Serving The Ghanaian Chicago Community
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
After all these years, I still love journalism. And I have learned invaluable lessons along the way. Perhaps none greater than this: That in journalism whether as an independent objective observer or commentator, the story is never really about you. That it isn’t about winning awards, although awards sure are […]
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 […]
