five seasons at Brighton, a move to Fiorentina in 2025 ended in injury. Movies & TV Beasts of No Nation: the Netflix war film shot in Ghana and its Ghanaian star Beasts of No Nation (2015), directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and shot in Ghana, was Netflix's first original feature film. Ghanaian newcomer Abraham Attah won the Marcello Mastroianni Award at Venice for his role as Agu. Celebrity Buzz Maya Angelou in Accra: the years she spent in Nkrumah’s Ghana Maya Angelou lived in Ghana from 1962 to 1965, working at the University of Ghana and in journalism. She met Malcolm X during his 1964 visit and wrote about her Ghana years in All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes. Entertainment Mr Eazi: the Nigerian star who found his sound at KNUST in Kumasi Mr Eazi, born Oluwatosin Ajibade in Port Harcourt in 1991, moved to Kumasi in 2008 to study at KNUST. He started out booking artists for campus parties and built a career that has always crossed the Ghana and Nigeria line. Celebrity Buzz Iñaki’s little brother, Spain’s European champion: Nico Williams Nico Williams, born in Pamplona in 2002 to Ghanaian parents, rose through Athletic Bilbao alongside his older brother Iñaki. He chose Spain, played at the 2022 World Cup, starred as Spain won Euro 2024 and was named in the 2026 World Cup squad, while Iñaki plays for Ghana. Celebrity Buzz Rejected by London clubs, now at Manchester City: Antoine Semenyo’s long road Antoine Semenyo, born in England in 2000, had unsuccessful trials at Arsenal, Tottenham and Millwall before joining Bristol City's academy in 2017. He moved to Bournemouth for £10 million in January 2023, then to Manchester City for a reported £64 million, scoring the only goal in the FA Cup final. He plays for Ghana. Celebrity Buzz He left Microsoft to start a university: Patrick Awuah and Ashesi Patrick Awuah, who grew up in Accra, went to Swarthmore College on a full scholarship in 1985 and worked at Microsoft from 1989 to 1997. After an MBA at UC Berkeley, he founded Ashesi University in Ghana in 2002. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015 and the WISE Prize for Education in 2017. Celebrity Buzz Son of a Ghana international, U-17 world champion, England’s youngest competitive debutant: Callum Hudson-Odoi Callum Hudson-Odoi, born in Wandsworth in 2000, is the son of former Ghana international Bismark Odoi. He won the FIFA U-17 World Cup with England in 2017, came through Chelsea's academy, became England's youngest competitive debutant in March 2019 and later rebuilt his career at Nottingham Forest.