Ghana
Homecoming or Displacement?
A growing number of African Americans are moving to Ghana, encouraged by the government and often driven by the desire to reconnect with their ancestral roots. Yet their presence has sparked tensions with locals over landownership, culture and the effects on the motherland of bringing the diaspora home.
Where Old Clothes Go To Die
What I discovered in Kantamanto was not just the waste produced by the so-called democratization of fashion but a more complex tangle of creativity and constraint. Like the bales of secondhand clothing the vendors cut open each morning, Kantamanto is a place made of equal parts human potential and suffering.