How we work
A lens on a story, not a dashboard.
Data Lens is how the newsroom reads a beat. There is no chart library, map room or briefing shelf yet — the published stories are the data.
Data Lens
Data for a more equal Africa.
Data Lens turns numbers into insights — highlighting the realities, gaps and opportunities shaping gender equality across Africa.
Data Lens uses data, research and evidence to reveal patterns, disparities and stories that conventional reporting can miss. It is a lens on a story, not a separate brand.
NumbersPeopleReal change
Evidence today.A more equal tomorrow.
Data.Insights.People.A more equal Africa.
What we publish
Real data. Real people. Real progress.
Every Data Lens figure sits on a sourced story. We do not publish a number without the reporting that makes it true.
Featured story
The Maputo Protocol says this about women’s work. Ghana signed it in 2003
Article 13 of the treaty sets out rights covering women’s employment, earnings, social protection and unpaid work. Ghana ratified it in 2007.
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Read Data Lens stories through the beat where they happened.
Data stories
- Data Story17 Sept 2026Esi Kangaroo and the Economy she RanShe crossed borders before sunrise, fed a neighbourhood during COVID, and raised graduates. Ghana runs on women like her.
- Data Story17 Sept 2026Who taught you to shrink? And who are you teaching not to?From an aunty plaiting hair to a For You page, Ghanaian girls are still being taught to take up less space. And the data shows us exactly what that costs.
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Have numbers that should be a story?
If you have a dataset, a briefing or a question the public record is not answering, send it to the desk.