By Nahla Bendefaa My time in Ghana was spent as an intern at the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA). The foundation is a regional non-governmental organization whose work primarily focuses on media development and freedom of expression. MFWA’s advocacy work primarily addresses violations of freedom of expression, which often include attacks on journalists. This Read More …
By Tariq Rasheed Things seemed to be operating normally this Tuesday before everyone was gathered in the main area for a meeting. I was nervous because I thought we were getting reprimanded for something, but tragedy turned out to be much worse. The founder, president, and CEO of XpressGas, Kofi Nketsia-Tabiri, had passed away suddenly. Read More …
By Ke’ali McCarter The Thinker Me and the other members of the program have learn to grow accustomed to the increased attention that we receive as foreigners in a country with very little tourism. Many people stair, others point, while some laugh and shout Obroni the Twi word for white person or foreigner. In such Read More …
By Suenia de Azevedo My internship at the Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights, a Ghanaian NGO, focuses on the development of communicational material regarding the protection of reproductive health rights for women and children of Ghana. One of my assigned tasks was writing an article regarding sex and gender-based violence in Ghana, which is the Read More …
By Karis Frazier At least that’s what I’m trying to tell myself. This is my third week interning at Touchpoint Magna Carta, a Public Relations agency in Accra. Since I have only taken one PR class so far, it has been a bit of a struggle to complete what I imagine are very basic tasks. Read More …
by Suenia de Azevedo Kumasi is part of the Ashanti region, with a specific culture in Ghana. In our third week in the Media in Ghana program, we explored more about the Ashanti culture. In our media in Ghana class during the spring of 2023, we learned about the Adinkra symbols, which represent religious concepts Read More …
By Romie Avivi Stuhl I didn’t know what Kente cloth was until three months ago. I learned about it as I was preparing a presentation about Ghanaian weddings for my “Media in Ghana” class back in the United States. At the time I didn’t think I would have the opportunity to visit Kumasi, the center Read More …
By Kyla Morris A trip that started with excitement and was full of new experiences, ended with frustration and a wild goose chase to track down a pick pocketer and my runaway phone. On Saturday morning we took to the Kumasi market, one of the largest in the area. This place was filled with merchants Read More …
By Monica Hobbs After week two of our internships, we took a trip to Kumasi. I’d been highly anticipating the Kejetia Market—the largest single market in West Africa with over 10,000 stores and stalls. We’d visited many art markets in the first two weeks, so I was excited to see a standard market. I can Read More …
By Suenia de Azevedo The first required task for my internship at the Alliance of Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR) was an article regarding the 2023 World Population Day. The date is celebrated as an awareness of populational problems, focusing on environmental and developmental questions in society. Created by the United Nations in 1989, the first Read More …
By Kyla Morris As a woman in a predominately male industry, I am always keen on the saturation of content with a male subject. Most of these reports are being produced by men and for men, and thus there is not as much of an awareness or an active push to change this one-sided messaging. Read More …
By Stella Zhang We went to the art center and art gallery last Saturday and saw many beautiful art crafts and paintings made by local artists. The art paintings combining local cultural signs and symbols reflect Ghanaian historical and cultural context. These artworks show us a realistic world of Ghana as a mirror of real Read More …
By Tariq Rasheed This weekend we had the pleasure of going to Kumasi where we visited multiple markets and saw the processes of making certain clothes. Visiting the village where they make kente cloth was cool to see because we got to witness the actual manufacturing of the material. There were no machines making these Read More …
By Ke’ali McCarter On set After a week of exploring Accra and a trip to Cape Coast, we were harshly reminded by a 6 a.m. alarm that we are here in Ghana for an internship. I began spending my days at Innova DDB, a Ghanaian ad agency. So far production shoots have been the highlight Read More …
By Jose Carrillo This week our group was given the privilege of visiting Kumasi, the second-largest city in Ghana. Prior to leaving, coworkers prepared me for a change in people and way of life, when compared to Accra. Of course, like a naive traveler, I believed this change wasn’t going to be noticeable, at least Read More …