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Blacksmith Sarpong, 35, operates a small shop in Ghana’s second largest city, Kumasi. He is trained to produce cooking utensils, but prefers to make guns as he can earn more money that way.
When sales are good his shop brings in US$1,000 a week, he said. Foreigners paying better than Ghanaians. [...]

Each year some Caribbean countries commemorate Emancipation Day – the day chattel slavery was formally abolished in Britain and it’s colonies. This excerpt is taken from the rare video, The Great Home Coming”. It documents the first Emancipation Day commemoration on the African continent, which took place in July – August 1998 in Ghana, West [...]

Gold Mining as Subsistence: Ghana’s Small-Scale Miners Left Behind
Quarterly – Cultural Survival – 07/08/2008 – 13:42
Touted as having as much as 70 percent of West Africa’s gold deposits, Ghana has, for centuries, attracted numerous foreigners seeking to trade and invest in its mineral riches. About one-sixth of the country contains extractable gold, and certain regions [...]

President Obama in Ghana at the Cape Coast Dungeons‏ pt 2-2 – More related videos from Asterpix
Anderson Cooper of CNN AC 360 talks about African Americans returning home to Ghana. He interviews Seestah IMAHKUS owner of One Africa Guest House (www.oneafricaghana.com) a few miles from Cape Coast & Elmina Dungeons.

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Journey Into Africa
Footage from Adiama’s powerful journey to Ghana, West Afrika conducted for 50 BlackNificent youth as well as their families and teachers from Atlanta, GA in 2007.

When Nii Lantey recited his poem Obunkutu last fall at the University of Legon , the entire audience cheered. Nii explains that Obunkutu is a sacred appellation to warriors about to embark on a war expedition. It is enigmatic of a warrior charge. It is an invocation of unity among warriors for victory in battle, [...]