Tag archive for ‘Ghana’
Lillian Sizemore, Mosaic Artist
Hi Mosaic enthusiasts! Check out Lillian Sizemore’s work. She did a wonderful mosaic project in Ghana!
Lillian is a mosaic artist and gifted educator. She jurored a show in which Karen Silton’s mosaic “Miriam’s Well” was exhibited. The show was “The Art of Tesserae” at Second City Gallery in Long Beach.
Rod McClaren’s New Blog Village Rainbow
Check out Rod McClaren’s new blog “Village Rainbow.” Show him some love and tell him what you’d like to know about that village rainbow and its village wisdom for the 21st century.
Rod is a hard-working development chief living at Busua Beach in Ghana. Thus, he is more commonly addressed affectionately by his honorary chief’s title [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Riehlife off to Ghana on African Holiday…back in 2009
Between December 6th to January 7, Riehlife goes on holiday as Janet travels to Ghana, a place she lived and worked for several years in the 1970s. This trip will be far more simple than her August trip to Southern Africa.
Because I’ll only be staying in two locations, I’ll be taking a few [...]
Riehlife Poems of the Day from Ghana: “Sankofa: Adinkra Poems” by A. Kayper-Mensah
Riehlife’s April poetry editor for National Poetry Month Stephanie Farrow is a fine poet in her own right and a close friend since we served in Peace Corps Ghana in the 1970s. Stephanie selected these Adinkra poems by A. Kayper-Mensah (Sankofa: Adinkra Poems)
Stephanie tells us: Adinkra symbols are pictographs that reflect a specific proverb [...]
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