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6 EPISODE 1: TAKE IT UP
Episode 1: Obruni: Take It Up
“Obruni”, Obruni”. I hear the shouts following me wherever I go. The word means, “white person” in Fante, the local African dialect. An apt description as I am, perhaps, the only white girl moving purposefully through a dense crowd of West Africans milling about Market Circle. The sounds and smells of Ghana are omnipresent unavoidable. A fat woman swathed in bright orange, tie-dyed cloth, carrying a baby across her back, is arguing over the
