Ah, Africa 
Wangari Naathai’s Kenyan grassroots story told in “Taking Root,” KETC film series at Missouri History Museum(0)
Tonight at the Missouri History Museum, as part of the Community Cinema Series, a packed auditorium viewed “Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Naathai.”
“Taking Root” tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Naathai, whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human [...]
Ghanaian President Attah Mills Installed
On midnight of January 6th, in a specially convened session of Parliament, the bi-carmel house switched sides, signaling a transfer of power.
On January 7th, the day I arrived back in the United States, President John Evans Atta Mills was formally inaugurated as President.
I was there for the duration of the elections. On the day I [...]
Where do you write? In bed, like Walker Percy, Edith Wharton, Collette, Proust, James Joyce, Mark Twain…and me (at African Rainbow Resort)?
Photo from Aerphant.
A tidbit from my Author’s Guild Bulletin caught my eye:
“Comfy: Where do you do your writing? For a book of photographs, The Writer’s Desk, by Jill Krementz and published in 1996, John Updike wrote the introduction.
“He was interested that some writers seem to avoid a desk entirely. Updike wrote, ‘Walker Percy is actually [...]
HAPPINESS DIET: GO TO GHANA…AND LOSE WEIGHT!
Map from Virtual Explorers (http://www.virtualexplorers.org/ghana/map.htm).
Somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, my West African speech gave way to my Midwestern speech. I am going home…to my ancestral home, the place of my father awaits, heart beating as promised, and the place of our foremothers and forefathers. This December homecoming pilgrimage to Ghana has been a thorough-going [...]
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