Serving The Ghanaian Chicago Community
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
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 […]
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 […]
