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South America's Best-Kept Secret

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – I’m walking along Sarandi, a pedestrian street in this capital city, with two Uruguayans...

Radio Personality Helps Lead
Ghana’s Feminist Movement

ACCRA, Ghana – I’m sitting with Ghana’s Queen of Evening Radio and feeling pretty good about it. It took me a...

African-American Family
Embraces Move to West Africa

ACCRA, Ghana – He remembers the day he walked out of Accra’s international airport and into a crush of humanit...

Young Visionary Leads New
Age Farming Movement

ACCRA, Ghana – The soil is fertile, the climate ideal. But, somehow, this west African nation of 32 million ca...

Indigenous Slavery: Unspoken Reality, Lingering Impact

ACCRA, Ghana – As an American, you can’t visit Ghana without thinking about slavery because a significant perc...

The Old Man in the Village

WUTE, Ghana – The old man sits on the porch of a village house that once belonged to his mother. In three days...

Complicated Quest for Maiden West Africa Journey

ACCRA, Ghana – I walk out of the airport and into the city where, like many developing world capitals, you ins...

Activist Works Day – and Night – for Social Reform

SKOPJE, North Macedonia – I’m sitting in front of Vegen365Kitchen waiting for an 11 a.m. appointment with its...

Macedonia vs Macedonia: A Dispute with No End

SKOPJE, North Macedonia – In the U.S., we have two Dakotas, two Carolinas and a pair of Virginias. Any issues...

Mayor Leads Village to Surprising Success

DEIR EL GHAZAL, Lebanon – Amid a collapsed banking system, corrupt and ineffective government and resulting na...