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Global Pathways: Imagining Ghanaian Culture Through Visual and Multimedia Storytelling

Media Outlets

Political Resources

The View from Accra: A Live Conversation with President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo: Recording of the 2021 Aspen Institute Security Forum as with President Nana Akufo-Addo discussing his top foreign policy and national security priorities. Please note: the link provided is from the Internet Archive and should be free to stream. However, if you have difficulty, you can register for a free Internet Archive account

Still shot of opening of Aspen Institute Security forum

Jarreth Merz: Filming Democracy in Ghana (2011): Jarreth Merz, a Swiss-Ghanaian filmmaker, came to Ghana in 2008 to film the national elections. What he saw there taught him new lessons about democracy -- and about himself.

Social Issues

When Silence is Golden (2007): When Silence Is Golden follows the film’s director in her quest to lift the silence on the gold mining activities of a Canadian mining company near Dumasi in western Ghana. 

Still shot of woman in mining camp

E-Waste Tragedy (2015): Illegal electronics recycling is a toxic business on a global scale. Why do three quarters of Europe's electronic waste disappear from the official recycling system? In the suburbs of Accra, Ghana, children play at dismantling scrapped electronic equipment, surrounded by toxic fumes in a sadly-famous, uncontrolled rubbish dump. The film takes this site as its point of departure, and is driven forward by Ghanaian journalist Mike Anane, who is an expert on the environment.

Still shot of landfill in Ghana

Families of Ghana: Families of the World (2009): Deborah lives with 12 extended family members in a family compound in a rural village in southern Ghana. Learn about family structure there. In Accra, Ghana's capital, ten-year-old Emmanuel lives with his sister, mother, father and aunt.

 

Unity: Dress-Scapes of Accra (2017): This is a film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. African printed fabrics seem to making a comeback in the fashion system of Accra. While following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife Cynthia, this mosaic film shows the great diversity and hybridity of tailor-made fashion in the city, the variety of ways in which African clothing may be used and the cultural expression that is implicit in the wearing of African printed fabrics.