Giving a blank page to the unheard.
It’s too bad that God only wants us to help people exactly like us. It’s a shame he said things like “Let the downtrodden gentiles suffer” and “Slaughter the lost sheep.” And then there’s that whole parable about refusing to give money to the pagan building a school—as though pagans could do good! We’re reading the same Bible, right? Hi. …
We all know that injustices have been committed on the continent of Africa—namely the Transatlantic Slave Trade—but the media generally likes to portray Westerners as washing the African blood off their hands after that point. The uncomfortable truth is that the colonial era came next, which arguably did greater damage to the cultures of this beautiful continent than the slave …
Nestled in the Bosomtwe District of Ashanti Region, just a few kilometers away from Lake Bosomtwe, the water-filled crater left by a meteor some 10 million years ago and the legendary site of the god Twi, for whom the traditional lingua franca of much of Ghana is named, lies the proud and newly paved village of Asisiriwa. Boasting a quad-shaped …
A professor at Regis University recently told me, “I love your vision. As you’ll soon learn in development work, about 5% of the overall effort is the vision and 95% is the delivery and refinement of that vision. No exaggeration here!” I had a feeling that he was right, but could do nothing to refine the vision than to brace …
Obviously, there are some health concerns whenever one is traveling to the tropics, to say nothing of the specific connotations with sub-Saharan Africa. I think people actually have so many fears about traveling to Africa—or loved ones traveling there—because they don’t understand the health concerns. It’s just a place with a lot of diseases we can’t count or wrap our temperate-clime heads …
It was hot the day we arrived in Adaklu Helekpe, a small town in the Volta Region abutting Adaklu Mountain, said to be the tallest free-standing mountain in Ghana. We came first by tro-tro to Ho, then took a shared taxi the rest of the way to Helekpe, after being informed that the town we originally intended to visit had …
I once wrote a poem to encapsulate my study abroad experience that began with the words, “What did we expect to find in Ghana?” That rings as true now, finding myself plodding along these same pedestrian-hostile streets I knew so well two years ago. What did I expect this time? What can I expect from Ghana, even having lived here before? Heat, …
What do we mean when we talk about “postcolonialism” or “postcolonial cultures”? It’s a fair question, and one we get asked fairly frequently. It’s also a key aspect to what we’re trying to accomplish with this project, and one that requires a little bit of explanation. Postcolonialism refers to a branch of several disciplines (literature and ethics among them) which focuses on …
The day we did our fundraising photoshoot, we also asked our closest friends and family to be filmed answering three questions for an interview-style video we hoped would showcase our humanity and support system. We wanted our loved ones to be candidly honest in their explanations of what we’re doing, who we are, and their hopes and concerns for the project. …
One of the most common questions we’ve received since unveiling Untold International is about the significance of our logo. I’m pretty proud of it, and I’m not sorry to say that there is quite a bit of meaning behind it. Brady designed it himself, and the image you see is the first image he sketched out–but a lot of thought went into …
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