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 […]

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 […]