Ghana Journal: Authentic Kakum

 

A couple of weeks ago, a British aid worker (his name is Nigel, of course!) on vacation in Ghana from Ethiopia offered to take my picture on the rope bridge over the rainforest canopy of the Kakum Forest Reserve. The offer gave me pause because I don’t think I have taken a picture of myself in the nine weeks I’ve been in Ghana. My gaze has not been self-reflective at all. Perhaps I’ve been trained too well as a parent to direct my gaze outward or perhaps it is just the nature of a writer to look out at the world (that’s certainly a...