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Category: Blog 12
"And One Day We Will Meet Again"
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 …
Great Expectations
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 …
Funeral Photos
Here are a handful of images from the funeral. I will try to post some more later.
A sobering reminder of what it means to be a journalist
Today, I was playing ball with the big kids. I managed to get a last minute media pass for the state funeral of John Atta Mills, the former president of Ghana who passed way on July 24, 2012. Wire staff from around the world was present, including a handful of seasoned professional photogs. It was Read More …
Yet another post about Obronis and Obibinis
As a white American, it’s impossible not to feel like an outsider in Ghana. The only other “obronis” I see in an average work day are the ones who cook breakfast at the same time as me in the morning, and the ones who greet me when I get back home in the evening time. Read More …
Red and Black.
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Volta
No other weekend could compare to the Volta Region trip. Beautiful place for beautiful people.
A day with a Ghanaian family
I thoroughly enjoyed Sunday. It was a unique view into Ghanaian life; in this case the middle class of Accra. Dr. Edusei and his family were kind enough to let me join them for church and afterwards, a home cooked meal. It started with a cab ride to the Ghana Atomic Energy Police Station, the Read More …
Cape Coast and Elmina Castles
Many people think that slavery is a thing of the past, yet it is still happening around the world today. The past weekend was a somber reminder of what used to happen at slave forts in Ghana. Both of the forts we visited, Cape Coast and Elmina, had this feeling of uneasiness, like the ghosts Read More …
Designing in Ghana
Two very different designing. The first I made of Enya looking into the Door of No Return at Elmina Castle. This was a powerful day for our group. The second design is all of my iphoneography from this trip so far, edited in Instagram. I call it “Instatravel”
Here are bits and pieces from our trip so far! Nima, work in accra, and crocodiles in Cape Coast. The first clip comes from a little stand in Osu, a neighborhood in Accra. My boss brought me here to buy plantain chips (by far the best plantain chips in Accra). I documented how they are Read More …
Life on the Edge
After sauntering across ancient footbridges suspended roughly 100 feet above the cape coast jungle floor our adrenaline was pumping. After stepping on a pile of ants, almost getting eaten alive, and squealing my way of the jungle slapping my feet like I was possessed, tired was an understatement of my feelings. On the way back Read More …
Antelope, Bats, and Baboons, Oh My!
The School in Nima
Upon departure for Nima we were tired, jet-lagged, and frustrated that we had to wake up at 7am. On the way our taxi driver asked us “why are you going to the ghetto?”. I didn’t know what to expect. Cement stalls were houses and little children ran through never ending alley ways and jumped across Read More …