Serving The Ghanaian Chicago Community
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
In 2014, WASH United, a German non-profit, initiated the commemoration of Menstrual Hygiene Day to raise awareness on the importance of Menstrual Hygiene! Eight years down the line, Menstrual Hygiene Day has become a global advocacy platform amalgamating the voices of various groups of people and actors with different focus […]
With a rainfall of 1 mm, every square metre receives approximately 1 litre of rain water. A rainfall of 1 mm supplies 0.001 m3, or 1 litre of water to each square metre of space. So if your property is 70×100, and after building you cover the rest of the […]
Celebrating the Women in Your Life 2022 Today, May 8th, Mother’s day is celebrated in many parts of the world. Happy Mother’s Day to all women. Even for those who have not borne a child themselves? YES and YES. Motherhood comes in many forms: Biological, Foster, Adoptive, or blended ( […]
ACCRA, Ghana — I am an alien. A foreigner. Easily, if not instantaneously, identifiable. Whether the dead giveaway is my diamond stud in my left ear, my shaved bald head a la Michael Jordan, or the two visible, modest chains I wear around my neck one a black sterling silver […]
A podcast by the professor, author, and journalist John W. Fountain, telling our stories for us and by us. A former New York Times national correspondent and staff writer for the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, he is a 2021-22 Fulbright Scholar to Ghana. An award-winning journalist, he writes a […]
These are among the stunning images at the Nkyinkyim Museum in Ghana. Written after visiting the Nkyinkyim installation by Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo. The exhibit, which has more than 1,700 cement effigies in a field, seeks to create a total of 11,111, in remembrance and honor of Africans who were […]
By John W. Fountain A New Colonialism with financial chains and the same old economic and natural resources drain has apparently taken root here in Ghana where I see the influence of China all around. It is as glaring as the West African sun and the tiny gold flakes I […]
Nov. 24-25: Here, 37,000 feet above the earth in a black November night sky, the hum of the United Airlines Boeing 757 reigns steady throughout this cabin of humanity midway between the Atlantic Ocean and Ghana. My thoughts are an almost dizzying array, my heart full as I cross this […]