Originally Published on Emerge Magazine’s Blog on August 21st 2012 A Dollop of Inka By Myray Reames Picture this: you are at a fashion bazaar looking at bracelets. One bracelet with bright green beads catches your eye so you put it on and take it to the mirror looking at it from right to left. It Read More …
It can be difficult to find a bead producer in the Ashanti Region; in fact, there is only one known place that produces beads, which is the village of Asuofie. The process starts with the village buying empty glass bottles from various breweries around the country. After that, the bottles are crushed into a fine Read More …
Looking out the window of the Obruni bus during our adventure through the Volta region this past weekend I had a moment of clarity. I opened the window and watched the lush jungle vegetation dance past me as the crimson sunset was illuminated behind silhouetted trees. As I watched, I noticed a particular lyric in Read More …
After a beautiful weekend in the Volta region I am relaxed and recharged for the city again. The monkeys, lake, and waterfall are all adventures I will never forget. The people I met I won’t forget either. The first polaroid portrait is of Mercy and her son Keline, five months, outside of the monkey sanctuary. Read More …
Our trip to the Volta Region this past weekend was by far my favorite side trip. It was an amazing experience involving a huge waterfall, monkeys and a boat ride on one of Volta Lake’s tributaries. For me, the sublime nature of the waterfall was tops. The combination of its ability to overpower me and Read More …
By Elora Overbey and Myray Reames Published on Emerge Magazine’s Blog
“Blessed are peaceful! Blessed are merciful!” I hardly flinched as the man sitting next to me on the tro tro stood up and started preaching. I should have, it wasn’t like I had ever seen anything of the sort before. But now, 4 weeks into my stay in Ghana, little surprises me anymore. Most of Read More …
Open markets are on almost every street corner in Ghana; in fact, the country plays host to what is commonly known as the second largest open market in West Africa, which is in Kumasi. Depending on the location, a salesperson on a market street could come across hundreds of people every day. However, many people Read More …
This last weekend, the whole group got to go on a trip to Kumasi, the most populated city in Ghana. After a long night at the club the night before, we woke up at 5:30 a.m., inhaled breakfast, and hopped aboard our Obruni bus 6 hours to Kumasi. Because we were all very “tired” from Read More …
As some of you may know, Ghana’s President John Evans Atta Mills died about 2 weeks ago while still in office. As it is an election year here in Ghana, the sudden death of the president, who was planning to run for a 2nd term, has caused a lot of news throughout the country. Since Read More …
As a young adult, finding a job is hard. Finding a job you like is even harder. In college, I feel like half of my friends have had awesome summer jobs or internships. The ones where you make all sorts of unbelievable connections, where a beer cart comes through the office on Friday afternoons, where Read More …
Because Sung Park saved the day and brought another polaroid land camera for me to barrow I can now put to use my five packs of film I brought on our trip. This is belatedly the first in my polaroid portrait series of people I meet in Ghana. David works in the Adinkra village, producing Read More …
Originally published in Public Agenda on August 12, 2012. By Schuyler Durham The passing of President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills has sparked widespread grief in Ghana. From the country side to the packed motorways of downtown Accra, citizens clad in red and black have mourned the loss of their peaceful President in every way Read More …