Torn down by a heavy storm in May 2023, Freetown’s historic 400-year-old Cotton Tree is now mostly a memory. Only a year earlier, I’d been standing at the same spot watching a heated political ...

John Dramani Mahama, the president of Ghana, was welcomed by President Julius Maada Bio at the Lungi International Airport, ...

Trees are embedded in wider structures of power. From colonial-era tree planting, which aimed to reorganise Freetown into a European style city, to the 21st century’s green capitalism – in ...

Trees are embedded in wider structures of power. From colonial-era tree planting, which aimed to reorganize Freetown into a European style city, to the 21st century's green capitalism—in which ...