Author: Aino Roivainen

In Ghana, daylight is from 6.00 am in the morning and darkness descends in the evening around six o’clock. The days repeat like this, one after another and this regular and clear rhythm gives me a deep sleep. Ghana doesn’t have as much artificial lighting as we do in Finland. They can’t afford it. Sometimes,…

I accompanied my parents to Ghana in 1966 as a toddler and attended the local school from 1970-71 in New Tafo Akyem, where I immediately noticed I was the only white pupil. My skin actually fascinated the other pupils who marveled and sometimes pinched me in a bid to examine it. Indeed, I was able…