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Saturday, December 18, 2021

Podcast: "Happy People"

John W. Fountain · Happy People
at December 18, 2021
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The accordion evangelist greets neighbors on mornings with songs of blessing and prayer. (Click on Photo to hear him)

In Tema, Ghana, at the Fishing Wharf, there is much work to be done long after the catch. Here, women and young men gut, scale and grill and smoke the fish to be sold at the market. (click on photo to experience the story)

A common scene in Ghana, a woman carries bananas for sale atop her head like many other roving merchants who stroll through crawling traffic, hawking their wares.

The scene inside a crowded Tro Tro, the privately-owned, often rickety open-air mini-vans where rambunctious young men beckon for fares and swerve to welcome riders aboard.



A young man in the Greater Accra Region slices and dices a coconut for customers who first drink the fruit’s milk then eat the insides after the seller slices the coconut in two.


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JOHN W. FOUNTAIN

Fountain, a Fulbright Scholar, is a tenured full professor at Roosevelt University. He was winner in December 2021 of a 1st Place National Association of Black Journalists "Salute To Excellence Award" in newspaper column writing. He and his students' project, "Unforgotten 51," about the unsolved murders of mostly 51 African-American women in Chicago, also won a 1st place NABJ award. In November 2021, Fountain won second place Dorothy Storck Award from the Chicago Journalists Association for his column. In 2016, 2014 and 2011, he was awarded the Peter Lisagor Award for best news column or commentary at a daily newspaper with a circulation of more than 250,000. A former New York Times national correspondent, he has won numerous journalism awards over a career that has spanned more than three decades. He is author of five books and a former staff writer for the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, where he was once the newspaper's chief crime reporter.


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John Fountain at home in Ghana as a 2021-22 Fulbright Scholar

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John Fountain in Ghana for the first time in 2007.

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