Making Off
Work and fun at the same time
Regarding the project, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you, Aunt Verena, for giving me such a great opportunity to apply a lot of what I learnt in my journalism…
Short interview with Ernestina Zumeh
Verena: I would like to introduce you as my colleague. Can you tell me about your childhood, your education? Ernestina: My name is Ernestina Zumeh. I was born in Ghana, Eastern…
Making off - the travel begins
Hiineteng is over 800 km away from Accra, but from there it is only a few miles to Burkina Faso. On German motorways, without traffic jams, you would cover this distance…
How the story shall be told
A first prerequisite is that we ask all family members, neighbours and villagers on site for their permission to interview them and to record the conversations, to photograph or…
A grant - a big luck for ROOTS
My journey and the project are made possible by a grant from the Neustarthilfe Kultur of the Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort (VG-Wort) and the Federal Government Commissioner for…
What ROOTS is about
ROOTS is meant to be a starting point to develop a deeper understanding of people who still live as subsistence farmers in an area where the soil has been depleted for decades. I…