About Jollof Beats

Jollof Beats is a music project and a publication. The music comes first: songs, music films, and history documentaries, published on YouTube — among them “More Water In My Cup,” the Ghana Kingdoms films, and the Sundiata season.

Around the music, this site keeps two written wings. Stories writes down the history behind the films and the meanings behind the songs. The Editorial is the serious wing: long-form commentary on Ghana — what is holding the country back, argued with evidence and taken all the way down to the philosophical and spiritual root. Systems are criticised; people and peoples are not attacked. Every piece has to end with what would actually fix the problem, or it does not run.

One editorial and one story a week. That is the whole promise.