Life as a Ghanaian Foreigner in Ghana
By Cleo Blacke Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I came to the Northern Region of Ghana with a group of Americans to volunteer for the Humanist Service Corps. Our program is unique […]
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American Privilege in Ghana
By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I’ve never really liked the United States. Growing up in a Native household gave me a weird relationship with the United States, as I think […]
A Place on Earth: Ritual, Grief, & Mourning as an Atheist, Part 5
Part V: A Place Apart “Tomorrow’s our last day,” Kristi said as she sat smoking on the balcony the night after our foray to Typhoon Lagoon. I wrapped my hair in […]
Audio Hawk – Finding Ghana and Myself
By Christian Hayden Humanist Service Corps Volunteer If the homes I have known sung hymns to me that unraveled with time, engendering me with reasons to be, how might I further use […]
In Ghana I’m White
By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I was always the only brown kid in my class. Growing up in a town of fewer than four thousand that counted demographics by person […]
Cooking in Bimbilla, Ghana
By Rebecca Czekalski Humanist Service Corps Volunteer As a daughter of patriarchy, I have logged more than my share of hours in the kitchen. I helped out with 400-person banquets to […]
A Place on Earth: Ritual, Grief, & Mourning as an Atheist, Part IV
Part IV: The Waters That Divide Us When I was five, my father—no doubt exhausted from days of dragging a small child around over-stimulating amusement parks—introduced what he called “hotel days,” […]
Let the Journey Begin: Driving into the Unfamiliar
By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer Transportation is one of my favorite parts of traveling. Mundane forms of transportation for locals in other countries seem new and unusual to me and […]
Meet the Humanist Service Corps Team
As the team settles in and starts getting to work in Kukuo, it’s time to get to know them a little bit better. Naduah Wheeler Naduah Wheeler is a graduate […]
A Place on Earth: Ritual, Grief, & Mourning as an Atheist, Part 3
Part III: Radical Maps Talking about “mourning as an atheist” presses upon nuanced nerves. There is no singular “atheist” approach to rupture, no ritual towards which we turn in the aftermath […]
