Dagna Rams

Dagna Rams is a freelance journalist and a PhD student in anthropology in Lausanne. Her research is on urban management and slums in Ghana. After graduating from Cambridge she worked for think-tanks in London, including Chatham House, and in Ukraine and Ghana. Find her on Twitter @dagnna.

Rambo-style urban management

Evictions in Accra have rendered a vulnerable population homeless and without a source of income. What has happened to the possibility of reconciling development with human rights?

By Dagna Rams

/ 7 Aug 2015

Trash world

Most accounts of Agbogbloshie, the e-waste site in Accra, Ghana, persistently fail to sustain a proper conversation about how it and its counterparts across the global south operate.

By Dagna Rams

/ 24 Jun 2015

Doin' it for themselves

The women’s self-help movement is alive and kicking in Ukraine, with a range of group classes designed to get women out of the kitchen and into society. But with women outnumbering men — by 5:1 in popular conscience — is it surprising instruction is largely devoted to ‘catching one’s man’?

By Dagna Rams

/ 13 Jun 2013