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 […]