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Exploring Ghana, With Contemporary Art as a Guide

Baua Electric

In late 2022, I was invited to go to Ghana with a friend researching work by the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, who first made a splash at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. We were going to Ghana to learn about the context of his work and also to understand the emerging contemporary art scene in the country.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

Cars That Think

In addition, she is a visiting scholar at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University , in Greensboro. EUREKA MOMENT After a 2007 visit to the Elmina Slave Castle , a former slave-trading depot in Ghana, Johnson had what she calls a “eureka moment.” GeeRemit provides a social benefit by transforming lives.”

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

Green Car Congress

These activities will become a part of initiatives aimed at meeting the goals set out in the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050, which was announced in October, 2015. Joint biodiversity conservation activities with cocoa farmers in Ghana. Environment-Education seminar of Energy in Yokkaichi University. Car Free Day Japan.

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