ROOTS
Soon! REMEMBER
First the chicken, then the egg, then the exhibition After eight months and all sorts of hatching and preparations, I am showing a selection of my photos, texts and videos…
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…
Ernestina and me on a great mission
You might think that people who live in the country always have a little time to spare. Unlike stressed city dwellers. In fact, Ernestina and I had to make a great effort to do…
Cracking peanuts in a big round
Now that many have arrived from near and far, the homestead and all the individual households are filling up with young, old and adult children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren…
Travelling to the ROOTS
At two o'clock in the afternoon we start by Uber taxi to Accra Main Station, where the bus leaves for Nandom in the Upper West Region. The traffic jam on Saturday afternoon is…
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 project of the heart
ROOTS is intended to continue the oral tradition of storytelling and my knowledge from previous stays and interviews from 1989 and 2019. There have always been close ties between…
Past, present and future
Now my adoptive mother, her name is Pigr, has died. I will travel to Hiineteng to attend her funeral ceremony. A cousin of my adoptive family has also died. Both will be buried on…
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…
Why do I have a family in Ghana?
I was adopted in 1989 as the daughter of the then eldest of a lineage in Hiineteng/Ghana: Kuuyuour Zinige. I lived with the family (four households) for several months to carry…