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1st Lt. Dan Murphy listens to Warrant Officer Alhassan Ewurtomah (right) explain his group's progress on writing a news release during a Public Affairs Workshop at Burma Camp in Accra, Ghana.
Taken: 10.31.08 Posted: 10.31.08 Accra, GH
Many of the participants in the Public Affairs Workshop in Accra, Ghana, pause for a group photo. Seated, left to right, are Lt. Col. Johnny Dzotefe-Mensah, deputy director public relations; 1st Lt. Dan Murphy, North Dakota National Guard public affairs officer; Col. Emmanuel Nibo, director of Ghana Armed Forces public relations; Sgt. Amy Wieser Willson, North Dakota National Guard deputy public affairs officer; and Lt. Col. M'Bawine Atintande, deputy director of public relations in charge of...
Taken: 10.31.08 Posted: 10.31.08 Accra, GH
A lizard flicks its tongue as it crawls onto a rock at Kakum National Park. The park, which is north of Cape Coast, is home to 300 bird species, 550 types of butterflies and Africa's only canopy walkway, a 130-foot-high rope bridge that stretches nearly 1,200 feet through the top of the rainforest.
Taken: 10.31.08 Posted: 10.31.08 Accra, GH
Looking through the window of a church on site, visitors get an idea of what life might have been like centuries ago at St. George's Castle in Elmina, Ghana. Built by the Portuguese in 1482, the 97,000-square-foot structure was used as a holding point for slaves before sending them overseas. As slave trade grew more profitable, the Dutch (on their third attempt) captured the castle in 1637 and held control for 274 years. The castle is the earliest known European structure in the tropics.
Taken: 10.31.08 Posted: 10.31.08 Accra, GH
1st Lt. B. A. Amartefio and 1st Lt. S. Dzanyikpor open a copy of The Forum newspaper, which is published in Fargo, N.D. The Ghana Army soldiers were using guidelines that had just been discussed on the elements of a news story lead to identify examples from actual news sources. The activity was part of a four-day Public Affairs Workshop provided May 12-15 by the North Dakota National Guard Public Affairs Office as part of the State Partnership Program.
Taken: 10.31.08 Posted: 10.31.08 Accra, GH
Boats crowd the shore of Elmina, a fishing village just west of Cape Coast, Ghana, May 16. In the late 1400s, the city on the Gulf of Guinea was populated by Portuguese who sought to profit by trading gold, ivory and slaves there. Today, St. George's Castle stands on the shore as a bitter reminder of the past while the present plays out in the hustling of boats and sounds of fishermen making their livelihood off the shore.
Taken: 10.31.08 Posted: 10.31.08 Accra, GH
1st Lt. Dan Murphy, public affairs officer for the North Dakota National Guard, discusses elements of a news story with 1st Lt. F. K. Agyeman and Capt. L. A. Ayorigo, who serve in the Ghana Army. The North Dakota National Guard conducted a four-day Public Affairs Workshop in Accra, Ghana, in May 2008 as part of the State Partnership Program.
Taken: 10.31.08 Posted: 10.31.08 Accra, GH
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