Yesterday I drove to Tamale with Tommy Harrison (a long-term volunteer – as in, since the early 80s!) to pick up local pastor Baako and his terminally ill wife Fatima. She was seeking treatment at the Tamale Teaching Hospital where she had surgery to attempt to remove a cancerous growth in her throat. Unfortunately it […]
Sea Creature Defeated!
The “sea creature” I mentioned the other day has been slain. I’ve heard varying accounts of how it happened ranging from “they shot it” to the more exciting “it took thousands of men with cutlasses.” What I know for sure is that after it was killed, its head was sent to the Nayiri as a […]
Giving Back
One of my cardinal rules for photography in West Africa is to never promise to give my subjects a copy of their photo. It is impossible to guarantee you will be able to get a print made and sent back to Africa from the US, not to mention the difficulty of finding the subject in […]
Photo of the Day
This image was taken when I went to Porungon with Tommy Harrison. It almost looks like I made the man’s hands black & white since they stand out so much from the colorful background.
Tell Me The Story
In the US we’ve heard the story of Christmas. Whether you are a church goer or not, you’ve heard about how baby Jesus was born in a manger in Bethlehem. You might know the full story from Sunday School. You might have heard bits and pieces from Christmas carols. The bottom line is… you’ve heard. […]