A high time resolution digital backend system for pulsar observations at the Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory - putting the UK and Africa together at the leading edge of astronomy.

In August 2017 a new radio telescope at the Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory (GRAO), was officially inaugurated in Kuntunse, Ghana. The GRAO is a former satellite communications Earth station and is now the first operational station in the African VLBI Network (AVN). Once it was recognised that the GRAO could also be used to study pulsars, and with support from the UK’s STFC/NewtonFund, the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics proposed to develop a pulsar timing system for the new telescope. We present some of the pulsar timing system design findings below together with an outline of the first pulsar detection at Kuntunse.