Nicholas Weinstock The first time I went to Ghana, I was 19 years old and volunteering to build a health clinic in a rural village.
It was the early ‘90s, I was a teenaged lunatic, and everything bad that could have happened to me did: I got malaria; I was beaten up by soldiers on the border with the Ivory Coast — but I also encountered wonderful people and stunning and moving and unforgettable experiences and friendships.
All told, I had the time of my life, and vowed to spend as much time as I could on the African continent, and I have ever since.
A few weeks ago, I was back in Ghana (now as a middle-aged man, no backpack, no youthful bravado) for a very different reason: to join other producers at a historic pan-African summit devoted to the elevation of the film and television industries across the continent.
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