The People of Ghana

Young Christian couple with baby.The people I met in Ghana were friendly and welcoming, with the exception of one officious young man I met in a public park in Kumasi. I was walking around making pictures of various things that caught my eye when he approached me and demanded to know what I was doing. "Just making some pictures," I replied. "Who authorized you to do this?" he demanded. "Nobody," I said. "I'm just making some photographs."After a brief but not very friendly conversation, he left. Presumably to find someone to arrest me. I left too. In the opposite direction. Fortunately, I never saw him again. There were kids everywhere, all clamoring for me to take their picture. Two children playing under a tree outside the clinic at Kumasi. One day we went to the town of Aflao, in the extreme southeastern corner of Ghana, right against the border with Togo. The church in Aflao is actually built on the beach. Deaf-mute woman, Aflao. Notice that even though she's poor, her femininity…