For the early national leadership, independence represented the beginning of an ambitious effort to rebuild the country’s economic and infrastructure systems to serve national development rather than ...

As Ghana's urban landscape gently slides by the train window, Shaibu Amoah swells with pride. When the short line from Accra to the port of Tema finally reopened in January, Amoah was on the first ...

Cocoa became the backbone of the Gold Coast economy in the early 20th century. Railways accelerated its expansion by linking farming zones to ports. Farmers along rail corridors enjoyed better market ...